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CINCINNATI, OH – WCPO-TV I-Team Reporter, Hagit Limor and I-Team Producer/Photographer, Anthony Mirones have won first place in the Television - Public Service category from the National Headliner Awards.
The winning entry was a four year investigation of The Greater Cincinnati International Airport’s practice of allowing de-icing chemicals to flow into neighboring streams, killing fish and plant life, and potentially threatening families living nearby.
Ms. Limor’s continuing reports put pressure on Kentucky state officials to force the airport to comply with environment policies and install pollution controls. Today, the streams have completely rebounded which is reflected in the title of the series, Resurrection.
Additionally, Hagit Limor and I-Team Producer/Photographer, Philip Drechsler have won second place in the Association of Health Care Journalists Awards. The investigation titled Care-less Denials, followed the struggles of patients who were refused mental health care treatment by doctors whose reimbursement rates had been cut by the patients’ insurance provider. The investigation found health care professionals who were listed as plan providers, avoiding these patients, or opting out of the plan entirely, leaving these patients with insurance they couldn’t use. The report opened the eyes of Ohio’s Governor who launched a statewide investigation and the Hamilton County Commission; which ended up dropping the insurance company as its carrier in part due to the I-Team report.
Founded in 1934 by the Press Club of Atlantic City, the National Headliner Awards program is one of the oldest and largest annual contests recognizing journalistic merit in the communications industry. Since 1997, The Association of Health Care Journalists has been an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing public understanding of health care issues. Its mission is to improve the quality, accuracy and visibility of health care reporting, writing and editing. There are more than 1,000 members of AHCJ.
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WCPO –TV is owned by the E.W. Scripps Company (NYSE:SSP).
About Scripps
The E.W. Scripps Company (NYSE: SSP) is a diverse and growing media enterprise with interests in national cable networks, newspaper publishing broadcast television stations, electronic commerce, interactive media and licensing and syndication.
The company’s portfolio of media properties includes: Scripps Networks, with such brands as HGTV, Food Network, DIY Network, Fine Living, Great American Country; daily and community newspapers in 15 markets and the Washington based Scripps Media Center, home to the Scripps Howard News Service; 10 broadcast TV stations, including six ABC-affiliated stations, three NBC affiliates and one independent; Scripps Interactive Media including: leading online search and comparison shopping services, Shopzilla and uSwitch; and United Media, a leading worldwide licensing and syndication company that is the home of PEANUTS, DILBERT and approximately 150 other features and comics.
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