FRONTLINE, producer of PBS investigative reporting program to receive Murrow awards.
The PBS investigative reporting program FRONTLINE and its executive producer David Fanning will receive Murrow Awards for communication excellence to highlight the University's Edward R. Murrow Symposium April 10.
Fanning will present a public address following the awards ceremony. The event, which is free and open to the public, begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Beasley Performing Arts Coliseum on the WSU Pullman campus.
FRONTLINE sets standard for excellence
“FRONTLINE has been steadfast for more than two decades,” said Erica Weintraub Austin, interim director of the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication. “It is very meaningful to our school and our graduates to recognize the communication excellence and courage which Murrow most definitely would have applauded.”
FRONTLINE debuted in 1983 to critical acclaim and is America's only regularly scheduled investigative documentary series on television. The series has won all of the major awards for broadcast journalism, including 32 Emmys, 22 duPont–Columbia University Awards, 12 Peabody Awards, and nine Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards.
Fanning began the development of FRONTLINE in 1982 and has been executive producer since the program’s first season.
Symposium honors courage of alumnus Murrow
The Murrow Symposium honors Edward R. Murrow, a 1930 graduate of WSU who is credited with making broadcast journalism respectable, courageous, and sincere, and with establishing standards to which broadcast professionals still aspire.
The 2007 awards to FRONTLINE and Fanning honor "distinguished achievement displaying journalistic integrity and courage."
Communications pros counsel students
In conjunction with the symposium each year, working communication professionals, many of whom are graduates of the Murrow School, take part in dozens of workshops that benefit WSU’s Murrow School students as well as communication students from the University of Idaho and high school students from across the region.
Hundreds of high school journalism students each year take part in a competition that honors school newspaper writing, reporting, and photography excellence.
At an annual banquet preceding the symposium, students are recognized for scholastic excellence and new scholarship award winners are announced. Regional, state, and national communication companies contribute to the event through sponsorships.
Major sponsors of The Murrow Symposium include the Saul and Dayee G. Haas Foundation; KIRO-TV, Inc.; Fischer Communications, Inc.; Belo Northwest; Casey Communications, Inc.; and the Yakima Herald-Republic.
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