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WHYY wins Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Innovation

WHYY News has received the national Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) for its coverage of the 2023 elections in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

On Thursday, RTDNA awarded the news organization its “Excellence in Innovation” award in its Large Market Radio category for its digital coverage of last year’s election. The awards recognize “outstanding achievements” in multimedia journalism and are “among the most prestigious in the digital and broadcast news space.”

In addition to covering everything from the Philadelphia mayoral race to the New Jersey General Assembly elections, WHYY News also provided stories translated into Chinese, Arabic and Spanish. The languages ​​were chosen based on the relationships the organization developed with the News and Information Community Exchange (NICE) program, which is funded by the Knight-Lenfest Local News Transformation Fund.

WHYY President and CEO Bill Marrazzo said in a statement that “the vitality of WHYY’s news services, across all of its distribution platforms, is not an academic endeavor.”

“This is about providing citizens of the tri-state area with an unquestionably reliable source of information that allows them to fully participate in the well-being of their community,” Marrazzo said.

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