KJZZ has won four regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for large market radio news coverage in 2023.
The announcement was made Wednesday by the Radio Television Digital News Association.
The station won in the Continuing Coverage; Excellence in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Excellence in Sound; and Sports Reporting categories.
Revisit the award-winning stories.
Continuing Coverage
'The Zone': The last year in Phoenix's largest homeless encampment by KJZZ staff
The Maricopa County Superior Court’s east building stands on a corner in downtown Phoenix, just under a mile away from where the homeless encampment known as "The Zone" once lined several blocks. Local business owners had sued the city, claiming that the encampment produced health and safety concerns that added up to a nuisance the city was responsible for managing. The judge ultimately agreed, ruling that the tents and other structures made of spare particle board, blankets and tarps must come down — and the people living in them had to move somewhere else.
Excellence in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Beth's story: She says being a 'non-speaker' shouldn't mean losing her right to decide for herself by Kirsten Dorman
Stories like that of “pop princess” Britney Spears and football star Michael Oher have gripped the nation. Many other stories of conservatorship and legal guardianship have gone largely untold. This one is about Beth Papp, an Arizona resident and "non-speaker."
Excellence in Sound
Soundies: 1940s 'music videos' gave Black performers a time to shine in the Jim Crow eraby Jill Ryan
Soundies are the music videos that came decades before MTV — even before television was widespread. A small subset of these Soundies brought a more diverse reflection of 1940s America to the mainstream — partially contributing to, as some experts claim, the foundation of the civil rights movement.
Sports Reporting
Girls flag football is off to a flying start with first Arizona championshipby Phil Latzman
Five decades after the passage of Title IX, women’s sports are more popular than ever. And here in Arizona, girls have a new opportunity to compete in a sport previously only available to the boys: flag football.
