WBUR Wins Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Excellence: The Radio and Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) announced that 90.9 WBUR, Boston’s NPR News Station, has won the 2010 Edward R. Murrow Award for national “overall excellence” in large-market radio.

Also: WBUR, 90.9 FM, Boston’s NPR news station, announced today that it will receive a $260,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s Knight News Challenge to establish best practices for effective and efficient ways to cover the courts using digital technology.

WBUR is a major source of news and information in New England and one of the country’s pre-eminent public radio stations. WBUR provides thorough and intelligent coverage of national, international and regional news, plus extensive reports from National Public Radio (NPR), the BBC, Public Radio International, American Public Media and WBUR’s own newsroom. WBUR produces more than 25 hours of original news and programming each week that are distributed to other public radio stations around the country, on XM satellite radio and podcasts and streamed on wbur.org.

WBUR is managed by Paul A. La Camera, a veteran of broadcast journalism appointed General Manager in October, 2005.  Corey Lewis is Station Manager. Jean Wong is Director of Finance. Jeff Hutton directs the station’s corps of engineers.

Sam Fleming leads the charge as Managing Director of News and Programming. Anna Bensted serves a dual role as Assistant Director of News and Programming and Executive Producer of Special Projects, including Inside Out documentaries. John Davidow serves as WBUR’s recently appointed Executive Editor. Martha Little joined our staff as news director in September 2009.  Web wiz Robin Lubbock heads our New Media Department.

Read more about the WBUR Executive Advisory Council, composed of Boston-area community and business leaders dedicated to supporting and advancing the mission of WBUR and its affiliated stations.

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