Topic: NAB Award Winners
Posted on 10/1/2019
Graham Media Group’s WKMG-TV Orlando, Fla., received the Service to Community Award for Television – Large Market at the NAB Leadership Foundation 2019 Service to America Awards Gala in Washington, D.C. WKMG received the honor for a series of investigative reports featuring first responders diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
WKMG’s focused reporting helped expose the state’s failure to recognize PTSD as a medical injury and provide workers’ compensation to emergency responders who could not prove physical injury. After WKMG aired their initial report, more first responders were empowered to come forward and speak about their experiences. On March 27, 2018, Governor Rick Scott signed the Workers’ Compensation Benefits for First Responders Act into law. Governor Scott said WKMG’s reporting was instrumental in the passage and signing of the new law.
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