The Flight 93 National Memorial in Somerset County. Tim Lambert/WITF
Tim Lambert / WITF
WITF earns national honor for Flight 93 essay
The PMJA awards honor the best work in public media journalism from across the country
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Tim Lambert / WITF
The Flight 93 National Memorial in Somerset County. Tim Lambert/WITF
WITF’s coverage of the September 11th, 2001, terrorist attacks has been recognized by the Public Media Journalists Association (PMJA).
Multimedia News Director Tim Lambert’s personal essay, “Part of Flight 93 crashed on my land. I went back to the sacred ground 20 years later,” has been honored with a first-place PMJA award in Division B in the Digital Writing category.
It was published as part of a collaboration between WITF and NPR looking back at the crash of Flight 93 in Somerset County and the families of the passengers and crew left behind. The work included the documentary, “Sacred Ground,” which aired on more than 300 public radio stations across the country.
“Over the last two decades, I’ve had the privilege to tell the stories of many family members of the passengers and crew and the property itself as it transformed from a crash site into a national memorial.” Lambert said. “It has always been important to me to bring the story of Flight 93 to as many people as possible. To have my work recognized on a national level is a tremendous honor.”
Tim Lambert / WITF
Visitors walk through the Flight 93 National Memorial in southwestern Pennsylvania. The memorial is dedicated to the people who died on United Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001.
The PMJA awards recognizes the best work in public media journalism from across the country. This year, 221 awards were presented to 101 organizations. Stations compete against others with similar-sized newsrooms. Overall, judges reviewed more than 1,500 entries.
The association represents public media journalists across the United States. The awards ceremony was held at the group’s 2022 conference in Seattle this past weekend and also featured 2022 Leo C. Lee winner George Bodarky and 2022 Editor of the Year Priska Neely. The full list of honorees is available HERE.
This is the third time Lambert has been honored by the public media journalism organization since 2006.
He previously received a first-place award in 2014 for Multimedia Presentation for the story, “Grave 43: Remembering Pony,” and a second-place honor for the documentary, “Families of the Fallen.”
WITF has now earned 11 PMJA awards in its history.
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