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For the first time in its history, KDVR-Channel 31 won the regional Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Excellence from the Radio Television Digital News Association. The overall award honors the station’s best work from 2014. Fox31 also was honored for a news feature.
KOA won for overall excellence in the radio category.
KCNC-Channel 4 won for best newscast and breaking news (tornado) coverage. KUSA-Channel 9 won for and news documentary (hit and run incidents). KUSA was also honored for hard news and news series efforts.
Colorado Public Radio won for “Race Matters in Classrooms” continuing coverage and news series for “Left Out of Economic Boom.”
The region covers Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. Regional winners are entered in the national contest, judged in May, with winners announced in June and an awards ceremony to follow in October in New York City. See the .
The KDVR entry included: investigation that reopened the Ashley Fallis murder, and resulted in murder charges against her husband, Tom Fallis, an ex-Weld County jail deputy; an investigation into welfare recipients using state EBT cards at marijuana shop ATMs; breaking news coverage of a caught-on-camera shooting: a hostage-taker shot by police at a convenience store; breaking coverage of a hostage standoff, during which the hostage taker talked by phone with reporter Julie Hayden; a caught-on-camera investigation of Denver police using alleged excessive force with a drug suspect; protesters and Denver police clashing over the shooting in Ferguson; a half hour special on the Colorado Flood anniversary; a half hour on the 25th anniversary of the crash of United Flight 232, and Jeremy Hubbard’s half-hour on the return of D-Day veterans to Normandy, France.
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