Thursday, October 10, 2013

Documentary about Missouri newspaper's coverage of deadly tornado wins regional Emmy

It has been quite a year for the The Joplin Globe in Missouri and a film about it. In November the Local Media Association named the Globe the best small, local paper for its continued coverage during a deadly 2011 tornado. In June a Missouri Press Association documentary about the paper's coverage called "Deadline in Disaster" won a Mirror Award for best story about broadcast, cable or online broadcast news media. And last weekend in St. Louis, the documentary was awarded a regional Emmy in the Documentary-Cultural category, Scott Meeker reports for the Globe.

Documentary director Beth Pike, who previously won an Emmy in 2009 for the historical documentary "Trustees for the Public: 200 Years of Missouri Newspapers," told Meeker that the time spent in Joplin is something that she'll carry with her always. She said, "We saw the word 'hope' so often (in Joplin). There was hope in humankind and hope in getting through whatever obstacle was faced. Getting to know the people of Joplin and what an incredible newspaper you have, and the sense of community and hope that you have in Joplin, I'll carry that with me for the rest of my life. I think we all carried away a bit of that Joplin spirit. That was the best part of the whole experience." (Read more)

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