May 3, 2025

WFYI, IPB win journalism awards from Indiana Society of Professional Journalists

Farmer Norman Greer speaks in the Across Indiana episode "Existence is Resistance" about how Black farmers are especially vulnerable to climate change. The 2024 episode was honored with an award by the Indiana Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. - WFYI

Farmer Norman Greer speaks in the Across Indiana episode "Existence is Resistance" about how Black farmers are especially vulnerable to climate change. The 2024 episode was honored with an award by the Indiana Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

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WFYI and Indiana Public Broadcasting news staff earned 11 awards Friday from the Indiana Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, recognizing outstanding work across radio, television, online and multiplatform reporting.

Award-winning stories covered topics including arts and culture, education, health care and Medicaid, the 2024 election, and environmental issues.

The honors went to reporters, editors and producers at WFYI, Side Effects Public Media — the station’s regional health reporting collaborative — and Indiana Public Broadcasting, a collaboration among the state’s nine public media newsrooms. Entries were judged by out-of-state journalists selected by SPJ.

Awards

Radio Continuing Coverage Category (Radio), first place
IPB's Abigail Ruhman for reporting on Medicaid, five stories honored:

Best Radio Feature Story (Radio), second place
Elizabeth Gabriel for Wheelies look fun, but they're a serious skill for kids in wheelchairs

Best Environmental Reporting (Television - Indianapolis Market), second place
Lee Gaines, Chris Eberfeld and Aric Hartvig for Indiana high school students offer up ideas to combat climate change

Best Environmental Reporting (Television - Indianapolis Market), third place
Kyle Travers, Aric Hartvig, Chris Elberfeld and Sam Oliver for The Everglades of the North

Best Environmental Reporting (Television - Outside Indianapolis Market), third place
IPB's Rebecca Thiel and Alan Mbathi for the video in this piece, reported and produced by the statewide public media collaboration for Indiana aims to make the outdoors more accessible for people with disabilities

Best Coverage of Race and Diversity Issues (Television - Any Indiana Station), third place
Kyle Long, Aric Hartvig, Chris Elberfeld and Sam Oliver for Our Existence is Resistance

Election and Campaign Coverage (Television - All Indiana Stations), second place
IPB's Brandon Smith and Alan Mbathi for the video in this piece, reported and produced by the statewide public media collaboration for: Indiana candidates for governor offer sharply different visions for future of state

Best Online Multimedia (Online/Multimedia), third place
Zak Cassel for Nearly 1 in 5 Indiana students don’t attend their home school district. Here’s the impact of school choice

Best Podcast (Online/Multimedia), third place
Kyle Long for Cultural Manifesto

Coverage Of Children’s Issues (Publication Circulation above 10,000, news services and digital media), second place
Dylan Peers Mccoy for Indiana has a truancy problem, four stories honored:

Best Medical or Science Reporting (Publication circulation above 10,000, news services and digital media), third place
Farah Yousry for Her colonoscopy should cost her $0 per federal law. Why was she asked to pay $765?

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