Edward R. Murrow Awards
The deadline to submit entries for the Edward R. Murrow Awards has been extended to Friday, February 13. The $25 late fee has also been waived. All entries must be received and media uploaded as of this date, no late entries will be accepted.
RTNDA has been honoring outstanding achievements in electronic journalism with the Edward R. Murrow Awards since 1971. Murrow’s pursuit of excellence in journalism embodies the spirit of the awards that carry his name. Murrow Award recipients demonstrate the excellence that Edward R. Murrow made a standard for the electronic news profession. In 2008, 54 news organizations were honored with 77 National Murrow Awards out of an initial pool of 3,459 entries from several hundred news organizations. We encourage you to enter your best work and be honored with an Edward R. Murrow Award.
New in 2009!
**RTNDA has gone entirely digital. All submission of entries will be done online and the media uploaded for judging. For more information about this 
change, click here. This means you won’t have to burn your work to CD or DVD for mailing.
**For the first time, video that appeared exclusively online will be accepted.
If during the process you have difficulties uploading your media, you're not sure what category a particular piece should be entered in, you're not sure you're a member, etc., please refer to the contact list below.
RTNDA Staff/Board Contact Information
Stacey Staniak
RTNDA staff
staceys@rtnda.org
202.467.5214
Tara Sheehan
RTNDA Staff
taras@rtnda.org
202.467.5203
Marny Klump
RTNDA Staff
marnyk@rtnda.org
202.467.5202
Ed Esposito
RTNDA Chairman
eesposito@rcrg.net or edespositoRTNDA@roadrunner.com
216.219.6432
Bill Roswell
RTNDA Board Member
roswell@kyw.com
215.350.3714
Chip Mahaney
513.432.6565
Randy Bell
601.946.0468
Kathy Walker
720.373.8084
Calendar
February 13, 2009
The last day that entries can be submitted and media uploaded. Entries received after this date will not be accepted.
April 2009
Regional Edward R. Murrow Winners Announced
June 2009
National Edward R. Murrow Winners Announced
October 2009
RTNDA Awards Dinner in New York
Important Links
Upload your Entry already? Click this link, enter your entry ID and view the results of your upload.
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Some Quick Tips
Some personal observations after using the system ourselves:
- Web traffic being web traffic, keep in mind demand clogs data pipelines. Note the online submission forms you fill out and complete allow you to meet the deadline; if you have issues uploading your audio or video the Awards site allows you to re-send confirmation emails with the unique number ID of your entry for uploads at a later time.
- Multiple-track entries must be condensed to a single file for uploads; a consideration is making sure you have enough blank space between tracks in the event judges want to go back and review. It is also helpful to include a track list on the description of your entry since judges will view that information. In addition to digital submission of media, all text and supporting material submission has gone digital as well; feel free to include links to supporting documents or web pages of your work which you feel judges would find useful.
- For audio .mp3 is the only accepted format. Video formats are listed below as part of the seven FAQ's to enter this year's Edward R. Murrow/RTNDA UNITY Awards but due to technical issues .mov files are not accepted. There are multiple free online video conversion programs to help easily convert your files, including converters using the Flash program (.flv) widely used for web video.
Those file types again:
Audio files must be .mp3. The preferred format for video files is .flv.
If your media is not in flash video, it will automatically convert when uploading from the following formats: .wmv, .avi, .mpeg, or .mpg.
No video in any format other than .flv, .wmv, .avi, .mpeg, or .mpg will be accepted. No audio files in any format other than .mp3 will be accepted for radio/audio entries.
- In the event you are unable to convert, consider posting the file on an FTP site and sharing with us the site address and password; we may be able to easily help in downloading and converting the file over the next week.
We appreciate the patience you show in preparing submissions for the RTNDA awards programs, and recognize the hard work it takes to present examples of your best work for consideration of your peers. RTNDA took the step of going all-digital to help make the process more efficient and cost-effective for both entrants and judges and in recognition of the new technologies all of us now use in the day-to-day operations of our respective news departments. Your feedback and comments are a big part of continued improvements to this process, a first for an awards program of this scale. Please email me directly at edespositoRTNDA@roadrunner.com with your suggestions and critical points.
Thanks again, and best of luck!
By Ed Esposito, RTNDA on Jan 31 2009
2009 large market awards.
My former station won two awards using my work right after I was let go. Is there any way I can get a copy for my office?
By Tom Callan on May 26 2009
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