RTDNA announces 2025 Region 2 Edward R. Murrow Award winners

Today, the Radio Television Digital News Association announced Region 2 winners of the Edward R. Murrow Awards. Region 2 comprises California, Hawaii, Nevada and Guam. 

Regional winners automatically advance to the national competition, winners of which will be announced in August. 

Congratulations to this year's winners! Learn how to promote your win here.

Breaking News Coverage

Two students hurt in school shooting
KCRA 3 News
Sacramento, CA

Continuing Coverage

Powerless in Prison: The shutdown of FCI Dublin
KTVU Channel 2
Oakland, CA

Digital

ABC7 NEWS | Serving the Bay Area on All Platforms
ABC7 KGO-TV
San Francisco, CA

Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Racial profiling on the Las Vegas Strip
KLAS-TV
Las Vegas, NV

Excellence in Video

The Woman Behind Rio
KCRA 3 News
Sacramento, CA

Excellence in Writing

WORDS & PICTURES: Bit By The Blues Bug
KPIX 5
San Francisco, CA

Feature Reporting

'You now know more than Zach'
CBS News California Investigates
Sacramento, CA

Hard News

Oakland Crime Stoppers stiffs tipster
NBC Bay Area
San Jose, CA

Investigative Reporting

The Nurse Whistleblower
NBC Bay Area
San Jose, CA

News Documentary

ABC7 ORIGINALS | Unthinkable
ABC7 KGO-TV
San Francisco, CA

News Series

CALIFORNIA'S FENTANYL FIGHT: Politicians v. Parents
CBS News California Investigates and CalMatters
Sacramento, CA

Newscast

Eyewitness News at 5p 5/1/24
KABC-TV
Los Angeles, CA

Sports Reporting

A (Not So) fond farewell to the Oakland A's
ABC7 KGO-TV
San Francisco, CA

Overall Excellence

ABC7 NEWS | Serving the Bay Area
ABC7 KGO-TV
San Francisco, CA

Breaking News Coverage

Zack Scrivner Investigation
KGET - 17 News
Bakersfield, CA

Continuing Coverage

Small Town's Secrets
KRNV TV
Reno, NV

Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Identity in Local Politics
KGET - 17 News
Bakersfield, CA

Excellence in Video

Manta ray tours thrills and debate
Hawaii News Now
Honolulu, HI

Excellence in Writing

Buckshot May
KGET - 17 News
Bakersfield, CA

Feature Reporting

Explant: Breast Implant Illness
KGET - 17 News
Bakersfield, CA

Hard News

One year after the Maui wildfires: Stories of survival, rebuilding, and the Aloha Spirit
KITV4 Island News
Honolulu, HI

Investigative Reporting

HNN Investigates: Reports of mishandled remains
Hawaii News Now
Honolulu, HI

News Documentary

Maui Wildfire Disaster: One Year Later
Hawaii News Now
Honolulu, HI

News Series

Journey to China: Hawaii's Connection
Hawaii News Now
Honolulu, HI

Newscast

17 News at Sunrise: Live from the Borel Fire
KGET - 17 News
Bakersfield, CA

Podcast

The Other Side of Paradise: Sober drivers taken to jail for DUI
Hawaii News Now
Honolulu, HI

Sports Reporting

Buckshot May
KGET - 17 News
Bakersfield, CA

Overall Excellence

KGET in 2024
KGET - 17 News
Bakersfield, CA

Breaking News Coverage

Fire in the Oakland Hills, again
KCBS Radio
San Francisco, CA

Continuing Coverage

The Last Days of the Oakland A's
KQED
San Francisco, CA

Digital

KPBS Voter Hub
KPBS Public Media
San Diego, CA

Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Hebah Hefzy becomes 1st hijabi runner to finish world’s oldest 100-mile ultramarathon
KQED
San Francisco, CA

Excellence in Innovation

'The Latest from KQED' gives podcast listeners a local news experience
KQED
San Francisco, CA

Excellence in Sound

Back in Time! To the Renaissance Faire!
KNX
Los Angeles, CA

Feature Reporting

Bay Area's 'fix-it' culture thrives amid state's forthcoming Right-to-Repair law
KQED
San Francisco, CA

Hard News

SF crackdown on illegal drugs has implications for immigration
KQED
San Francisco, CA

Investigative Reporting

Deadly restraint: Despite decades of warnings, police continue holding people facedown
The California Newsroom, The California Reporting Project, CapRadio, KQED, and The Guardian US
San Francisco, CA

News Documentary

The railroad's surprising impact on food and civil rights in California
KQED and Food & Environment Reporting Network
San Francisco, CA

News Series

Suicide: Stigma/Shame
KFI-AM 640
Los Angeles, CA

Newscast

KCBS Radio 3 p.m. Newscast
KCBS Radio
San Francsico, CA 

Podcast

How Wild
KALW Public Media
San Francsico, CA

Overall Excellence

KNX News 97.1 FM
KNX
Los Angeles, CA

Breaking News Coverage

Inferno! More than 180 homes destroyed by wind-whipped Ventura County wildfire
KCLU AM/FM
Thousand Oaks, CA

Continuing Coverage

Ventura County firestorm destroys or damages more than 370 structures
KCLU AM/FM
Thousand Oaks, CA

Digital

Hospitales de Texas preguntan sobre estado migratorio de pacientes
Radio Bilingüe
Fresno, CA

Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

America’s first all-female mariachi group brings the rich cultural heritage of Latin America to Santa Barbara County
KCLU AM/FM
Thousand Oaks, CA

Excellence in Sound

Why Superman singer took a risky journey to Kyiv to film with the Ukrainian National Orchestra
KCLU AM/FM
Thousand Oaks, CA

Excellence in Writing

These youngsters discovered the first evidence that giant Ice Age sloths roamed Santa Cruz
90.3 KAZU
Santa Cruz, CA

Feature Reporting

KUNR reporter races on camelback, continuing a journalistic tradition in Virginia City
KUNR Public Radio
Reno, NV

Hard News

Leaked documents reveal political organizer's membership in secretive right-wing group
KUNR Public Radio
Reno, NV

News Series

Hawaii Wildfire Vulnerability
Hawaii Public Radio
Honolulu, HI

Sports Reporting

Molokai channel races reflect cultural traditions and family ties to paddling
Hawaii Public Radio
Honolulu, HI