Institutional Award: WNEW Radio for Radio News
WNEW Radio
Radio News: The George Foster Peabody Award in this category recognizes WNEW for its fast and enterprising local coverage of news, its taped on-the-spot interviews which frequently scoop both press and radio and its policy of interrupting all programs for important news features. In recognizing WNEW, this award also goes to Martin Weldon, director of news and special events for WNEW.