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Seattle Station Honored For Investigative Journalism


Topic: Investigative Reporting
Posted on 5/6/2021

TEGNA’s NBC affiliate KING-TV earned a 2021 Edward R. Murrow Award for their reporting on an undetected mold problem in the air handling system in some of the operating rooms at Seattle Children’s Hospital that led to several infections and deaths, and the station’s legal fight to release public health records. The Edward R. Murrow Awards are announced each year by the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) for outstanding achievements in electronic journalism.



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