Arizona Public Media Wins 2025 National Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Innovation – Arizona Illustrated’s Spanish Language Episode was recognized by the RTDNA on Thursday The Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) has announced the national winners of the 2025 Edward R. Murrow Awards, honoring outstanding achievements in electronic journalism. More than 100 news organizations across the country were recognized for their exceptional contributions in digital, radio, and television reporting.
Arizona Public Media (AZPM) received the National Murrow Award for Small Market Television Excellence in Innovation - Spanish Language Innovation for an episode of Arizona Illustrated featuring original Spanish-language stories: Citizenship, Education, Music & Piñatas. This work showcases AZPM’s commitment to serving Spanish-speaking audiences in Southern Arizona with in-depth content that is culturally rich and locally relevant. This is AZPM’s fourth national Murrow Award.
“Our team goes above and beyond to ensure that all members of our community have access to vital news and local storytelling regardless of language,” said Jack Gibson, AZPM CEO. “This award is a powerful affirmation of our commitment to innovation, inclusion, and journalism that serves the public.”
AZPM’s previous national Murrow Awards include a 2023 honor in the Small Market Television News Documentary category for Water Harvester: An Invitation to Abundance, a 2019 award for feature reporting for Where Dreams Die, and a 2016 news documentary award for Divided by Law. In addition to these national honors, AZPM has earned 23 Regional Murrow Awards since 2016 for in-depth reporting on issues affecting the Southwest.
Since 1971, the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Awards have embodied the values, principles, and ideals established by Edward R. Murrow, a pioneering broadcast journalist whose work set the standard for the highest quality of journalism.
The full list of 2025 National Murrow Award winners can be found here. The 2025 National Murrow Awards will be presented at the RTDNA Edward R. Murrow Awards Gala at Gotham Hall in New York City on October 13.
About RTDNA
Since 1971, RTDNA has been honoring outstanding achievements in broadcast and digital journalism with the Edward R. Murrow Awards. Among the most prestigious in news, the Murrow Awards recognize local and national news stories that uphold the RTDNA Code of Ethics, demonstrate technical expertise, and exemplify the importance and impact of journalism as a service to the community. Murrow Award-winning work demonstrates the excellence that Edward R. Murrow made a standard for the broadcast news profession.
About AZPM
Arizona Public Media (AZPM) is an editorially independent, nonprofit community service of the University of Arizona and provides three television program services (PBS 6, PBS 6 Plus, and PBS Kids), four radio services (NPR 89.1, Classical 90.5, Jazz 89.1 HD2, and the BBC World Service) and a variety of online program offerings at azpm.org.
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