KSAT, Graham Media’s ABC affiliate in San Antonio, was named a Gracie Award winner for best Local TV News Magazine by the The Alliance for Women in Media Foundation for its streaming program, KSAT Explains: What you need to know about protective orders in Bexar County.
KSAT, Graham Media’s ABC affiliate in San Antonio, was named a Gracie Award winner for best Local TV News Magazine by the The Alliance for Women in Media Foundation for its streaming program, KSAT Explains: What you need to know about protective orders in Bexar County.
In the episode, the KSAT Explains team — Anchor/Producer Myra Arthur, Editor/Visualizer Valerie Gomez, Creator Lexi Salazar and Executive Producer Brina Monterroza — explored the issue of domestic violence in Bexar County.
It happens over and over again in San Antonio: women — and men — are abused or killed at the hands of someone who claimed to love them. Domestic violence is a pattern created to intimidate and control a victim while simultaneously rooting itself in a new generation as children grow up witnessing that abuse or becoming victims themselves. In 2020, 17 people died at the hands of an intimate partner. There are tools in place that are supposed to help save lives, get survivors away from their abusers, and help them build better lives.
“That’s why we chose to do this episode on protective orders,” says Myra Arthur, anchor/producer for KSAT Explains. “We know our county has incredibly high rates of domestic violence, but a lot of people see the stats and respond with, ‘well, she should just leave.’ The survivors we talked to explain why it’s never that simple. Their stories are chilling and full of incredibly close calls. To see their bravery and strength now- that’s what we wanted victims in our community to know is possible. And how.”
KSAT launched KSAT Explains in mid-2020 as an experiment to offer more in-depth exploration of important issues in the community than traditional newscasts allow.
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