Monday, April 13, 2020

The Lisagor Awards

I was nominated for several Lisagor Awards back in my days with the Northwest Indiana Times, and at that time, they didn't really honor radio for their news reporting. They do now, but apparently only one station in town got the memo. Here's the entire list of Lisagor nominees fro radio in Chicago. See if you can spot a trend...

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Best In-depth News Story or Series


Dan Mihalopoulos, Tony Arnold, Dave McKinney and Alex Keefe, WBEZ Chicago
Patrick Smith and Robert Wildeboer, WBEZ
Becky Vevea, Claudia Morell, Linda Lutton, Dan Mihalopoulos, James Edwards and Alex Keefe,
WBEZ

Best Investigative Reporting

Patrick Smith, Chip Mitchell, Shannon Heffernan and Robert Wildeboer, WBEZ

Best Reporter

Shannon Heffernan, WBEZ
Michael Puente, WBEZ
Maria Ines Zamudio, WBEZ

Best Feature Reporting

Linda Paul, Ken Davis and Cate Cahan, WBEZ/Chicago Public Media
Michael Puente and Annie Russell, WBEZ
Jessica Pupovac, Jesse Dukes and Shawn Allee, WBEZ

Best Public Affairs Programming


Michael Puente, Lakeshore Public Radio
Staff, WBEZ Chicago, Comedy Central
Becky Vevea, Claudia Morell, Dan Mihalopoulos, Kristen Schorsch, Justin Bull and Alex Keefe, WBEZ

Best Business or Consumer Reporting

Bashir Salahuddin, Diallo Riddle, James Edwards, Taneshia Rice, Bia Medious and Kevin Dawson,
WBEZ Chicago, Comedy Central

Best Health or Science Reporting

Ken Davis, Linda Paul and Cate Cahan, WBEZ/Chicago Public Media
Monica Eng, Jessica Pupovac, Michael Lansu and Jesse Dukes, WBEZ
Bianca Martin, Meha Ahmad, Stephanie Kim, Nereida Moreno, Jenn White and Daniel Tucker,
WBEZ

Best Sports Story

Kate McGee, Manuel Martinez and Kate Grossman, WBEZ
Michael Puente and Annie Russell, WBEZ