WFYI receives multiple awards and recognitions from the Public Media Journalists Association

WFYI received multiple national awards and recognitions at the Public Media Journalists Association's annual conference last week. Stories and features from WFYI News, America Amplified, Indiana Public Broadcasting and Side Effects Public Media were honored. 

Awards and recognitions include the following: 

• America Amplified's Alisa Barba is the 2024 Leo C. Lee award recipient for, in part, "elevating the work of local public radio journalists since becoming a NPR Western Bureau Chief in 1999." Read more on Alisa's accomplishments here.
• Education Feature, First Place, Dylan Peers McCoy - "Why this Indiana family keeps going back to a school they say fails their son"
• Multimedia, First Place, Indiana Public Broadcasting News - "Civically, Indiana"
• Enterprise, Second Place, Dylan Peers McCoy & Lee Gaines - "The fight for education in Porter County"
• Investigative Reporting, Second Place, Lee Gaines - "Indiana isn’t holding schools accountable for forcibly isolating and restraining students"
• Health/Medical Feature, Second Place, Side Effects w/ Iowa Public Radio's Natalie Krebs - "Fixing understaffed nursing homes"
• Multimedia, Second Place, Side Effects Brittani Howell & Farah Yousry - "Medicaid unwinding"

About Public Media Journalists Association

PMJA is an association representing public media journalists across the United States.

Public Media Journalists Association supports, empowers and advocates for journalists working in public media. In that endeavor they seek to foster high ethical standards in the practice of journalism through:

• Providing training and networking opportunities that allow members to improve and excel in their work, giving stations a venue for sharing innovations and best practices
• Working for greater diversity, equity and inclusion throughout public media
• Championing members working to create environments free of discrimination and harassment
• Creating and cultivating pathways to support diverse leadership
• Advocating for a society where journalism can be practiced freely without threat

The organization was formerly known as Public Radio News Directors Inc., and began as an association representing those responsible for the day-to-day direction, reporting and editing of local public media newsrooms. In 2019, the organization changed its name in an effort to be more encompassing of all journalists in the public media sphere.