Inside OPB
All Awards
TV
- 2008
- Oregon Experience: "The Beach Bill," Nadine Jelsing, Producer/Writer; Bruce Barrow, Editor
Northwest Regional Emmy Award, Historic/Cultural-Program/Special - Oregon Field Guide: Steve Amen, Executive Producer
Northwest Regional Emmy Award, Informational/Instructional - Program/Special - 2007
- Oregon Art Beat
Governor's Arts Award - Oregon Experience: "Sam Hill," Mike Midlo, producer, Bruce Barrow, editor
Northwest Regional Emmy Award, Historic/Cultural-Program/Special - Oregon Experience: "Abigail Scott Duniway," Eric Cain, producer, Lisa Suinn Kallem, editor
Northwest Regional Emmy Award, Documentary-Cultural/Historical - Rick Steves' Europe
American Public Television, Programming Excellence Award - Rick Steves' European Christmas
Bronze World Medal, New York Festivals TV Programming & Promotion Awards, Travel & Tourism Category. - Travels to the Edge with Art Wolfe
American Public Television, Programming Excellence Award - 2006
- Meth: The Oregon Front
NETA Award, Best Outreach Campaign Based on a National Project - Mustard Pancakes Series
Parents' Choice Foundation Gold Award, Outstanding Television Programming Ages 3-6
Parents Television Council Seal of Approval - Mustard Pancakes "See How the Garden Grows" DVD
Dove Foundation Seal of Approval - Mustard Pancakes Music CD
Dove Foundation Seal of Approval - The New Heroes
National Emmy Nomination - Oregon Art Beat: Polly's Cakes
Emmy Award, Best Cultural/Fine Arts Segment - Oregon Field Guide: Freeriding
Emmy Award, Best Sports Segment - The Oregon Story: Rethinking the Forests
Bronze Telly Award, Documentary - The Oregon Story: Warm Springs Country
Emmy Award, Eric Cain, Direction - Raising Cain
Parents' Choice Foundation Recommended Award for Television - Rick Steves' European Christmas
Gabriel Award, Best Program, Arts/National Release
Honorable Mention Certificate, Columbus International Film & Video Festival - The Three Rabbis
Silver Telly Award, Documentary
CINE Golden Eagle Award, Documentary/People and Places - 2005
- The New Heroes
CINE Golden Eagle Award
Japan Prize - Oregon Field Guide Series
Emmy Award, Informational Series - Oregon Field Guide: Exploratory Kayaking
Emmy Award, Ed Jahn, Direction - 2004
- Defiant Requiem
Banff Rockie Awards Honorable Mention
New York Festivals Gold World Medal - History Detectives
Parents' Choice Foundation Silver Honors Award - Oregon Art Beat: Rick Bartow
Emmy Award, Best Cultural/Fine Arts Segment - Oregon Field Guide: Mount St. Helens Danger
Emmy Award, Ed Jahn, Direction - The Oregon Story: Country Doctors, Rural Medicine
Emmy Award, Documentary - Current Issues - The Oregon Story: Harvesting the Wild
Emmy Award, Christy George, Direction - 2003
- Defiant Requiem
Chris Awards, Bronze Plaque - Performing Arts - Oregon Field Guide: Chetco River Wilderness
Emmy Award, Ed Jahn, Direction - 2002
- In Memoriam (live Oregon Symphony broadcast following 9/11)
Bronze Telly Award - Juvenile Justice
Silver Gavel Awards, Best Program - Life 360
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences College Television Awards, Documentary
Columbia University Awards, Let's Do It Better Competition
News & Documentary Emmy Award, Outstanding Informational Programming
White House News Photographers Association, Television Photography and Editing - Oregon Art Beat: Darkhorse Comics
Emmy Award, Editing - Oregon Art Beat: Martin Eichinger/Leroy Setziol/Gary Baxter
Emmy Award, Cultural/Fine Arts Program - The Oregon Story: Agricultural Workers
Emmy Award, Public Affairs Special - The Oregon Story: rural.com
Emmy Award, Informational Special - Rocks with Wings
HBO Documentary Award - The Way Home
Freddie Awards, International Health & Medical Media Awards, Geriatrics
Helen Hayes Award, Best Consumer Health Program in the Nation
NETA Award, National Educational Television - 2001
- Life 360
National Emmy Award - 2000
- Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace
NY International TV World Medal, Best Film, Monte Carlo Film Festival - The Road to Bloody Sunday
National Headliner Awards, Second Place TV & Cable Networks & Syndicators Documentary or Series - Seasons of the National Parks Series
National Telly Award Finalist - Seasons of the National Parks: Sunrise
National Telly Award Winner - Sing Faster
New York Festivals
News and Documentary Emmy Award, Outstanding Informational or Cultural Program
Radio
- 2008
- "Celilo Falls: 50 Years of Silence," Colin Fogarty, reporter & Christy George, editor
Radio-Television News Directors Association, 2008 Edward R. Murrow Award for News Documentary in Region 1 (Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington) - "Celilo Falls: 50 Years of Silence," Colin Fogarty, reporter; Christy George, editor
Associated Press Oregon, Second Place, Best Use of Sound - "Cost of War in Rural Oregon," Kristian Foden-Vencil, reporter; Allison Frost, editor
Associated Press Oregon, First Place, Best Feature Story - "Death with Dignity Law at 10 Years," Colin Fogarty, reporter; Allison Frost, editor
Associated Press Oregon, Second Place, Best News Writing - "Forest Politics" (series), Christy George, reporter; Morgan Holm, editor; Steven Kray, audio engineer
Associated Press Oregon, Second Place, Best Treatment of a Single Subject - "Meteor Shower," Ethan Lindsey, reporter; Allison Frost, editor
Associated Press Oregon , First Place, Best News Writing - "Shadow Project," Allison Frost, reporter
Associated Press Oregon, Third Place, Best Feature Story - 2007
- "Bicyclists Seek Three-Foot Buffer," Northwest News Network, Chris Lehman
Capitolbeat Contest, Association for Capitol Reporters and Editors, Third Place, Single Story - "Gay Rights in the Statehouse," Northwest News Network, Austin Jenkins, Chris Lehman
Capitolbeat Contest, Association for Capitol Reporters and Editors, Second Place, In-Depth Reporting - Oregon Territory: "Tidepooling with Jane Lubchenco"
The Grace Allen ("Gracie") Award, Outstanding Public Affairs Program - "War Protest," Northwest News Network, Austin Jenkins
Capitolbeat Contest, Association for Capitol Reporters and Editors, First Place, Single Story - Washington, Beat Reporting, Northwest News Network, Austin Jenkins
Capitolbeat Contest, Association for Capitol Reporters and Editors, First Place- 2006
- 9/11/2006 - The Price Of Liberty, Allison Frost, Eve Epstein, Steven Vaughn Kray
Oregon Associated Press, Third Place, Best Treatment of a Single Subject- Limiting Eminent Domain Through Measure 39, Rob Manning
Oregon Associated Press, First Place, Best Investigative
Society of Professional Journalists - Region 10, Pacific Northwest, First Place for Investigative News- Meals on Wheels - for Fido!, Kristian Foden-Vencil
Society of Professional Journalists - Region 10, Pacific Northwest, Third Place for Feature News- Music Therapy, April Baer
Society of Professional Journalists - Region 10, Pacific Northwest, Honorable Mention for Feature News- Oregon Considered, Allison Frost & OPB Radio Staff
Society of Professional Journalists - Region 10, Pacific Northwest, Second Place for Newscast- Pandemic Flu Preparation, Christy George & OPB Radio Staff
Society of Professional Journalists - Region 10, Pacific Northwest, Third Place for News Series- Portland Historic Sites Being Turned Over To "Friends of" Groups, Kristian Foden-Vencil
Oregon Associated Press, Second Place, Best Feature- Sandy River Changes Course, Colin Fogarty
Oregon Associated Press, First Place, Best Feature
Society of Professional Journalists - Region 10, Pacific Northwest, Second Place for General News- Supreme Court Upholds Oregon's Death With Dignity Act, Colin Fogarty
Oregon Associated Press, Third Place, Best Breaking News- The Undiscovered Explorer: Imagining York
Clarion Award, Radio Documentary - One-Time Public Radio, Association for Women in Communications
The Grace Allen ("Gracie") Award, Outstanding Documentary - Mid Length Format- 2005
- Coverage of Oregon State Hospital
ACRE Award (Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors), First Place, In-Depth Reporting- Molly's Law
ACRE Award (Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors), Second Place, Single Report- Oregon Territory: Injured Soldiers
Oregon Associated Press, Best Treatment of a Single Subject- Oregon's Assisted Suicide Law
Society of Professional Journalists - Region 10, Pacific Northwest, Third Place for Radio-Nationally Edited Story- 2004
- Embedded in Iraq
Oregon Associated Press Broadcasters Association, First Place, Best Treatment of a Single Subject- Hunger Series
Harry Chapin Media Award (given by World Hunger Year)- Oktoberfest
Oregon Associated Press Broadcasters Association, First Place, Best Feature Story- 2003
- Ben Westlund Profile (Colin Fogarty profiled this legislator as he underwent treatment for lung cancer.)
Oregon Associated Press Broadcasters Association, First Place, Best News Writing- Bison Trap (the story of Umatilla Indians trapping a herd of bison set free on reservation land by a neighboring landowner)
Society of Professional Journalists - Region 10, Pacific Northwest, First Place, Feature Reporting- Hunger Series
Oregon Associated Press Broadcasters Association, First Place, Best Treatment of a Single Subject
ACRE Award (Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors), First Place, In-Depth/Public Service Reporting- Oregon National Guard Vets (the stories of several Oregonians called up for service in Iraq shortly after returning from other tours of duty)
Oregon Associated Press Broadcasters Association, Second Place- Scars (the story of an art exhibit featuring human scars)
Oregon Associated Press Broadcasters Association, First Place, Best Feature Story- 2002
- Fish Kill (story about salmon dying in the Klamath River)
Oregon Associated Press Broadcasters Association, Third Place, Best Treatment of a Single Subject- Hijacking 9/11
Society of Professional Journalists - Region 10, Pacific Northwest, Honorable Mention, Investigative Reporting- National Guard Troops in the Sinai
Society of Professional Journalists - Region 10, Pacific Northwest, Honorable Mention, Feature Reporting- Oregon Considered
Society of Professional Journalists - Region 10, Pacific Northwest, First Place, Best Newscast- Oregon's Enron Connections (a documentary about the bankrupt company's PGE subsidiary)
Oregon Associated Press Broadcasters Association, Third Place
Society of Professional Journalists - Region 10, Pacific Northwest, Third Place, Documentary- OPB News Programming
Oregon Associated Press Broadcasters Association, Third Place, Overall Excellence- Portland Eco-Challenge Team
Society of Professional Journalists - Region 10, Pacific Northwest, Third Place, Sports Reporting- Portland Terror Cell
Society of Professional Journalists - Region 10, Pacific Northwest, Second Place, Spot News Reporting
Web
- 2008
- www.OPBNews.org, Michael Clapp, Pete Springer and staff, opbnews.org
Associated Press Oregon, Second Place, Best Web Site - 2006
- OPB News Web Site, Michael Clapp, Rob Vincent
Oregon Associated Press, Second Place, Best Web Site - Oregon Art Beat at School
Webby Award Honoree - PBS Parents: Guide to Understanding and Raising Boys
Parents' Choice Foundation Recommended Seal - QuickTake Northwest Podcast
New York Festivals International Radio Competition, Bronze Medal
Society of Professional Journalists - Region 10, Pacific Northwest, Second Place, Online Journalism-Creative Use of the Medium - 2004
- PBS Parents Guide to Talking With Kids About War and Violence
Parents' Choice Foundation Silver Honors Award - 2003
- PBS Online: Great Lodges of the National Parks
Summit Award, Web site - Nonprofit/Government - PBS Online: Life 360 Seasons 1 & 2
Summit Award, Web site - Nonprofit/Government - 2002
- OPB.org
Edward R. Murrow Award - Region 1, First Place, Web Site
Oregon Associated Press Broadcasters Association, First Place, Best Web Site - PBS Online: Life 360 Seasons 1 & 2
PBS Interactive Award Finalist
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