The 1997 Edward R. Murrow Awards were presented by the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA),[1] now renamed the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) in recognition of what the association terms "outstanding achievements in electronic journalism."
[2][3] Below are the 1997 national and regional award winners, which recognizes coverage that aired during the previous 1996 calendar year.
[4] Categories that are not listed either had no entrants or the entries received were not deemed worthy of the award.
[5] The lists below indicate which states are included in each region for the 1997 awards.
[7] The information on this page was retrieved using the Archive.org Internet Wayback Machine to access the now defunct website for RTNDA, a domain that was abandoned when the organization was renamed RTDNA.