WFIU, WTIU, and IPB News Earn 16 SPJ Awards

​WFIU Public Radio, WTIU Public Television, and Indiana Public Broadcasting News (IPB News) earned 16 awards at the Indiana Professional Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Best in Indiana Journalism Contest on April 21. The awards recognize the most outstanding work of the year in Indiana in print, broadcast, and online journalism.
 
IPB News was awarded the Slaymaker Service to Journalism Award for covering a wide variety of issues including climate change, elections, and housing. IPB News is a collaboration of the state’s nine public media newsrooms and a shared statewide team, which includes journalists from the WFIU/WTIU newsroom.
 
IPB News was also honored with four first-place awards for environmental reporting, radio continuing coverage, and best online multimedia, and two second-place awards for coverage of children’s issues.

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The WFIU-WTIU News team won eight awards, including a first-place award for a radio feature story on the Goldfish Capital of the World; three second-place awards for environmental reporting, radio in-depth reporting, and radio public affairs; and four third-place awards for coverage of social justice issues, election and campaign coverage, radio in-depth reporting, and radio feature story.
 
WTIU received one first-place award for best feature story on Kopelov Cut Stone that appeared on WTIU’s TV series Journey Indiana. The judges called the story “a visually stunning homage to old world architecture” and said it was an “overall a pleasure to watch.”

​Indiana Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Best in Indiana Journalism Contest
 
SLAYMAKER SERVICE TO JOURNALISM AWARD
 
Indiana Public Broadcasting News
 
COVERAGE OF SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUES (Any Indiana station)
 
3RD PLACE – PAT BEANE
WFIU/WTIU News
 
ELECTION AND CAMPAIGN COVERAGE (Any Indiana station)
 
3RD PLACE – WTIU NEWS
 
Young voters showed up for the 2020 election. Can they keep it up?
 
ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTING (Any Indiana station)
 
1ST PLACE – REBECCA THIELE and ALAN MBATHI
Indiana Public Broadcasting News
 
With so much support, who wants to phase out rooftop solar incentives? Answer: Indiana utilities
 
2ND PLACE – WTIU NEWS
 
One year later: Clear Creek residents worry about future flooding
 
ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTING (Publication circulation above 10,000, news services and digital media)
 
1ST PLACE – REBECCA THIELE and ALAN MBATHI
Indiana Public Broadcasting News
 
With so much support, who wants to phase out rooftop solar incentives? Answer: Indiana utilities
 
RADIO IN-DEPTH REPORTING
 
2ND PLACE – WFIU NEWS
 
Travel nurses thrive as hospitals budget third-party staffing fees
 

 
RADIO IN-DEPTH REPORTING (con’t)
 
3RD PLACE – WFIU NEWS
 
One year later: Clear Creek residents worry about future flooding
 
RADIO FEATURE STORY
 
1ST PLACE – WFIU NEWS
 
The “Goldfish Capital of the World” might be closer than you think
 
3RD PLACE – SARAH VAUGHAN
WFIU/WTIU News
 
“BioBlitz” finds new inhabitants at Beanblossom preserve
 
RADIO CONTINUING COVERAGE
 
1ST PLACE – INDIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING NEWS
 
Coverage of Indiana’s abortion debate 2022
 
RADIO PUBLIC AFFAIRS
 
2ND PLACE – BOB ZALTSBERG, SARA WITTMEYER, NATHAN MOORE, and CATHY KNAPP
WFIU/WTIU News
 
Air pollution, rising temperatures and more have many asking what can we do
 
COVERAGE OF CHILDREN’S ISSUES (Any Indiana station)
 
2ND PLACE – JEANIE LINDSAY and ALAN MBATHI
Indiana Public Broadcasting News
 
Rural Hoosier communities rally as COVID-19 worsens childcare crisis for parents, providers
 
COVERAGE OF CHILDREN’S ISSUES (Publication circulation 10,000+, news services and digital media)
 
2ND PLACE – JEANIE LINDSAY and ALAN MBATHI
Indiana Public Broadcasting News
 
Rural Hoosier communities rally as COVID-19 worsens childcare crisis for parents, providers
 
BEST ONLINE MULTIMEDIA
 
1ST PLACE – LAUREN CHAPMAN
Indiana Public Broadcasting News
 
2022 Indiana Voting Guide
 
FEATURE STORY (Outside Indianapolis market)
 
1ST PLACE – SADDAM ABBAS AL-ZUBAIDI
WTIU
 
Carved to Last
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