FOLIO Award Winners Announced
WOODBURY, N.Y., April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Following a keynote address by CBS News' Dan Rather, the Long Island Coalition for Fair Broadcasting announced the winners of its 2004 FOLIO Awards on April 23 at the Crest Hollow Country Club at a ceremony attended by more than 800 business, community and media leaders. NBC 4 and News 12 Long Island tied for first place, each snagging three of the custom-made crystal statuettes. In a surprise upset, upstart Long Island Press beat out all other print media in both of the FOLIO Awards' newspaper categories. Long Island East End's LTV Productions took home its first FOLIO, while "Best of the Best," the highest award bestowed by the Coalition, went to UPN 9 for a 35-minute investigative report that revealed racial profiling in Nassau County and launched a police investigation.
"This is a defining year for the FOLIO Awards," said Jaci Clement, executive director of the Long Island Coalition for Fair Broadcasting. "We saw a record number of entries, from more media outlets than ever before. At the same time, the judging panels decided to raise the bar and send the message that only the highest quality news stories deserve a FOLIO. The media outlets walking out of here with a statuette should be extremely proud of themselves."
Co-hosting the awards ceremony was ABC 7's Lori Stokes and Bill Ritter. Award presenters included WB 11's Kaity Tong and Jim Watkins, UPN 9's Harry Martin and Brenda Blackmon, FOX 5's Len Cannon and Rosanna Scotto, NBC 4's David Ushery and Ida Siegal, Telemundo's Jorge Ramos and Natalia Cruz, CBS 2's Shon Gables and Mario Bosquez, Newsday's Ed Lowe and Monsignor Thomas Hartman and Rabbi Marc Gellman, who are best known as The God Squad.
For more than two decades, the Coalition has honored media with FOLIO Awards as a way to encourage quality news reporting of local issues. For more information, log on to http://www.li-mediawatch.org/.
Complete List: Long Island Coalition for Fair Broadcasting's 2004 FOLIO Award Winners
Best of the Best "Driving While Black"
Reporter: Rolland Smith; Reporter: Brenda Flanagan; Producer: Linda Sacks; Editor: Noreen Coles; Photographer: Jimmie Mitchell
UPN9 TELEVISION Continuing News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast "Mepham Moms"
Reporter: Bill Ritter; Producers: Jeff Jolton, Glenn Silber; Editor: Eric Zembrzuski
ABC 7 Investigative Journalism in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast "Driving While Black"
Reporter: Rolland Smith, Brenda Flanagan; Producer: Linda Sacks; Editor: Noreen Coles; Photographer: Jimmie Mitchell
UPN9 Feature Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast (TIE) "Journey of Hope" Photojournalist: Michael DelGiudice; Producer: Elizabeth Hashagen News 12 Long Island "A Homeless Hero" Reporter: Greg Cergol; Editor/Photographer: James Zoltowski, Jr. NBC 4 Spot News Story "Farmingville Firebombing"
Reporter/Producer: Lauren DeFranco; Photojournalists: Matt Andersen, Tony Saturno
ABC 7 Feature Story - Long Form "Touching The Sky"
Reporters: Carolyn Gusoff; Greg Cergol; Chuck Scarborough; Ralph Penza; Brian Thompson
Producer: Joel Franklin; Editor/Photographer/Field Producer: Scott Gillies; Photographers: John Albertson; Brian Quinn; J.C. De Los Rios; Editor: John Gonzalez
NBC 4 Science, Health or Environment News (TIE) "Giant Hogweed" Reporter: Jennifer McLogan; Editor/Photographer: Patrick Cronin CBS 2 "Shoreham Revisited"
Reporter: Lea Tyrrell; Producer: Lea Tyrrell; Editor: Gregory Inserillo; Photographer:
David Garden News 12 Long Island Cultural, Artistic, Educational or Religious News (TIE) "Ticket"
Host: Laura Savini; Producer: Charlotte Cote; Executive Producer: Theresa Statz-Smith
WLIW21 Public Television "10 Great Field Trips on the East End"
Narrator/Educational Consultant: Irene Tully; Producer: Genie Henderson; Director/Editor: Kate Pennebaker
LTV Productions Economic, Business or Consumer Issues News "Dreams Fulfilled, Dreams Denied"
Reporter: Greg Cergol; Producer: Scott Gillies; Editor/Photographer: Scott Gillies
NBC 4 Special Category "Emerging Communities" Reporter: Peter Kohler; Producer: Christopher DeFilippis Cablevision Editorial Services Enterprise Reporting "Through the Roof"
Reporters: Drew Scott, Scott Feldman, Heather Holmes, Elizabeth Hashagen; Editors: Gregory Inserillo, Anthony Iavarone; Producer: Debi Gade; Editor/Photographers: David Leibowitz; Keith Feldman; Photographers: Brian Jingeleski; Susan Caron
News 12 Long Island RADIO Feature Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast "IslandAssignment: A Walk Through the Woods-Pine Barrens Act" Reporter: David North; Producer: David North WALK FM/AM Radio Spot News Story "Election Night 2003: Kate Murray Interview"
Reporter: Jared Greenberg, Andrew Falzon; Producer: Dustin Gervais; Executive Producers: Bruce Avery, Ed Ingles
WRHU 88.7 Science, Health or Environment News "Charity Care" Reporter: Tandaleya Wilder WSHU/National Public Radio Cultural, Artistic, Educational or Religious News "Steven Gaines' East End" Reporter: Steven Gaines; Producer: Jim Asendio; Editor: Jim Asendio WLIU 88.3/WCWP 88.1 FM Radio Economic, Business or Consumer Issues News "IslandAssignment: No Smoking in New York" Reporter: Donna Vaughan; Producer: Donna Vaughan WALK AM/FM Radio Print
Article, Column or Series Dealing with Media Issues and its Impact on Long Island
"Levy Wins Despite Newsday's Threat"
Reporter: Paul Perillie; Photographers: Rick Miller; Tim Bolger; Editor-in-Chief: Robbie Woliver; News Editor: Edith Updike; Managing Editor: Bill Jensen
Long Island Press Enterprise Reporting "Breaking the Law": Two-Thirds of Suffolk's Candidates Don't Comply with New Disclosure Law
Reporter: Paul Perillie; Photographer: Robert L. Harrison; Editor-in-Chief: Robbie Woliver
News Editor: Edith Updike; Managing Editor: Bill Jensen Long Island Press
For more information, contact the Long Island Coalition for Fair Broadcasting, 516-224-1860 or log on to http://www.li-mediawatch.org/
Contact: Jaci Clement 516-224-1860, Ext. 101
CONTACT: Jaci Clement 516-224-1860, Ext. 101, for Long Island Coalitionfor Fair Broadcasting
Web site: http://www.li-mediawatch.org/
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