RTDNA Announces Emcees for 2025 Edward R. Murrow Awards Gala
The Radio Television Digital News Association is excited to announce the emcees for the 2025 Edward R. Murrow Awards Gala, which will honor outstanding achievements in journalism and broadcast news. This year’s hosts are Adriana Diaz of CBS Mornings Plus, José Díaz-Balart of NBC Nightly News, Steve Inskeep of NPR, Donie O’Sullivan of CNN, Deborah Roberts of ABC News, and Yasmin Vossoughian of NBC News.
The Murrow Awards Gala will be held Oct. 13 at Gotham Hall in New York City, bringing together journalists from across the country for a night of celebration.
“These outstanding journalists are perfect choices to bestow one of the most prestigious journalism awards on this year’s deserving national Edward R. Murrow Award winners,” said RTDNA President Dan Shelley. “Each embodies Murrow’s admonition to serve the public by seeking to report the truth, something particularly necessary in our current times.”
Tickets for the 2025 Murrow Awards Gala can be purchased here.
"The Murrow Gala is one of the best nights of the year," RTDNA chair Colin Benedict said. "In addition to seeing the best of what journalism has to offer through the work of our honorees, we hear from our esteemed emcees. Their perspective and experience always leave me inspired."
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About the Emcees
Adriana Diaz, CBS News
Adriana Diaz is co-host of CBS Mornings Plus, a third-hour of CBS Mornings broadcast on weekdays by several CBS-owned stations and simulcast on CBS News 24/7, CBS News and Stations streaming news service.
Diaz was named to the new role on CBS Mornings Plus in September 2024.
Previously, Diaz was anchor of the Saturday edition of the CBS Weekend News and a national correspondent. Her reporting on breaking news and longform storytelling has been featured across all CBS News broadcasts and platforms, including the CBS Evening News, CBS Mornings, and CBS News 24/7.
A New York City native, Diaz attended Stuyvesant High School. She is also on the board of the Harmony Program, which provides music education to New York City students in underserved communities.
José Díaz-Balart, NBC News
Emmy, Peabody, and Alfred Dupont award-winning journalist José Díaz-Balart is the anchor of “NBC Nightly News Saturday.”
Previously, Díaz-Balart served as the main anchor of MSNBC’s “José Díaz-Balart Reports” and Telemundo’s national daily newscast “Noticias Telemundo,” to which he still contributes.
Díaz-Balart began his career in 1983 and has become one of the most respected voices in journalism. He has witnessed and reported historic events for prestigious news media outlets around the world as well. He has conducted interviews with hundreds of people and thought leaders, among them all U.S. Presidents since Ronald Reagan. He is the only journalist to anchor two nightly newscasts in Spanish and English for national networks on a regular basis.
Steve Inskeep, NPR
Steve Inskeep is a host of NPR's Morning Edition, as well as NPR's morning news podcast Up First.
Known for interviews with presidents and Congressional leaders, Inskeep has a passion for stories of the less famous: Pennsylvania truck drivers, Kentucky coal miners, U.S.-Mexico border detainees, Yemeni refugees, California firefighters, American soldiers.
Since joining Morning Edition in 2004, Inskeep has hosted the program from New Orleans, Detroit, San Francisco, Cairo, and Beijing; investigated Iraqi police in Baghdad; and received a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for "The Price of African Oil," on conflict in Nigeria.
A native of Carmel, Indiana, Inskeep is a graduate of Morehead State University in Kentucky. He is a 2025 recipient of an RTDNA Foundation First Amendment Award.
Donie O'Sullivan, CNN
Donie O’Sullivan is a CNN Senior Correspondent covering the intersection of politics, culture, and technology. He has spent the past decade reporting on the spread of online misinformation, and now specializes in highlighting the effect conspiracy theories, extremism, and radicalization have on politics, culture, and society.
O’Sullivan’s distinctive reporting on election misinformation led to him reporting live from the grounds of the US Capitol while it was under attack on January 6, 2021.
Before joining CNN, O’Sullivan worked for Storyful, a social media verification news agency, in New York and Dublin, Ireland. He holds a master’s degree in political science from Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland, and is a proud dual citizen of the United States and Ireland.
Deborah Roberts, ABC News
Deborah Roberts is an award-winning ABC News correspondent and co-anchor of the prestigious news magazine "20/20." A media veteran who is celebrating her 30th anniversary at ABC News, Roberts regularly reports across ABC News programs and digital platforms. She also serves as a frequent correspondent and substitute anchor for "Good Morning America" as well as a guest co-host on “The View.”
Roberts plays a significant role in the network’s coverage of breaking news events. Most recently, Roberts reported from London, England, for Queen Elizabeth II’s Jubilee and death in 2022, the funeral of President Jimmy Carter and the inauguration of President Donald Trump, reporting live from Washington, DC.
She is the author of "Lessons Learned and Cherished: The Teacher Who Changed My Life," a New York Times bestseller.
Yasmine Vossoughian, NBC News
Yasmin Vossoughian is an NBC News National correspondent and host of “Here’s the Scoop” podcast. She previously hosted MSNBC’s “Yasmin Vossoughian Reports.”
Vossoughian delivers sharp reporting and analysis from years of international journalism taking a no-nonsense look at the day’s important stories and focusing on solution-based conversations. She most recently covered the Israel-Gaza war, spending time in the West Bank and Israel interviewing Palestinian refugees along with Israeli government officials, rescuing hostages and covering the ongoing turmoil in the region. She also provided extensive coverage of the Donald Trump hush money trial, the attack on the Capitol on January 6, the Uvalde school shooting in Texas, and a mass shooting in Buffalo, NY.
A graduate of Occidental College in Los Angeles with an Advanced Bachelor of Arts degree, Vossoughian’s skills include fluency in French and Farsi.