Oct. 20, 2010
Marshall Graduate Student A Finalist In National Broadcast Competition
Special to Huntingtonnews.net
Huntington, WV (HNN) – A student broadcaster from WMUL-FM, Marshall University's public radio station, was a national finalist in the 2009 Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) National Mark of Excellence Contest in the category Radio News Reporting.
Adam Cavalier, a graduate student from Montgomery, W.Va., received the award for “Salvation for the Powerless,” which he wrote and produced for “5:00 p.m. Edition of Newscenter 88,” Monday, February 2, 2009.
The award was presented at the SPJ Convention and National Journalism Conference earlier this month in Las Vegas.
Dr. Chuck G. Bailey, professor of Radio-Television Production and Management in the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Marshall University and faculty manager of WMUL-FM, said that Cavalier competed with other broadcasting students who won regional first-place awards for radio news reporting.
"Our radio students have established a tradition at WMUL-FM of being able to successfully compete at the national level with other student journalists,” Bailey said. “This recognition, for the third straight year, for WMUL-FM's Adam Cavalier in SPJ's National Mark of Excellence Contest is further evidence of the quality of the work performed by our talented broadcasting students at WMUL-FM and the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications,"
Overall there are 39 categories for print, radio, television and online journalism in the SPJ National Mark of Excellence contest and there were more than 3,600 entries from schools across SPJ's 12 regions in the contest. SPJ has been presenting the Mark of Excellence Awards since 1972.
Founded in 1909 as Sigma Delta Chi, SPJ promotes the free flow of information vital to a well-informed citizenry; works to inspire and to educate the next generation of journalists; and protects the First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and press.
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Marshall Graduate Student A Finalist In National Broadcast Competition
Special to Huntingtonnews.net
Huntington, WV (HNN) – A student broadcaster from WMUL-FM, Marshall University's public radio station, was a national finalist in the 2009 Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) National Mark of Excellence Contest in the category Radio News Reporting.
Adam Cavalier, a graduate student from Montgomery, W.Va., received the award for “Salvation for the Powerless,” which he wrote and produced for “5:00 p.m. Edition of Newscenter 88,” Monday, February 2, 2009.
The award was presented at the SPJ Convention and National Journalism Conference earlier this month in Las Vegas.
Dr. Chuck G. Bailey, professor of Radio-Television Production and Management in the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Marshall University and faculty manager of WMUL-FM, said that Cavalier competed with other broadcasting students who won regional first-place awards for radio news reporting.
"Our radio students have established a tradition at WMUL-FM of being able to successfully compete at the national level with other student journalists,” Bailey said. “This recognition, for the third straight year, for WMUL-FM's Adam Cavalier in SPJ's National Mark of Excellence Contest is further evidence of the quality of the work performed by our talented broadcasting students at WMUL-FM and the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications,"
Overall there are 39 categories for print, radio, television and online journalism in the SPJ National Mark of Excellence contest and there were more than 3,600 entries from schools across SPJ's 12 regions in the contest. SPJ has been presenting the Mark of Excellence Awards since 1972.
Founded in 1909 as Sigma Delta Chi, SPJ promotes the free flow of information vital to a well-informed citizenry; works to inspire and to educate the next generation of journalists; and protects the First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and press.
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