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The GLT News team snagged another bushel of Edward R. Murrow Awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association. WGLT's News Department received a station-record five regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for broadcast excellence. No station in the region, which includes small market stations in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan, won as many as five awards. This year, GLT submitted a total of five nominations with each entry taking top honors. Since 2005, WGLT has won twenty-one regional and three national Edward R. Murrow Awards.
The highly-acclaimed GLT News Series, “Shifting Gears” won in the extremely competitive category of Best News Series. Winners Jim Browne, Charlie Schlenker, Laura Kennedy and Willis Kern spent time with those re-inventing themselves in the work force, giving them the chance to tell their own stories. Kennedy was also recognized for best feature for her story called "Grape Stomp" about a festival at an area vineyard. For the sixth time in the past seven years, Schlenker, GLT’s Assistant News Director, took the honors in the Best Writing Category. He also won the Best Use of Sound category for with his report, “Library Habitat,” about how libraries are adapting to a physical culture change. News Director Willis Kern’s report “Harvest at the Corn Crib,” about the first minor league baseball game in Bloomington-Normal in more than seventy years, won the award for Best Sports Report.
The Illinois Associated Press has honored the WGLT News Department for Journalistic Excellence for the 10th consecutive year. This year no downstate radio station won more total awards or first place awards than GLT. For the fifth straight year, the only Illinois radio station to win more acclaim than WGLT in Normal was Chicago Public Radio, WBEZ.
In the last seven years the WGLT News Department has won 48 awards from the Associated Press for Journalistic Excellence, and 72 overall awards in the last eleven years.
Best Reporter, Assistant News Director Charlie Schlenker. This is Charlie Schlenker's fourth time winning this award at WGLT and fifth time in his career. It is the fourth consecutive year a WGLT Journalist has won Best Reporter. News Director Willis Kern won the previous three. It's awarded for a body of work over the course of a year.
Best Newswriter, Assistant News Director Charlie Schlenker. Judges gauge the clarity and quality of broadcast writing. This is the seventh time in the last ten years Charlie has won this category.
Best Series/Documentary - "Shifting Gears." WGLT's News Department (Willis, Charlie, Laura Kennedy and Jim Browne) looked at the many ways central Illinoisians are trying to reinvent themselves as the economy re-shapes itself. WGLT's week long series looked at how they are doing amidst this jobless recovery from the Great Recession.
Best Sports, to Willis for his report about the debut of the Corn Crib baseball stadium earned top honors in Sports. The opening of the stadium on Normal's northwest side brought minor league baseball to town for the first time in seventy years
Best Sports, 2nd place, to Charlie Schlenker for his story about children with disabilities finding an outlet in the joy of baseball. Disabilities can be socially isolating, but the "Miracle League" overcomes that.
Best Light Feature, 2nd Place, to Laura Kennedy for her llighthearted look at people with purple feet. It's a new kind of harvest festival in central Illinois....a "Grape Stomp."
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