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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
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Dave Wellman, Director of
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WMUL student wins Award of
Distinction; total of 62 awards
for 2007-2008 ties record for
second-most in one school year
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Terry Bartley, a student from WMUL-FM, Marshall University’s public radio station, received an Award of Distinction in the 14th annual Communicator Awards 2008 Audio Competition.
The winners were named earlier this month in Ashland, Ky. This is the 10th year for this competition to include an audio component for judging.
WMUL students, along with the faculty manager, also received one Platinum Award, one Gold Award and one Honorable Mention Award in the Hermes Creative Awards 2008 Competition. Those winners were announced in May.
These latest awards gave WMUL 62 during the 2007-2008 school year, tying its record for second-most in a year. WMUL, which also won 62 last year, won 77 awards in 2005-2006, its best year ever.
“Terry continues the winning ways of our students,” Dr. Corley Dennison, dean of Marshall’s W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications, said of Bartley’s Award of Distinction. “For the journalism students and student volunteers at WMUL to win more than 200 state, regional and national awards in three years is truly an accomplishment worth noting.”
The Communicator Awards come from the International Academy of Visual Arts which recognizes outstanding work in the communications field. Entries are judged by industry professionals who look for companies and individuals whose talent exceeds a high standard of excellence and whose work serves as a benchmark for the industry. The 2008 contest had more than 8,500 entries.
The Award of Distinction winning entry by WMUL-FM was in the following category:
Radio Public Service Announcement: “Intolerance,” an in-house public service announcement, broadcast in WMUL-FM’s Public Service Announcement rotation from Monday, April 16, 2007 through the present time, was written and produced by Bartley, a senior from Foster, W.Va.
“It is a noteworthy accomplishment to be recognized as having produced one of the best PSAs in the country,” said Dr. Chuck G. Bailey, professor of radio-television production and management in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications and faculty manager of WMUL-FM. “I am proud of the honor this Award of Distinction bestows on WMUL-FM, the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications and Marshall University. This success by Terry Bartley demonstrates to our student staff that dedication and hard work do pay off in the end as they have done for Terry.”
The Platinum Award-winning entry by WMUL-FM in the Hermes Creative Awards 2008 Competition was in the Publication/Manual/ Training category. The winner was the “WMUL-FM Promo and PSA Production Manual,” written by Bailey and junior Adam Cavalier, WMUL-FM’s production director from Montgomery, W.Va. The manual was written for the student and community volunteer staff members of the campus radio station.
The Gold Award-winning entry was in the category Radio Public Service Announcement. Bartley won for “Intolerance.”
The Honorable Mention Award-winning entry by WMUL-FM was in the category Podcast. “Herd Roundup” for Friday, Sept. 28, 2007 was the winner. The students who participated were Cavalier, co-host and producer; Andrew Ramspacher, a sophomore from Dublin, Ohio, co-host and producer; Brian Dalek, a junior from McMechen, W.Va., reporter; and Cathleen Moxley, a senior from Chapmanville, W.Va., reporter.
Bailey said winning the Hermes Creative Awards was “an outstanding accomplishment to be recognized as having produced one of the best training manuals in the country as well as a highly regarded public service announcement and a quality podcast.”
“This production manual’s success demonstrates to our student and community volunteer staff that their training materials are first rate,” Bailey said. “Combined with their dedication and hard work, WMUL-FM will continue to be one of the top college radio stations in the country. The Gold Award is a tribute to the public service commitment of our broadcast students in competition with professional practitioners.”
The Hermes Creative Awards are administered and evaluated by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals
The WMUL students’ grand total of 62 awards this year included 23 first-place awards, 11 second-place awards, five third-place awards and 23 honorable mention awards. Since 1985, WMUL-FM student broadcasters have won 817 awards.
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