Ryder story receives RTDNA regional award
Visiting lecturer Anne Ryder won a 2016 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for her television special report on an Indianapolis family’s survival after six armed men invaded their home. Ryder wrote the freelance piece, “The Survivors,” and it aired and was published last May by WTHR-TV Indianapolis.
Murrow awards honor outstanding achievements in electronic journalism and are presented by the Radio Television Digital News Association.
In March, “The Survivors” won a Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media.
“The Survivors” recounts in seven minutes the 2014 home invasion at the Potenza home in Indianapolis. After two hours with the intruders holding the Potenza father at gunpoint, other family members had been shot and sexually assaulted. Ryder worked with special projects producer Susan Batt and photographer Steve Rhodes, both from the Indianapolis station, to put the story together.
Ryder previously has won five other national awards for television reporting and writing while working for WTHR. Ryder continues to produce occasional stories for the station in the Hope to Tell series.