Sinclair Wins Three National Headliner Awards
May 11 2023 - 4:11PM
Business Wire
WKRC/Cincinnati Honored with First Place
Award
WJLA/Washington DC and Spotlight on America
Honored with Third Place Awards
Sinclair Broadcast Group is pleased to announce its television
stations and investigative teams were honored with a total of three
National Headliner Awards, including first place in the
Environmental Reporting category. The National Headliner Awards,
one of the oldest and largest journalism contests, recognizes the
best journalistic merit in the United States.
Sinclair won the following awards:
- Environmental Reporting (Broadcast or cable television
stations) – First Place “Fallout” Duane Pohlman, Eric Frisbee
and Tim Geraghty WKRC in Cincinnati received first place for
“Fallout,” the station’s continuing investigation into the
connection between radioactive contamination and cancer. Judges’
comments: A testament to the power of journalism, WKRC’s
“Fallout” series continues to unveil startling and disturbing
findings about the high rates of cancer and illnesses due to the
enriched uranium produced at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant
(PORTS) in Pike County, Ohio. From climbing into a family’s attic
to gather evidence of high levels of enriched uranium and then
daringly exposing findings of plutonium residue from recycled
Soviet nuclear warheads, the reporting sparks ire from government
officials. Federal legislators then investigated the Department of
Energy’s “cover-up” of the “fallout,” as a result of this
reporting.
- Business and Consumer Reporting (Broadcast or cable
television stations) – Third Place “Supply Chain Woes” Mark
Hyman and Larry Deal WJLA-TV/ Inside Your World (aired on all
Sinclair stations)
- Investigative report (Broadcast television networks,
cable networks and syndicators) – Third Place “Unseen Battle:
Young Veterans Facing Breast Cancer” Andrea Nejman, Chris
Daniels and Alex Brauer, Spotlight on America Spotlight on
America, Sinclair’s award-winning national investigative team,
produces original investigative and enterprise reports and specials
that air across 90 ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CW and MyTV stations
nationwide, including The National Desk, Sinclair’s national news
program.
Commenting on the awards, Scott Livingston, Senior Vice
President of News said, “We are honored the hard work of our
journalists has been recognized with multiple National Headliner
Awards. These awards reinforce our commitment to servicing our
local communities and delivering quality journalism that informs,
empowers, and inspires.”
About Sinclair:
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SBGI) is a diversified
media company and a leading provider of local news and sports. The
Company owns, operates and/or provides services to 185 television
stations in 86 markets affiliated with all the major broadcast
networks; owns Tennis Channel and multicast networks Comet, CHARGE!
and TBD; and owns and provides services to 21 regional sports
network brands. Sinclair’s content is delivered via multiple
platforms, including over-the-air, multi-channel video program
distributors, and the nation’s largest streaming aggregator of
local news content, NewsON. The Company regularly uses its website
as a key source of Company information which can be accessed at
www.sbgi.net.
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