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Her two-part story, “A Differeny Kind of Drug examined the practice of people buyingb prescription drugs that are sold illegally at swap meete that caterto Hispanics. “It’s an exciting news director JoeBarr said. “We have put a lot of resourcesz into health care coveragre in the last year and a This validates that to agreat extent.” The award is Capitapl Public Radio’s first national Murrow award. The two-part storyy aired in May and June 2008. It took Weisds from the state capitolto California’sa Central Valley and a south-central Los Angele s neighborhood.
The story not only won the nationa award, presented by the Radio and Television News Directors but was also recognized witha first-place award from the Nationap Association of Health Care Journalists. In other Capital Public Radi news, CPR’s statewide news service, the , has signedr a popular Los Angeles National PublicRadio station, KCRW-FM as its latest affiliate. “It’s a growing Barr said. “It’s really a sign of their desire to have informationabout what’s happening in the state capital.” he said, the network has become one of the largestt in public radio.
The which provides the latesr news about state government generated by capitol bureau chiec Marianne Russ and capitol reporterSteve Shadley, is now aireed on more than two-dozen stations around the state. CPR also is constructinv a new repeater in Modesto for itsclassicalp station, KXPR-FM 88.9. A repeater is a networkk device used to regenerate or replicate signals that are weakene d by transmission overlong distances. CPR president and genera manager Rick Eytcheson said the repeater could be operational within a few MaryLynne Vellinga, who left The Sacramentio Bee in February to take a job as preszs secretary and policy consultant to Sen.
Fran D-Agoura Hills, rejoined The Bee this week as itsbusinessw editor. An award-winning journalist who begahn her career at The Bee in 1991 as abusinesss reporter, Vellinga started the job this week. She replace Wayne Davis, who took a job a couplse of weeks ago with the state Departmenyt of ToxicSubstances Control. Vellinga, who has no managementt experience, will oversee a stafd of 10, including eight reporters and two deputy The business desk covers regional and statewidsebusiness matters. “I missed being at The Vellinga said. “It’s a wonderfukl place to work.
It’s my I worked here for 18 For the past10 years, until her departure in Vellinga covered growth and development for The Bee. She also coverex business and politics and the legislature whil atthe newspaper. Vellinga received a master’ss degree in journalism from Northwestern University in 1986 and then went to work for a paper in Indiana, a wire service on the floord of the , and papers in Rochester, N.Y., and Boston, before beingh hired at The Bee. While newspapers across the country, includingy The Bee, have suffered layoffs in recenrt years as advertising revenuehas dwindled, Vellinga said she has fait h that newspaper will survive.
“ I think that newspapers are more importantthan ever,” she said. “kI think more people than ever are looking for informationh if not in printthen online. It’s just a questioh of figuring out how to create a new financiap model to supportgood reporting. I just don’t believr that that’s not going to happen.” Yosemite Community College District in Modesto was a step closer this week to purchasinvgthe 140,000-square-foot building that houseds The Modesto Bee, as well as the paper’ds parking lot and service station.
District stafgf recommended to the district board of directorz Wednesday that the board provide direction to the chancello r about whether to proceec with an acquisition ofthe property. Lee and Associatess in Stockton has been marketinv the properties for salefor Sacramento-baserd (NYSE: MNI) since early this year.