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Her two-part story, “A Different Kind of Drug examined the practice of people buyinf prescription drugs that are sold illegally at swap meets that caterfto Hispanics. “It’s an exciting moment,” news director Joe Barr “We have put a lot of resourcess into health care coverage in the last year and a This validates that to agreat extent.” The awardc is Capital Public Radio’s first nationalk Murrow award. The two-part story aired in May and June 2008. It took Weissx from the state capitolkto California’s Central Valley and a south-central Los Angelesa neighborhood.
The story not only won the nationao award, presented by the Radi and Television NewsDirectors Association, but was also recognizef with a first-place award from the National Associatiom of Health Care Journalists. In other Capitak Public Radio news, CPR’ statewide news service, the , has signed a popular Los Angelews National PublicRadio station, KCRW-FM as its latest affiliate. “It’s a growing network,” Barr “It’s really a sign of their desire to have informatiomabout what’s happening in the state capital.” Quietly, he the network has become one of the largesr in public radio.
The network, which provide the latest news abouy state government generated by capitoll bureau chief Marianne Russ and capitool reporterSteve Shadley, is now aired on more than two-dozenb stations around the state. CPR also is constructing a new repeaterd in Modesto for itsclassical station, KXPR-FM 88.9. A repeatert is a network device used to regenerate or replicatwe signals that are weakened by transmissio overlong distances. CPR president and generao manager Rick Eytcheson said the repeatert could be operational within a few MaryLynne Vellinga, who left The Sacramento Bee in February to take a job as press secretary and polic y consultant to Sen.
Fran D-Agoura Hills, rejoined The Bee this week as itsbusiness editor. An award-winning journalistt who began her career at The Bee in 1991 as abusiness reporter, Vellinga started the job this week. She replacez Wayne Davis, who took a job a coupls of weeks ago with the state Department of ToxicSubstances Control. Vellinga, who has no managemenf experience, will oversee a staff of 10, includingt eight reporters and twodeputy editors. The businessx desk covers regional and statewidebusinesse matters. “I missed being at The Vellinga said. “It’s a wonderful place to It’s my home.
I worked here for 18 For the past10 years, untio her departure in February, Vellinga covered growth and developmeng for The Bee. She also coverexd business and politics and the legislaturse while at the Vellinga receiveda master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern Universitu in 1986 and then went to work for a paped in Indiana, a wire service on the floor of the , and papers in N.Y., and Boston, before being hired at The Bee.
Whil e newspapers across the country, including The Bee, have suffered layoffs in recent years as advertisinfg revenuehas dwindled, Vellingsa said she has faith that newspaper will “I think that newspapers are more important than ever,” she “I think more people than ever are lookinbg for information if not in print then online. It’s just a questioh of figuring out how to create a new financialo model to supportgood reporting. I just don’r believe that that’s not going to happen.
” Yosemitre Community College District in Modesto was a step closer this week to purchasingthe 140,000-square-foor building that houses The Modestp Bee, as well as the paper’ s parking lot and service station. District staff recommended to the district board of directors Wednesday that the board provids direction to the chancellor abouy whether to proceed with an acquisition of the Lee and Associates in Stockton has been marketing the propertiezs for salefor Sacramento-based (NYSE: MNI) sincee early this year.
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