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Scott Walton, Executive Director of Communications
415.553.2145
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Yoon Lee, Director of Media Relations & Promotions
415.553.3338
ylee@kqed.org

Meredith Gandy, Associate Publicist
415.553.2116
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NEWS & EVENTS
Organizational
KQED Awards Received in 2003

KQED PUBLIC TELEVISION

Alcatraz Is Not an Island
Northern California Emmy Award, Direction: News/Program

American Family Portraits: "The Ranjber Family"
Northern California Emmy Award, Current Affairs Segment

American Family Portraits: "The Straus Family"
Northern California Emmy Nomination, Informational Short Form

Bay Window: Children and Asthma
Northern California Emmy Nomination, Specialty: Audio/Sound

Bay Window: Hope on the Street
Northern California Emmy Nomination, Documentary
Media Award, Local Television News, Education or Public Service Programming, National Mental Health Association
Outstanding Media Award, Television Documentary, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
Community Service Award, Alameda County Mental Health Board
Commendation, San Francisco Mental Health Board

California Connected
Northern California Emmy Award, Current Affairs Program
Northern California Emmy Award, Graphic Design
Northern California Emmy Nomination, Direction News/Program
Winner, Specialty Reporting, Television, Division AA, NorCal Radio and Television News Directors Association, for "Government"
Outstanding Media Coverage of Public Education Award, Association of California School Adminstrators, for "Our School"

Belva Davis, This Week in Northern California
Excellence in Journalism Award, National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association

FRONTLINE/World
Third Place, Outstanding Story on South Asia, Broadcast (TV/Radio), South Asian Journalists
Association, for "The Hole in the Wall"

Hope Along the Wind
Northern California Emmy Nomination, Documentary

Michael Isip, senior producer
Kaiser Foundations Media Fellowship, Kaiser Family Foundation

"KQED Storytellers"
Northern California Emmy Nomination, Promotion Image

"Leasing the Rain" (a co-production of FRONTLINE/World and NOW With Bill Moyers)
National Emmy Nomination, News and Documentary, for Outstanding Coverage of a Continuing News Story in a News Magazine

Lonely Island: Hidden Alcatraz
Northern California Emmy Award, Education/Instructional Program
Northern California Emmy Nomination, Specialty: Audio/Sound

Rediscovering the Labyrinth
Northern California Emmy Nomination, Direction News/Program

Uprooted: Refugees of the Global Economy
Northern California Emmy Nomination, Current Affairs Program

KQED PUBLIC RADIO

"A Need to Belong"
First Place, Documentary (Radio), Peninsula Press Club Professional Journalism Awards

Kathryn Baron
Winner, Specialty Reporting, Radio, Division AA, NorCal Radio and Television News Directors Association, for education beat reporting
John Swett Award for Media Excellence, California Teachers Association, for contributions by an individual in the coverage of education issues on radio

Kathryn Baron/The California Report: "Wiring the Classroom: Education and Technology" series
First Prize, Education Writers Association, Radio Category for a single program or series of reports on the same subject or theme.

The California Report (daily)
Best Radio Newscast (Under 15 Minutes), Associated Press TV-Radio Association of California Nevada

The California Report (magazine)
First Place, Public Affairs Program (Radio), Peninsula Press Club Professional Journalism Awards

The California Report: Health Dialogues
Broadcast Media Award, California Public Health Association-North

Judy Campbell
Winner, Feature Reporting—Serious, Radio, Division AA, NorCal Radio and Television News Directors Association, for "Basketball Player"
Second Place, Feature News (Radio), Peninsula Press Club Professional Journalism Awards, for "Juvenile Offenders"

Cheryl Colopy
First Place Award, Society for Environmental Reporting, for environmental beat reporting

Forum
John Swett Award for Media Excellence, California Teachers Association, for coverage of eduction issues
First Place, Interview or Talk Show (Radio), Peninsula Press Club Professional Journalism Awards for "Salman Rushdie"
Second Place, Public Affairs Program (Radio), Peninsula Press Club Professional Journalism Awards, for "Dog Mauling Trial"
Second Place, Interview or Talk Show (Radio), Peninsula Press Club Professional Journalism Awards fpr "A M Homes"
Honorable Mention, Public Affairs Program (Radio), Peninsula Press Club Professional Journalism Awards, for "Homelessness and Mental Health"

Michael Krasny, Forum
James Madison Freedom of Information Award, Journalist (Radio) Category, Society of Professional Journalists
"Best Local Interviewer," San Francisco Weekly

Jason Margolis
Winner, Sports -- Segment/Feature, Radio, Division AA, NorCal Radio and Television News Directors Association, for "Japanese Baseball"

Ceil Muller
Gracie Allen Award, Local Markets category, for "The Kiss and the Dying" for Hot Soup

Peter Jon Shuler
Honorable Mention, Feature News (Radio), Peninsula Press Club Professional Journalism Awards, for "IBM Disk Drives"

KQED INTERACTIVE

California Connected Web Site
Northern California Emmy Nomination, Interactivity

FRONTLINE/World Web Site
Winner, General Excellence in Online Journalism (Fewer Than 200,000 Visitors -- Affiliated), 2002 Online Journalism Awards, USC Annenberg School for Communication
First Place, Outstanding Story on South Asia, New Media, South Asian Journalists Association, for "Bhutan: The Last Place" and "Sri Lanka: Living With Terror"
Top Honors for Online Media, Investigative Reporting Contest, Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc., for "Gunrunners"
Best Overall Design of an Internet Service (Fewer Than 1 Million Monthly Visitors), EPpy Awards, Editor & Publisher
Finalist, General Excellence in Online Journalism (Fewer Than 200,000 Visitors-Affiliated), 2003
Online Journalism Awards, USC Annenberg School for Communication
Finalist, Feature Journalism (Affliliated), 2003 Online Journalism Awards, USC Annenberg School for Communication, for "Cambodia. Reporter's Diary: In Search of Justice"
Nomination, TV category, Webby Award, International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences

Presumed Guilty Web Site
Northern California Emmy Nomination, Interactivity

"You Decide"
Finalist, Creative Use (Affiliated), Online Journalism Awards, USC Annenberg School for Communication

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