Interlochen Public Radio is the winner of four Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards, the most of any Michigan radio station for the fourth year in a row.
The awards are among the most prestigious in broadcast and digital news, and are named for the famed and esteemed CBS broadcaster. The awards are distributed by the Radio Television Digital News Association.
Judges honored IPR for the following stories in the following categories:
- Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - Points North: Big Abe’s Net (Ellie Katz)
- Excellence in Sound - Screech owl babies return to the wild after weeks at raptor center (Ellie Katz)
- Feature Reporting - As ICE plans to move into Baldwin prison, residents hope jobs will stay (Claire Keenan-Kurgan and Maxwell Howard)
- Podcast - Points North: Some Things Never Change (Dan Wanschura)
Congrats to Ellie, Claire, Maxwell, and Dan on their work. And congratulations to our other public radio colleagues who received honors at WCMU in Mt. Pleasant, WMUK in Kalamazoo, and WDET in Detroit.
A win in Region 7 — Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois — means these stories will now advance to the National Murrow Award competition. Those winners will be announced in August.