WTOPnews.com wins news award

WASHINGTON - WTOP Radio (103.5 FM) has won the coveted Edward R. Murrow Award for electronic journalism excellence for this website, WTOPnews.com.

This is the third national Murrow for wtopnews.com, having won in 2002 and 2003.

"WTOPnews.com has grown to such an extent that it has become a brand and a product in and of itself," says John Meyer, director of New Media for WTOP. "This is a direct result of a dedicated and passionate staff that has made this site world-class."

Murrow Award winners are chosen by the Radio-Television News Directors Association. In all, 54 news organizations are being honored with 77 awards out of an initial pool of 3,459 entries from several hundred news organizations.

The awards will be presented at the RTNDA Awards Dinner on Oct. 13 in New York.

RTNDA has been honoring outstanding achievements in electronic journalism with the Edward R. Murrow Awards since 1971. Murrow Award recipients demonstrate the excellence that Edward R. Murrow made a standard for the electronic news profession.

WTOP Radio has served the Washington region since 1926 and has been Washington's only all-news radio station since 1969. WTOP is the most widely listened to radio station in the Nation's Capital.

WTOP is one of three stations in Washington, D.C., owned by Bonneville International. Its sister stations are Talk Radio 3WT (1500 AM, 107.7 FM, 820 AM) and Federal News Radio AM 1050.

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