Monday, January 31, 2005
CNNRadio Correspondent Wins Second Consecutive ‘Golden Mike Award’
Source: CNN Pressroom CNNRadio’s Los Angeles correspondent Jim Roope has won a Radio & Television Association of Southern California’s “Golden Mike Award,” marking the second year in a row he has won the award.
Roope’s winning entry is in the “Best Reporting by a Radio Network” category. The winning entry, “Walk of Fame,” is a light-hearted package done in Dr. Seuss-like rhyme. He won last year in the same category for a piece titled “Friday the 13th.”
Roope has been with CNNRadio since 2000. From Los Angeles, Roope covers a variety of news, including entertainment, politics, environment, sports, light features and natural disasters. Roope, along with his wife, Rosie, head the Southern California Chapter of Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy, a neuromuscular disease from which their son suffers.
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