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04/26/2017

Cincinnati.com team earns 2 Murrow Awards for 'Accused' podcast

From The Cincinnati Enquirer

A Cincinnati.com reporting team has earned two regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for outstanding achievements in electronic journalism.

"Accused: The Unsolved Murder of Elizabeth Andes," a podcast and text story created by reporter Amber Hunt and photographer Amanda Rossmann, was honored in the Murrow Awards' Investigative Reporting and for News Documentary categories.

"Accused" now goes on for consideration in the national Murrow Awards competition, whose winners will be announced in June, according to the Radio Television Digital News Association, the sponsor of the awards.

The Radio Television Digital News Association has sponsored the Murrow Awards since 1971. Edward R. Murrow was a groundbreaking radio and television reporter for CBS News, known for his 1940 radio reports on the Blitz of London and his catchphrase "This is London." Later, on television in the 1950s, his reports on the excesses of McCarthyism helped lead to the censure of the Wisconsin senator Joe McCarthy.

"Accused" revisited an Oxford murder case that had languished for 37 years. The Oxford Police Department approached the 1978 stabbing and strangulation of Elizabeth Andes as an open-and-shut case, charging her boyfriend Bob Young, who confessed after 15 hours of interrogation. Two separate juries -- one criminal, the other civil -- found him not guilty.

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