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Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Yahoo
KSN News honored with regional Edward R. Murrow Award
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – KSN News was honored with a regional Edward R. Murrow Award on Friday. The award was for coverage of the 2024 mass shooting after the KC Chiefs' victory rally. The RTDNA Edward R. Murrow Awards are among the most prestigious in broadcast and digital news. 'Our hard-working journalists are dedicated to informing and sharing quality stories with our viewers, including covering the tragedies that affect their lives. We are humbled by this honor and recognition,' said Rachel Schrag Sommerfeld, KSN News Director. The Radio Television Digital News Association has been honoring outstanding achievements in electronic journalism with the Edward R. Murrow Awards since 1971. Award recipients demonstrate the spirit of excellence that Murrow set as a standard for the profession of broadcast and digital journalism. Regional winners are now under consideration for a National Murrow Award. To see all the winners, click here. In 2022, KSN won two regional awards for the digital and newscast categories. KSN News won a national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2021 for telling the story of Julie Dombo, a retired teacher and race walker, who was shot during the robbery of a cell phone store in Derby. The station also won two regional awards that year for digital and investigative reporting categories. For more Kansas news, click here. Keep up with the latest breaking news by downloading our mobile app and signing up for our news email alerts. Sign up for our Storm Track 3 Weather app by clicking here. To watch our shows live on our website, click here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
26-02-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Storm Track 3 ‘Certified Most Accurate' for 7th straight year
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — For seven years in a row, the KSN Storm Track 3 team led by Chief Meteorologist Lisa Teachman has been certified as the most accurate forecast in Wichita TV and our surrounding viewing area. 'We have a dedicated team of meteorologists focused on getting the forecast right around the clock. I am incredibly proud of this hard-working crew,' KSN Chief Meteorologist Lisa Teachman said. 'The KSN Storm Track 3 meteorologists have once again proven they are on the team you can trust,' Rachel Schrag Sommerfeld, KSN news director, said. 'Kansas families have come to depend on the KSN Storm Track 3 team in all sorts of weather. They help families prepare for the day and help keep them safe during severe and dangerous weather. We are proud to have earned another year of distinction from WeatheRate.' WeatheRate is an independent company that analyzes forecasts across the country. Every day, its analysts carefully examine forecasts in the Wichita television market. They not only study KSN Storm Track 3's forecasts but also those of the other meteorologists in the area. The experts at WeatheRate measure how accurate the forecasts are to what happened, including high and low temperatures, cloud cover, severe storm hazards, rain, snow, strong winds, and dense fog. Analysts also rate the timing of the predicted weather conditions each day and for four days in the future. Based on what WeatheRate learns, the company scores the forecasts. It adds points every time the forecast is different from what happened. Lower scores indicate that the forecast is more accurate. This past year, KSN Storm Track 3's score was the lowest, marking the highest accuracy in Wichita and our viewing area. It is the seventh year for this honor. To see our latest forecast, click here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
