Congratulations to IRE members who won or were on winning teams in the Midsouth Emmy Awards earlier this spring. Jeremy Finley of WSMV-TV, Nashville, received Emmys in the categories of Investigative Series, Business/Consumer Report and Journalistic Enterprise. Stuart Watson of WCNC-TV, Charlotte, N.C., received Emmys in the categories of Investigative Report and News Special.

Tony Kovaleski, Steve Stock and Jenna Susko have joined a new 15-member unit led by Matt Goldberg at NBC Bay Area KNTV-TV.

Kovaleski is chief investigative reporter after 10 years at KMGH-Denver. Stock is investigative reporter after more than four years at WFOR-Miami. Susko is watchdog reporter after four years at WPMI-Mobile, Alabama. Goldberg is newsroom managing editor and special projects producer.

Mark Greenblatt, formerly of KHOU-TV, Houston, has moved to ABC News as a national correspondent in New York. Greenblatt worked for seven years as an investigative reporter at KHOU, winning awards including the duPont-Columbia, Peabody, National Headliner, National Emmy and two National Murrows.

Several IRE members won 2012 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards. The awards, which have been given out for 70 yerars, recognize the best in broadcast journalism from the previous year. IRE members made up the teams which won duPonts from local television,  including broadcast journalists at:

• WFAA-TV, Dallas & Byron Harris for "Bitter Lessons"
• WSB-TV, Atlanta & Jodie Fleischer for "Stealing Houses"
• WTVF-TV, Nashville & Phil Williams for "Policing for Profit"

For a complete listing of all the award winners, and links to their work, visit the visit the duPont Awards page.

Paul D’Ambrosio led the Asbury Park Press team that won the 2011 Knight Award for Public Service from the Online News Association for the multimedia series “Barnegat Bay Under Stress.”

D’Ambrosio and Shannon Mullen also won a first-place National Headliner Award for the second year in a row for their story about property taxes in New Jersey.

Ted Mellnik has moved to The Washington Post after three decades at the The Charlotte Observer. A computer-assisted reporting specialist, Mellnik won a Polk Award in 2007 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Gold Medal for Public Service in 1995 and 2008. He spent the last year at University of Michigan and various sites abroad on a Knight Wallace fellowship.

Robert Cribb won a 2011 Canadian Association of Journalists Award for Investigative Journalism for a story exploring politics and corruption in the Russian hockey system. He is now studying medical ethics for a year as a Kierans-Janigan Fellow at Massey College in the University of Toronto. Following that, he will research and write a series of stories on end-of-life issues and disputes between physicians and families over the lives of patients as a recipient of a 2012 Atkinson Mini Journalism Fellowship.

Gavin Off has joined the Charlotte Observer as the database reporter. Off spent the previous three years as database editor at the Tulsa World.

WVUE-TV won the the Edward R. Murrow Award in the Video Investigative Reporting-Small Market category for its series, "The Gravy Train," which showed improper spending and mismanagement at a New Orleans railroad. The team included Lee Zurik, Donny Pearce, Greg Phillips, and Mikel Schaefer.

Cheryl W. Thompson of the Washington Post received an Emmy award from the National Capital Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for "A Cop Killer's Remorse." She shared the award with videographer Ben De La Cruz.