KFAI Honored with Five Page One Awards

It was a big night for community journalism at the Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists 2023 Page One Awards. KFAI reporters won five awards in the Radio category at last night’s ceremony, including three first-place mentions.

Season 6 of KFAI’s MinneCulture was recognized as Best Podcast — congratulations to producers Joe Friedrichs, Emily Haavik, Sheila Regan, Matthew Schneeman, Tony Williams, host John Gebretatose, and producer/editor Julie Censullo. Reporters Michelle Bruch and Joe Friedrichs were honored with first place awards for feature reporting and in-depth reporting, respectively. Reporter Tony Williams was honored with a third place award for feature reporting and Ryan Dawes and April Ehrlich were honored with a third place award for breaking news coverage.

The award ceremony was held at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul.

Community journalism provides a unique opportunity to uplift stories from the diverse communities of the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota, and it is an honor to be recognized for this work. KFAI is proud of the thoughtful, diligent, and creative work of all of our reporters and producers.

Complete list of awards:

Podcast – First Place awarded to Julie Censullo, Emily Haavik, Matthew Schneeman, Tony Williams, Sheila Regan, Joe Friedrichs, and John Gebretatose for season 6 of the MinneCulture Podcast (Apple Podcasts | Spotify | SoundCloud)

Enterprise/In-Depth Reporting – First Place awarded to Joe Friedrichs for A History of Fire in the Boundary Waters

Feature Reporting – First Place awarded to Michelle Bruch for Submerged history in the land of 10,000 lakes

Feature Reporting – Third Place awarded to Tony Williams for The Not-Springs of Mankato

Breaking News Reporting – Third Place awarded to Ryan Dawes and April Ehrlich for Mask Requirement Remains at St. Paul Public Schools

Award announcement on the MNSPJ website: http://www.mnspj.org/2023/07/27/mnspj-2023-page-one-awards-winners/

Congratulations again to all the honorees!

MinneCulture | Like a Comet Streaking Across the Sky: The Investigative Journalism of Eva Valesh

Eva Valesh was only 22 when she first went undercover to report on women workers in the 1880s for the St. Paul Globe. She wrote under the pseudonym Eva Gay. Each week, she would either sneak into a workplace to speak to the workers, or she would simply fabricate her references and apply to a job herself. She visited clothing factories, laundries, dress-shops, dry goods stores, and food factories. Often she encountered women being exploited or working in dangerous conditions. Eva fought for the workers and helped them fight for themselves.

KFAI's MinneCulture · Like a Comet Streaking Across the Sky: The Investigative Journalism of Eva Valesh

In this episode of the MinneCulture podcast, reporter Ben Heath explores Valesh’s work, and the role of investigative journalism on the labor movement of the late 19th century. Listen on Apple podcasts, Spotify, SoundCloud or wherever you get your podcasts.

Support for MinneCulture on KFAI has been provided by the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.

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