The Oklahoma Society of Professional Journalists honors Public Radio 89.5. KWGS won numerous awards at the SPJ’s annual banquet, held in Tulsa at the Warren Place Doubletree Hotel on Saturday.
KWGS News was honored with a 1st Place award for best radio newscast in Oklahoma. The cast was anchored by John Durkee and featured the reporting of Matt Trotter and Marshall Stewart.
The station’s ‘Studio Tulsa’ picked up two awards from the Society. General Manager and host Rich Fisher accepted those awards on behalf of himself and producer Scott Gregory.
A 1st Place award was presented for the KWGS News Series ‘The State of Journalism’, which examined the execution of the craft in Oklahoma. Other awards were presented to the station for coverage of the Betty Shelby verdict and a news feature on the renovation of the Tulsa Club.