Winning Work: Great Lakes Now garners awards for collaborations, videography, environmental coverage and more

Great Lakes Now’s work that appeared on-air, online, and through social media and audience engagement events garnered several awards from the Society of Professional Journalists – metro Detroit chapter.

The honors were announced in a virtual ceremony last night.

“It’s nice to be recognized,” said Sandra Svoboda, program director for the initiative, which includes a monthly TV program carried on dozens of PBS channels and hundreds of Canadian cable providers as well as the GreatLakesNow.org website, an educational initiative and dozens of annual events including Facebook watch parties.

“We’re particularly honored that so many members of our GLN team contributed to the content across platforms, most important, perhaps, the audience engagement work.”

Great Lakes Now award-winning work in the Digital Categories:

First Place, Collaborative Coverage

From Rust to Resilience: What climate change means for Great Lakes cities

By Sandra Svoboda, Rob Green, Natasha Blakely, the INN partners

Third Place, Social Media Strategy

The Facebook Watch Parties

By Colleen O’Donnell, Zach Allen, Sandra Svoboda and numerous partners

Great Lakes Now Favorites – Ships and Shipwrecks

Urgin’ for Sturgeon

Watching the Waters

River Influence

Carp Advance

Great Lakes Now award-winning work in the Broadcast Categories:

First Place, Videography

Chicago’s Floating Islands

Filmed, produced, narrated and edited by Doug Clevenger, Sandy McPhee, Jordan Wingrove, Laura Weber Davis

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First Place, Sports Reporting

Island Basketball

Filmed, produced and narrated by Sandra Svoboda, Dan Tyrell, Nick Austin, Zach Irvin, Oliver Van Assche

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Second Place, Environmental

Lake Erie’s Harmful Algal Blooms

Filmed, produced, narrated and edited by David Ruck, Rob Green, Zach Passero, Laura Weber Davis, Ryan Busch

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Second Place, Feature Reporting

In Isolation … At Aquariums

Produced, narrated and edited by Danielle Dabney, Nick Austin, Jim Toscano

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Catch more news about Great Lakes Now:

Triple Threat: GLN Show, Website and Facebook Events all honored with media awards

Memorable Moments: The Great Lakes Now team shares favorite stories of working on the initiative

National Recognition: Great Lakes Now wins “Best News and Public Affairs” program for public broadcasting