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Associated Press Names WWJ Newsradio 950 Best In State

LANSING (WWJ/AP) - WWJ Newsradio 950 honored with several awards including best in the state during the annual  Michigan Associated Press Media Editors broadcast competition.

WWJ AwardWWJ won first place in General Excellence in the largest market.

WWJ Newsradio 950 took both first and second place in four categories:

Best Newscast- PM Drive with Jayne Bower and Greg Bowman and Jackie Paige in midday.

Best Spot News- Apartment Fire and Bridge Collapse

Best Hard News- Theodore Wafer Verdict and Historic Flood

Best Sportscast- Ryan Wooley and Tony Ortiz.

The station also won firsts for Best Enterprise/Investigative Reporting, for Roberta Jasina's reports on the Lawrence Delisle case 25 years later, and Best Individual Reporting. The station won second place in the Best Continuing Coverage and Best Spot Photojournalism categories.

Seventeen broadcasters submitted 212 entries in the contest, which featured news, sports and weather reporting as well as features, documentaries and photography from 2014.

The Associated Press is a not-for-profit news cooperative representing 1,500 newspapers and 5,000 broadcast stations in the United States. Members of AP include 102 broadcast stations in Michigan.

 

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