CBS News Leads All Nets With Most 2020 Murrow Awards

The Radio, Television & Digital News Association (RTDNA)  has announced that CBS News –for whom Edward R Murrow worked his entire career– is taking home eight Murrow Awards this year, the most of any news network, reports TV Newser.

CBS News TV took five and CBS News Radio won three, including the Overall Excellence award, which it won for the third straight year.

The Radio Division was recognized for Best Audio Newscast for the seventh straight time.  This year’s was for Hurricane Michael coverage, with Jeff Glor reporting from Panama City Beach, Fla., and Steve Kathan anchoring from New York.

Coverage of the Parkland school shooting earned the staff the Breaking News award for the third straight time for a report by ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­correspondent Peter King, who was the first network radio reporter at the school  covering the tragic story and the weeks to follow.

CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman won two Murrows this year, one for A Facebook Post that Sparked Hope, a feature on his On the Road series for the CBS Evening News and CBS Sunday Morning.  The end-piece about a would-be victim making friends with the Nigerian scam artist who targeted him won for best feature and best writing.

RTDNA’s Best Documentary Television award goes to 39 Days a co-production of 48 Hours and CBS This Morning. The hour followed the rise of a student activist movement born on the first day of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to the March for our Lives in Washington.

The other two awards for television go to 60 Minutes. Scott Pelley’s report Mancini’s Brain, which looked at new evidence that PTSD can be caused by physical damage, won for Best Hard News report. Steve Kroft’s Flying Under the Radar, about Allegiant Air, the discount airline with a high inflight breakdown record, takes the Best Investigative Reporting award.

In radio... Entercom congratulatd its KNX 1070 News Radio for being awarded a National Murrow Award, presented by the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA). Southern California’s only 24-hour news and traffic station was recognized for its outstanding achievements in electronic journalism in the award’s Overall Excellence in Large Market Radio category.

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