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Contacts for journalists and reporters only. For information about contacting KQED, please visit the Contact Us page. Please send press releases or news story ideas directly to KQED Radio Programs contacts.
Scott Walton, Executive Director of Communications
415.553.2145
swalton@ncpb.com
Yoon Lee, Director of Media Relations & Promotions
415.553.3338
ylee@kqed.org
Meredith Gandy, Associate Publicist
415.553.2116
mgandy@kqed.org
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| KQED Productions Honored With Two National Awards for Excellence in Journalism by Society of Professional Journalists |
Radio Series on California Energy Crisis Garners Top Award for Public Service
Television Program on Gun Trafficking Gets Nod as Best Documentary
San Francisco, California, May 3, 2002 -- KQED Public Broadcasting learned this week that two of its productions -- The California Report on radio and Bay Window on television -- are winners of 2001 Sigma Delta Chi Awards for Excellence in Journalism Awards presented by the Society of Professional Journalists. Forty-nine winners were named from 1,396 entries from around the country.
For radio, Cy Musiker's three-part series, "Energy Crisis," which aired as a part of KQED Public Radio's statewide series, The California Report, received top honor for Public Service in Radio Journalism. His reports on California's energy problems were featured as special reports during the weekly magazine section of The California Report. Last year the State of California became the biggest electricity company in the nation -- stepping in for the state's debt burdened utilities. Throughout the year, KQED reporters covered breaking stories about the energy crisis. Cy Musiker's series showed Californians how they could ease the energy crisis by conserving power in their homes and offices. The series also revealed how the chaos that followed Pacific Gas and Electric's bankruptcy filing almost derailed some of the most promising energy conservation programs.
For television, "GunShots," a one-hour documentary which aired as a part of KQED Public Television's Emmy Award-winning Bay Window series, received an award for Best Documentary in the Network/Top 25 Market category. "GunShots" is a co-production of KQED and the Center for Investigative Reporting, in association with theRake.com. Through interviews with law enforcement officials and a prisoner currently incarcerated in a federal prison in Arizona, "GunShots" examines the largest gun trafficking case ever uncovered by law enforcement in the Bay Area. The case highlights the problems with laws which make it so easy for people to circumvent the system and put guns onto the streets illegally. The program speaks to issues facing communities nationwide in exploring the connections between street gun violence and gun trafficking.
The California Report, hosted by Scott Shafer, is a daily statewide news and public affairs program produced by KQED Public Radio and broadcast on 25 primary public radio stations and more than 25 translators and repeaters across the state. The program includes nine-minute segments broadcast weekday mornings and a half-hour newsmagazine broadcast on Friday afternoons. It attracts nearly half-a-million listeners across California each week. Funding for The California Report is provided by The James Irvine Foundation, The California Endowment, the Stuart Foundation, Inktomi, TIAA-CREF, The California Department of Conservation, as well as the members of KQED. Listeners can visit the program's Web site for further information at www.kqed.org/tcr.
Bay Window is an Emmy Award-winning series exploring issues that affect people's lives in the Bay Area and reflect civic life nationwide. Through television, print, the Web, and outreach programs, the series engages people in dialogue, convenes critical stakeholders, and builds new connections within communities. Bay Window is underwritten by The KQED Campaign for the Future Program Venture Fund through a major grant from The James Irvine Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation and the members of KQED, with special funding for the production of "GunShots" provided by the Funders' Collaborative/Tides Foundation. Viewers can obtain more information online at kqed.org/baywindow.
The nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting fosters justice, democratic values and accountability by conducting and promoting media investigations of underreported issues in the public interest. Since its founding in 1977, CIR has completed hundreds of investigations for major news organizations, such as 60 Minutes, 20/20, FRONTLINE, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio. More information is available online by visiting CIR's Web site at muckraker.org.
KQED operates KQED Public Television 9, the nation's most-watched public television station, and Digital Television 30, Northern California's only public television digital signal; KQED Public Radio 88.5 FM, the most-listened-to public radio station in the nation; the KQED Education Network, which brings the impact of KQED to thousands of teachers, students, parents and media professionals through workshops, seminars and resources; and KQED.org, which harnesses the power of the Internet to bring KQED to communities across the Web.
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