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Arizona Public Media productions take home five Emmys

Four producers from Arizona Public Media earn five Rocky Mountain Emmy Awards by Hector Gonzalez

Sooyeon Lee Johnston

Arizona Public Media Producer Sooyeon Lee Johnston is the big Emmy winner in 2009. Lee Johnston won three of the five Rocky Mountain Emmy Awards for her work covering the arts scene in Southern Arizona. The awards, announced Oct. 24 in Phoenix, Ariz., recognize a variety of media work from Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming and Central California.

Lee Johnston's Emmys are in three categories. In the Arts/Entertainment Program Feature category she won an Emmy for her segment on Arizona artist Mark Klett. She won a second Emmy for the program titled ARTe: Art and Inspirations, from the second season of the arts journal ARTe, in the Arts/Entertainment program category; and the arts program Retablo: Uncovering the Secrets won an Emmy in the Documentary - Cultural category.

Videographer and producer Dan Duncan along with producer Pamela White won an Emmy for Wavelengths 4: Paths of Life in the category of Informational and Instructional content. WaveLengths is the science program from Arizona Public Media now in its second season.

And producer Luis Carrión earned an Emmy for his story, Tucson Islamic Community, in Religion, News Single Story category.

This year six Arizona Public Media producers had received 13 Emmy nominations.

UANews, Arizona Public Media Take Home Emmys UANews.org
Rebecca Ruiz-McGill
October 27, 2009

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