NBC News Wins Five Murrow Awards

NBC News and MSNBC have been honored with five national 2010 Edward R. Murrow awards, more than any other network.  The national and local winners were announced today by The Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) and will be presented at the RTDNA awards dinner New York on October 11, 2010. The Murrow awards honor excellence in electronic journalism.

For the second consecutive year, NBC News was honored with the esteemed Murrow award for Overall Excellence in the network news category. (VIDEO: NBC News President Steve Capus responds to NBC News' Overall Excellence win: http://bit.ly/9LFnz4 )

"NBC Nightly News" received two Murrows including best Newscast for the 'Crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407' and Video Breaking News for 'Miracle on the Hudson: Surviving Flight 1549.'

"Dateline NBC" was recognized in the Reporting-Hard News category for Ann Curry's report about her visit to a Darfur refugee camp in 'To Save the Children.'

Keith Olbermann's tribute to his mother 'A Baseball Fan Named Marie,' which aired two days after her death, won for Writing.

The following is a complete list of NBC News and MSNBC award winners:

*****
Overall Excellence: NBC News 

Newscast: NBC Nightly News with BrIan Williams 
"Crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407"
Executive Producer: Bob Epstein
Anchor and Managing Editor: BrIan Williams
Senior Broadcast Producer: Pat Burkey, Aurelia Grayson
Director and Senior Broadcasting Producer: Brett Holey
Senior Producers: Subrata De, Mary Laurence Flynn, Tracey Lyons, Albert Oetgen
Correspondent: Peter Alexander, Tom Brokaw, Tom Costello
Producers: Maria Alcon, Donna Bass, Anne Binford, Jay Blackman, Clare Duffy, Carol Eggers, Scott Foster, Susan Kroll, Joo Lee, Megan Marcus, Benita Noel, Sam Singal, Christina Vallice
Writers: Christine Colvin, Andy Franklin
and the Staff of NBC Nightly News

Breaking News Coverage: NBC Nightly News with BrIan Williams
"Miracle on the Hudson: Surviving Flight 1549"
Executive Producer: Bob Epstein
Anchor and Managing Editor: BrIan Williams
Senior Broadcast Producer: Pat Burkey, Aurelia Grayson
Director and Senior Broadcasting Producer: Brett Holey
Senior Producers: Subrata De, Mary Laurence Flynn, Tracey Lyons, Albert Oetgen, Sam Singal
Supervising Producer: Jay Blackman
Correspondents: Robert Bazell, Tom Costello, Rehema Ellis, Jeff Rossen, Mike Taibbi
Producers: Donna Bass, Clare Duffy, Anthony Galloway, Mario Garcia, Sue Kroll, Daniel Linden, Megan Marcus, Robin Skolnick, Kelly Venardos
Writers: Christine Colvin, Andy Franklin
and the Staff of NBC Nightly News

Reporting-Hard News: Dateline NBC
"To Save the Children"
Executive Producer: David Corvo
Anchor: Ann Curry
Executive Editor: Liz Cole
Sr. Producer: Allan Maraynes
Producer: Tim Sandler
Associate Producer: Cristina Sanchez De Boado
Additional Producer: Marisa Buchanan
Editors: Beverly Chase, Meredith Kramer
Camera: Mike Simon

Writing: Countdown with Keith Olbermann
"A Baseball Fan Named Marie"
Anchor/Writer: Keith Olbermann

In addition to the national awards, several NBC affiliate stations were also honored with local awards, including KTVB-Boise for Overall Excellence and Newscast in the small market category:

KTVB (Boise, ID): Overall Excellence and Newscast
KTUU (Anchorage, AK):  Writing
WMTV (Madison, WI): Feature Reporting
WTHR (Indianapolis, IN): Use of Video
KARE (Minneapolis, MN): Feature Reporting and Newscast
WGRZ (Buffalo, NY): Sports Reporting
WXIA (Atlanta, GA): Continuing Coverage
WHO (Des Moines, IA):  Use of Video
KXAS(Dallas/Fort Worth, TX): Sports Reporting

RTDNA has been honoring outstanding achievements in electronic journalism with the Edward R. Murrow Awards since 1971. Murrow Award recipients demonstrate the excellence that Edward R. Murrow made a standard for the electronic news profession.

RTDNA is the world's largest professional organization devoted exclusively to electronic journalism. RTDNA represents local and network news professionals in broadcasting, cable and other electronic media in more than 30 countries.  For more information and to see the winning entries, please visit www.rtdna.org.

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