The WGCU news team has won a Regional Murrow Award for coverage of the most recent red tide/blue-green algae crisis in local waters. The award-winning entry […]
WGCU wins Regional Murrow Award
WGCU FM wins 11 Florida AP Broadcasters awards
The WGCU FM news team has won 11 awards in the Florida Associated Press Broadcasters Awards competition for its work in 2018. This tops last year’s […]
WGCU FM wins Associated Press Broadcasters Radio Station of the Year!
On Friday, April 13, 2018 WGCU FM garnered nine individual awards for reporting at the Florida Associated Press Broadcasters event in Orlando, culminating in the coveted […]
2017 Awards
Public Radio News Directors Inc. (PRNDI) 2nd place Division B Best Writing “State Struggles to Eradicate Abandoned, Diseased Orange Groves” by Jessica Meszaros 2nd place Division […]
A Look Back at WGCU’s Award-Winning Reporting of 2017
For Southwest Florida, 2017 was a year dramatically punctuated by the September arrival of Hurricane Irma. It was an extreme storm, which dominated the news in […]
2016 Awards
Florida Associated Press Awards Feature/Light News “Floridians Turn Nuisance Pigs into Profitable Pork” and “Talking About Death Over Dinner in Southwest Florida” by Jessica Meszaros Public […]
Lucia’s Letter Wins A National Peabody Award and A New York Festival Best News Documentary/Special World Gold Medal
Lucia’s Letter describes one Guatemalan teenager’s trip with a coyote from Guatemala through Mexico to southwest Florida. The story is a composite of several local Mayan […]