Edward R. Murrow awards

WGCU Public Media recently won a regional Edward R. Murrow award for news documentary. The Murrow awards are among the most prestigious broadcast and digital journalism awards in the United States. WGCU received the award for Rising: Surviving the Surge, a documentary about Hurricane Ian, the 2022 storm that forever changed Southwest Florida.

The Radio Television Digital News Association has awarded the WGCU News team the national Edward R. Murrow Award for Breaking News Coverage for "Hurricane…

For Southwest Florida, 2017 was a year dramatically punctuated by the September arrival of Hurricane Irma. It was an extreme storm, which dominated the…