SPRINGFIELD, Vt. – “Meet the Candidates 2022,” a television series produced by Brattleboro Community Television and hosted by Springfield resident Martin Cohn, won a third place “Nor’easter” award in the category of issues and political process at this year’s Alliance for Community Media Northeast Region (ACM-NE) conference held in Burlington, Vt.
ACM-NE is a regional membership organization that advocates, promotes, and preserves the right to media training, production, distribution, civic engagement, and education in support of diverse community voices, through public, educational, and government access channels and other forms of media. The Nor’easter Awards, now in its 25th year, are judged by volunteers from community media centers throughout the northeast.
For “Meet the Candidates,” invitations were sent to 62 candidates seeking election (14 federal, 16 statewide, and 32 Windham County) to appear on the series. Seventeen candidates were interviewed.
“The show helped citizens stay informed about local, statewide, and federal races,” Cohn said, “and, of those interviewed, 76% won their races.”