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Find KUER's reporting on the races, candidates and more for Utah’s 2018 midterm elections. Click here for our graphics of the U.S. Senate race, 4 Congressional races and Utah ballot initiatives.

KUER Wins Regional Edward R. Murrow For Social Media

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KUER has been honored with a regional Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA). The station was cited for "excellence in social media" for a digital project produced for the 2018 midterm elections. 

In the run-up to the election, KUER created infographics intended to help listeners and readers better understand what they would see on the ballot in the 2018 elections. These "cheat sheets" broke down statewide races and ballot measures into digestable, shareable snapshots that explained key elements of the measures and the top candidates' stances on hot-button issues. They were shared on KUER's website, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts. 

2018 midterm election senate race voter information card
Credit Renee Bright/KUER
The Voter Information Card for Utah's 2018 Senate Race

View each of the infographics:

KUER's team included Nicole Nixon and Julia Ritchey, political reporters; Chelsea Naughton, digital editor; Renee Bright, marketing and design manager.

Excellence in Social Media, Region 3 Large Market Radio: Voter Information Slides | KUER, Salt Lake City, UT

KUER is part of the Mountain West News Bureau, a collaboration between KUER, Wyoming Public Media, Boise State Public Radio in Idaho, Yellowstone Public Radio in Montana and KRCC and KUNC in Colorado. The Bureau collectively took home four Murrow awards for:

Excellence in Writing, Region 3 Large Market Radio: Tracking Streams, Questioning Election Practices, Plummeting Into Utah's Canyons | Mountain West News Bureau, Greeley, CO

Feature Reporting, Region 3 Large Market Radio: Evicted and Homeless, This 14-Year-Old Describes Every Day as "a Fight" | Mountain West News Bureau, Greeley, CO

Sports Reporting, Region 3 Large Market Radio: Do Politics Go With Football? 50 Years Ago Wyoming's Black 14 Said Yes | Mountain West News Bureau, Greeley, CO

Feature Reporting, Region 1 Small Market Radio: Our Changing Idaho: With Few Protections in Place, Farmland Is Gobbled up by Subdivisions | Boise State Public Radio, Boise, ID

RTDNA presents the Edward R. Murrow Awards annually in recognition of what the organization terms "outstanding achievements in electronic journalism." KUER competed against both commerical and public media outlets in the Large Market Radio division of Region 3, which covers Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Wyoming.

A charter member of NPR, KUER 90.1 broadcasts from the Eccles Broadcast Center at the University of Utah. KUER provides a commercial-free mix of local and national news and storytelling to more than 175,000 weekly listeners across 80 percent of the state. KUER and its HD channels can be streamed online at kuer.org and with KUER's mobile app. For media-related inquiries, please contact Renee Bright, KUER’s Marketing and Design Manager, at (801) 581-4057 or rbright@kuer.org.

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