RTDNA Announces Emcees for 2024 Edward R. Murrow Awards Gala
The Radio Television Digital News Association is excited to announce the emcees for the 2024 Edward R. Murrow Awards Gala, which will honor outstanding achievements in journalism and broadcast news. This year’s hosts are Maurice DuBois of CBS New York, Antonia Hylton of NBC News, Eva Pilgrim of ABC News, Shimon Prokupecz of CNN, and Ayesha Rascoe of NPR.
The Murrow Awards Gala will take place Oct. 14, at Gotham Hall in New York City, and promises to be an unforgettable evening for the journalism community.
“Individually, these journalists have served the nation, and the world, well, by relentlessly seeking and reporting the truth,” said RTDNA President Dan Shelley. “Collectively, they are an amazing group to help us celebrate the biggest night of the year for responsible journalism.”
Tickets for the 2024 Murrow Awards Gala can be purchased here.
"I am immensely proud to celebrate the highest examples of exemplary journalism at the Murrow Awards, with hundreds of deserving honorees this year," RTDNA chair Sheryl Worsley said. "Our winners, alongside the countless journalists who consistently report ethically and responsibly, are integral in shining a light on critical issues and providing high-quality information that empowers our communities to make informed decisions about our future."
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About the Emcees
Maurice DuBois, CBS New York
Maurice DuBois co-anchors CBS New York weeknights at 5 and 11 p.m. and regularly contributes to CBS News. Since joining the network in 2004, he has reported for 60 Minutes Sports and CBS Sunday Morning, and anchored live breaking news and national political events. After the 2024 election, DuBois will co-anchor the CBS Evening News when it relocates to New York.
DuBois has covered a wide range of stories, from local news and national political conventions to international topics like AIDS in South Africa and Papal transitions at the Vatican. He has moderated debates for New York Governor, NYC Mayor, and Congress, and hosted specials on subjects including mental health, violence and breast cancer.
Before CBS, DuBois spent seven years at WNBC-TV, appearing on programs such as Today, Dateline NBC, and NBC News at Sunrise. Earlier in his career, he worked in Chicago, Sacramento and Seattle, where he began as a desk assistant at KING-TV. He is a graduate of Northwestern University, serves on the board of Access Psychology Foundation, and lives in Manhattan with his wife and two sons.
Antonia Hylton, NBC News
Antonia Hylton is a Peabody and two-time Emmy award-winning correspondent for NBC News and the New York Times bestselling author of MADNESS. She co-hosts the popular podcasts Southlake and Grapevine, investigating social and political issues within two Texas towns.
Hylton served as a correspondent and producer for Vice Media and HBO’s Vice News Tonight from 2016 to 2020. Her reporting spans a wide array of topics, earning her two Emmys for education and immigration coverage, as well as several other accolades, including Gracie Awards and a NAMIC Vision Award for her work on violence and politics in Chicago, before joining NBC News.
Hylton graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 2015, where she received awards for her research and writing on race, mass incarceration and the history of psychiatry. Since 2019, she has also served as a judge for the American Mosaic Journalism Prize.
Eva Pilgrim, ABC News
Eva Pilgrim is the co-anchor of GMA3: What You Need to Know and a correspondent for ABC News, based in New York. Her reporting is featured across ABC News platforms, including Good Morning America, 20/20, Nightline, and World News Tonight with David Muir.
Since joining ABC News, Pilgrim has covered major breaking news stories such as the Nashville mass shooting, the Alex Murdaugh trial, the 2020 presidential election, and the murder of George Floyd. She also co-anchored the 20/20 special Murder in Atlanta and the ABC News Live special Stop the Hate, which focused on the rise of anti-Asian violence in the U.S.
Before joining ABC News, Pilgrim worked in local news in cities across the country, including Bluefield, West Virginia; Columbia, South Carolina; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Born in Seoul, South Korea, into a military family, Pilgrim grew up moving around the world and attended the University of Florida and the University of South Carolina.
Shimon Prokupecz, CNN
Shimon Prokupecz is an award-winning journalist and CNN’s senior crime and justice correspondent. Based in New York, he principally covers law enforcement and breaking national news stories, where his standout reporting has garnered accolades and acclaim from the Emmys, Peabodys and George Polk Awards.
In May 2022, Prokupecz led the network’s months-long coverage of the deadly mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where he garnered numerous exclusives and relentlessly pursued the glaring, unanswered questions about the law enforcement response to the Uvalde, Texas school shooter who killed 19 children and two teachers.
Prior to joining CNN, Prokupecz worked as a producer at WNBC and as an assignment editor at WABC in New York City. He previously served as a paralegal in the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office. He is from Brooklyn, New York and is a graduate of Hunter College.
Ayesha Rascoe, NPR
Ayesha Rascoe is the host of Weekend Edition Sunday and the weekend host of Up First. As host of the morning news magazine show, she interviews newsmakers, entertainers, politicians and more about the stories that everyone is talking about or that everyone should be talking about.
Rascoe is also the editor of HBCU Made: A Celebration of the Black College Experience, a book of essays about the impact of historically Black colleges and universities. Rascoe is an alumnae of Howard University, an HBCU in Washington, D.C.
Before joining NPR, Rascoe spent the first decade of her career at Reuters, rising from a news assistant to an energy reporter to eventually covering the White House. While at Reuters, Rascoe covered some of the biggest energy and environmental stories of the past decade, including the 2010 BP oil spill and the U.S. response to the Fukushima nuclear crisis in 2011. She also spent a year covering energy legal issues and court cases.