WASHINGTON (KFGO) – KFGO was among those honored as The Radio Television Digital News Association announced the national winners of the 2021 Edward R. Murrow Awards. These awards recognize more than 100 outlets for outstanding work in digital, radio and television journalism in technical and editorial categories.
“A core pillar of RTDNA is celebrating the best in journalism, and one of the ways we do that is through the Edward R. Murrow Awards,” said RTDNA Executive Director Dan Shelley. “This year especially, we are honored to recognize outstanding achievements in broadcast and digital journalism. The past 18 months have been some of the most challenging in the history of our profession, and these recipients, among thousands of other journalists, clearly fulfilled their obligations to serve the public.”
KFGO won its 8th National Edward R. Murrow Award for coverage of the rioting in downtown Fargo on May 30, 2020.
“It was an all hands on deck kind of night,” said KFGO News Director Paul Jurgens with news and programming staff rushing downtown and to the studios to coverage the event, which took place after a day of peaceful demonstrations in Fargo and West Fargo. KFGO captured a Murrow in the “Breaking News” category.
There were more than 5,200 entries this year. In May, RTDNA recognized more than 750 winners of the Regional Murrow Awards, which automatically advanced to the national competition.