WFPL News has won nine first place Associated Press Awards for excellence in journalism including Best Public Affairs, Best Sports Feature, Best Sports Reporting, Best Political Coverage, Best Enterprise Reporting, Best Long Serious News Feature, Best Website, Best Use of Sound, and Best Radio Anchor. In addition, WFPL News has been awarded ten second place awards and six honorable mentions. The awards were distributed by the Kentucky Associated Press Broadcasters for news coverage in 2013.
Associated Press Broadcasters Awards
1st place --
Best Political Coverage - Phillip Bailey & Gabe Bullard, “Progress Kentucky”
Best Radio Anchor - Jonathan Bastian
Best Long Serious News Feature – Erica Peterson, “Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline Could Cross Kentucky: What You Need to Know”
Best Enterprise Reporting - Erica Peterson, “Black Carbon in Louisville”
Best Use of Sound - Devin Katayama & Joseph Lord, “Confessions of a Derby Gate Crasher”
Best Public Affairs - Erica Peterson, “Hollowed Mountains, Hollowed Towns”
Best Sports Feature - Rick Howlett, “Corky Miller Profile”
Best Sports Reporting - Rick Howlett, “The Year of the Cardinal”
Best Website Radio - WFPL.org
2nd place --
Best Use of Sound - Devin Katayama, “Navajo Nation and JCPS Students Use Louisville to Study Food and Culture”
Best Series/Documentary - Erica Peterson, “Hollowed Mountains, Hollowed Towns”
Best Political Coverage - Phillip Bailey, “City Buildings Are Falling Apart”
Best Enterprise Reporting - Rick Howlett, “Anatok”
Best Short Serious News Feature - Rick Howlett, “Memory Café”
Best Short Light News Feature - Gabe Bullard, “Legendary Cartoonist Hugh Haynie, Through His Son’s Eyes”
Best Radio Reporter - Erica Peterson
Best Public Affairs - Devin Katayama, “The Next Louisville: Public Education”
Best Long Light News Feature - Gabe Bullard, “Egging On Urban Chicken Keepers”
Best Continuing Coverage - Erica Peterson, “The Bluegrass Pipeline”