School of Media News Archive
WKU School of Media Film students win College Student Production Awards
The first award went to "Dirty Laundry" for Best Long Form - Fiction.
"Come Up for Air" also picked up awards for Director Tori Mills and Cinematographer
Haley Meyers. This marks the second year in a row that the film program has won Student
Production Awards.
The College Student Production Awards are presented by the National Academy of Television
Arts & Sciences, Ohio Valley Chapter
Ashlea Moses (left) editor of Come Up for Air and Jordan Crabbe (right) production designer for Dirty Laundry
WKU 5th overall in 2019 Hearst Journalism Awards Program
WKU won the Intercollegiate Photojournalism Competition for the 25th time in the past 30 years
School of Media students place in the Kentucky Associated Press and Kentucky Broadcasters Association contest
Best Public Affairs
Best Sports Coverage
Best News Story
Olivia Eiler – First Place, Western Kentucky University – "Warren County House Fire"
Best Television Reporter
Olivia Eiler – First Place, Western Kentucky University
Best Newscast
Best Public Affairs (Radio)
Olivia Eiler – Second Place, Western Kentucky University – "WKU Campus Debate"
Best News Story (Radio)
Natalie Turner – First Place, Western Kentucky University – "International Music"
Best Radio Reporter
Natalie Turner – First Place, Western Kentucky University
Society of Professional Journalists Region 5 Mark of Excellence Awards
WKU Film Major Wins College Student Production Award
Tori Mills, a senior film major in the School of Journalism & Broadcasting, is the recipient of a College Student Production Award for Short Form - Fiction, presented by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Ohio Valley Chapter. Her short film, An Adjustment, will be honored at the August 18 ceremony in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. https://ohiovalleyemmy.org
WKU wins 2018 Hearst overall national championship
Grads of WKU School of Media win Pulitzer Prize
2005 Graduate Cameron Knight and 2006 Graduate Cara Owsley were part of the Pulitzer Prize winning team at The Cincinnati Enquirer for local reporting. The Photojournalism grads credit their time at WKU as crucial for their success in their fields. Owsley is the Director of Photography at the paper and Knight is a crime beat reporter. See the project at : https://www.cincinnati.com/pages/interactives/seven-days-of-heroin-epidemic-cincinnati/
The School of Media at WKU is ACEJMC accredited for majors in Broadcasting, Journalism and Photojournalism.
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