From The Denver Post:
The 29th annual Heartland Emmy Awards, announced Saturday night, gave KUSA-Channel 9 top honors with the award for overall excellence. Education reporter Nelson Garcia won the journalistic enterprise award for his project "Cutting Class." The station also took the award for news excellence under former news director Patti Dennis.The Denver Post won in four categories, upstaging local TV outlets for best human interest series, documentary, feature segment, and tied with Channel 9 for short-form editing.
KDVR-Channel 31 won best evening newscast for its 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. newscasts as well as best weekend newscast. Justin Joseph drew honors for continuing coverage, reopening a case leading to murder charges. The station won for environmental reporting for its program on Colorado’s floods “One Year Later.”
KMGH-Channel 7 won best morning newscast and picked up an award in the breaking news category. Marshall Zelinger won as talent for general assignment reporting. Matt Makens won as weather anchor.
KCNC-Channel 4 won for business/consumer special for a story on Union Station’s redevelopment. Vic Lombardi won as top sports anchor.
KUSA’s Brandon Rittiman won for the “Truth Tests” political news series. Chris Hansen won as best new photographer. The station also scored best daytime newscast for its 4 p.m. news and won in the spot news category for helicopter coverage of a high-speed chase.
Rachel West of Denver 8 TV won as host of “Dtown.”
The complete list, including a number of student winners, is on the NATAS Heartland Emmy chapter site.
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