MARSHALL STEWART - KRMG 740 Tulsa

This award is given to Marshall Stewart for his five-part radio news series titled "Fowl Water: When Industry and Nature Collide"an in-depth look at issues surrounding state and city of Tulsa efforts to do something about the deteriorating water quality in the northeastern Oklahoma watershed. Animal waste runoff from a proliferation of poultry houses was blamed for much of the problem that occurred. Stewart's series ran from Monday Nov 9 through Friday Nov 13, 1998 and chronicled the successful effort to get a comprehensive landmark water quality bill passed that previous spring. Marshall Stewart, KRMG news editor, was the reporter, the editor and the producer of the series. Our judges agreed that KRMG and Marshall Stewart deserve to be recognized as GOOD NEWS FOR OKLAHOMA'S ENVIRONMENT!