WFIU Public Radio, WTIU Public Television and Indiana Public Broadcasting News earned 24 awards April 26 at the Indiana Professional Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists Best in Indiana Journalism Contest.

The awards recognize the most outstanding work of the year in Indiana in print, broadcast and online journalism, according to a news release.

The WFIU-WTIU News team won 18 awards, including five firsts for best radio newscast, best TV newscast for Indiana Newsdesk, radio breaking news coverage of the death of Indiana University basketball coach Bob Knight, radio sports reporting and environmental reporting; five seconds for radio breaking news coverage, radio sports reporting, radio continuing news coverage, best podcast for Rush to Kill and election and campaign coverage; and eight thirds for radio feature story, best online multimedia for Paper Cuts, serious feature story, best documentary/special for IU Women’s Basketball: Rising to the Top, business/consumer affairs reporting, coverage of children’s issues, coverage of social justice issues and medical/science reporting.

WTIU received three first-place awards for its TV series “Journey Indiana.”

The program was honored with best general news/sports videography for a story on The National Model Aviation Museum and best features news videography and best light feature story for a segment on 16mm film.

IPB News received one second-place award for environmental reporting and two third-place awards for radio in-depth reporting and radio continuing coverage. IPB News is a collaboration of the state’s nine public media newsrooms and a shared statewide team, which includes journalists from the WFIU/WTIU newsroom.