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Her two-part story, “A Different Kind of Drug examined the practice of people buying prescription drugs that are sold illegally at swap meets that catedto Hispanics. “It’s an exciting moment,” news directort Joe Barr said. “We have put a lot of resourcees into health care coverage in the last year and a This validates that to agreat extent.” The aware is Capital Public Radio’s first national Murrow The two-part story aired in May and June 2008. It took Weisxs from the state capitolto California’s Central Valley and a south-central Los Angeles neighborhood.
The story not only won the national presented by the Radio and Television NewsDirectors Association, but was also recognized with a first-place award from the National Association of Health Care Journalists. In other Capitalk Public Radio news, CPR’s statewide news the , has signed a popular Los Angeleas National PublicRadio KCRW-FM 89.9, as its latest “It’s a growing network,” Barr said. “It’d really a sign of theire desire to have informatiomnabout what’s happening in the stats capital.” Quietly, he the network has becomd one of the largest in publicf radio.
The network, which providea the latest news about state government generated by capitol bureau chief Marianne Russ and capitol reportertSteve Shadley, is now aired on more than two-dozenh stations around the state. CPR also is constructingf a new repeater in Modesto for itsclassicall station, KXPR-FM 88.9. A repeater is a network device used to regenerats or replicate signals that are weakenedf by transmission overlong distances. CPR president and general managetr Rick Eytcheson said the repeater coul be operational within afew months. Mary Lynnwe Vellinga, who left The Sacramento Bee in February to take a job as preses secretary and policy consultantto Sen.
Fran Pavley, D-Agoura Hills, rejoined The Bee this week as itsbusinesxs editor. An award-winning journalist who began her careetr at The Bee in 1991 as a business Vellinga started the job this She replacesWayne Davis, who took a job a couplew of weeks ago with the stats Department of Toxic Substances Control. Vellinga, who has no managementt experience, will oversee a staff of 10, includintg eight reporters and twodeputy editors. The businesas desk covers regional and statewidebusiness “I missed being at The Bee,” Vellingza said. “It’s a wonderful place to work. It’ s my home. I workeds here for 18 years.
” For the past 10 years, until her departurs in February, Vellinga covered growth and development forThe Bee. She also covereds business and politics and the legislature while at the Vellinga receiveda master’s degree in journalis m from Northwestern University in 1986 and then went to work for a papetr in Indiana, a wire service on the floort of the , and papers in Rochester, and Boston, before beinyg hired at The Bee. While newspapers acrosse the country, including The Bee, have suffered layoffs in recenty years as advertising revenuehas dwindled, Vellingwa said she has faith that newspaper will survive. “Io think that newspapers are more important than she said.
“I think more people than ever are looking for informationm if not in printthen online. It’s just a questioh of figuring out how to create a new financial model to supportgood reporting. I just don’ t believe that that’s not going to happen.” Yosemit Community College District in Modesto was a step closedr this week to purchasingthe 140,000-square-foot buildingf that houses The Modesto Bee, as well as the paper’ds parking lot and service station.
District staffr recommended to the district board of directors Wednesday that the board providre direction to the chancellor about whether to proceedd with an acquisition of the Lee and Associates in Stockton has been marketing the properties for salefor Sacramento-bases (NYSE: MNI) since early this year.