{"id":19522,"date":"2014-04-17T10:14:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T15:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=19522"},"modified":"2014-04-17T10:21:14","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T15:21:14","slug":"stateimpact-and-partners-moore-tornado-coverage-honored-with-national-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2014\/04\/17\/stateimpact-and-partners-moore-tornado-coverage-honored-with-national-award\/","title":{"rendered":"StateImpact and Partners&#8217; Moore Tornado Coverage Honored With National Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19523\"  class=\"wp-caption module image center\" style=\"max-width: 620px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19523\" alt=\"Lauren Gardner stands near a family members' house, which was destroyed by the May 20, 2013 tornado that ravaged Moore, Okla.\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2014\/04\/WEB-Wertz-MooreTornado08.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2014\/04\/WEB-Wertz-MooreTornado08.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2014\/04\/WEB-Wertz-MooreTornado08-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2014\/04\/WEB-Wertz-MooreTornado08-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2014\/04\/WEB-Wertz-MooreTornado08-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Joe Wertz \/ StateImpact Oklahoma<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lauren Gardner stands near a family members&#39; house, which was destroyed by the May 20, 2013 tornado that ravaged Moore, Okla.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>The Society of Professional Journalists on Wednesday honored reporters at StateImpact Oklahoma, KGOU and KOSU radio with its national <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spj.org\/sdxa13.asp#radio\">Sigma Delta Chi award<\/a> for collaborative breaking news coverage of the May 20, 2013 tornado.<!--more--><\/p><p>I was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.current.org\/2013\/05\/unscathed-by-tornado-oklahoma-pubcasters-band-together-to-report-assist-with-relief\/\">inadvertently caught in the storm<\/a>, and my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/05\/20\/185603264\/tornado-ravages-oklahoma-city-suburb\">conversation<\/a> with NPR <em>All Things Considered<\/em> host Robert Siegel from the scene of the Plaza Towers rescue effort was recognized by the organization, as were NPR radio features <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2013\/05\/21\/185715036\/death-toll-climbing-in-oklahoma-tornado-tragedy\">by former KGOU News Director Kurt Gwartney<\/a> and KOSU Associate Director and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/05\/21\/185839236\/moore-residents-slowly-allowed-into-tornado-damaged-areas\">General Manager Rachel Hubbard<\/a>, which aired May 21 on <em>Morning Edition<\/em> and <em>All Things Considered<\/em>, respectively.<\/p><p>This is how Gwartney explained to SPJ the rapid collaboration that enabled the reporting, <a href=\"http:\/\/kgou.org\/post\/kgou-oklahoma-public-medias-tornado-coverage-honored-national-journalism-award#.U0_nuPp9lhw.twitter\">KGOU reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Together, and with the support of other staff at the stations who maintained operations and provided vital information for our audiences, we overcame staffing, personal and logistical problems during this incredible disaster to provide clear, accurate and timely news to not only our local listeners, but to a national audience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Society of Professional Journalists on Wednesday honored reporters at StateImpact Oklahoma, KGOU and KOSU radio with its national Sigma Delta Chi award for collaborative breaking news coverage of the May 20, 2013 tornado.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[539,609],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19522"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19531,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19522\/revisions\/19531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}