BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Several staffers and journalists at Lehigh Valley Public Media earned Emmy nominations this week.
The 2024 Mid-Atlantic Regional Emmy nominees were announced Thursday.
PBS39’s “Community Conversation: Mideast Crisis Hits Home” was nominated in the public affairs program category.
Nominees included host and producer Brittany Sweeney; director of broadcast design Jessica Lee; audio engineer Charles Serra; and engineer Zach Wisneskie.
The program aired last year after the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas militants. It featured Lehigh Valley religious leaders and explored how the Israel-Hamas war affected people and relations in this region.
Megan Frank earned two nominations — both for videos that were part of LehighValleyNews.com’s Moon to Mars series about Pennsylvania’s contributions to NASA’s Artemis project to return American astronauts to the moon and beyond.
Frank, the afternoon host of 91.3 WLVR’s All Things Considered, received a nomination as writer/producer in the education/schools category for “The Icarus Lab: Sleep in Spaceflight.” It examined the simulations astronauts experience to prepare for spaceflight.
Frank also was nominated as writer/producer in the business/consumer/technology category for “Weaving the Way for NASA: Bally Textiles.”
That video featured the Berks County company that weaves the heat shield tiles that serve as thermal protection on astronauts’ spacecraft.
Lehigh Valley Public Media includes PBS39, 91.3 WLVR Radio and LehighValleyNews.com — all headquartered at the Univest Public Media Center at the SteelStacks campus in Bethlehem.
Other staffers nominated for that video included director Javier Diaz; videographer Jeffrey Frederick and video editor Lisa Moy.
Lehigh Valley Public Media includes PBS39, 91.3 WLVR Radio and LehighValleyNews.com — all headquartered at the Univest Public Media Center at the SteelStacks campus in Bethlehem.
The 2024 Mid-Atlantic Regional Emmy Awards will be presented Saturday, Sept. 21, at the Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh.