June 07, 2001

Two WKU Students Win National SPJ Awards

Bowling Green, Ky. - Two Western Kentucky University students have won national honors in the Society of Professional Journalists' 2000 Mark of Excellence competition.

Lisa Hughes, a Scottsville junior, took first place in the best radio daily newscast category for work as a reporter/anchor for WWHR, the WKU student radio station.

Cassandra Shie, a senior from Sterling, Va., won first in photo illustration of "To Hill and Back" in the College Heights Herald, the WKU student newspaper.

The national winners will receive their awards Oct. 4-6 at the 2001 SPJ National
Convention in Seattle and will be honored in the July/August issue of Quill, the Society's magazine.

More information on the awards is available at the SPJ website at www.spj.org.

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