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The award is for best News Series in the small-market radio category. It was awarded for the Modern Tradition series highlighting artists from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.

KYUK received 10 awards at the Alaska Press Club Conference Awards Ceremony in Anchorage on April 12 for journalism produced in 2024. The awards honor Alaska journalists working at newspapers, radio and television stations, and freelancing throughout the state.

This is KYUK General Manager Shane Iverson’s last week on the job. After 19 years with KYUK, he’s leaving the helm of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta’s public media organization to manage the City of Bethel’s newly rebuilt Parks and Recreation department.

Today, Dec. 31, marks the end of 2024. Here’s a look at some highlights of the nearly 500 stories reported on by KYUK this year.

Samantha Watson, or Sam, comes to the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta from the East Coast, where she’s most recently worked for Vermont Public Radio. She grew up in Great Barrington Massachusetts, known for a few famous alien abductions, and attended the University of Vermont.

The awards are for first and second place for Investigative Reporting and Use of Sound in the national Public Media Journalists Association competition.

KYUK reporters Evan Erickson and Emily Schwing, as well as former reporters Francisco Martínezcuello and Sunni Bean, received awards at the 2024 Alaska Press Club Awards ceremony in Anchorage on April 20. News director Sage Smiley also received awards for work at KSTK in Wrangell, Alaska.

As the end of 2023 approaches, KYUK’s news team wraps up highlights from a year’s-worth of reporting

KYUK received this award competing against news outlets in the Northwest region, which includes the states of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington.

KYUK’s 2021 honors include first place for Best Comprehensive Coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic. KYUK received this award among all news outlets in Alaska.