Broadcast Division
RADIO STATIONS, NETWORKS & SYNDICATORS
Best Newscast
First Place: KCBS Radio, San Francisco
News Team “KCBS AM News”
Second Place: ABC News, New York
Chris Berry “7 a.m. Newscast”
Third Place: KNX Newsradio, Los Angeles
Dave Zorn, Rory Eriksen, Kathleen Mendoza & Ronnie Bradford “KNX News at 4:30 p.m.”
Public Service
First Place: Oregon Public Broadcasting, Portland
Colin Fogarty & Morgan Holm “Coming to Terms with Dying”
Second Place: KNX Radio, Los Angeles
David P. Ysais “Getting Kids to Read”
Third Place: WCPN, Cleveland
Dee Perry “Around Noon”
Investigative Reporting
First Place  BEST OF SHOW IN RADIO DIVISION:

KCBS Radio, San Francisco
Mike Sugarman “Working Poor”

Second Place:

WBAL-AM, Baltimore
Ron Smith & Rosearl Julian
  “The Jonathan Dempsey Beating”

Third Place: WAMC/Northeast Public Radio, Albany
Mark Brodie  “Asbestos in Mount Vernon, NY”
Coverage of a Spot News Event
First Place :

ABC News, N.Y.
Linda Albin
  “Violence in Israel”

Second Place:

KCBS Radio, San Francisco
 
“Recycling Fire”

Third Place: No Award Given
Continuing Coverage of a Single News Event
First Place:

WBAL-AM, Baltimore
“Palczysnki Takes a Neighborhood Hostage”  
John Patti, Bill Vanko,
Anne Kramer, Rosearl Julian

Second Place:

ABC News Radio
Chris Berry  “Elian Gonzalez Story”

Third Place:

KNX Newsradio, Los Angeles
Dave Zorn, Luis Torres & Steve Cusack  “First Word: The Crash of Flight 261”

Documentary or Series of Reports
First Place :

KNX Newsradio, Los Angeles
Gail Eichenthal
  “Strings Attached: Adolescents and Sex”

Second Place:

KCBS Radio, San Francisco
Mike Sugarman  “Hired Hands”

Third Place:

The Savvy Traveler
Tom Verde  “Tour of Cairo, Egypt”

Feature or Human Interest Story
First Place :

WBAL-AM, Baltimore
John Patti “If These Balls Could Talk”

Second Place:

Lichtenstein Creative Media
Bill Lichtenstein, June Peoples & Sharon Lerner  “ On A Different Note: Perfect Pitch and Williams Syndrome”

Third Place:

WCPN-Cleveland Public Radio
Karen Schaefer  “Remembering the Underground Railroad”

TELEVISION STATIONS 
Best Newscast
First Place :

WFAA-TV, Dallas
“USS Cole Attack”
Annette Smith & Sara Garza

Second Place:

WCVB-TV, Needham, MA
“Wakefield Tragedy”

Third Place:

WBAL-TV, Baltimore
Rena Popp & Tim Tunison “5 p.m. News”

Spot News Event
First Place :

WEWS-TV, Cleveland
Lynn Heider, Kathy McGee “Meltdown”

Second Place:

KSTP-TV, St. Paul
Bob McNaney & Russ Brown
“Northwest Airlines: Mishandled Mail”

Third Place:

WCVB-TV, Needham, MA
“Wakefield Tragedy”

Continuing Coverage of a Single News Event
First Place :

WEWS-TV, Cleveland
Lynn Heider “Hospital Crisis”

Second Place:

KECI-TV, Missoula, MT
“Montana Wildfires: Up in Flames”

Third Place:

WCVB-TV, Needham, MA
David Boeri “On the Trail of James Whitey Bulger and the FBI”

Feature or Human Interest Story
First Place :

KDFW-TV, Dallas
John Hammarley
“Ethel Hears Again”

Second Place:

WFAA-TV, Dallas
Douglas Burgess “The Humming Birds and the Bees”

Third Place:

WFAA-TV, Dallas
Janet St. James & Douglas Burgess “The Baby Factory”

Public Service
First Place:

Georgia Public Television, Atlanta
Carol Fisk, Gerald Bryant & Leigh Green “Final Choices”

Second Place:

WYFF-TV, Greenville, SC
Michael Cogdill, John Hendon, Lori Webster & Tim Whims
“Message from the Bottle”

Third Place:

KGO-TV, San Francisco
Michael Finney & Jennifer Vogelsberg “7 on your Side”

Documentary or Series of Reports
First Place :

KCNC, Denver
Stephanie Riggs & Bill Masure “Embracing a Dream”

Second Place:

WTHR-TV & Calamari Productions, Indianapolis
Kevin Finch, Karen Grau, Steve Starnes & John Whalen “In the Child’s Best Interest”

Third Place:

Georgia Public Television, Atlanta
Rojene Bailey, Phil Proctor, Carol Fisk, Scott Huffman & Hal Lamar “Hosea in His Own Words”

Investigative Reporting
First Place:

KHOU-TV, Houston
David Raziq, Anna Werner & Chris Henao
“Treading on Danger?”

Second Place:

WEWS, Cleveland
Tom Merriman “Inside These Walls”

Third Place:

WFAA-TV, Dallas
Valeri Williams & Meredith Schucker “Lives at Risk”

Sports Reporting
First Place:

WFAA-TV, Dallas
Dale Hansen, Tony Martinez & Arnold Payne
“The Landry Legacy”

Second Place:

WFAA-TV, Dallas
Douglas Burgess “One More Chance to Play”

Third Place:

WFAA-TV, Dallas
Gary Reaves & Douglas Burgess “To Hell and Back”

Graphics, Informational or Illustrative
First Place:

WCVB-TV, Needham, MA
Bryan Kelleher “Newscenter 5 Design”  
Sean Connor
Christine Finn
Anthony Lathrop
David Lovecchio
Marcelle Watkins

Second Place:

KSWB-TV, San Diego
Maryl Lavelle “KSWB Station ID’s”

Third Place:

No Award Given

TELEVISION AND CABLE NETWORKS, AND SYNDICATORS 
Best Newscast
First Place :

ABC News
Kathy O’Hearn & Elizabeth Vargas “World News Tonight: Elian Gonzalez”

Second Place:

CNN
Judy Woodruff & Bernard Shaw “CNN’s Inside Politics”

Third Place:

NBC News/Discovery Channel
Carol Williams
“Discovery News”

Coverage of a Major News Event
First Place :

ABC News Nightline
Ted Koppel “The Holy Land: A Nightline Town Meeting in Jerusalem”

Second Place:

CNN
Rob Howell, Dave Timko & Heather Whitley “Election 2000”

Third Place:

Dateline NBC
Steve Eckert
“Danger on the Road: Ford Firestone and the Federal Government”

Feature or Human Interest Story
First Place :

Dateline NBC
Izhar Harpaz “Family Ties”

Second Place:

ABC News Prime Time Live
Diane Sawyer & Robbie Gordon
“Roots of Rage”

Third Place:

CNN NewsStand
Jan Smith “Military Pay”

Documentary or Series of Reports
First Place  BEST OF SHOW IN TELEVISION DIVISION:

ABC News Nightline
Ted Koppel “AIDS in Africa”

Second Place:

CNN Productions
Christiane Amanpour & Liza McGuirk
“Revolutionary Journey”

Third Place:

Dateline NBC
Shachar Bar-on “Mark of Dishonor”

Investigative Reporting
First Place :

ABC News 20/20
Harry Phillips & Connie Chung
“Justice at Last?”

Second Place:

Dateline NBC
Mark Feldstein & Staff  “Saving Richard”

Third Place:

Dateline NBC
Lynn Dale & John Larson “The Paper Chase”

News Magazine Program
First Place:

CNN
CNNdotCom Staff
“CNNdotCom”
James Hattori
Perri Peltz
Shari Bell

Second Place:

NBC News/Discovery Channel
Carol Williams “Discovery News”

Third Place:

Dateline NBC
Benita Alexander-Noel “Road to Disaster”

Sports Reporting
First Place :

CNN/Sports Illustrated
Robert Abbott “Bobby Knight Investigative Report”

Second Place:

NBC News/Discovery Channel
Carol Williams “Discovery News: Maximum Performance”

Third Place:

CNN       
Jeff Flock “How Far? How Fast? How High?