University of Iowa Broadcast Journalism Students Win State Awards
University of Iowa broadcast journalism students came away with 26 trophies at the Iowa Broadcast News Association at their 2008 IBNA Spring Convention May 3 in Waterloo. Twenty-one of those awards went to students who work for Daily Iowan TV, the television service of The Daily Iowan, which was picked as “Best Newscast” in the IBNA student division for the second straight year. Radio broadcasting student Kyle Gassiott won five personal awards for his stories at Iowa Public Radio station WSUI, Iowa City. The awards were for work broadcast in 2007. [See details below.]
UI broadcast journalism students display awards they won at the Iowa Broadcast News Association Spring Convention May 3, 2008 in Waterloo, Iowa. The students won the awards for their work on the nightly student-produced newscast, Daily Iowan TV. Pictured (from left) are Ashleigh Coran (reporter), Erica Patterson (anchor) , Charles Munro (journalism instructor/TV coach), Whitney Givens (anchor/executive producer), Jay Knoll (anchor/news director), A.J. Ellingson (sports reporter), and Forrest Saunders (reporter). UI students won 26 awards in the IBNA student market division.
Daily Iowan TV News director, Jay Knoll, a broadcast journalism student who himself won two awards said, “These awards are evidence to how much our staff at Daily Iowan TV has grown into professional student-journalists.” Knoll noted that Daily Iowan TV swept two key categories, winning all places in the “Best Spot News Coverage” and “Excellence in Writing” categories. Gassiott swept the Excellence in Writing in the radio student division.
“It is great that our students were recognized in this way by broadcast professionals from around the state, but what’s incredible is that they swept every single award for ‘Excellence in Writing’ - a wonderful tribute to their dedication to being professionals themselves” said Charles Munro, Visiting Instructor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and Daily Iowan TV Coach.
Daily Iowan TV is managed and produced five days a week during the academic year by University of Iowa students. The newscast can be seen Sunday through Thursday nights at 9:30 pm on UITV cable (Mediacom in Eastern Iowa) as well as on DailyIowan.Com.
The Iowa Broadcast News Association is a nonprofit corporation of radio-TV news directors, reporters, producers, public relations professionals and others from Iowa and its adjacent states, working together to improve electronic media news for stations and the public.
BEST NEWSCAST
1st place "Daily Iowan TV 12/6/2007", Jay Knoll/Whitney Givens, managers
BEST SPORTSCAST
3rd place "Daily Iowan TV Sports” 4/12/2007", Nick Doehrmann, sports director
SPOT NEWS COVERAGE
First place "Apartment Fire", Ashleigh Coran, DITV
Second place "Ice Storm", Nick Doehrmann, DITV
Third place "Alford Leaves", A.J. Ellingson, DITV
EXCELLENCE IN WRITING - TELEVISION
First place "Mini-Dance Marathon", Jay Knoll, DITV
Second place "Coffee Bean Caucus", Jay Knoll, DITV
Third place "Pensetti Profile", Joe Augustine, DITV
EXCELLENCE IN WRITING - RADIO
First place "Krylon Michaelangelo", Kyle Gassiott, WSUI
Second place "An I for Islam", Kyle Gassiott, WSUI
3. "Bush Childhood Home", Kyle Gassiott, WSUI
NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY
First place "Anti-War Protest”, Shelby Cloke, DITV
Second place "Flooding", Katie Martin, DITV
FEATURE - TELEVISION
Second place "Haunted Bookshop", Erica Patterson, DITV
FEATURE - RADIO
First place "Krylon Michelangelo", Kyle Gassiott, WSUI
Third place "An Iowa House Party", Kyle Gassiott, WSUI
IN-DEPTH/SERIES
First place "Classroom Politics", Jay Knoll, DITV
FARM AND AGRIBUSINESS
First place “Ethanol", Joe Augustine, DITV
SPORTS COVERAGE
First place "Casey's Story", J.P. Cadorin, DITV
Third place "Tennis Player", J.P. Cadorin, DITV
Honorable Mention "Pregame", Jay Knoll/Nick Doehrmann, DITV
POLITICAL COVERAGE
Second place "Live Election 2007", Daily Iowan TV Staff, DITV
Third place "Election 2008 compilation", Whitney Givens, DITV
Honorable Mention "Election 08", Erica Patterson, DITV
GENERAL REPORTING
Honorable Mention "Flooding", Katie Martin, DITV
OVERALL EXCELLENCE
Honorable Mention Daily Iowan TV, University of Iowa