St. Louis Public Radio has won two national awards for its 2015 coverage of the events that followed the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson. One is a new Peabody award and the other a Silver Gavel from the American Bar Association.
The station was the inaugural recipient of the Peabody-Facebook Futures of Media Awards for its project “One Year in Ferguson.”
The award is a new and separate award from the traditional Peabodies and is given to the top five stories in digital spaces. The team that worked on the digital projects included Kelsey Proud, digital innovations editor, Brent Jones, data visualization specialist, Stephanie Lecci, newscast producer and Bill Raack, editor.
The ABA Silver Gavel was awarded for contributor William H. Freivogel’s series of legal analyses on “Law, Justice and the Death of Michael Brown.” The award announcement said the series showed “in-depth legal understanding to the highly charged aftermath of the shooting of an unarmed African–American teenager by a white Ferguson, Mo., police officer.”
http://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2016/05/american_bar_associa0.html
Editor’s note: William H. Freivogel is publisher of the Gateway Journalism Review. Margaret Wolf Freivogel, his wife, is the retired editor of St. Louis Public Radio.
