Golden Reel Awards - 2004 Winners

The National Federation of Community Broadcasters held its 2004 Golden Reel Award Ceremony on April 23 in Albuquerque. The Golden Reel Awards have a long tradition in NFCB's 29-year history. The Golden Reels are given by community radio's sole national organization, the NFCB, to community radio producers. The awards, presented during the Annual Community Radio Conference, are open to programs broadcast on non-commercial community radio stations from November 2002 to October 2003.

Winners are listed with the name of the program, the producer(s), and the distributor.

To download a list of the 2004 Golden Reel winners in PDF format, click here.
To view a list of 2003 winners in HTML format, click here.

Promotion
Golden Reel: WBAI’s Shirley Kids, Neil A. Mondesir, WBAI Pacifica Radio, New York City
Special Merit: Daily Promos for The Conversation, Ross Reynolds, KUOW

National News and News Features
Golden Reel: Albuquerque Isotopes Begin Play, Paul Ingles, NPR’s Only a Game
Silver Reel: World Trade and America’s Farmers, Helen Barrington, PRI’s THE WORLD, Reporters Rob Schmitz, Brett Tannehill, Eric Lai, PRI
Special Merit: WTO Kills Farmers, Katalin Mester, Free Speech Radio News in collaboration with Corpwatch and WORT in Cancun, Mexico

Local News and News Features
Silver Reel: CAFTA vs. Gulf Coast Shrimpers, Shannon Young, KPFT News – Pacifica Radio
Silver Reel: FBI Iraqi-American Interviews, Lisa Nurnberger, WAMU, 88.5 FM
Special Merit: West Nile Virus: To Spray Or Not To Spray?, Karen Schaefer, WCPN ideastream
Special Merit: Piestewa Vigil, Daniel Kraker, Indian Country News Bureau

National Public Affairs Features
Golden Reel: On The Trail of the Lynx, Krissy Clark, Radio High Country News
Silver Reel: Out on the Streets, David Gilmore (Outright Radio) and Dmae Roberts (MediaRites), Public Radio International

Local Public Affairs Features
Golden Reel: The Case of Ansar Mahmood, Brian Mann, North Country Public Radio
Silver Reel: Root, Root, Root for the Rutabagas!, David Sommerstein, North Country Public Radio
Special Merit: Gusto Women, Kate Welch, KBOO

Live Local Public Affairs Programming
Golden Reel: Morning Newscast, Martha Foley, North Country Public Radio
Silver Reel: Women's Health and California, Robin Gianattassio-Malle, Hermione Gee, Keven Guillory, Host Michael Krasny, KQED-FM
Special Merit: Growing Up Healthy: Vaccination Debate, Doug Nadvornick and Marty Demarest, Spokane Public Radio

National Documentary
Golden Reel: Shades of Gray, Jonathan Mitchell and Ahri Birnbaum-Golden, Public Radio International
Silver Reel: Sisters in Pain, D. Cameron Lawrence, John Gregory, Down to Earth Productions and WEKU-FM
Special Merit: Miracle On The Streets, Dmae Roberts and Miracle Draven, MediaRites/Stories 1st.org
Special Merit: State of Union – HearingVoices Special, Jay Allison/Viki Merrick, HearingVoices.com / Transom.org

Local Documentary
Golden Reel: Art and Spirit Matters: Arts and Religion in the Twin Cities, Marya Morstad, KFAI-FM
Silver Reel: El Valle: Milk and Bricks in Chavez's Venezuela, Deepa Fernandes & Matt Rogers, Global Movements Urban Struggle, WBAI Radio, NY
Special Merit: Fowler Switch, Angel Martinez and Chris Simon, Voices of Youth

National Music/Entertainment Program or Special
Golden Reel: Cuba Jazz: From the Outside In, Walter Morgan, Angelica Luevano, Maria Hinojosa, Latino USA
Special Merit: Earthsongs: “Talk to the Spirits, Talk to the Wind”, Gregg McVicar, Koahnic/AIROS

Local Music/Entertainment Program or Special
Golden Reel: Hank Williams–Still Cookin', David C. Barnett, 90.3/WCPN ideastream
Silver Reel: Invisible Ink “Found”, Roman Mars, KALW 91.7
Silver Reel: Moorsoldaten - Peat Bog Soldiers, Arndt Peltner, Radio Goethe
Special Merit: The Poetry of Vietnam, Don McIver & Gary Mex Glazner, KUNM

Pre-produced National Public Affairs Programming
Golden Reel: Democracy on the Block, WFUV, Public Radio Collaboration
Golden Reel: Refugia: The Whole Wide World Episode 3 , Lydon, McGrath Productions, PRI
Silver Reel: Standing Up to Hate: Newark, CA One Year After a Murder, Noah Miller, This Way Out
Special Merit: Commonwealth Journal, Barbara Neely and Patricia Monteith, WUMB Radio

Pre-produced Local Public Affairs Programming
Golden Reel: Hot Soup: The Presence of the Past, Michael Johnson, KQED-FM
Silver Reel: Youth and Civil Liberties, Youth Radio, Youth Radio
Special Merit: Lower East Side and Midwood, Czerina Patel, Marianne McCune, Karen Michel, Radio Rookies, WNYC
Special Merit: Hot Soup: The Art of Sound, Michael Johnson, KQED-FM

Arts Features and Reporting
Golden Reel: Howard Tate, Joel Rose, WHYY FM News
Silver Reel: Wisdom vs. Test, Holly Kernan, Daniela Rible, Eric Wayne, KALW/New California Media
Special Merit: Nude Model, Sarah Varney, KQED’s Hot Soup

Radio Drama Production
Silver Reel: Outside the Dying, The Independent Eye, The Independent Eye
Special Merit: John Hersey’s Hiroshima, Brian DeShazor, Mark Torres, Pacifica Radio Archives

Personal Essays
Silver Reel: A Guy Named Joe Bevilacqua, Joe Bevilacqua, Waterlogg Productions and National Public Radio
Silver Reel: “Home to Vietnam,” Been There, Done That, Viet Le, WHYY
Special Merit: A Numeric Grammar, Geo Beach, All Things Considered / NPR

2005 Golden Reel Information
The deadline for entering a program in the 2005 Golden Reel Awards will be 5 PM Pacific time on Friday, July 30, 2004. Any program broadcast on a noncommercial community radio station between November 1, 2003 and July 30, 2004 will be eligible.