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Three episodes of local programs created for Davis community radio station KDRT — two about sports, and one about the aftermath of a traumatic week in Davis — were honored Wednesday in the San Francisco Press Club’s 47th annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards.
Rohan Baxi (in left photo, at UC Berkeley), who graduated from Da Vinci High School in June and now attends the University of California at Berkeley, won second and third place in the noncommercial radio/podcast Sports Feature category for episodes titled “Fair Play,” about women’s sports and pay disparity from June 2024, and ”Rowing Stronger,” from July 2024.
Bill Buchanan (right photo, at the awards) placed second among noncommercial public affairs programs with small staffs for “Integrating a traumatic week into Davis,” an interview with Susan Cosio following three violent assaults, including two fatalities, in spring 2023. Cosio, a retired hospital chaplain, pastor and longtime resident of Davis, has spent most of her life helping people navigate crises. This episode also won a Hometown Media Award from the Foundation for the Alliance for Community Media this summer.
"KDRT may be a small station, but its programming continues to have outsized impact," said Autumn Labbe-Renault, executive director of Davis Media Access, the community media center of which KDRT is a part. "These awards are testament to the power of a story well told, and the importance of civic information outlets that help us to make sense of how issues impact our community."
Buchanan created his show Davisville in 2008. It has won 14 awards from the SF Press Club since 2018. Baxi created and produced Timeout Radio from 2020 to summer 2024. He and the program have won several awards, including prior ones from the Press Club in 2022 and 2023.
Baxi is also one of two college students to win Emerging Journalist scholarship awards from the Press Club this fall.
KDRT-LP, largely run by volunteers, broadcasts at 95.7 FM in Davis and is available online at kdrt.org.
The increasingly competitive Press Club competition drew a record 798 entries this year, Buchanan noted. Winners were announced Dec. 4 at the club’s annual awards banquet in San Francisco.
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