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STLPR wins eight 2026 Regional Murrow Awards
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STLPR wins eight 2026 Regional Murrow Awards
St. Louis Public Radio | By Fontella Bradford
Published June 4, 2026 at 7:00 AM CDT
Since 1971, RTDNA has been honoring outstanding achievements in broadcast and digital journalism with the Edward R. Murrow Awards.
St. Louis Public Radio has received eight Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA).
The RTDNA is the world's largest professional broadcast and digital journalism organization. Its Murrow Award, named for CBS news broadcast pioneer Edward R. Murrow, is among the most prestigious awards in news.
Each year, the Murrow Awards recognize local and national stories that uphold the RTDNA Code of Ethics, demonstrate technical expertise, and exemplify the importance and impact of journalism as a service to the community.
"These awards reflect an incredible year of commitment to our community. We don't do this work for awards but we're honored by the recognition from RTDNA."
Rob Edwards, Managing Editor of News
Among the eight awards, STLPR received several best-in-category wins in the Region 5, Radio Large Market division, including an award for best digital presence, best continuing coverage for the newsroom's work on the May 16 tornado, and a best writing award for STLPR's Arts and Culture Senior Reporter, Jeremy D. Goodwin.
"It's an honor to be included in a list of prize-winning coverage that includes such important collaborations by my colleagues - representing months of intense work on detailed projects and creativity."
Jeremy D. Goodwin, Arts & Culture Senior Reporter
Goodwin expressed grattitude to STLPR readers and the local arts scene for the win. "I'm grateful that our newsroom and our audience value the sort of work that won 'Best Writing,' and that so many arts organizations in St. Louis do interesting and provocative work that is open to the sort of analysis I like to apply. "
2026 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award Winners
Newscast
Monday, May 19, 2025
A powerful EF-3 tornado with winds of up to 150 miles per hour tore through St. Louis -- killing at least five people and damaging up to 4500 buildings. As St. Louisans pick up the pieces, there are still many unresolved issues.
Listen • 13:40
Continuing Coverage - The St. Louis Tornado
St. Louis Public Radio devoted significant resources to covering the aftermath of the May 16, 2025 tornado, how residents recovered, and the barriers they faced toward getting their lives back together.
Health, Science & Environment
Photos: St. Louis begins recovery after a powerful tornado
Brian Munoz, Kyle Pyatt, Cristina Fletes-Mach, Lylee Gibbs
"It literally had looked like a bomb had just went off," one volunteer said of the tornado's damage in north St. Louis. "Blocks and blocks of homes that are just gone."
Listen • 4:32
Government, Politics & Issues
Victims trapped inside a collapsed St. Louis church say 911 calls went to nonemergency line
Marissanne Lewis-Thompson
When a tornado struck Centennial Christian Church on May 16, three people were trapped inside under debris. Their emergency calls went unanswered.
Listen • 7:09
Economy & Business
Walking the tornado's path 100 days later reveals a divided St. Louis
Kavahn Mansouri
We walked and drove the storm's path from Clayton to the Mississippi and found despair in some neighborhoods and others nearly fully recovered.
Listen • 7:34
Economy & Business
St. Louis homeowners still fighting insurance companies to fix tornado-damaged homes
Andrea Y. Henderson, Kavahn Mansouri
Six months after the May 16 tornado ripped through north St. Louis, people who had insurance policies are struggling to repair their homes. Some say their insurance companies aren't making it easier.
Listen • 4:26
Digital
St. Louis Public Radio
Delivering accuracy and understanding through storytelling that reveals context and humanity in the news. Award-winning local and NPR news, podcasts and music.
Excellence in Sound
Arts
How Foley artists transform watermelons into a chorus of feasting zombies in horror films
Marissanne Lewis-Thompson
Halloween is synonymous with scary monster movies and spooky sounds, but most of the time those sounds are created with Foley art.
Listen • 7:09
Excellence in Writing
Jeremy D. Goodwin joined St. Louis Public Radio in spring of 2018 as a reporter covering arts & culture. He is currently STLPR's Arts & Culture Sr. Reporter.
Arts
St. Louis Shakespeare celebrates its 25th year with a 1950s-inspired 'Hamlet'
Jeremy D. Goodwin
"Hamlet" may be the most well-known play in the English language, but the Forest Park production shows it can still supply new sounds and surprises.
Listen • 4:15
Arts
A comic 'Peer Gynt' by SLSO will need 150 actors and musicians - plus one troll puppet
Jeremy D. Goodwin
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra is collaborating with adapter Bill Barclay on a reimagined take on Henrik Ibsen's 1867 play "Peer Gynt" and composer Edvard Grieg's iconic score, which includes some of the most well-known music in the world.
Listen • 4:18
Arts
An exhibition at the Kemper features artistic views of environmental balance
Jeremy D. Goodwin
"Seeds: Containers of a World to Come" at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum features 10 artists who use their work to call for environmental sustainability.
Listen • 4:18
Hard News | STLPR, The Midwest Newsroom
Law & Order
'Bring Carol home:' ICE snatches rural Missouri mom at immigration check-in
Kavahn Mansouri, Chad Davis
A Kennett, Missouri, woman went to St. Louis last month for what she thought was a routine meeting with immigration officials to renew her immigration documents. Instead, they shackled her and are now trying to deport her to Hong Kong.
Listen • 4:27
Investigative Reporting | STLPR, The Midwest Newsroom
Law & Order
A mother and son fled Colombia for a better life. He died in St. Louis on ICE's watch
Brian Munoz, Chad Davis, Kavahn Mansouri
Lucy Garzón risked everything to keep her children safe, then ended up losing a son to the very country she hoped would protect him.
Listen • 7:32
Excellence in Innovation | STLPR, The Marshall Project
Law & Order
Unsolved, not forgotten: How 6 parents remember the children they lost to violence in St. Louis
Ivy Scott, Brian Munoz, Rachel Lippmann
The multimedia art installation and reporting project features six original portraits by local artist Cbabi Bayoc, inspired by a years-long investigation by St. Louis Public Radio, APM Reports and The Marshall Project into the more than 1,000 unsolved homicides over the last decade.
Listen • 4:17
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