WKU Broadcasting Professor Wins Edward R. Murrow Award

March 29, 2007

Bowling Green, Ky. - Western Kentucky University broadcasting professor Terry Likes has received an award for his reporting from the Radio/TV News Directors Association.

Likes’ documentary entry, “The Changing Faces of the Evening News,” won a regional Edward R. Murrow award. He now moves on to compete against other regional winners. National winners will be announced in June. 

The nine-minute documentary, which aired last July on WKYU-FM, took a look at historic changes in the network evening news anchor desk and how new anchors face a challenge to prove the vitality of the evening news genre after years of declining audiences. Last month, Likes’ report received a national second-place award from the Broadcast Education Association.

Likes, who has taught broadcast journalism at WKU since 1988, thanked WKYU-FM news director Dan Modlin for airing the report. Likes has won more than a dozen awards from the Associated Press, Broadcast Education Association and National Press Club and continues to produce freelance reports. He has participated in the Radio/TV News Directors Foundation “Excellence in Journalism Education” program via a faculty fellowship at WTHR-TV Indianapolis. Likes earned his doctorate at the University of Kentucky and has a master’s degree from WKU.

RTNDA has been honoring outstanding achievements in electronic journalism with the Edward R. Murrow Awards since 1971. Murrow’s pursuit of excellence in journalism embodies the spirit of the awards that carry his name.

Murrow Award recipients demonstrate the excellence that Edward R. Murrow made a standard for the electronic news profession. The RTNDA Region 8 award winners include Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. More information about the RTNDA Murrow Awards is available online at www.rtnda.org.
               
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