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Russ Walker wins Peabody Award; is finalist For the IRE Medal He's a graduate of Adair County High School and Vanderbilt University News has reached Columbia that Russell H. Walker, Jr., a member of the Walker family of Adair County and graduate of Adair County High School and Vanderbilt University, has been awarded one of forty six George Foster Peabody Awards in Electronic Journalism awarded for work done in 2013. Russ currently resides in Seattle, Washington, where he works as a managing editor for a team of investigative journalists in the news department of KING-TV, the NBC affiliate in the Seattle area. The Peabody Award was established by the National Association of Broadcasters in 1940 to recognize distinguished and meritorious public service in radio broadcasting. With the advent of television, the award was extended to television in 1948. The awards program is administered by the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism and Mass Communication of the University of Georgia. It is the oldest award for electronic media. Each year, a committee receives over one thousand entries for the award. Evaluations begin in February each year with Committees composed of selected journalists across the country meeting in Los Angeles and Washington, DC. Written recommendations are made to a sixteen member panel of writers, critics and media-industry professionals who convene on the campus of the University of Georgia in late March for final screening and deliberations. Only unanimously selected entrants receive a Peabody. Russ and his team of investigative reporters did reports centering on the Hanford nuclear waste disposal site in Washington state. The report on what reputedly the dirtiest of nuclear waste disposal sites in the United States highlighted mismanagement by the private contractor running the remediation program at the site and resulted in a full review of the Hanford reservation by the U. S. Department of Energy and resignations at the company managing the toxic site. Russ and his team will receive their awards at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City on May 19, 2014. Prior to working for NBC, Russ was Special Projects Editor for Politico Magazine and an Editor for the Washington Post. In addition to the Peabody award, Russ and his team was one of ten finalists for the Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. (IRE) Medal for Outstanding Journalism for the same reporting. This story was posted on 2014-04-08 16:12:32
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