UF student journalists win 27 Florida AP awards

The Florida Associated Press Broadcasters contest recently named 27 WRUF, WUFT-FM and WUFT-TV pieces as award winners at the annual Florida AP Broadcasters Banquet in Orlando. The winners, announced on April 17, are:

Small Market (Professional) Television:

• Best Breaking Sports
  First Place: WUFT, “SEC Championship Fraud” by Kristen Keely
• Best Hard News Feature
  Second Place: WUFT, “Gitmo Guard Duty” by Miles Doran, Patrick Fleming
• Best Series Reporting
  First Place: WUFT, “Flight 401 Tribute” by Cristina Xuarez
• Individual Achievement
  First Place: WUFT, Miles Doran

Radio Division II:

• Best Economic Coverage
  First Place: WRUF, “Homes For Sale”
• Best Short Radio Newscast
  Second Place: WUFT, “6 AM Newscast” by Sascha Cordner
• Best Continuing Coverage
  First Place: WUFT, “Child Abductions”
  Second Place: WRUF, “Football Championship”
• Best Sports Feature
  First Place: WUFT, “Gatorade Rebranding Stirs Up Gators” by Donna Green-Townsend
  Second Place: WUFT, “Trash Talk: Tennessee vs. Florida” by Heather Soltis
• Best Overall
  First Place: WUFT, “Mid-Florida Public Radio News 2009” by Mid-Florida Public Radio News Team
• Best Use of Sound
  Second Place: WUFT, “Remembering Veterans” by Donna Green-Townsend
• Best Light Feature
  Second Place: WUFT, “Communicating Through Drumming” by Lauren Winter
• Best Hard News Feature
  First Place: (tie) WUFT, “Abduction in Clay County” by Whitney Jones
  92.5 Fox News, “Hurricane Charley: Five Years Later” by Nadia Ramdass
  Second Place: WRUF, “Older Drivers”
• Best Public Affairs
  First Place: WUFT, “Florida Cattle Ranching At Risk” by Donna Green-Townsend and Bill Beckett
• Best Series Reporting
  Second Place: WUFT, “Treatment of Vets Returning Home” by Sarah Curran

College Television:

• Best TV Newscast
  First Place: WUFT, “WUFT News” by Patrick Fleming, Victor Ramirez
• Best Spot News
  First Place: WUFT, “Body Found In Parked/Ticketed Car” by Vic Micolucci
• Best Spot News Video
  First Place: WUFT, “Santa Fe River Flooding” by Patrick Fleming
• Best Long Light Feature
  First Place: WUFT, “Mud Bog” by Vic Micolucci
• Best Short Hard News Feature
  First Place: WUFT, “Amber Bradley profile” by Cristina Xuarez
  Second Place: WUFT, “Linda’s Story” by Nadeen Yanes
• Best Long Hard News Feature
  First Place: WUFT, “Dancing Therapy” by Asha Dave
  Second Place: WUFT, “Sign Language Professor” by Erika Rakow

College Radio:

• Best Sports
  First Place: WUFT, “Fightin’ Gators Battle the Flu” by Alison Posey
  Second Place: WUFT, “Superman’s Kryptonite” by Alison Posey
• Best Long Light Feature
  Second Place: WUFT, “Return of the 351st” by Alison Posey
• Best Long Hard News Feature
  Second Place: WUFT, “Male Breast Cancer: Lost in the Sea of Pink” by Sascha Cordner

Posted: April 20, 2010
Category: College News