Murrow-Winning Work
2023 Regional Win: Breaking News Coverage: Hurricane Ian, Assistant News Director: Part of management team overseeing continuous breaking Cat. 5 coverage as assistant news director. Managing our team from a remote location as we broadcast wall to wall Category 4/5 hurricane coverage.
2023 Regional Win: News Documentary: Still Standing, Assistant News Director: Oversaw producing & production of 30 min. Hurricane Ian documentary-style news special telling storm's formation, impact & aftermath story using perspectives of WFTX's team of journalists and meteorologists.
2020 Regional Win: Breaking News Coverage, Executive Producer: The Oregon District Mass Shooting, Primary newsroom manager overseeing mass shooting coverage, which left nine dead, 27 injured, and extensively impacted the community.
2017 Regional: News Series: “Opiate Oppression,” reported by Matthew Simon; Tom Zurawski, photographer. This three-part series airing in May 2016 was part of our year-long commitment to showing how the opiate crisis was impacting large segments of our viewing area. NewsChannel 7 Investigates exclusively obtained a Marathon County Health Department report showing even though most of the community now knows prescription drop boxes exist, they are still keeping old prescription drugs in their homes. We looked at the everyday story of Michael Dixon, whose opiate addiction began after having his wisdom teeth removed as a teen. This eventually led to his heroin addiction, which caused him to crash his car, killing him and leaving his young son with a lifelong traumatic brain injury. The series also focused on Wausau being named a top 25 city for prescription abuse, the lack of treatment options, how addiction changes brain chemistry, the scope of the problem for law enforcement and how hospital funding can sometimes depend on how addicts answer surveys.
2016 National Win: News Reporter: Overall Excellence & Best Newscast, news reporting role part of the work honored by the Radio Television Digital News Association, (RTDNA,) with two National Edward R. Murrow awards for overall excellence and best newscast following the local district attorney's decision not to criminally charge an officer following the shooting of an unarmed biracial Madison teenager.