KUER Recent Newsroom Awards

2009

Jenny Brundin

Edward R. Murrow Award
• The Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA), long-form news series, "A Place to Call Home".

Utah Broadcaster's Association UBEE Awards
• Gold – Best Single Event News Coverage: "Utah Family Fight to Have Adopted Child Returned"
• Gold – Best Feature Story or Program: "Found: Everett Ruess"
• Gold – Best News Reporting in a Series: "A Place to Call Home: Ending Homelessness in Utah"
• Silver – Best Feature Story or Program: "Stuck in the Salt Flats"

Society of Professional Journalists Awards
• 1st Place, Best Radio Reporter.
• 1st Place, Best Radio Series, for “Rocky Andersen Retrospective”.
• 1st Place, Best Documentary, for “A Place to Call Home: Ending Homelessness”.
• 1st Place, Best General News, for “Utah Family Fights to Have Adopted Children Returned”.
• 1st Place, Best Criminal Justice Feature, for “Blackwater Guards Appear in Utah”.
• 1st Place, Best Personality Profile, for “Stuck in The Salt Flats”.
• 1st Place, Best Consumer Reporting, for “Couple Committed to Electric Car”.
• 2nd Place, Best Government Reporting, for “Children + The Four-Day Work Week”.
• 2nd Place, Best General Feature, for “WWII Veteran Continues Healing”.
• 3rd Place, Best Use of Sound, for “Sounds of the Galapagos”.

Doug Fabrizio, Elaine Clark, Mike Anderson (RadioWest)

Society of Professional Journalists Awards
• 3rd Place, Best Sports Reporting for “Cowgirl and Rancher Heidi Redd”.
• 3rd Place, Best Public Affairs/Talk Show for “Obama and the West”.

Utah Broadcaster's Association UBEE Awards
• Gold – Best Feature Story or Program: "Radio Hour Frankenstein"
• Silver – Best Feature Story or Program: "The Nutcracker"

Tasha Cook

Society of Professional Journalists Awards
• 1st Place, Best Government Reporting “Racial and Ethnic Differences in Prenatal Care”.
• 2nd Place, Best Education Reporting “Profile of a Utah Veteran with PTSD”.

Utah Broadcaster's Association UBEE Awards
• Gold – Best Feature Story or Program: "Utah’s Construction Industry"
• Gold – Best Feature Story or Program: "Racial and Ethnic Differences in Prenatal Care"

Dan Bammes

Society of Professional Journalists Awards
• 1st Place, Best Education Reporting “Recruiting for Special Education”.
• 3rd Place, Best Government Reporting “BLM Auction”.

Utah Broadcaster's Association UBEE Awards
• Gold – Best Single Event News Coverage: "BLM Drilling Auction"

Jennifer Napier-Pearce

Society of Professional Journalists Awards
• 1st Place, Best General Feature for “Social Obscurity”.
• 3rd Place, Best General News for “Mixed Reviews”.

Utah Broadcaster's Association UBEE Awards
• Silver – Silver – Best Feature Story or Program: "Utah Dailies and Constant Change"
• Silver – Best Single Event News Coverage: "Leonardo Funding Questioned"
• Silver – Best Single Event News Coverage: "Worm Glue"

2008

Jenny Brundin

UBEE
• Gold, Best Single-Event News Coverage, “Mine Disaster: A Community Grieves”.
• Gold, Best Feature Story or Program, “Roz Savage: First Woman to Row Across the Pacific”.
• Silver, Single-Event News Coverage, “From Hinckley to Monson”.
• Silver, Beat Feature Story or Program, “100% Electric”.

Society of Professional Journalists Awards
• 1st Place, General News, “Tanned in the Winter”.
• 1st Place, Best Use of Sound, “Nearly Blind Photographer”.
• 1st Place, Sports Reporting, “Roz Savage: First Woman to Row the Pacific”.
• 1st Place, Minority Issues Reporting,“Asma Al-Houl: Gaza Journalist Visits Utah”.
• 3rd Place, Best Use of Sound, “Stradivarius”.
• HM, Best Radio Reporter.
• HM, General News,, “Mine Tragedy Continues”.

Doug Fabrizio, Elaine Clark, Mike Anderson (RadioWest)

Society of Professional Journalists Awards
• 1st Place, Best Public Affairs / Talk Show, “Mitt Romney’s JFK Speech”.
• 1st Place, Personality Profile, “A Long Way Gone”.
• 2nd Place, Personality Profile, “E.O. Wilson”.

Tasha Cook

Utah Broadcaster's Association UBEE Awards.
• Silver - Best Feature Story or Program, "Waterwise Utah"

Society of Professional Journalists Awards
• 1st Place, General Feature, “Water Wise Utah”.
• 1st Place, Military Reporting, “Memorial Day Audio Postcard”.
• 1st Place, Government Reporting, "Salt Lake City Mayoral Race“.
• 1st Place, Best Radio Reporter, “Portfolio”.
• 2nd Place, General News, “Childhood Asthma + Genomics”.
• 2nd Place, Minority Issues Reporting, “John Renteria’s Salt Lake City Mayoral Bid”.
• 3rd Place, Best Radio Series, "Waterwise Utah”.

Dan Bammes

UBEE
• Gold, Best Feature Story or Program, “Harp Festival”.
• Silver, Best Single-Event News Coverage, “State Capitol Restoration,”.

Society of Professional Journalists Awards
• 1st Place, SPJ, Radio Education Reporting, “School Vouchers”.
• 2nd Place, General Feature, SPJ, “Harp Festival”.

Staff

Society of Professional Journalists Awards
• 3rd place, Series Reporting, Dan Bammes, Jenny Brundin and Tasha Cook, “Water Wise in Utah”.

2007

Jenny Brundin

Public Radio News Directors Incorporated (PRNDI) 2006 national awards
• 2nd Place, documentary category for Division A (large stations) – for “Jenni’s Story: A Journey of Gender.”

Society of Professional Journalists Awards
• 1st Place, Best Radio Reporter.
• 1st Place,  Radio General Features, “From Fries to Fuel”.
• 1st Place,  Radio General News, “President Fox's Visit to Utah”.
• 1st Place,  Radio Government Reporting, “Utah's Tooth Fairy".
• 1st Place,  Radio Consumer Reporting, “Utah's Grease Wars”.
• 1st Place, Radio Documentary, “Jenni Jackson: A Journey of Gender”.
• 3rd Place, Radio Continuing Coverage, “Tax Reform in Utah”.
• 3rd Place, Radio Personality Profile, “A Beautiful Mind: Shane Hibberd”.

Doug Fabrizio, Elaine Clark, Mike Anderson (RadioWest)

Society of Professional Journalists Awards
• 1st Place, Best Public Affairs/Talk Show, “Convicting Polygamy”.
• 1st Place, Radio Personality Profile, “Utah State Senator Chris Buttars”.
• 1st Place, Radio Military Reporting, “Wounded Warriors”.
• 3rd Place, Radio Sports Reporting, “Soccer Culture Stateside”.

Tasha Cook

Society of Professional Journalists Awards
• 1st Place, Best Radio Newscast,  “Sundance Film Festival”
• 1st Place,  Radio Criminal Justice Report, “Identity Theft in Utah”.
• 2nd Place,  Best Use of Sound, “Reflective Skin Audio Postcard”.
• 2nd Place,  Radio Government Reporting, “Medicaid Special Session”.
• 2nd Place,  Best Radio Series "The 2007 Sundance Sound Series".
• 2nd Place,  Radio Minority Issues “Utah's Gay Pride Festival”.
• 3rd Place,  Radio Government Reporting, “Utah Senate Dist. 4”.
• 3rd Place,  Radio Minority Issues, “Immigration Rights Rally”.
• 3rd Place,  Best Radio Reporter "Portfolio".

Utah Broadcaster's Association UBEE Awards.
• Gold, Best News Reporting in a Series, "The 2007 Sundance Sound Series"
• Gold, Best Single Event News Coverage, "Rumsfeld & Rice in Utah"
• Gold, Best Breaking News Coverage, "Bush Visit to Salt Lake City"

Dan Bammes

Society of Professional Journalists Awards
• 1st Place,  Radio Education Reporting, “Ute High School Graduation”.
• 2nd Place, Radio General News, “2nd District Senate Race”.
• 3rd Place, Radio General News, “Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing”.

2006

Jenny Brundin

UBEE
• Silver, Best Feature Story or Program, “Utah's Achievement Gap”.
• Silver, Best News Reporting in a Series, Jenny Brundin, Voices of Youth Project in Moab, Spy Hop & The City Academy Charter School, “Youth Waves”.

Society of Professional Journalists Awards
• 1st Place,  Best Radio Reporter.
• 1st Place,  Radio Series.
• 1st Place,  Non-Deadline Reporting.
• 2nd Place,  Non-Deadline Reporting.
• 3rd Place,  Non-Deadline Reporting.
• Honorable Mention,  Radio Feature.

Doug Fabrizio, Elaine Clark, Mike Anderson (RadioWest)

Society of Professional Journalists Awards
• 1st Place,  Radio Public Affairs/ Talk Show.
• 1st Place,  Radio Documentary.
• 2nd Place,  Radio Documentary.
• 2nd Place,  Radio Best Use of Sound.

Tasha Cook

UBEE
• Silver,  Best Single Event News Coverage, “Salt Lake City's Immigration Rally”.
• Silver, Best Feature Story or Program, “The Shaky Wasatch”.

Society of Professional Journalists Awards
• 2nd Place,  Best Radio Reporter.
• 2nd Place,  Radio Series "The 2006 Sundance Sound Series".

Dan Bammes

Society of Professional Journalists Awards
• 3rd Place,  Radio Series.
• 3rd Place,  Radio Spot News.

Chad Johnson

Society of Professional Journalists Awards
• 3rd Place,  News-Oriented Website.

2005

Jenny Brundin

UBEE
• Silver, Best Single Event News Coverage “Driving Cards for Utah's Undocumented”.

National Clarion Award
•   for Amendment 3--In My Neighborhood.

Society of Professional Journalists Awards
• 1st Place, Best Radio Reporter.
• 1st Place, Best Radio Documentary Amendment 3--In My Neighborhood.
• 1st Place,  Best Feature for Can You Tango in SLC?
• 2nd Place, Radio Continuing Coverage for Utah Legislature Coverage.
• 2nd Place,  Best Use of Sound for Contours.

Doug Fabrizio, Elaine Clark, Mike Anderson (RadioWest)

UBEE
• Silver, Best Feature Story or Program “We Refused to Die”

Society of Professional Journalists Awards
• 1st Place,  Public Affairs / Talk show for “God's Brothel”.
• 2nd Place, Public Affairs / Talk show for “Mary Magdalene”.

Tasha Cook

UBEE
• Gold, Best Feature Story or Program “Praise & Profits”.

The Society for Professional Journalists, Ohio
• 1st place, Best Coverage of Minority Issues
• 2nd place, Best Social Justice Reporting

The Ohio Excellence of Journalism
• 2nd place, Best Investigative Reporting

 Excellence in Financial Journalism, Radio
• The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants

Dan Bammes

Society of Professional Journalists Awards
• 1st Place, Radio Non-Deadline Reporting for Sarah's Story .
• Honorable Mention, Radio Non-Deadline Reporting for Open Space Intiative.

Scott Carrier

Society of Professional Journalists Awards
• 2nd Place,  Radio Series for Juarez