Cory Lash

Cory Lash, M.A.

Associate Professor

(Optional Retirement)


Contact Information:
  • E-mail: cory.lash@wku.edu
  • Office: 116 Mass Media and Technology Hall
  • Phone: (270) 745-5890

Teaching Areas:

Intro to Cinema, Scriptwriting, Electronic News Gathering, Film Production for TV, Producing for Film & Video, Directing for Film & Television, TV Program Production

Cory Lash

Experience
  • Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
    School of Journalism and Broadcasting
    Associate Professor, film and video production
    Director, Western Film & Video Festival
    Director, High School Video Festival and Competition
  • Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
    School of Journalism
    Assistant Professor of film and photography
    Coordinator, film production sequence
    General news executive, Gannett Co. Inc., Rosslyn, VA., October 1986
  • LashFilms, Bowling Green, KY
    Professional film and video director and director of photography for
    television commercials, music videos, documentaries, and corporate
    image programming
  • Cory Lash Productions, Cleveland, OH and Los Angeles, CA
    Owner, producer, director, director of photography for commercial, corporate, and documentary film and video productions.
  • Tulsa Studios, Tulsa, OK
    President and Executive Producer of film commercials, corporate programming, and documentaries
  • WJW-TV, CBS Affiliate, Cleveland, OH
    News and documentary cinematographer
Education
  • Master of Arts, Journalism, Kent State University
  • Bachelor of Science, Radio/Television/Film, Kent State University.
Professional Activities
  • A&E, America's Castles (documentary/entertainment program)
  • CBS, Conversations with Bert Reynolds (entertainment program)
  • KET/PBS, Route 31W ' Louisville/Nashville Road - documentary
  • KET/PBS They Call It -- Fort Knox - documentary
  • Disney, 'The Making of Jungle Book' ' documentary on feature film
  • Nashville Network, 'Behind the Grand Ol' Opry' ' documentary
  • Hometown Productions, 'HauntedWeen' ' feature film
  • Firebrand Films, 'Stranger' ' feature film
  • MTV, 'Beko', Peter Gabriel, Aired on MTV
  • Z-Com, 'The Making of Preciously Dangerous' - documentary
  • BFGoodyear, 'Commitment to the Future' - corporate image
  • Dravo Corp., 'Building' and 'Coal Capabilities' - corp. image
  • American Greetings Corp., various marketing films
  • J&L Steel, 'A New Beginning in Pittsburgh' ' documentary;
    ' Metamorphosis' ' image film; 'Louisville Story' ' documentary;
    Environmental Issues' ' documentary; 'Price of Politics' ' documentary; and twelve other corporate films and videos along with elements for twenty plus internal news programs
  • Sea World of Ohio, 'Shamu Goes Hollywood' ' documentary;
  • Sea World of Florida, 'Changing Seasons' - Entertainment
  • McGraw-Edison, 'Bussmann' ' documentary; 'Annual Report' '
    documentary; 'Divisions of Technology' ' documentary
  • American Electric Power, 'Source of Power' ' documentary
  • General Motors, 'The C-5 Corvette' ' documentary
  • Racing Rose/NASCAR. 'Brian Rose' ' documentary
  • Fruit of the Loom, more than a dozen sales & marketing films and videos
  • The Journey, United Nations and Center for International and
    Comparative Programs - documentary
  • Television Commercials, scores of commercials for various ad agencies such as N.W.Ayre, Wise Advertising, Stern Advertising and others for companies or products such as Sea World, Higbee's Department Stores, National City Bank, Your Pizza, Leatherman Spine Center, Citizens First Bank, Q Sports Center and others.

    AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
  • Gold Hugo, Chicago International Film Festival for Coal Capabilities for Dravo Corporation, corporate image film.
  • Telly Award 'Kentucky Oil' ROBO Enterprises, Corporate Image
  • Telly Award 'Grandmother' Hospice, TV commercial
  • Telly Award 'Brian Rose' Racing Rose/NASCAR; Marketing
  • Telly Award 'Girl in Window' Hospice, TV commercial
  • Bronze Cine - Festival of the Americas/Houston International Film Festival, 'Commitment to the Future' BFGoodrich. Corporate Image
  • Emmy nominations 'Lorain County Children's Home' for WUAB-TV
  • Emmy nomination 'Easter Special' for WJW-TV
  • PRSSA First Place Award for 'Steelmaking ' Chicago' J&L Steel
  • The Communicator Award of Excellence for 'Body Cooler' DGR-TV.

Upcoming Events

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Western Integrated Media team travels to India
Category: SJB

While the world’s press leader discussed the future of journalism at their annual summit in India, 17 WKU students and instructors demonstrated it – and the professionals were wowed. The Western Integrated Media team traveled halfway around the world to cover the 2009 World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum with podcasts, vidcasts, audio-enhanced photo slideshows, interactive video, geotagged images, full-length magazine articles, a highly interactive website and a host of other media. “The team from WKU played a substantial and central role to our communications efforts, providing the bulk of multimedia content for a variety of conference blogs and websites and bringing information from the events to the industry at large,” said Larry Kilman, WAN-IFRA Executive Director of Communications and Public Affairs. “The students and their professors were competent, professional, enthusiastic and self-motivated – it showed in the quality of their work.” They had a lot of fun, too.

A short video can be viewed by clicking here.

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16th Annual Western Film Festival
Category: SJB 16th Annual Western Film Festival
April 26 - 29, 2010
Featuring the best in student and independent filmmaking.  Now accepting
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SJB Online Survey
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Attention SJ&B Alumni

We need your help! Would you take a few minutes to complete a brief online survey regarding your experiences as a major in the School of Journalism & Broadcasting? Your information will help us support our efforts in career development and identify ways in which we can improve the programs in the School. Thanks!

 

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