While dozens of regional Murrow Awards are given out each year, just 13 national awards were given this week to large-market TV stations from across the country, and Portland's KGW received recognition for feature reporting.
The March 2010 report, by photographer Kurt Austin and anchor Laural Porter, told the story of Bao Green, a single mother originally from Tanzania who was losing her sight until a Portland eye clinic's charity fund paid for a $30,000 artificial corneal transplant. "A Long Journey" ((link to report: http://contests.rtdna.org/entries/public –view/4530))) runs almost five minutes -- a rarity in TV news where one-minute-and-thirty-second stories are more common.
Porter said the road to her report ran through her beauty parlor, where she first learned of a local doctor who performed this particular medical procedure.
"A Long Journey" won a regional Murrow Award earlier this year and then was in competition with other regional winners for the national contest.
Porter, whose primary duty is to anchor newscasts, said she worked on "A Long Journey" as an enterprise piece. She praised Austin's work on the story.
"I give him so much of the credit because he not only shoots, he edits," she said. "He has a way of blending in, of capturing magic moments."
A ceremony for 2011 Murrow Award winners will be held this fall in New York City. Prior to this year's win, the last national Murrow winner among Portland TV stations was also KGW, in 2008 for continuing coverage of a winter storm.
-- Rob Owen
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