INTERLOCHEN PUBLIC RADIO
In Detroit, a Concert Broadcast Looks Forward—and Echoes the Past
RECENT AWARD-WINNING REPORTING FROM IPR
As Academy students hit the road in March for Imagine US (see page 4), so too did IPR. From Orchestra Hall, the storied home of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Classical IPR’s Amanda Sewell co-hosted a live Imagine US broadcast with Dave Wagner of Detroit’s WRCJ (pictured).
EDWARD R. MURROW AWARDS In 2026, for the fourth year in a row, IPR News won four Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards, the most of any Michigan radio station, as well as its second National Murrow Award for an episode of “Points North.” The awards are distributed by the Radio Television Digital News Association. • Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: both Regional and National Murrow Awards for: Points North : “Big Abe’s Net” by Ellie Katz • Excellence in Sound: “Screech owl babies return to the wild after weeks at raptor center” by Ellie Katz • Feature Reporting: “As ICE plans to move into Baldwin prison, residents hope jobs will stay” by Claire Keenan-Kurgan & Maxwell Howard • Podcast: Points North: “Some Things Never Change” by Daniel Wanschura PUBLIC MEDIA JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION (PMJA) AWARDS National recognitions of broadcast excellence, awarded within divisions determined by newsroom size. • 1st Place, Documentary: Points North : “A Sticky Solution for Microplastics” by Michael Livingston • 1st Place, News/Public Affairs Program: Up North Lowdown: “Meet the cop building relationships with homeless people in Traverse City” by Maxwell Howard • 1st Place, Interview: “After 20 years of trying, Traverse City man’s crossword appears in The New York Times” by Ed Ronco • 2nd Place, Arts Feature: “In Beulah: UFOs, Lady Liberty, Abe Lincoln and a life of art and service” by Maxwell Howard These awards, says news director Ed Ronco, “reflect IPR’s continued commitment to excellence, and a culture and team that support great work.”
The Detroit concert was a full-circle moment. It was nearly 100 years after the first gathering of the National High School Orchestra, also in Orchestra Hall, in April 1926—a concert that, like Imagine US a century later, vastly exceeded expectations for the caliber of artistic expression possible from an ensemble of young performers. That first NHSO concert, led by Joe Maddy, set the template for what would become Interlochen just two years later. For more on this history—and an on-demand recording of the Imagine US broadcast from Detroit—visit interlochenpublicradio.org.
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2026 ANNUAL REPORT OF GIFTS
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