This week, the Radio Television Digital News Association announced that ESPN received 2014 National Edward R. Murrow Awards, honoring excellence in electronic journalism. The Features Unit was honored for two features for SC Featured, SportsCenter’s storytelling brand, while E:60 won for a segment that aired on ESPN Radio. ESPN Films received the RTDNA Unity Award for its Nine for IX documentary “Venus Vs.” marking the second straight year it was honored — last year it was for the 30 for 30 film “Ghosts of Ole Miss.” 

SC Featured: “Carry On” won in the Network Television News Documentary category, the first time ESPN has been honored in that category, while SC Featured: “The Lady Jags: Losing to Win,” (Network Television) and E:60’s “Enemy Within” (Network Radio) were recognized in the Reporting: Sports group.

 “Carry On” producer Jose Moreales and reporter Tom Rinaldi updated the 2009 tale of two Cleveland high school wrestlers, one blind and one a double leg amputee, who found strength and friendship through their challenges. “Lady Jags,” produced by Scott Harves chronicled the Carroll Academy girls’ basketball team in Huntingdon, Tennessee, which had lost 213 straight high school basketball games but uses sports as a way to win in life.

 Both winning features can be seen on ESPN.com:

 SC Featured: Carry On: https://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=9456327

SC Featured: The Lady Jags: Losing to Win: https://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=9242142

 “The Enemy Within” was Jeremy Schaap’s examination of the epidemic of soldier-on-soldier sexual abuse within the U.S. military, which aired on ESPN Radio’s The Sporting Life with Jeremy Schaap.

 “We greatly appreciate this prestigious recognition from The Radio Television Digital News Association,” said Vince Doria, ESPN senior vice president and director of news. “Together, these pieces represent our continued commitment to storytelling and enterprise reporting across platforms.”

 Andy Tennant, E:60’s executive producer added, “We are honored to have been recognized with one of journalism’s most distinguished awards. We are also grateful to the brave women who shared their painful stories with us. It was their wish, and ours, that by addressing the scourge of sexual assault in our military and by demanding accountability from the leaders of our military, including the secretary of defense, that change would be effected. This was the kind of story we pride ourselves on reporting at E:60, giving voice to the powerless and challenging the powerful.”