WBHM Wins Seven Alabama AP Awards

Rachel Osier Lindley | August 5, 2015

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WBHM 90.3 FM/WSGN 91.5 FM has won a total of seven 2015 Alabama Associated Press awards and received seven honorable mentions. The awards were given for work broadcast between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2014.

Contributors included team members Dan Carsen, Sarah Delia, Scott Hanley, Michael Krall, Rachel Osier Lindley, Larry Lee, Les Lovoy and Andrew Yeager.

 

WBHM won awards for:

• Best Reporter: Andrew Yeager
• Best Coverage of a Spot News Story: WBHM News Staff, April 2014 Tornadoes
• Best Investigative Reporting: Dan Carsen, Contracts Bring Controversy In Vestavia Hills Schools
• Best Coverage of a Scheduled Event: Andrew Yeager, The Dalai Lama Visits Birmingham
• Best News Feature, Andrew Yeager, A Moonshine Renaissance
• Best Lifestyles Feature, Rachel Osier Lindley, Folk Singer Willie Watson Brings Classic Folk and Blues to Birmingham
• Best Anchor, Andrew Yeager
• Honorable Mention, Public Service: WBHM News Staff, Alabama Prison Coverage
• Honorable Mention, Best Specialized Reporter: Dan Carsen, Education Reporting
• Honorable Mention, Best Series: Dan Carsen, Sarah Delia, Rachel Osier Lindley, Les Lovoy, Andrew Yeager, Life After Prison
• Honorable Mention, Best Use of Tape: Andrew Yeager, EarFilms: To Sleep To Dream
• Honorable Mention, Best Commentator of Editorialist: Larry Lee, Rachel Osier Lindley, What Do Alabama Teachers and School Administrators Think of Common Core?
• Honorable Mention, Best Coverage of a Scheduled Event: WBHM News Staff, Election 2014
• Honorable Mention, Best Coverage of a Spot News Story: Rachel Osier Lindley, Planned Parenthood Lawsuit

This is just the latest group of awards WBHM has received in 2015. Earlier this year, WBHM won seven 2015 Edward R. Murrow Awards. The Murrow Awards are presented by the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA).