MURFREESBORO — MTSU electronic media students
brought home top honors in multiple statewide categories at the recent
Tennessee Associated Press Broadcasters College Career Day and Tennessee AP
College Broadcasters Award ceremony.
The event, hosted by
MTSU’s College of Mass Communication, saw MTSU students win first-place awards
for Best Radio Feature Story, Best Radio News Story and Best TV Public Affairs
and second-place finishes for Best TV Feature Story and Best TV Sports Story.
The winners announced
at the April 27 event were:
· Senior Shawn Anfinson, Best Radio
Feature Story for “My Homeland: A Guide to Tennessee Songs” and Best Radio News
Story for “Meningitis: Nearly a Third of Tennessee Adolescents Not Vaccinated.”
· Senior Michelle Potts, junior
Kelsey Lebechuck and senior Russ Johnson, Best TV Public Affairs for leading a
team of more than 100 in the live election-night coverage of “VOTE2012.”
· Sophomore Katie Myers, second place
in the Best TV Feature Story and Best TV Sports Story categories for
“Underwater Treadmill” and “Blue Raider Football,” respectively.
The judges praised
Anfinson’s work as “nicely crafted” and said he “has a relaxed, very
conversational style that never leaves the listener behind.”
The Nov. 6
presidential election coverage, which was headquartered in the Center for
Innovation in Media in the college’s Bragg Mass Communication Building, became
a special campus event alongside its Student Union ballroom remote location.
“This coverage plan
rivals some commercial newsrooms. The plan was ambitious and executed well,”
the TAPB judges said. “The panel of experts, combined with live shots, ticker
and results, made this a complete night of election coverage.”
The awards were
presented at a luncheon that followed morning panel discussions on “The Scoop
on Finding Your First Journalism Job” with recent MTSU grads now working in the
industry and “The Good News about the News Business” with area radio, TV and
social media professionals. The afternoon featured one-on-one sessions with
more media professionals.
“It was outstanding
to see our students competing with those from Vanderbilt, UT-Knoxville,
Lipscomb, UT-Martin, Tennessee State and other schools from the region,” said
Dr. Roy Moore, dean of the college.
“I spoke with several
of our students and alumni at the TAPB event, and they spoke highly of the role
the Center (for Innovation in Media) either played in their education here or
how they wished such a center existed when they were here.”
The Center for Innovation in Media,
which opened in January 2012, houses operations for all student media outlets —
the student newspaper, Sidelines, TV station MT-10 HD and radio station WMTS-FM
88.3 — as well as WMOT 89.5FM, MTSU’s 100,000-watt
public radio station.
The Associated Press Media Editors recognized the Center for
Innovation in Media last year for its
efforts to converge MTSU student media and foster collaboration across media
platforms.
For more information
on the Department of Electronic Media Communication at MTSU, bookmark its blog
at http://emcmtsu.com.
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