Health News Florida Wins Country Wide Murrow Award

ORLANDO — 90.7 WMFE, WUSF Public Media and WLRN Public Radio and television had been honored with the 2016 countrywide Edward R. Murrow award for "superior Small on-line information firm web site" as part of the statewide multimedia and broadcast collaboration challenge health news Florida. The country wide Murrow award is regarded one of the most prestigious honors in the broadcast and multi-media industry. it is introduced through the Radio and television Digital information association, which has been honoring miraculous achievements in digital journalism for the reason that 1971. The awards are named after legendary broadcaster Edward R. Murrow, who is broadly recognized as certainly one of broadcast journalism's seminal figures.

"WMFE is terribly proud to associate with WUSF and WLRN," WMFE President and common manager LaFontaine Oliver spoke of. "The fitness information Florida mission has accelerated the reporting vigor of our particular person stations resulting in a fantastic fitness information resource and repair to all of Florida." This yr's award recognizes health information Florida for common reporting projects such as HIV in Florida, a sequence looking at poor Floridians caught in the Medicaid gap, and ongoing coverage of statewide fitness care guidelines. This award follows different recent recognitions for fitness news Florida, together with regional Murrow awards for the web site and in the information documentary division; and three awards from the Florida associated Press Broadcasters affiliation.

"The health information Florida assignment demonstrates a vital service that WUSF gives on possibly essentially the most a must have theme feasible – fitness," said WUSF conventional manager JoAnn Urofsky. "My congratulations to the group across the state of Florida for their excellence in reporting." Health journalist Carol Gentry created health news Florida 10 years in the past as an unbiased health news company, at a time when the number of health journalists within the state turned into dwindling. It become received by means of WUSF in 2012 and expanded to the collaboration with partner public broadcasters WLRN and WMFE in 2014 on account of a supply from the enterprise for Public Broadcasting.

"Here is a superb accomplishment and reinforces no longer simply WLRN as a information chief in South Florida, nevertheless it also reflects the massive work from our fellow public media stations across the state of Florida, " stated John LaBonia, accepted manager of WLRN. "i'm very pleased with this news partnership and congratulate the complete team for this well-merited focus and their collaboration in making Florida health news this type of constructive public provider."

Florida public radio and television stations have a strong background of collaboration on initiatives the advantage the citizens of Florida. Florida public radio stations joined forces with the Florida Division of Emergency administration to kind the Florida Public Radio Emergency network (FPREN) in 2014, which covers ninety nine p.c of the state and is in the neighborhood staffed and equipped to stay on the air to bring important tips to native audiences earlier than, during and after an emergency.

Florida public television stations work collectively across the state to provide Florida teachers, folks, students, and mentors with the Florida PBS LearningMedia, a free and inventive digital library developed to aid curriculum-based mostly teaching and discovering from pre-okay via faculty. The success of those initiatives, along with the award-winning fitness information Florida, demonstrates the deep dedication of Florida public television and radio stations ought to serving the state and its citizens.