By Austin Fitzgerald
KBIA-FM, the Missouri School of Journalism’s NPR-member radio station, has won a first-place national award from the Public Media Journalists Association Awards.
The station won in the Series category for “The Next Harvest,” which covered the environmental and economic challenges facing the Midwest’s agriculture industry over the course of seven episodes (a second season of episodes will air this fall). The awards competition pitted KBIA against public media outlets of similar size nationwide.
“This award honors community-centered reporting that matters to mid-Missourians, which is at the heart of KBIA’s mission,” said David Kurpius, dean of the School of Journalism. “It’s great to see that work on a topic that resonates locally but has impacts nationwide recognized on a national scale.”
It’s the second major award for the series after a regional Edward R. Murrow Award in the News Series category, with the further potential for a national Murrow Award when those honors are announced in August.
Source : missouri.edu