Awards

PRNDI’s Leo C. Lee Award

Each year, PRNDI honors an individual or organization that has made significant contributions to public radio news. The award is named in honor of its first recipient: Leo C. Lee, the founder of Western Public Radio, a San Francisco-based public radio training program.

Past winners include:
1993 - Leo C. Lee
1994 - William Siemering
1995 - Jo Ann Wallace
1996 - Carl Kasell
1997 - Bill Buzenberg
1998 - Tony Griffin
1999 - Ira Glass
2000 - Poynter Institute
2001 - Susan Stamberg
2002 - Jay Allison
2003 - Jim Russell
2004 - Linda Werheimer
2005 – Rich Bradley
2006 – David Isay
2007 – Danny Zwerdling

Training – “Got an Edit”

PRNDI held its first ever regional training at Chicago Public Radio in late April. NewsWorks trainers Tanya Ott and Michael Marcotte gave a group of 12 Midwest reporters a day of boot camp in public radio feature production, then helped them produce their own localized stories about the foreclosure crisis. Here's one that aired on Chicago Public Radio from reporter Ashley Gross:

You can see photos and get a bit more information by clicking here.

PRNDI hopes to sponsor the next regional training in Fall 2008. If you'd like to host it, contact Training Committee Chair Julianne Welby, jwelby@wfuv.org.

PRNDI News Director Handbook

The wheels may be turning slowly, but they ARE turning. Former PRNDI President Michael Marcotte is beginning the work on the News Director Handbook. This will be the area of our website dedicated to various handbook topics as they become available.

PRNDI is contributing ongoing programmatic and content expertise to The Public Radio Exchange. The current PRX News Curator is PRNDI Board Member Julianne Welby.