13News received top honors in the Feature Reporting, Continuing Coverage and Excellence in Video categories.
Credit: Radio Television Digital News Association Author: WTHR.com staff Updated: 12:12 PM EDT May 6, 2021
INDIANAPOLIS The Radio Television Digital News Association honored WTHR with three regional Edward R. Murrow Awards Thursday. 13News received top honors in the Feature Reporting, Continuing Coverage and Excellence in Video categories.
The feature reporting award recognizes one of the stories from Chuck s Big Adventure in Michigan. Chuck Lofton visited the world-renowned Charles W. Howard Santa Claus School to get a peek at how they were training a new batch of Santas amid a pandemic. Lofton worked with photojournalist Steve Rhodes and special projects producer Megan Simpson.
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2020 was the year of politics and pandemics. Even professional Santas weren t immune.
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Shelby, 4, (l-r), Delaney, 2, Lacey, 7, and Steven Dolgener have their photo taken with Santa before doing their last minute shopping at Memorial City Mall Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020, in Houston.Steve Gonzales, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Santa relaxes after a long night of bringing toys to all the good girls and boys. This is the eighth year that Clem Webb has brought Santa to Beaumont for Santa By Appointment. Photo made on December 22, 2020. Fran Ruchalski/The EnterpriseFran Ruchalski, The Enterprise / The EnterpriseShow MoreShow Less
David Baugh became Santa in the same way Lana Turner became an actress: He was discovered. He had been out shopping at a Kroger one day four years ago when a man walked up to him and said, “You’d make a
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On Sunday I came across an article on Jean Robert-Houdin. How appropriate for Christmas, I thought. Though I doubt you ever heard of him, his last name resembles one you know, and for good reason: Houdini (birth name Erik Weisz) took his stage name as an homage to Robert-Houdin. So who was he? Robert-Houdin is considered the father of modern conjuring. A 19th century French magician, he radicalized how magicians performed, as well as how they were perceived. Before him, magicians were street and festival performers, and were viewed as tricksters at best, mountebanks at worst, and low lifes any which way.
Santas in Alabama need a little extra magic this year (and maybe a plexiglass shield)
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To be Santa or not to be Santa?
In 2020, that’s the question for jolly old elves across the country, as they weigh the pros and cons of portraying Kriss Kringle during the coronavirus pandemic.
There are risks attached to the role, even for the heartiest of men, and some of the traditional Santa tasks such as shaking hands, hugging admirers, posing for photos and paying close attention to kids whispering in their ears can seem downright dangerous as the virus continues to spread.