The Radio Television Digital News Association announced on Tuesday its annual Edward R. Murrow Awards. Here are some rural winners and winners who addressed subjects with rural resonance:
West Virginia Public Broadcasting won the award for video by Small Market Radio stations for a story on struggling apple farmers: Despite Increasing Demand, Some W.Va. Apple Farmers Struggle.
WVPB also received the News Documentary award for Grandfamilies of the Opioid Crisis.
Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX in Emeryville, Calif., received the Podcast award in the Network Radio category for American Rehab, about a drug rehabilitation company that forced patients to work full-time at chicken plants, factories and more—for free.
100 Days in Appalachia received the Hard News award in the Small Digital News Organization category for Framing Domestic Extremism in Appalachia and Beyond.
Vermont Public Radio in Colchester, Vt., received the Feature Reporting award in the Small Market Radio category for Our Moms Have To Talk': Pocket Dial Connects Grieving Moms.
VPR also won for Podcast for Brave Little State.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution won in the Investigative Reporting category for Large Digital News Organizations for The Imperfect Alibi: The forgotten suspect, the DNA and the church murders that haunted a detective, about a murder in rural Georgia.
Winners will be honored at the Murrow Awards Gala on Oct. 27 in New York.
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