2022 RTDNAC Award Winnners
Winners of the 2022 RTDNAC awards competition were announced at an awards luncheon on Nov. 12 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Breaking News
First Place: WPTF – Major rainstorm – Bruce Ferrell, Tony Riggsbee
Second Place: WHQR – One wounded in shooting at New Hanover High School – Kelly Kenoyer, Benjamin Schachtman
Community Impact
First Place: Blue Ridge Public Radio – The StoryCraft Project
Second Place: Blue Ridge Public Radio – We cannot stay silent: MMIW in North Carolina – Lilly Knoepp
Consumer/Economic
First Place: South Carolina Public Radio – SC Economic Experts Offer Tips for Dealing with Inflation – Tut Underwood
Second Place: South Carolina Public Radio – Shortage of Microchips Costing Consumers More Perhaps for Years – Tut Underwood
Education
First Place: WHQR – Some call it ‘teaching history,’ others call it ‘indoctrination’ – Rachel Keith
First Place: South Carolina Public Radio – Federal School Meal Waivers are About to Expire – Scott Morgan
Second Place: South Carolina Public Radio – Embracing life, death of a formerly-enslaved person – Thelisha Eaddy
Entertainment
First Place: WUNC North Carolina Public Radio – Veterans dance
Second Place: South Carolina Public Radio – Randy Lucas – A South Carolina Banjo Phenomenon- Tut Underwood
General News
First Place: WPTF – Hurricane Elsa – Jeff Hamlin, Scott Briggaman, Gayle Hurd, Josh Zach
Second Place: WUNC North Carolina Public Radio – Sarah Keys – Jay Price, Adam Hochberg
Hard News Feature
First Place: Blue Ridge Public Radio – The Group Remembers Mitchell Mosely – Lilly Knoepp
Second Place: Blue Ridge Public Radio – Lost Or Forgotten No More: Incarcerated Black Laborers – Matt Bush
Health-Medicine
First Place: South Carolina Public Radio – USC autism study could lead to detection far earlier than now – Scott Morgan
Second Place: South Carolina Public Radio – Protecting Doctors’ Beliefs or Enabling Discrimination: SC’s New Medical Conscience Law – Victoria Hansen
Investigative
First Place: Blue Ridge Public Radio – Virgil Bryson and the Freedmen’s Bureau – Lilly Knoepp
Second Place – WHQR – The Wilmington Housing Authority’s mold crisis – Kelly Kenoyer, Benjamin Schachtman, Kevin Maurer
Light Feature
First Place: WUNC North Carolina Public Radio – Santas Just Like Me – Leoneda Inge
Second Place: WBT – At Six: Talbert Christmas Trees – Mark Garrison
Long-Form Interview
First Place: South Carolina Public Radio – A Ukrainian pianist finds new relevance in Second Place: WUNC North Carolina Public Radio – The Face We Put Forward – Anita Rao, Kaia Findlay, Amanda Magnus, Jenni Lawson, Anthony Howard
Outstanding News Operation
First Place: South Carolina Public Radio
Second Place: WHQR
Podcast (Long)
First Place: South Carolina Public Radio – SC Lede: ‘Lowcountry at High Tide’ -.T. Shire, Gavin Jackson, Sean Birch, Aimee Crouch
Second Place: WUNC North Carolina Public Radio – ‘Only thing I had to fight with was the truth’ – Charlie Shelton-Ormond, Anisa Khalifa
Podcast (Short)
First Place: WUNC North Carolina Public Radio – Tested: From A Corner To Crops In Southeast Raleigh – Kamaya Truitt, Charlie Shelton-Ormond
Second Place: WPTF – Aging Matters – Jason Kong, Mary Lucas
Political/Election
First Place: WUNC North Carolina Public Radio – The impacts of redistricting
Second Place: WBT – WBT’s Primary Election Night: Tuesday, May 17, 2022 – Bo Thompson, Beth Troutman, Mark Garrison, Brett Jensen, Pete Kaliner
Radio News Block
First Place: WPTF – The Triangle’s Morning News – Scott Briggaman, Josh Zach, Mike Davis, Mike Raley
Second Place: WCHL – The Morning New: Final Four Preview and Vinfast – Aaron Keck, Ava Pukatch, Brighton McConnell, Michael Koh
Series
First Place: WUNC North Carolina Public Radio – American Veteran – Elizabeth Friend, Adam Hochberg
Second Place: South Carolina Public Radio – diSConnected – Scott Morgan
Social Reform
First Place: South Carolina Public Radio – Charleston based festival tries to change the color of classical music – Victoria Hansen
First Place: WUNC North Carolina Public Radio – The ARC Of Justice – Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy, William “Sandy” Darity, Kirsten Mullen, Lindsay Foster Thomas
Second Place: South Carolina Public Radio – For Many, Celebrating Black History Also Means Dealing with Trauma – Thelisha Eaddy
Special Report
First Place: Blue Ridge Public Radio – Haywood County Floods, One Month Later – Matt Bush, Lilly Knoepp, Cory Vaillancourt
First Place: WCHL – Arrest Made in Hedgepeth Murder Case 9 Years Later
Second Place: WUNC North Carolina Public Radio – Behind The Lines – Jeff Tiberii, Charlie Shelton-Ormond
Sports
First Place: WCHL – Bagpipes, Olympic Jackets and a Ram’s Head – Michael Koh
Second Place: South Carolina Public Radio – Pickleball is Exploding as a Popular Sport – Tut Underwood