WUOT News Director Matt Shafer Powell and his wife, Michelle, attended the Radio-Television News Directors Association’s 2009 Edward R. Murrow Awards Dinner on Oct. 12 in New York City. The 39th annual event honored outstanding achievements in electronic journalism.
Powell accepted WUOT’s first-ever National Edward R. Murrow Award in the Best Writing category.
Presenter Russ Mitchell of CBS News plays a segment of WUOT's winning entry at the
2009 Edward R. Murrow Awards Dinner in New York. WUOT was honored with a
National Murrow Award in the Best Writing category.
WUOT News Director Matt Shafer Powell approaches the podium to accept the
station's 2009 National Edward R. Murrow Award from Russ Mitchell of CBS News.
Powell poses with iconic television journalist Linda Ellerbee.
Powell proudly displays WUOT's 2009 National Edward R. Murrow Award with
Natalie Morales
of NBC's Today Show.
Powell chats with NPR's Melissa Block.
Block was honored in the Breaking News
Category for NPR's coverage of the
Sichuan Province earthquake of May 2008.
The Powells take a moment to relax following the 2009 Edward R. Murrow Awards in New York.
STATION TOUR
Take a photographic tour of WUOT's studio
