Few Minnesota winners in national journalism awards

There were two local winners announced today when the national Edward R. Murrow Awards were given out. Overall, though, Minnesota was not particularly well represented in the annual awards from the Radio Television News Directors Association.

Of the 95 awards handed out, these are the two Minnesota winners:

Boyd Huppert, the marvelous storyteller at KARE won for best writing. (See compilation video)

The Star Tribune won for overall online news excellence for local news organizations. The entry (available here) stressed the website’s video offerings.

Find all the winning entries here.

About the blogger

Bob Collins

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Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.