Achievements
2009
National Edward R. Murrow Award
RTNDA's Edward R. Murrow Award honors outstanding achievements in electronic journalism.
- Use of Sound: Final Exam With a Twist, Nina Keck
Public Radio News Director Incorporated (PRNDI) Awards
The PRNDI Awards is the only national competition devoted to rewarding outstanding local public radio news.
- Continuing Coverage: VPR's reporting on the death of 12-year-old Brooke Bennett and the subsequent reporting on Vermont's sex offender laws (staff project)
- Documentary: Those CCC Boys, Lynne McCrea and Steve Delaney
- Commentary: The Birth Rate Blues, Philip Baruth
- Interview: Chuck Wooster on raising your own pigs, Jane Lindholm
My Source Community Impact Awards for Engagement
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting honors stations for commitment and responsiveness to their communities in providing innovative programming and services that have a vital impact on the community.
Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards
RTNDA's Edward R. Murrow Award honors outstanding achievements in electronic journalism. VPR received nine awards in 2009, including the top award for Overall Excellence.
- Overall Excellence: A collection of work from the news department including stories, interviews, call-in programs, election coverage, newscast, special series samples and commentaries.
- Best Documentary: Those CCC Boys, Lynne McCrea and Steve Delaney.
- Continuing Coverage: VPR’s reporting on the death of 12-year-old Brooke Bennett and the subsequent reporting on Vermont’s sex offender laws (staff project).
- Best Feature Story: Homeless Family Focused on Future, Lynne McCrea
- Hard News Feature: Burton Snowboards, Nina Keck
- Use of Sound: Final Exam With a Twist, Nina Keck
- Investigative Reporting: Asbestos Problems in Lowell and Eden, John Dillon
- Broadcast Writing: Anatomy of a Press Conference, Steve Zind.
- Website: Election 2008, Farm Families, Those CCC Boys, My Vermont, Jonathan Butler and Tim Johnson
2008
Seven Daisy Award for Best Radio Station
Each year, readers of the Burlington-based Seven Days weekly paper pick their favorite “best” restaurants, artists, stores, festivals, journalists, politicians in the area where Seven Days is delivered. After several years as runner-up, VPR was voted best radio station.
Benchmarks for Public
Radio Fundraising Award
DEI, public radio's fundraising and marketing professional
organization awarded their first Benchmarks award to VPR. Of the 98 stations surveyed in the recent DEI
Benchmarks report, Vermont Public Radio was consistently near the 90th
percentile for individual giving per listener hour, underwriting revenue per
listener hour, major giving as a percent of individual giving, and has one of
the lowest costs per dollar raised in the industry.
My Source Radio Testimonials Award:
The Corportation for Public Broadcasting's My Source Radio Contest challenged
stations to gather and produce creative, authentic, and meaningful listener
testimonials that embody the core values of public radio.
- Third Place: Producer Franny Bastian for her testimonial of listener James Woodard of Underhill describing his love for VPR jazz programming. Listen to the winning entries here.
RTNDA's Edward R. Murrow Award honors outstanding achievements in electronic journalism.
- Outstanding Continuing Coverage: The Changing Climate (staff project)
Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards:
RTNDA's Edward R. Murrow Award honors outstanding achievements in electronic journalism.
- Outstanding Continuing Coverage: The Changing Climate
- Outstanding Documentary: Homeless in Vermont (Lynne McCrea)
- Outstanding Broaadcast Writing: Pigeon Racing (Steve Zind)
- Outstanding Feature/Hard News: Stanstead Border (Charlotte Albright))
- Outstanding Investigative Reporting: (John Dillon) Citizens protest use of Chloramine Health Dept. will not halt Chloramine use CDC officials to visit Vermont CDC officials hear Chloramine complaints
National Edward R. Murrow Awards:
RTNDA's Edward R. Murrow Award honors outstanding achievements in electronic journalism.
- Outstanding Feature Reporting: Peace Song Competition (Steve Zind)
- Outstanding Broadcast Writing: Your Own Coffin (Steve Zind)
Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards:
RTNDA's Edward R. Murrow Award honors outstanding achievements in electronic journalism.
- Outstanding Investigative Reporting: Mexican Labor on the Farm (John Dillon)
- Outstanding News Series: Iran Today (Steve Zind)
- Outstanding Continuing Coverage: Mexican Labor on the Farm (John Dillon)
- Outstanding Feature Reporting: Peace Song Competition (Steve Zind)
- Outstanding Broadcast Writing: Your Own Coffin (Steve Zind)
Public Radio News Director Incorporated (PRNDI) Awards:
Public Radio News Director Incorporated Award is the only national competition devoted to rewarding outstanding local public radio news.
- Best Newscast: Midday Report (Steve Delaney)
- Writing: Bug Camp (Steve Zind)
National Edward R. Murrow Awards:
RTNDA's Edward R. Murrow Award honors outstanding achievements in electronic journalism.
- Outstanding Investigative Reporting: (Nina Keck)
- Student suspension still controversial on Middlebury campus
- Judge rules Middlebury College had right to suspend student
Regional Associated Press Awards:
- Public Affairs/Documentary: Fair People (John Dillon, Nina Keck, Susan Keese, Mitch Wertlieb, Betty Smith, Lynne McCrea, Steve Delaney)
- Feature Enterprise: Bug Camp (Steve Zind)
- General News: Army National Guard Spc. Scott McLaughlin Deployment (Steve Zind)
- Breaking News: Fell sentenced to death (John Dillon, Mitch Wertlieb)
- Investigative Reporting: Cyberbullying (Nina Keck)
- Editorials: The Wind Power Debate
- Weather: The Eye on the Sky
Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards:
RTNDA's Edward R. Murrow Award honors outstanding achievements in electronic journalism
- Outstanding Continuing Coverage: (Susan Keese, Nina Keck, Steve Zind, Mitch Wertlieb and Steve Delaney)
- Lake George tour boat being refloated;
- Lake George boat investigation yields discoveries;
- Lawsuits filed in Lake George boat accident;
- Sheriff's report released on Lake George boat accident - Outstanding Investigative Reporting: (Nina Keck)
- Student suspension still controversial on Middlebury campus;
- Judge rules Middlebury College had right to suspend student - Outstanding Hard News Feature: (Susan Keese)
- Dartmouth medical center students hold memorial service for cadavers - Outstanding Feature Reporting: (Nina Keck)
- Aging skiers participating in masters race at Killington
Gabriel Award: "Vermont Reads: First They Killed My Father"
The Gabriel Award recognizes broadcasters whose work has raised the consciousness of the public to focus on human concerns
Gracie Allen Award: Camel's Hump Radio: "Daisy and the Doll" and "Alec's Primer"
The Gracies recognize exemplary programming created for women, by women and about women
Edward R. Murrow Awards:
RTNDA's Edward R. Murrow Award honors outstanding achievements in electronic journalism
- Outstanding Continuing Coverage: How the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have affected Vermont. "130 Vermont Guard soldiers deployed to Middle East", "Mothers share letters from Iraq", "Wounded soldier begins recovery", "Specialist Alan Bean, 22, killed in Iraq", "Switchboard: National Guard Major General Martha Rainville", "Sergeant Jamie Gray buried in Calais"
- Outstanding News Series: "Iran Journal" (Steve Zind)
Regional Associated Press Awards:
- General News: "The War is Personal", "Nuclear Fuel Goes Missing" Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five (Bob Kinzel, John Dillon)
- Breaking News: "Nuclear Fuel Missing" (Bob Kinzel)
- Enterprise/Feature: "To the Bat Cave" (Steve Zind), "The Fall Forest" (Mitch Wertlieb, Lynne McCrea)
- Investigative: "Problems of War" Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five, "Prescription Drug Abuse" (Nina Keck), "Nuclear Fuel Goes Missing" Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five (Bob Kinzel, John Dillon)
- Public Affairs/Documentary: "Phish: The Final Curtain" (Patti Daniels, Steve Zind), "Iran Journal" (Steve Zind)
- Talk Show: "Switchboard - Battle of the Bulge Veterans" (Steve Zind)
- Commentary: "Kakewalk" (Willi Coleman)
- Weathercast: "Eye on the Sky" (Steve Maleski, Mark Breen)
SEJ Award for Reporting on the Environment:
The Society of Environmental Journalists Awards are the largest environmental journalism contest in North America. VPR's John Dillon took second place for stories on several subjects:
- "State Attempts to Control Cormorant Population on Lake Champlain"
- "Neighbors Rally to Help Farmer Control Runoff"
- "Inside the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant": Part One - Part Two
- "Lobbyists, Lawmakers and Activists Look at Dry Cask Storage and the Future of Vermont Yankee"
2004
Edward R. Murrow Awards:
- Best News Documentary - Regional: Howard Dean: The Vermont Years
- Best News Documentary - National: Howard Dean: The Vermont Years
Public Radio News Director Incorporated (PRNDI) Awards:
- Best Newscast: "Midday Report"
- Best Call-In Program: "Switchboard, live with Anne Garrels"
- Commentary (second place): "Little League Angst" (Jay Parini)
Regional Associated Press Awards:
- Commentary: "Iraq War Series", "Little League Angst" (Jay Parini)
- Talk Show: "Switchboard: Howard Dean in Iowa" (Bob Kinzel)
- General News: "Vermont's Fallen Heroes", "Wind Energy Boom" (John Dillon)
- Breaking News: "IBM Cuts 500 More Jobs" (John Dillon)
- Enterprise: "Coping with Teen Suicide" (John Van Hoesen), "Vermont's Southwest Corner"
- Investigative: "A Community Fights Cancer" (Nina Keck), "Declining Health of Lake Champlain" (John Dillon), "No Child Left Behind" (Nina Keck)
- Public Affairs/Documentary: "Grace Coolidge: Legacy in Letters"
- News Feature: "One Pie's Journey to the Tunbridge Fair" (Steve Zind), "Fred Tuttle Remembered" (Steve Zind)
- Dean presidential campaign: "Howard Dean: The Vermont Years", "Switchboard: Howard Dean in Iowa" (Bob Kinzel), "Continuing Coverage" (Bob Kinzel, John Dillon)
- Sports Feature: "Girls Take to the Rugby Field" (Patti Daniels), "Little Fenway" (Mitch Wertlieb)
- Weathercast: "Morning Eye on the Sky" (Steve Maleski, Mark Breen)
2003
Regional Associated Press Awards:
- Commentary: "Great Thoughts of Vermont", "Vermont's Enron" (Timothy McQuiston), "Howard Dean, Babe, If I May?" (Philip Baruth)
- Talk Show: "Switchboard: Senator Jeffords" (Bob Kinzel), "Switchboard: Housing shortage" (Steve Zind)
- General News: "Dean's presidential bid" (Bob Kinzel, John Dillon)
- Breaking News: "IBM lays off 1,000 workers" (Neal Charnoff), "Tulloch's motive" (John Dillon, Neal Charnoff, Betty Smith)
- Enterprise: "The Heroin Problem" (Steve Zind, Neal Charnoff, Nina Keck), "OMYA" (John Dillon), "LBJ and Hoff" (Neal Charnoff, Steve Zind, Bob Kinzel)
- Investigative: "Fired editor" (John Dillon), "Fletcher Allen" (John Dillon), "Abuse in the diocese" (Steve Zind)
- Public Affairs Documentary: "Candidates Debate" (Bob Kinzel), "Great Thoughts of Vermont"(Betty Smith)
- News Feature: "Getting in the Wood" (Steve Zind)
- Elections: "General Election Coverage"
- Best Weathercast: "Eye on the Sky" (Mark Breen, Steve Maleski)
- Distinguished Service Award: John Van Hoesen, VPR News Director
2002
Regional Associated Press Awards:
- Commentary: Civil Unions series
- Talk Show: "Switchboard: Civil Union Debates" (Bob Kinzel), "Switchboard: Methadone" (Bob Kinzel)
- General News: Civil Unions coverage (Bob Kinzel)
- Breaking News: Sale of Ben and Jerry's
- Enterprise: "Out in the Cold: Stories of Adversity and Survival in Winter"
- Public Affairs Documentary: Live coverage of House Judiciary Committee public hearing, "Election 2000 Debate Series"
- Elections: Election night 2000
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