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North Carolina Public Radio-WUNC, a service of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was recognized in the 60th Annual Green Eyeshade Awards with a first place award as well as “best in show” for radio.

North Carolina Public Radio-WUNC, a service of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was recognized in the 60th Annual Green Eyeshade Awards with a first place award as well as “best in show” for radio.

The Green Eyeshade Awards journalism contest recognizes excellence in news media in 11 Southern states, and this year drew more than 500 entries from media outlets in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia. The winners were announced Sept. 11 at an awards banquet at Kennesaw State University in Georgia.

WUNC is a divisional winner in specialized reporting, radio for the report “Reproductive Health in Africa” by Rose Hoban. The story was part of the “North Carolina Voices: Global Public Health Connections” series. 

Hoban, a health reporter, traveled to the southern African country of Zambia, where the number of women who die during pregnancy or childbirth is 60 times to 70 times higher than it is in the United States. The Chapel Hill-based nonprofit organization Ipas is one of the few dedicated to helping women around the world get access to allkinds of reproductive services, including safe abortions and contraception. Hoban traveled to the Zambian capital of Lusaka with Ipas to spend time with health-care workers who are trying to reduce the rate of maternal deaths in their country.

Link to winning story: http://wunc.org/programs/voices/global-health-connections/global-health-connections-audio-archive

WUNC-FM website: http://www.wunc.org
WUNC-FM contact: Brent Wolfe (919) 966-5454, bwolfe@wunc.org   

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