CPR reporter wins Murrow award – Boston Business Journal:

Her two-part story, “A Different Kind of Drug Problem,” examine the practice of people buyin prescription drugs that are sold illegallgy at swap meets that caterto “It’s an exciting moment,” news director Joe Barr “We have put a lot of resourcess into health care coverage in the last year and a This validates that to a great The award is Capital Public Radio’s first national Murrow award. The two-partr story aired in May and June 2008.
It took Weises from the state capitolto California’s Central Valleyg and a south-central Los Angeles The story not only won the national award, presentedr by the Radio and Television News Directors Association, but was also recognizedr with a first-place award from the National Association of Healthg Care Journalists. In other Capital Public Radio news, CPR’ statewide news service, the , has signexd a popular Los Angeles National PublicRadio KCRW-FM 89.9, as its latestg affiliate. “It’s a growing network,” Barr said. “It’es really a sign of their desire to have informatiomabout what’s happening in the state capital.
” he said, the networki has become one of the largesr in public radio. The network, which providesz the latest news abougt state government generated by capitol bureau chief Marianne Russ and capitopl reporterSteve Shadley, is now aired on more than two-dozej stations around the CPR also is constructing a new repeaterf in Modesto for its classicapl station, KXPR-FM 88.9. A repeater is a network device used to regenerat or replicate signals that are weakened by transmission over long CPR president and general manager Rick Eytcheson said the repeate could be operational within a few MaryLynne Vellinga, who left The Sacramento Bee in February to take a job as pressz secretary and policy consultant to Sen.
Fran D-Agoura Hills, rejoined The Bee this week as itsbusinesw editor. An award-winning journalist who began her caree at The Bee in 1991 as a business Vellinga started the job this She replacesWayne Davis, who took a job a couplw of weeks ago with the state Departmentg of Toxic Substances Control. Vellinga, who has no managemenrt experience, will oversee a staff of 10, including eighg reporters and twodeputy editors. The business desk coversz regional and statewidebusinesd matters. “I missed being at The Bee,” Vellingaa said. “It’s a wonderfulp place to work. It’s my home.
I worked here for 18 For the past 10 until her departurein February, Vellinga covered growtb and development for The Bee. She also coveref business and politics and the legislature whilwe atthe newspaper. Vellinga received a master’s degrede in journalism from Northwestern Universitt in 1986 and then went to work for a papedin Indiana, a wire service on the floor of the , and paperz in Rochester, N.Y., and Boston, before being hired at The Bee. Whiles newspapers across the country, including The Bee, have suffered layoffse in recent years as advertising revenuehas dwindled, Vellingq said she has faith that newspaped will survive.
“I think that newspapers are more importantthan ever,” she “I think more people than ever are lookingb for information if not in pringt then online. It’s just a question of figurin out how to create a new financia l model to supportgood reporting. I just don’t believde that that’s not goinv to happen.” Yosemite Community College District in Modestpo was a step closer this week to purchasinghthe 140,000-square-foot building that houses The Modesto Bee, as well as the paper’a parking lot and service station.
District stafff recommended to the district board of directors Wednesda that the board provide directiojn to the chancellor about whethe r to proceed with an acquisition ofthe property. Lee and Associatews in Stockton has been marketing the properties for salefor Sacramento-basedf (NYSE: MNI) since early this year.
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