The Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) has unveiled the 2024 Region 12 Edward R. Murrow winners, and WSLS 10 is proud to announce that we have been honored with four awards.
Since 1971, the Edward R. Murrow Award has served as a prestigious honor in the news industry, recognizing outstanding achievements in broadcast and digital journalism and highlighting local and national stories that have left a mark on the community.
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In the ‘feature reporting’ category, WSLS 10 was honored with an award for an episode of John Carlin’s Outdoors, titled ‘Kinzie Dickman takes adaptive skiing to a new level,’ which you can watch in full here. In this episode, he talks about a woman who was able to regain freedom in skiing again after losing the use of both legs in a tragic auto accident. If you want to see more of John Carlin’s Outdoors, you can do so here.
Additionally, our 2023 Black History Month special, Hidden History, was also recognized for excellence in diversity, equity and inclusion. The segment celebrates our region’s rich Black history and is narrated by former 10 News Anchor Brittny McGraw and current WSLS 10 Anchor and reporter Duke Carter.
WSSL 10 also won an award in the hard news category for our piece on Blaine Sirry by former 10 News Anchor and Investigative reporter Alyssa Rae. It focuses on a Roanoke woman who shared her story of survival with us after she was violently attacked in downtown Roanoke. She shared her experience as a warning to others so that other women don’t have to endure what she did.
Our Solutionaries segments won in the Excellence in Innovation category. 10 News Anchor Jenna Zibton and 10 News Photojournalist Jeff Perzan work together all year producing long form, in depth stories. Solutionaries is our continuing commitment to solutions journalism, highlighting the creative people in communities working to make the world a better place, one solution at a time. The award submission includes several different stories from 2023, including a new body farm at George Mason University explaining the science behind body farms and how donating your body to science can help solve crimes not only right here at home but also all over the country. This body farm is one of eight in the U.S.
In addition to this, we also highlighted the solutions out there to keep children safe online. More than a half million are active now, looking for their next target. Parents are part of the equation, but so are kids. See how kids are helping kids and find out how you can become a vigilant force to prevent future attacks.
We also highlighted how new infrastructure projects are working to improve deadly crashes on Interstate 81, making it safer for drivers and truckers to travel across Virginia together.
To watch other Solutionaries episodes, subscribe to our Solutionaries YouTube channel and discover other ways we are exploring potential solutions and responses to problems within our community.
Click here to see all the winners from Region 12, which WSLS is part of. Click here to see winners from other regions. Regional winners automatically move on to the national round of the competition.
Please join us in congratulating all of the winners and everyone who contributed to these significant achievements!
