An Edward R. Murrow Award That is Bittersweet

GarrickUtleyWRVOPicThe 51-minute radio documentary New York in the World has been recognized with an Edward R. Murrow/Small Market Radio award for News Documentary. But as WRVO general manager Michael S. Ameigh explains, the usual elation has been dampened by the fact that program host Garrick Utley passed away in the interim:

“We received the news that WRVO was awarded the Edward R. Murrow Award with a mixture of great pride and deep sadness that collaborator and narrator Garrick Utley, one of the most distinguished international journalists of his era, will share the honor posthumously having succumbed to cancer in February,” said Ameigh.

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