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MSNBC HONORED BY NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALISTS WITH THREE SALUTE TO EXCELLENCE AWARDS

The Cable News Network Dominates the Digital Media Categories, Winning Three of the Seven Awards

NEW YORK – August 10, 2015 – MSNBC was honored by the National Association of Black Journalists with three 2015 Salute to Excellence Awards for the network’s original reporting from the protests in Ferguson, MO. The cable news network dominated the Digital Media categories, picking up three of the seven awards.

The winning Salute to Excellence segments are listed below:

Digital Media – Single Story: News
“Ferguson Protester Collects Signatures to Keep Police Chief”
Trymaine Lee, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and MSNBC National Reporter
Stefanie Cargill, MSNBC Senior Producer
Bradley J. Rayford, Freelance Photographer, St. Louis Community College
Click here to watch the winning report.

Digital Media – Online Project: News
“Broken City: The Fallout in Ferguson”

Digital Media – Online Project: Feature
“Ferguson, MO: A Resident’s Perspective”
Bradley J. Rayford, Freelance Photographer, St. Louis Community College
Click here to watch the winning report.

MSNBC has significantly increased its original and in-depth reporting through its various digital platforms, including msnbc.com, MSNBC’s digital video experience Shift and online only series such as Geography of Poverty.

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