TEGNA Stations Receive Ten National 2023 Edward R. Murrow Awards - Seite 2

KXTV (Sacramento, CA): Investigative Reporting, Large Market Television, for “Fire - Power - Money: Who's Behind the PG&E Bailout?” Nearly five years ago, ABC10 Investigative reporter Brandon Rittiman and Executive Producer Gonzalo Magaña created the reporting project, “Fire - Power – Money.” The goal was to investigate why California wildfires were getting bigger, deadlier, and more destructive. In 2018, the Camp Fire became the most destructive wildfire in U.S. history, caused by the biggest utility company in the nation, PG&E, which destroyed the town of paradise and killed 85 people. Today, the utility company has 91 felony convictions on record. The disasters caused by PG&E have killed 142 people and have displaced over 70 thousand people. After several years of reporting, the ABC10 Originals team comprised of Brandon Rittiman, Gonzalo Magaña, Tyler Horst, Rory Ward, Mike Bunnell and Sabrina Sanchez have uncovered evidence of how the Newsom administration and state leaders have protected PG&E despite their repeated convictions, adding to an ongoing safety crisis and prioritizing profits over the fire victims.

KUSA (Denver, CO): News Documentary, Large Market Television, for “BURNED: Six Hours in December.” Launched days after the Marshall Fire burned more than a thousand homes and killed two in Colorado’s Boulder County, the “BURNED” project sought to better understand how a small and seemingly inconsequential fire exploded into a monster on the second-to-last day of 2021. 9News ORIGINALS team members Chris Vanderveen and Chris Hansen, in this half-hour documentary, provide a minute-by-minute and location-by-location examination of the state’s worst wildfire.

KUSA (Denver, CO): Digital, Large Market Television, for “BURNED: The Story Behind the Marshall Fire.” As the Marshall Fire raced into suburban Boulder County neighborhoods in late 2021, it burned in front of hundreds of cell phones, law enforcement body cameras and home security cameras. It all turned Colorado’s most destructive natural disaster into its most documented as well. Using clues buried within nearly a thousand clips, 9News ORIGINALS team members Chris Hansen and Chris Vanderveen helped build an immersive website now devoted to helping users see just how quickly a natural disaster can unfold.