LA VISTA – KCNI/KBBN was among those recognized at the 2025 Nebraska Broadcasters Association (NBA) Pinnacle Award banquet on Wednesday night in La Vista. The stations were awarded with a gold and silver award in news categories with submissions that were judged alongside works from all market sizes across the state.
The gold award, for best use of multimedia journalism, was awarded for Jeremy Shipe’s story Dog With Gunshot Wounds Quickly Captures Hearts After Being Saved. The story from March of this year tells the story of Juni, a dog that was found by Elle Worley along highway 7 between Brewster and Ainsworth with gunshot wounds.
View and/or watch the story here.
The silver award, for best spot news reporting, was awarded for Jeremy Shipe’s story Grass Fire Sparks West of Loup City, Several Area Departments Respond. In addition to on-scene reporting including pictures, the submission for the award included sound clips of Shipe reporting live from the scene on KBBN radio with Brent Apperson behind the controls at the studio.
Read the story here.
“Putting words to the website and telling stories through writing, pictures, and video is so fulfilling,” said KCNI/KBBN Station Manager Jeremy Shipe, “There are so many stories that deserve to be told to an audience that deserves to know them. Although I’m looking for our station’s next news director to teach and train in news, I’ve told a lot of people that I don’t think I’ll ever fully remove myself from writing.”
