Broadcast Story of the Month

SEPTEMBER
News director Paul Jurgens, KFGO Radio, Fargo, N.D., for offering information on a fight between two men at a church in western Minnesota, which resulted in a toddler's death.

JULY
News director/program director Laura Olson, KLGR-AM Redwood Falls, tipped the AP that three U.S. soldiers killed July 16 in Iraq were Minnesotans.

JUNE
Reporter Adam Carter, WCCO-AM, Minneapolis, shared his story about 41 eighth-graders from Robbinsdale who were in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., on June 10 when a gunman opened fire and fatally wounded a security guard.

MAY
State Capitol reporter Tom Scheck, Minnesota Public Radio News, for providing the AP with MPR's investigation into the state hiring freeze that uncovered that the government work force actually had grown in the year since Gov. Tim Pawlenty imposed the freeze.

APRIL
News director Darryl Smelser, KAGE Radio Winona, for his help with coverage of the April 17 fire that destroyed the North Star Foods meat-processing plant and forced the evacuation of St. Charles, Minn.

MARCH
Reporter Don Haney, KFGO Radio, Fargo, for offering information on Oak Grove Lutheran School getting water from a dike breach during the Red River flood on Sunday, March 29. He also offered quotes from school officials.

FEBRUARY
Bonnie Amistadi, KFGO Radio, Fargo, N.D., for giving the AP first word that a Mahnomen County sheriff's deputy had been shot and critically wounded in Mahnomen on Feb. 18, 2009.

JANUARY
News director Darryl Smelser, KAGE Radio, Winona, for offering his story and an update about a lawyer arrested Jan. 15 in a Winona County courtroom for allegedly possessing cocaine.