Distinctions of the WKU School of Journalism and Broadcasting 1990 Western's PJ program won first overall photojournalism competition of Hearst Foundation; individual honors: Jeanie Adams, seventh, and Tamara Voninski, ninth. Department - Tied for fifth in Hearst writing competition; individual honors: Noelle Phillips, 17th, feature writing; Laura Howard, fourth, and Chris Poore, eighth, personality/profile writing. Ad Club, first-place national AAF award for public service campaign for a Lifeskills campaign. In 45th national CPOY competition, individual honors: Patti Longmire, first place, news; Tamara Voninski, second, feature picture; Larry Powell, third, feature picture; Jeanie Adams, third and award of excellence (AoE), portrait; Lee A. Ekstrom, second, personal vision; Joseph Garcia, AoEs, sports feature and fashion illustration; Rick Loomis, AoE, sports action; Andy Lyons, AoE, sports portfolio; and Matt Stockman, AoE, sports feature. Advertising students, national finalist; first, district AAF/NSAC competition with first place for plans book, magazine prototype and presentation. Sponsor was Hearst Corporation. Team members: Karen Fryrear, Robert Pfingston and Sean Ward. Karen Fryrear selected to attend national Yellow Pages Student Seminar. Dana Albrecht, second place, and Travis Green, third, business and economic writing competition of ACP/CMA. Herald, regional Pacemaker from ACP/CMA, its eighth in eight years. Brigitte Sparks, advertising senior, national winner of Vance Stickell Internship and 5th district AAF scholarship. Nikita Stewart, winner of $750 scholarship in American Society of Newspaper Editors competition. Tanya Bricking and Heather Stone, winners, Roy W. Howard Public Affairs Reporting Words and Pictures Competition; Bricking, words; and Stone, pictures. Chris Poore, selected for initial class of Washington Center for Politics and Journalism Interns. Advertising student awards in AAA/INAME newspaper advertising competition: Kim Kafoglis, Wesley Martin and Amy Sweeney, first; Robert Whatley and Michael Vanover, second; and Karen Dykstra and Karen Fryrear, third. PRSSA campaigns students, national second place in NutraSweet/Burson-Marsteller campaign competition. Atlanta Seminar on Photojournalism competition individual honors: Amy Deputy, first, student portfolio, second and HM, feature picture story; Tamara Voninski, second, student portfolio, and HM, picture story; Rick Loomis, third, student portfolio; David Stephenson, HM, student portfolio; Jason Hallmark, third, general news; Marc Piscotty, HM, general news; Craig J. Bell, first, sports action; Heather Stone, first, sports feature; Joseph A. Garcia, third, sports feature; Jeanie Adams, HM, sports feature; and alumnus Jonathan Newton of Atlanta Journal-Constitution, second, sports picture story, and first, best Georgia portfolio. Amy Deputy, recipient, NPPA Joseph Ehrenreich Scholarship. PRSSA campaigns students, first place in East Central District in Bateman-PRSSA Case Study Competition. PRSSA chapter won three district awards, outstanding chapter, outstanding newsletter and PRSA relationship; individual honors: Beth Struck, Tina Howard and Bill Busser, PRSSA district citations. Michelle McIntyre, Steve Hunt Award of Bluegrass PRSA. Herald, Sweepstakes Award and best non-daily, SPJ Region Five; individual honors: Cindy Stevenson, first, editorial writing; Tom Hernes, first, sports writing; Steve Smart, first, feature photography; Jeanie Adams, first, news photography; and Omar Tatum, first, sports photography. SPJ chapter, Fiver Award as most productive in region, beating out professional chapters in Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville; named best in region for 15th time. Tina Howard, district director, PRSSA East Central District. In KIPA competition: 15 first places, 14 seconds, 13 thirds and 35 honorable mentions, totaling 168 points, 90 more than closest competitor. In KNPA Newspaper Photographer of the Year Competition, WKU students won 12 awards including first in illustration and sequence, second in feature story and third in spot news, sports feature, pictorial and sequence. Bob Adams, teaching fellowship, Seminar of College Newspaper Advisers, the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. Robert Pope, Standard Examiner, Ogden, Utah, Region 9 Newspaper POY. James Ausenbaugh, print professor, inducted, Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame. Carolyn Stringer, advertising sequence coordinator, recipient of Medal of Merit from the American Advertising Federation. Is your achievement listed here?If not, please send documentation for archives of newspaper/magazine clipping or letter or e-mail message that lists award, year awarded and identification of organization presenting the award to: Journalism & Broadcasting Archives TOP | |||
