National Headliner Awards

2006

DOCUMENTARY OR PUBLIC AFFAIRS
First Place & Grand Award in Radio:
Security Check: Confronting Today's Global Threats
The Stanley Foundation, 58:59

Updated NON-Collaboration version of the documentary "Security Check: Confronting Today's Global Threats."

2005

COVERAGE OF A BREAKING NEWS EVENT
First Place:
Columbia Remembered...Atlantis, Go For Launch
WMFE / Pat Duggins, 59:00

WMFE-FM's Pat Duggins looks back at the Columbia Disaster and ahead to the planned mission of Space Shuttle Atlantis.

CONTINUING COVERAGE
First Place:
The Ring and I: The Passion, The Myth, The Mania
WNYC, 58:59

"The Ring and I" is a story about the love affair between hundreds of thousands of people and one, colossal, controversial and awe-inspiring piece of work, Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung.

Second Place:
End of a Red-Hunter's Crusade: The Censure of Joseph McCarthy
Wisconsin Public Radio, 07:48

A review of famed Communist-chaser Senator Joseph McCarthy's legacy a half-century past his condemnation by Congress.

PUBLIC AFFAIRS:
Third Place:
Ten Threats to the Great Lakes
Great Lakes Radio Consortium, 59:00

The chief environmental concerns facing North America's largest fresh water source.

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