WKU News & Events

March 08, 2002

WKU Photojournalism Faculty
Member Honored

Bowling Green, Ky. - Jeanie Adams-Smith, a Western Kentucky University photojournalism faculty member, has won top honors in the Missouri School of Journalism International Pictures of the Year competition.

"Survivors Children of Divorce" won first place in Best Use of Multi-Media/Interactive Publication – Small Media.

"The subject matter was something I wanted to pursue because I am a stepmother and through my own experiences realized there were a lot of children who were living stories of divorce and separation of their parents," Adams-Smith said.

The project involved 22 families and eight programs helping children of divorce. The winning CD tells seven of the stories.

She worked on the project for four years, including research, interviews, photography and producing the CD. The project was her master's thesis at Ohio University.

Adams-Smith, who grew up in Bowling Green, received bachelor and master's degrees at WKU and worked as a photo editor at the Chicago Tribune for 10 years. In 1999, she was a Knight Fellow at Ohio University where she received a second master's in photojournalism. She returned to Western this semester as photojournalist-in-residence.

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