Peformance Radio News Adds 9 Sevareid Awards To Collection

April 14, 2013 prnews Local News 0

For the fourth consecutive year, the Northwest Broadcast News Association of Spearfish has presented Performance Radio News, with the Eric Sevareid Award for excellence in broadcast journalism. Performance Radio News took home nine plaques from the N-B-N-A Sevareid Awards Banquet held Saturday in Bloomington Minnesota.  Performance Radio News in six different categories, Audio, General Reporting, Broadcast Writing, Hard Feature, Website and Series.  A story on the Black Friday holiday rush won an Award of Merit for Broadcast Writing and took First Place for best use of audio…

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An award of merit in audio was given for a story about a night time ride along with the Huron police during last year’s Citizen’s Police Academy. The police ride along story also won an Award of Merit in the Hard Feature Category…..

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In the General Reporting category, First place was awarded for a story on the fire that gutted Springs Auto last January…

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An Award of Merit was given in General Reporting for a story on the sentencing of James Harris in De Smet last April. For the third straight year our website, www.performance-radio.com has won a Sevareid, this year taking First Place. And two Eric Sevareids were awarded in the Series Category. First Place was given for the weekly series done last year on the Huron Police Department’s Citizen’s Police Academy.

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An Award of Merit was given for coverage of the Werner Fajardo rape case. It is the third consecutive year for a First Place in the Series Category. You can hear all of the winning stories below:

 

Audio:

General Reporting

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Series:

Website: