Delmarva Public Media is proud to announce that it brought home five first-place awards at the 2024 Chesapeake Associated Press Broadcasters Association Awards in Ocean City on June 2nd.
News Director Don Rush won two awards for Outstanding News Series and Outstanding Documentary/In-Depth Reporting. In comparison, Program Director Bryan Russo won two awards for Outstanding Public Affairs and Best Specialty Reporting.
Retired SU professor Michael O’Loughlin also took the top prize for Outstanding Editorial or Commentary.
DPM’s Don Rush and Bryan Russo at AP Awards
Delmarva Public Media also earned five 2nd place awards.
29 news organizations in Maryland, Delaware, and Washington DC submitted a record number of 370 entries which featured news and sports from the past year.
CAPBA also awarded a $3000 scholarship to Eddy Calkins, a rising junior studying broadcast journalism at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland.
“The AP awards are always a great way for us to take a moment to celebrate the work that we’ve done over the past year, and I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished with our small news team, freelance and student journalists”, said Russo. “Congratulations to Don and Michael and to all the winners from the other media organizations. We look forward to continuing the work of covering the news and region in a way that public radio listeners have always relied on.”
Category: RADIO II/NON-METRO
1st place winners
Outstanding News Series: Don Rush, WSCL/WSDL, Salisbury, Md., “Downtown Development”;
Outstanding Editorial or Commentary: Michael O’Loughlin, WSCL/WSDL, Salisbury, Md., “Indictment and a Movement”
Outstanding Public Affairs: Bryan Russo, WSCL/WSDL, Salisbury, Md., “Buckingham: To Build or not to Build”
Best Specialty Reporting: Bryan Russo, WSCL/WSDL, Salisbury, Md., “In Your Neighborhood.”
Outstanding Documentary/In-Depth Reporting: Don Rush, WSCL/WSDL, Salisbury, Md.
Delmarva Public Media consists of three public radio stations reaching most of the Delmarva Peninsula as well as parts of New Jersey and the western shore of Virginia: WESM 91.3 featuring NPR, local news, live-hosted jazz, blues and world music; WSCL 89.5 all classical and WSDL 90.7 an increasingly adult album alternative (AAA) station along with NPR and local news. Delmarva Public Media is a service of two universities, University of Maryland Eastern Shore and Salisbury University. For more information go to delmarvapublicmedia.org.
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