Professor Wins National Award
For Report On 9/11 Coverage
February 03, 2003
Bowling Green, Ky. - Dr. Terry Likes, an associate professor in Western Kentucky University's School of Journalism and Broadcasting, has won national honors for his radio documentary on "The Media Coverage of 9/11."
Likes received "Best Of Festival" designation from the Broadcast Education Association. "This is the highest award for the Faculty Audio Competition," according to David Reese, competition chair.
The program aired on Sept. 6, 2002, on WKYU-FM, and later aired in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and the Kentucky News Network. In the report, the audience heard from Sam Donaldson, ABC News; Steve Kroft, CBS 60 Minutes; Neal Shapiro, NBC News president; Bob Dotson, NBC News; John Cochran, ABC News; Deborah Potter, a former CNN and CBS correspondent; Al Tompkins, Poynter Institute for Media Studies; Ross Becker, anchor for KTNV-TV in Las Vegas; Julie Kraft, a former Des Moines television news director/anchor; and Bob Freeman, news director of WFIE-TV in Evansville, Ind.
Likes, a former radio/television reporter, has taught at WKU since 1988. His 1998 documentary on Global Weather Events won honors from the Kentucky Associated Press. His 1999 "State of the News" documentary won an award from the Broadcast Education Association and the 2000 video follow-up won first-place from the National Press Club.
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