MichiganRadio

2011 Niagara Foundation

Niagara Award in Media: Michigan Radio  

2011 Clarion Award from Women in Communications

Best Documentary, Coal: Dirty Past, Hazy Future, The Environment Report

2011 Public Radio News Directors, Inc. Award

2011 National RTDNA/UNITY Diversity Award

(Radio Television Digital News Association and UNITY: Journalists of Color) Radio-Large Market “Muslims in Michigan”

2011 National Edward R. Murrow Award

Best Audio News Documentary (Radio: Large Market) The Environment Report “Coal: Dirty Past, Hazy Future”

2010 Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards
(Radio Television Digital News Association)

Best Feature
Dustin Dwyer (Michigan Radio): "Curling"

2010 Gabriel Awards
(Catholic Academy for Communication Arts Professionals)

• Lester Graham (Michigan Radio): "Kennedy and the Peace Corps: Idealism on the Ground"

Ecumenical & Interreligious local release category

• Dustin Dwyer (Michigan Radio): from Muslims in Michigan. "So, A Muslim and a Christian Move into a Dorm Room Together."

2010 Detroit Society of Professional Journalists Awards

• First -Sarah Cwiek, Sarah Hulett, Dustin Dwyer (Michigan Radio): "Shrinking Detroit"
• Third - Sarah Hulett (Michigan Radio): "Inch-vestors in Detroit"

• First - Sarah Hulett, Sarah Cwiek, Jennifer Guerra, Dustin Dwyer (Michigan Radio): "Muslims in Michigan"
• Second - Kate Davidson (Michigan Radio): "Retraining"

• Second - Michigan Radio Newsroom: "Kalamazoo River Oil Spill"
• Third - Tracy Samilton (Michigan Radio): "Whitacre Resigns"

• Second - Kyle Norris (Michigan Radio): "Detroit Soccer Club"
• Third - Dustin Dwyer (Michigan Radio): "Curling"

• First - Jennifer Guerra, Sarah Hulett, Mercedes Mejia, Vincent Duffy (Michigan Radio): "Rebuilding Detroit Schools"
• Second - Rebecca Williams, Lester Graham (Michigan Radio): "Is Fire Safety Putting Us at Risk?"

• Second - Christina Shockley, Michigan Radio Newsroom: 6 a.m. Newscast 10-14-10
• Third - Christina Shockley, Michigan Radio Newsroom: 7 a.m. Newscast 8-10-10

• First - Lester Graham, Rebecca Williams, Mark Brush (Michigan Radio): "Coal: Dirty Past, Hazy Future"
• Second - Lester Graham (Michigan Radio): "Kennedy and the Peace Corps: Idealism on the Ground"

• First - Lester Graham (Michigan Radio): "Paying for Michigan Schools"
• Second - Lester Graham (Michigan Radio): "Who Writes the Laws?"

2010 Michigan Associated Press Awards

• General Excellence – Michigan Radio

• Hard News: “Shrinking Detroit,” Sarah Hulett, Sarah Cwiek, Dustin Dwyer
• Continuing Coverage: “Kalamazoo River Oil Spill,” Michigan Radio staff
• News Documentary: "Coal: Dirty Past, Hazy Future," The Environment Report.
• Individual Reporting: Kyle Norris
• Enterprise/Investigative Reporting: “Rebuilding Detroit Schools: A Tale of Two Cities,” Jennifer Guerra, Sarah Hulett, Mercedes Mejia
• Newscast: Zoe Clark, Michigan Radio Newsroom
• Natural Sound: “Senior Musicians,” Kyle Norris.
• Website: michiganradio.org, Mark Brush, Tamar Charney, Lani Chisnell, Zoe Clark, Vincent Duffy

• Newscast: Christina Shockley, Michigan Radio Newsroom
• News Documentary: “Rebuilding Detroit Schools: A Tale of Two Cities,” Jennifer Guerra, Sarah Hulett, Mercedes Mejia
• Enterprise/Investigative Reporting: “Is Fire Safety Putting Us at Risk?,” Rebecca Williams, Lester Graham

2010 Headliner Awards

2010 Michigan Association of Broadcasters Broadcast Excellence Awards

Best:

Merit:

Michigan Association of Broadcasters Broadcast Excellence Awards

2009 Public Radio Station of the Year (Group 2)

Best in Category Awards:
- HARD NEWS AND CURRENT EVENTS STORY – "Overqualified Applicants"
- MINI-DOCUMENTARY OR SERIES - Facing the Mortgage Crisis
- NEWSCAST – December 10, 2009
- NEWS SPECIAL OR PUBLIC AFFAIRS PROGRAM – "Remaking Michigan" Call-In Show
- SPECIAL INTEREST AND CULTURAL PROGRAMMING – "Generation Y Michigan”
- MEMBERSHIP APPEAL – "Don’t Wait for the Senate"
- COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT – Facing the Mortgage Crisis
- MARKETING MATERIALS AND PROMOS – Facing the Mortgage Crisis

Merit Award:
- HARD NEWS AND CURRENT EVENTS STORY – "Highland Park Unemployment"
- MINI-DOCUMENTARY OR SERIES – "Cody Chronicles"
- NEWSCAST – November 11, 2009
- NEWS SPECIAL OR PUBLIC AFFAIRS PROGRAM – "Generation Y Michigan" Call-In Show
- MEMBERSHIP APPEAL – Facing the Mortgage Crisis
- MARKETING MATERIALS AND PROMOS – Sounds of the State

Michigan Radio, the public radio service of the University of Michigan, has been recognized for excellence in broadcast journalism by the Radio-Television News Directors Association. The station received a National Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Radio News Documentary for Ashes to Hope: Overcoming the Detroit Riots. The news series looked at how the 1967 Detroit riots affected people, neighborhoods and even music in the Motor City, and explored the long term consequence of the riots on both the city and the state of Michigan.

The 2008 award represents the first National Edward R. Murrow Award that Michigan Radio has received, though the station’s sister organization, The Environment Report, received a National Murrow Award in 2002. Michigan Radio was the only television or radio station in the state of Michigan to receive a 2008 National Edward R. Murrow Award.

The Radio-Television News Directors Association has been honoring outstanding achievements in electronic journalism with the Edward R. Murrow Awards since 1971. Award recipients demonstrate the spirit of excellence that Edward R. Murrow made a standard for the broadcast news profession. The Murrow Award recognizes the “best of the best”, and is considered the most prestigious award in electronic journalism. 2008 National Murrow winners will be honored at the RTNDA Awards Dinner on October 13 at the Grand Hyatt New York.

Congratulations to producer Tamar Charney; host Christina Shockley; editors Vincent Duffy and Lester Graham; reporters Steve Carmody, Dustin Dwyer, Vincent Duffy, Jennifer Guerra, Sarah Hulett, and Tracy Samilton; segment producers Richie Duchon, Jennifer Guerra, Maria Howes, and Jack Lessenberry; and production assistants Zoe Clark, and Katherine Gorman.

2008 Clarion Award from Women in Communications
Best Documentary: Ashes to Hope
Best Documentary Series: Grading Michigan Schools

2007 Sigma Delta Chi Award from The Society of Professional Journalists
Public Service in Radio Journalism: Grading Michigan Schools

Michigan Radio, the public radio service of the University of Michigan, has been recognized by the National Society of Professional Journalists. The station was awarded the 2007 Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service in Radio Journalism for Grading Michigan Schools, Michigan Radio's multi-part series of reports about education in the state. The Public Service in Radio Journalism Award recognizes a radio news organization that renders public service through extensive coverage of an issue facing the community it serves.

The Sigma Delta Chi Awards recognize the best in professional journalism in 48 categories, covering print, radio, television, newsletters, photography, online and research. This year's winners were chosen from more than 1,000 entries from across the country. The only other public radio organizations to be recognized were Chicago Public Radio and "The World", the national program from Public Radio International.

Congratulations to Sarah Hulett, Tracy Samilton, and Samara Freemark along with Vincent Duffy, Lester Graham, and Kaomi Goetz for their work on this award winning series.

REGIONAL AWARDS:

2008 Region 7 Edward R. Murrow Winners
Best Continuing Coverage: Michigan's Budget Crisis
Best Feature: Turning Around A Troubled School
Best News Documentary: Ashes to Hope