SACRAMENTO, Calif. — ABC10 is honored to be recognized by the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) with a prestigious national Edward R. Murrow award for large market television stations.
RTDNA announced Tuesday that ABC10 won an award for Investigative Reporting for 'FIRE - POWER - MONEY: Who's behind the PG&E bailout?'
Our story looked at how the Newsom administration and state leaders protected PG&E by steering their bankruptcy plan to favor the corporation at the expense of fire victims.
PG&E pleaded guilty to 84 felony counts of manslaughter after sparking the Camp Fire and destroying the town of Paradise in 2018. After that, Gov. Gavin Newsom led the effort to bail out PG&E with a new state law.
Through extensive public records work and material from sources, we revealed a startling fact about the law: the bill was authored by PG&E’s longtime law firm under a multimillion-dollar contract with Newsom’s office.
Congratulations are in order for Brandon Rittiman, the ABC10 investigative reporter who probed PG&E's criminality and corruption, as well as the rest of the ABC10 Originals team.
This is the second National Edward R. Murrow award for Fire – Power – Money.
You can read the full investigation here. You can also watch more FIRE - POWER - MONEY below:
