National Winners
| Network Television | Network Radio |
| Large Market Television | Large Market Radio |
| Small Market Television | Small Market Radio |
| Large Digital Organization | Small Digital Organization |
Congratulations to all national winners of the 2026 Edward R. Murrow Awards! We look forward to celebrating with you at the
Edward R. Murrow Awards Gala on Oct. 12 at Gotham Hall in New York City.
Breaking News Coverage
US Strikes Iran Nuclear Facilities
CNN
New York, NY
Continuing Coverage
Immigration Crackdown
ABC News
New York, NY
Digital
Three Voices from Gaza: What survival looks like after 15 months of war
CNN
New York, NY
Excellence in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Alaska's Vanishing Native Villages
The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at Arizona State University and PBS FRONTLINE
Phoenix, AZ
Excellence in Innovation
The Vaccine Divide
NBC News and Stanford University
New York, NY
Excellence in Video
From Vietnam: 50 years after the war, Viet refugees share their family history
NBC News
New York, NY
Excellence in Writing
The Bus on Route 62
CBS News 60 Minutes
New York, NY
Feature-Length Documentary
The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo
Netflix, XRM Media, VII Foundation, and LinLay Productions
Los Angeles, CA
Feature Reporting
The Empty Rooms
CBS News 60 Minutes
New York, NY
Hard News
Ghost Plates
InvestigateTV
New Orleans, LA
Investigative Reporting
Walmart's Wild West
CNBC
New York, NY
News Documentary
Trainwreck: The Astroworld Tragedy
Netflix and Passion Pictures
Los Angeles, CA
News Series
The Trump administration says no one has died due to aid cuts. We went to the Taliban's Afghanistan to investigate
CNN
New York, NY
Newscast
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir - Live from California's Fire Emergency
ABC News
New York, NY
Podcast
Burn Order
MS NOW
New York, NY
Sports Reporting
SC Featured: Johnny Buckets
ESPN
Bristol, CT
Overall Excellence
ABC News
ABC News
New York, NY
Breaking News Coverage
The Election of Pope Leo
NPR
Washington, DC
Continuing Coverage
Texas Flood
ABC News
New York, NY
Digital
The Trump Administration's Dismantling of Immigration Courts
NPR
Washington, DC
Excellence in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Will the National Parks Survive Trump?
Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting
San Francisco, CA
Excellence in Innovation
NPR's California Wildfire Investigations: Using Firefighter Broadcast and Electricity Data to Reveal New Truths
NPR and KCRW
Washington, DC
Excellence in Sound
Making Music from the Sounds of War
NPR
Washington, DC
Excellence in Writing
Bombs, Drugs, and Bones: Clearing the Detritus of War
NPR
Washington, DC
Feature Reporting
As AI Advances, Doomers Warn the Superintelligence Apocalypse Is Nigh
NPR
Washington, DC
Hard News
Start Here: Inside El Salvador’s Mega-Prison
ABC News
New York, NY
Investigative Reporting
Abuse of Power: Beyond the Goon Squad
Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, The New York Times, and Mississippi Today
San Francisco, CA
News Documentary
The Landlord Gutting America’s Hospitals
Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting
San Francisco, CA
News Series
The State of the First Amendment: The Right From Which All Other Rights Flow
NPR
Washington, DC
Newscast
CBS World News Roundup: Plane Crash at DCA
CBS News Radio
New York, NY
Podcast
Devil in the Desert
ABC News
New York, NY
Sports Reporting
Start Here: The F1 of Sailing
ABC News
New York, NY
Overall Excellence
CBS News Radio
CBS News Radio
New York, NY
Breaking News Coverage
Medical Jet Crash
NBC 10 Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
Continuing Coverage
Unlicensed and Unchecked
WFAA
Dallas, TX
Digital
KXAN Investigates | kxan.com
KXAN
Austin, TX
Excellence in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Lakeland
WRC/NBC4 Washington
Washington, DC
Excellence in Innovation
BEAUTY EXPOSED | Sephora Kids & California Law
CBS News California Investigates
Sacramento, CA
Excellence in Video
Italy's Gelato King
WTHR
Indianapolis, IN
Excellence in Writing
Jay Korff Writing Composite
WJLA
Washington, DC
Feature Reporting
Italy's Gelato King
WTHR
Indianapolis, IN
Hard News
A Perfect Heart
KARE 11
Minneapolis, MN
Investigative Reporting
Trafficking in Tristate: Rooms Without Rescue
News 12 Long Island
Bethpage, NY
News Documentary
ABC7 ORIGINALS | A Mother's Hope
ABC7 KGO-TV
San Francisco, CA
News Series
Addicted on Duty
WVUE
New Orleans, LA
Newscast
WABC-TV Eyewitness News at 11: Hudson River Helicopter Crash
WABC-TV
New York, NY
Podcast
Murders on Main Street
WSMV
Nashville, TN
Sports Reporting
Long Live Marcus Rogers
News 12
Norwalk, CT
Overall Excellence
Atlanta News First
WANF Atlanta News First
Atlanta, GA
Breaking News Coverage
Seattle ICE Protests Turn Violent
KIRO Newsradio
Seattle, WA
Continuing Coverage
Annunciation Church and School Mass Shooting
WCCO Radio
Minneapolis, MN
Digital
WBUR
WBUR
Boston, MA
Excellence in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Chicago's Death Gap
WBEZ Chicago
Chicago, IL
Excellence in Innovation
Remember Me
St. Louis Public Radio and The Marshall Project - St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
Excellence in Sound
‘El más dulce recuerdo’: 30 years later, Selena’s presence still felt in Corpus Christi
Texas Standard
Austin, TX
Excellence in Writing
Three Black Texans were lynched 130 years ago. How can Austin preserve their memory?
KUT
Austin, TX
Feature Reporting
Bending the Bars: Hip-hop album showcases the talent at Broward County jails
WLRN News
Miami, FL
Hard News
In the trenches in Kensington, rookie police officers see change
KYW Newsradio
Philadelphia, PA
Investigative Reporting
Need an ambulance in Massachusetts? It could leave you thousands in debt.
GBH News
Boston, MA
News Documentary
Becoming Bovino
WBEZ Chicago and Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago, IL
News Series
Double Jeopardy: From Classroom to Courtroom
Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation/WESA
Pittsburgh, PA
Newscast
The L.A. Firestorm: 9:30pm
KNX News
Los Angeles, CA
Podcast
Rebuilding a life, 100 miles at a time
LAist
Los Angeles, CA
Sports Reporting
‘I just gambled our entire savings away’: Young adults in Mass. are hooked on online sports betting
WBUR
Boston, MA
Overall Excellence
WBUR
WBUR
Boston, MA
Breaking News Coverage
Confession of a Killer
WRGB CBS6 Albany
Albany, NY
Continuing Coverage
Smitty's Explosion in Roseland
WBRZ
Baton Rouge, LA
Digital
WSET
WSET
Roanoke-Lynchburg, VA
Excellence in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Rescuing Japanese Hall
Nebraska Public Media
Lincoln, NE
Excellence in Innovation
Milk River Meltdown
KRTV-TV
Great Falls, MT
Excellence in Video
DCI comes to Myrtle Beach
WMBF News
Myrtle Beach, SC
Excellence in Writing
Cory Howard
KHQ-TV
Spokane, WA
Feature Reporting
The Bladesmith
KWTX
Waco, TX
Hard News
Robin's Voice
WHO13
Des Moines, IA
Investigative Reporting
Missing Millions: Tax Dollars Vanish
KRNV TV
Reno, NV
News Documentary
Everlasting: Life and Legacy of Medgar Evers
Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Jackson, MS
News Series
Destination Adak
KTUU-TV Anchorage
Anchorage, AK
Newscast
The Day After Flight 5342
KWCH
Wichita, KS
Podcast
Homegoings: Cailin Marcel Manson Ain’t Your Average Maestro
Vermont Public
Colchester, VT
Sports Reporting
An Eye for Hitting
WOWT
Omaha, NE
Overall Excellence
KOTV - News On 6
KOTV
Tulsa, OK
Breaking News Coverage
Karen Read Murder Trial
WATD
Marshfield, MA
Continuing Coverage
Typhoon Halong Coverage
Alaska Public Media, KYUK, and KNBA
Anchorage, AK
Digital
Environment and Agriculture Web Coverage
WUFT
Gainesville, FL
Excellence in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Points North: Big Abe's Net
Interlochen Public Radio
Traverse City, MI
Excellence in Innovation
Meeting Monitor: Using AI to surface local news
Connecticut Public
Hartford, CT
Excellence in Sound
A Winter Waterfowl Hunt on the St. Lawrence River
North Country Public Radio
Canton, NY
Excellence in Writing
NHPR
NHPR
Concord, NH
Feature Reporting
Emmett Till remembered through events marking 70 years since the teenager’s brutal murder
Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Jackson, MS
Hard News
New Hampshire said felons couldn’t be fishing guides. An angler sued to change that.
NHPR
Concord, NH
Investigative Reporting
Dumped in Berger
KBIA Public Radio
Columbia, MO
News Documentary
Healing After Helene: One year after the storm that changed East Tennessee
WUOT
Knoxville, TN
News Series
A Whole Other Country
Marfa Public Radio
Marfa, TX
Newscast
April 9, 2025
KLCC
Eugene, OR
Podcast
Track One: Shelved, Episode 1: Patty
Little Rock Public Radio
Little Rock, AR
Sports Reporting
A Tree Rodeo comes to northern New York
North Country Public Radio
Canton, NY
Overall Excellence
KUNC News
KUNC News
Greeley-Fort Collins, CO
Breaking News Coverage
Four-day war between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan
Al Jazeera Digital
Doha, QA
Continuing Coverage
Inside RFK Jr.'s upending of public health
The Washington Post and KFF
Washington, DC
Excellence in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Two Square Miles
Detroit Free Press
Detroit, MI
Excellence in Innovation
What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
ProPublica
New York, NY
Excellence in Sound
Camp Swamp Road: Mess Around, Find Out
Spotify Studios and The Wall Street Journal
New York, NY
Excellence in Video
Facing terminal cancer with a baby on the way
The Washington Post
Washington, DC
Excellence in Writing
Sick in a Hospital Town
ProPublica
New York, NY
Feature Reporting
‘Every Man We Killed Is a Gangster’: On the Front Lines with Haiti’s Vigilantes
Rolling Stone
New York, NY
Hard News
7 Days of ICE
The Boston Globe
Boston, MA
Investigative Reporting
The poisonous lead trade
The Examination and The New York Times
New York, NY
News Documentary
How U.S. Corporations Sterilized Thousands Worldwide
AJ+
Washington, DC
News Series
The Migrants Who Bore the Brunt of Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign
ProPublica, The Texas Tribune, Alianza Rebelde Investiga, Cazadores de Fake News, and PBS FRONTLINE
New York, NY
Podcast
Snitch City
The Boston Globe
Boston, MA
Overall Excellence
ProPublica
ProPublica
New York, NY
Breaking News Coverage
Immigration Enforcement in NC
The Assembly
Durham, NC
Continuing Coverage
Uninsured in America
Public Health Watch and Stateline
Austin, TX
Excellence in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
The Complicated Past of Nottoway Plantation Home
Unfiltered with Kiran
Baton Rouge, LA
Excellence in Innovation
HOME SICK: Chronic illness and longing define life in the Tijuana River valley
inewsource
San Diego, CA
Excellence in Video
What Japan’s Atom Bomb Survivors Have Taught Us About the Dangers of Nuclear War
Retro Report
New York, NY
Excellence in Writing
Eric Boodman
STAT
Boston, MA
Feature Reporting
The 'Godmother' of Weed vs. Her Uncle, the DEA Agent
The City Reporter
New York, NY
Hard News
A Siege on Science
Grist
Seattle, WA
Investigative Reporting
Off the Rails
The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland, The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at Arizona State University, Global Reporting Centre at the University of British Columbia, The Narwhal, and Evident Media
College Park, MD
News Documentary
What's Really Happening in the Ocean's Dark Zones
Newpress
Washington, DC
News Series
Fumed
Public Health Watch and N+ Univision 45
Austin, TX
Podcast
The Outlaw Ocean Podcast Season 2
The Outlaw Ocean Project
Washington, DC
Sports Reporting
Pablo Torre Finds Out: The Aspiration Files
Meadowlark Media
New York, NY
Overall Excellence
Grist
Grist
Seattle, WA
Excellence in Audio Feature Reporting
50 Feet In the Air
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY
Excellence in Audio Hard News
Taking It To The Streets
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY
Excellence in Audio Newscast
Newscenter88 at 5 PM 10-17-25
WMUL-FM, Marshall University
Huntington, WV
Excellence in Digital Reporting
The Price of Paradise
WUFT, University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
Excellence in Podcasts
Carolina Connection podcast: Raw milk popularity surges as experts warn of health risks
Carolina Connection, University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC
Excellence in Video Feature Reporting
By study and by faith: The legacy of Karl G. Maeser
The Daily Universe, Brigham Young University
Salt Lake City, UT
Excellence in Video Hard News
Rebuilding Paradise
WUFT, University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
Excellence in Video Newscast
Temple Update, November 13, 2025
TUTV, Temple University
Philadelphia, PA