Radio & Television News Association's Golden Mike Awards® Honor Southern California PBS Stations KCET and PBS SoCal With Four Awards for Outstanding Broadcast Journalism
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Los Angeles, Calif. – May 23, 2022 – PBS SoCal and KCET, Southern California’s flagship PBS organizations, announced this morning a total of 4 wins from the 72nd Annual Golden Mike® Awards presented in-person by the Radio & Television News Association (RTNA) of Southern California on Saturday, May 21. PBS SoCal and KCET were honored in Division A categories that included News Reporting, Light Feature Reporting, News Videography and Video Editing. The Golden Mike Awards is the longest running broadcast news awards show in America, and one of the most distinguished because some of the top journalists across America do the judging.
The KCET Original Emmy® award-winning arts and culture series ARTBOUND’s 2021 standalone special called “Arts Education” took home top honors in the category of News Reporting for its exploration of the values that arts education provides for all young people and communities, building the foundation for an inclusive and economically vibrant society. ARTBOUND: ARTS EDUCATION was developed in partnership with the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture.
ARTBOUND also took top honors in two other categories (Light Feature Reporting and News Videography) honoring the legacy of trailblazing local graphic designer John Van Hamersveld, the man behind the iconic Endless Summer poster that forever solidified the image of California with its high contrast image of a lone surfer against a day-glo background as well as the short film inspired by an article that first appeared online at kcet.org that spotlighted Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Reid. Reid created a GPS-enabled work of public art that uses music to illuminate the natural environment, shaping a walk in Griffith Park into something more extraordinary. All of the ARTBOUND honorees’ work can be seen on kcet.org/artbound and on the free PBS video App.
The fourth award in the News Videography of a Feature Story, Series or Special, went to the film POWER & HEALTH, a documentary produced with support from The California Endowment that examines the underlying sociological and economic forces that fundamentally shape public health outcomes where experts reviewed how society’s health and wellness is shaped by inequality and injustice.
The 72nd Annual Golden Mike® Award wins for KCET and PBS SoCal are listed below by category:
BEST NEWS REPORTING - ARTBOUND: Arts Education
BEST LIGHT FEATURE REPORTING, 10 MINUTES OR LESS - ARTBOUND: Endless Summer
BEST NEWS VIDEOGRAPHY OF A FEATURE STORY, SERIES OR SPECIAL - ARTBOUND: Griffith Park Soundscape
BEST VIDEO EDITING OF A FEATURE STORY, SERIES OR SPECIAL - POWER & HEALTH
The RTNA salutes the best in broadcast journalism on an annual basis in Southern and Central California. From breaking news to documentaries, awards for outstanding work were presented to reporters, videographers, producers, writers, and managers at Radio and TV stations from San Diego to Fresno. The RTNA is a nonprofit organization representing broadcast news professionals throughout Southern California and coordinates TV pool coverage of major news events in the region, fights for freedom of information causes, and provides scholarships for the next generation of broadcast journalists.
About ARTBOUND
The critically acclaimed weekly television series and online destination ARTBOUND captures the spirit of the burgeoning arts and culture community in California and explores how it's shaping California as the creative capital of the world. The KCET Original series explores and illuminates the cultural issues of our times, providing critical in-depth analysis of how arts and culture affect society. The series and the online stories that are found at kcet.org/artbound are the result of cultural tastemakers throughout the region and collaborations with LA’s top cultural institutions. Since its inception in 2012, the series has earned high industry praise including several Emmy® Awards, LA Press Club awards, Golden Mike awards and a National Entertainment Journalism award, among others. ARTBOUND has been recognized with the prestigious ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor / Virgil Thomson Multimedia Award for outstanding music.
About PBS SoCal and KCET
PBS SoCal and KCET are both part of the donor-supported community institution, the Public Media Group of Southern California, which was formed by the merger of PBS SoCal and KCETLink Media Group. PBS SoCal is the flagship PBS station for diverse people across California and delivers content and experiences that inspire, inform and educate. PBS SoCal offers the full slate of beloved PBS programs including MASTERPIECE, NOVA, PBS NewsHour, FRONTLINE, and a broad library of documentary films including works from Ken Burns; as well as educational content including PBS KIDS programs including DANIEL TIGER’S NEIGHBORHOOD and CURIOUS GEORGE. KCET is on-air, online and in the community, and plays a vital role in the cultural enrichment of Southern California. KCET offers a wide range of award-winning local programming as well as the finest public television programs from around the world. Throughout its history, KCET has won hundreds of major awards for its local and regional news and public affairs programming, its national drama and documentary productions and its website, kcet.org. For additional information about both KCET and PBS SoCal productions, web-exclusive content, programming schedules and community events, please visit kcet.org and pbssocal.org KCET Originals and PBS programming are available to stream on the FREE PBS App on iOS and Android devices, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Android TV, Samsung Smart TV, and Chromecast. KCET is also available to watch live on YouTube TV, Amazon and Roku platforms. For more information please visit kcet.org/apps.
