Awards

2025 ABBY Award Entry — News Reporter, Richard Banks

Montage of stories from Richard Banks including: Barely Legal: Some officials in Alabama want to outlaw delta-8. Others want to make it safer — Dec. 18, 2024 Understaffed, the Birmingham Police Department is trying to rebuild trust and its ranks — Aug. 1, 2024 In the Marble Bowl, the heated rivalry between Alabama and Auburn […]

2025 ABBY Award Entry — News Reporter, Noelle Annonen

Montage of stories from Noelle Annonen including: ‘Five Points South is so much more than that’: residents reflect one month after mass shooting — Oct. 21, 2024 ‘Iced Cherries’: Joe D. Nelson’s take on modern folk and age old tropes — Nov. 22, 2024 Alabama wants to lower recidivism rates by 2030. What are the […]

2025 ABBY Award Entry — News Reporter, Kelsey Shelton

Montage of stories from Kelsey Shelton including: Pro-Palestinian demonstration draws counter-protest at University of Alabama — May 2, 2024 New opera delves into less familiar part of Helen Keller’s story — Jan. 19, 2024 Anti-DEI bill faces opposition from students across Alabama — March 18, 2024 From scrap to sculpture: Joe Minter’s art reflects Birmingham’s […]

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WBHM 90.3, Gulf States Newsroom win National Murrow Awards

Presented by the Radio Television Digital News Association since 1971, Edward R. Murrow Awards honor outstanding achievements in electronic journalism.

2024 Murrow Awards — Overall Excellence Entry

00:00 – ‘Ruffed’ up by school? These dogs help Birmingham students with stress 4:45 – Residents worry about unknown health impacts of toxic landfill fumes 9:10 – Morning newscast from Oct. 23, 2023 12:27 – Cahaba lily season draws crowds, inspires conservation efforts 18:05 – Tuberville defends hold on defense nominations, says Pentagon wrong to […]

2024 Murrow Award Entry — Newscast

WBHM’s morning newscast from Oct. 23, 2023

2024 ABBY Award Entry — Station of the Year

WBHM’s audio entry for station of the year includes excerpts from: “Residents worry about unknown health impacts of toxic landfill fumes” — Jan. 27, 2023 “Tuberville defends hold on defense nominations, says Pentagon wrong to screen out white nationalists” — May 8, 2023 “Runoff Tuesday in race for House District 55” — Oct. 23, 2024 “Birmingham residents […]

2024 ABBY Award Entry — News Reporter, Mary Scott Hodgin

Montage of stories from Mary Scott Hodgin including: “Cahaba lily season draws crowds, inspires conservation efforts” — May 19, 2023 “Residents worry about unknown health impacts of toxic landfill fumes” — Jan. 27, 2023 “After botched executions, Alabama will try lethal injection again” — April 3, 2023 “How hard is life after prison? This simulation […]

2024 ABBY Award Entry — Newscast

WBHM’s morning newscast from Oct. 23, 2023

2024 ABBY Award Entry — News Reporter, Richard Banks

Montage of stories from Richard Banks including: “An old school in Birmingham’s Bush Hills is now an urban farm. Residents are thinking bigger” — Jan. 6, 2023 “Tuberville defends hold on defense nominations, says Pentagon wrong to screen out white nationalists” — May 8, 2023 “From drought to heavy rain, climate change means more of […]

2023 PMJA Awards: Series Entry

Three-part series about the mental health treatment surround a new mental health crisis center opening in Birmingham, Alabama. The series aired Oct. 7, 8 and 9, 2022. Part one examines the difficulties of treating mental health crises in hospital emergency rooms, which is common in Birmingham. Part two looks at the pressures put on the […]

2023 PMJA Awards: Interview Entry

Interview with U.S. Senate candidate Mo Brooks aired on June 10, 2022

2023 Murrow Awards — Overall Excellence

Entry rundown: 00:00 “Some teachers and LGBTQ families feel censored by Alabama’s ‘Don’t Say Gay law” Story aired May 20, 2022 05:08 “Scottsboro is home to the largest gray bat summer cave. They’re leaving for the winter” Story aired Sept. 26, 2022 10:00 “Brooks leans into the ‘Big Lie’ in Republican Senate runoff” Interview with […]

2023 Murrow Awards — Podcast

Selections from WBHM’s 7-part podcast Deliberate Indifference. The podcast traces how Alabama’s prisons became among the most dangerous correctional systems in the nation, where incarcerated men face a near constant threat of violence in overcrowded, critically understaffed facilities. Excerpt from episode 1, “An Alabama Problem,” which introduces listeners to the Alabama prison crisis that’s been brewing […]

2023 Murrow Awards — Newscast

Afternoon newscast from Sept. 28, 2022

2023 Murrow Awards — News Series

Sigma Delta Chi, Award for Narrative Podcast Excellence — Deliberate Indifference

2023 Dart Awards — Deliberate Indifference

Selections from WBHM’s 7-part podcast Deliberate Indifference. The podcast traces how Alabama’s prisons became among the most dangerous correctional systems in the nation, where incarcerated men face a near constant threat of violence in overcrowded, critically understaffed facilities. Episode 1, “An Alabama Problem,” which introduces listeners to the Alabama prison crisis that’s been brewing for […]

2023 ABBY Awards — Station of the Year

WBHM’s audio entry for station of the year Snippet of WBHM’s station of the year entry

2023 ABBY Awards — Regularly Scheduled Newscast, Miranda Fulmore

Morning newscast from June 22, 2022 by Miranda Fulmore

2023 ABBY Awards — News Reporter, Cody Short

Montage from WBHM reporter Cody Short

2023 ABBY Awards — News Reporter, Kyra Miles

Montage from WBHM reporter Kyra Miles

2023 ABBY Awards — Regularly Scheduled Newscast, Richard Banks

Afternoon newscast from Sept. 28, 2022 by Richard Banks

2023 ABBY Awards — Podcast

2023 ABBY Awards — News Reporter, Mary Scott Hodgin

Montage from WBHM reporter Mary Scott Hodgin

2022 PMJA Awards — Spot News

Newscast spot aired July 29, 2021 Intro: The rise in COVID cases is on the minds of many as Birmingham City Schools students return to the classroom Monday. But on Thursday some kids had something else on their minds — a fresh haircut for the first day of school. WBHM’s Kyra Miles has more.

PMJA Awards — Breaking News, Part 2

Newscasts from March 26, 2021, the morning after a tornado outbreak in Alabama

PMJA Awards — Breaking News, Part 1

Newscasts from March 25, 2021 during a tornado outbreak in Alabama

2022 Murrow Award — Overall Excellence

WBHM’s entry for overall excellence includes the following: 00:00 – “Birmingham Teachers Welcome Students Back to School Amid COVID Surge” (aired 08/02/21) 01:53 – Excerpt from audio postcard – “Alabama’s Frontline Providers: ‘We are Overworked And We are Frustrated” (aired 08/19/21) 04:45 – “Surge in Deaths Strains Local Funeral Homes, Morgue” (aired 02/12/21) 08:53 – […]