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Regional RTDNA Murrow Award Winners Announced

May 22, 2025


The Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) has announced the recipients of the 2025 Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards.  8 Michigan broadcasters won a total of 12 awards in Region 7, which is shared with Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.  Award recipients demonstrate the spirit of excellence that Murrow set as a standard for the profession of electronic journalism.

The Michigan stations and their winning entries are as follows:

Small Market Radio
 
Excellence in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Points North: A New Hope for Anishinaabemowin
Interlochen Public Radio
Traverse City, MI
Excellence in Sound
Steam is king at the Buckley Old Engine Show
Interlochen Public Radio
Traverse City, MI
 
Excellence in Writing
'Hello to a River': Maple River is among the first to flow freely
WCMU Public Radio
Mount Pleasant, MI
News Documentary
Nowhere to Go: How the system failed a trafficking survivor
WMUK-FM
Kalamazoo, MI
 
News Series
Meet the rural Democrats and urban Republicans
WMUK-FM
Kalamazoo, MI
 
Large Market Radio
 
Breaking News Coverage
WWJ Breaking News Explosion
WWJ Newsradio 950
Detroit, MI
News Documentary
The Bird Connection: Change and decline in our world
Michigan Public
Ann Arbor, MI
 
Newscast
WWJ Newscast Jennifer Crumbley Verdict
WWJ Newsradio 950
Detroit, MI
Podcast
What The Vote?
Michigan Public
Ann Arbor, MI
 
Small Market Television
 
Hard News
Born into Crisis
WJRT
Flint, MI
 
Large Market Television
 
Continuing Coverage
Historic Crumbley Trials
WDIV/ClickOnDetroit
Detroit, MI
Digital
WXYZ Digital
WXYZ
Detroit, MI
 

See the complete list of winners in Region 7 here.

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