The Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California Chapter has recognized several KQED reporters and producers with 2016 Excellence in Journalism Awards. These awards honor outstanding reporting that embodies the Society of Professional Journalist’s ideals of initiative, integrity, talent and compassion. Among the award highlights bestowed onto KQED staff, technical producer Ceil Muller received the Unsung Hero Award; the SF Homeless Project, an ongoing collaboration between over 70 media organizations and spearheaded by the KQED and San Francisco Chronicle news teams, received a Public Service Award distinction; and news editor Alex Emslie was recognized as Outstanding Emerging Journalist. KQED also received honors in the Breaking News; Arts and Culture; and Science, Environment and Health Reporting categories.
“We couldn’t be more excited to have so many of our journalists, reporters and projects recognized for their outstanding work,” says KQED Executive Editor for News Holly Kernan. “Whether it’s the expansive SF Homeless Project, or the amazing Ceil Muller, whose creativity touches nearly everything we do, or Alex Emslie being recognized for his expertise on the criminal justice beat or Steven Cuevas and Victorian Mauleons’ coverage of the Latino punk scene in Los Angeles, KQED aspires not only to inform and enlighten, but to make an impact on our communities and inspire them.”
Awards
UNSUNG HERO: Ceil Muller Technical producer Ceil Muller is regarded within the KQED newsroom as a skilled producer who can be relied upon to infuse audio reporting with a creative flair and a clean edge. She considers herself to be a public radio “lifer,” and has worked for National Public Radio, the National Council for the Traditional Arts and others in addition to KQED.
PUBIC SERVICE: SF Homeless Project The SF Homeless Project is a collaboration of more than 70 news organizations working together to bring attention to the persistent challenges of homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area. Organized by the San Francisco Chronicle and KQED, participating media organizations collaborated to publish and broadcast, during one week in June, more than 300 stories about various aspects of homelessness and efforts to address them. The SF Homeless Project is a sign of a new era in journalism in which news outlets join their forces to fight for a better society.