From FSU Information
WFSU just lately took dwelling some of the essential awards in public media.
The station was designated the Public Media Award winner within the class of Neighborhood Engagement: National Mission class on the 2021 National Training Telecommunications Affiliation (NETA) convention.
WFSU was acknowledged for its October 2019 “Retro Native Tales and Screening,” a undertaking that included multimedia tales in regards to the claiming (by eminent area) and demolition of Tallahassee’s traditionally Black Smokey Hole neighborhood through the 1960s, and the lack of the Florida A&M College Hospital within the 1970s.
The tales have been reported and produced by Blaise Gainey, Lynn Hatter, Gina Jordan, Mike Plummer and Suzanne Smith. WFSU competed towards a number of the largest public media stations in the US.
“Historical past doesn’t simply exist within the pages of a guide,” Smith mentioned. “Each challenge, expertise and state of affairs we face as we speak has its roots up to now. By exploring what occurred and shining a lightweight on the explanation why it occurred, we are able to have a greater understanding of what we face as we speak and the way it will affect our future.”
The undertaking was a well timed harbinger of the social justice protests that rocked the nation final summer season. WFSU hosted a public screening and dialogue program on the campus of FAMU, a accomplice within the undertaking.
Along with its NETA award, WFSU-FM earned its highest rankings in additional than 5 yrs, in response to the Fall 2020 Nielsen audience listener rankings. This continues a two-year development of audience development for WFSU.
“The award-winning native reporting by the WFSU Information staff coupled with the national information protection from NPR have proved to be what listeners in Tallahassee are anxious to listen to,” mentioned David Mullins, WFSU general manager.
About WFSU
WFSU Public Media gives high quality public broadcasting companies to the north Florida and south Georgia areas. WFSU Public Media is each an NPR and PBS member station, with TV and FM housed collectively in a single constructing close to Innovation Park. In Panama Metropolis, WFSU Public Media is named WFSG-TV and WFSW-FM. WFSU Public Media additionally gives neighborhood engagement and instructional companies.
