March 30, 2015
Journalism students win big at Kansas Association of Broadcasters
K-State journalism students won more television awards in the 2015 Kansas Association of Broadcasters competition than any other university in Kansas, with six first places, four second places and four honorable mentions.
"Broadcast journalism students at K-State are creating very high quality video projects and content in Channel 8 News and Wildcat Watch video productions," said Steve Harvey, journalism news director and instructor. "The students have worked hard and have earned this recognition. They put in a lot of hours of outside class time and I'm very impressed with the student's desires and the stories they produce."
Students and their awards:
Harold "Dakota" German and Greg Jansen, both with Wildcat Watch, won first place for "Social Media PSA" in the 30-second commercial-PSA category.
Danelia Martinez-Serano won first place for "News Reporting Dangers" and Zaldy Doyungan received an honorable mention for "Channel 8 News Fort Riley" in the Hard News Package category.
Morgan Huelsman won first place for "Fort Riley Live Fire" and Danelia Martinez-Serano won second place for "A Soldier's Deployment" in the Enterprise News Package category.
Zaldy Doyungan received an honorable mention for "Channel 8 News, News Feature" in the Complete News Feature category.
Nic Wahl won first place and Zaldy Doyungan won second place for "Channel 8 News Sportscast" in the Sportscast category.
Nic Wahl won first place, Zaldy Doyungan won second place, and Morgan Huelsman received an honorable mention for "Channel 8 News, News Anchor" in the News Anchor for TV category.
Matt Harrison with Wildcat Watch won first place for "Tangible" in the Documentary category.
Harold "Dakota" German, Edward Evans, Molly Cooper, Hannah Hunsinger, all with Wildcat Watch, won second place for "TAP" in the Documentary category.
Harrison also received an honorable mention for "Dragon Fly" in the Entertainment Program category.
Channel 8 News is the only local television newscast in the Manhattan and Riley County area. The newscast is produced live by journalism students at 10:30 a.m. every Wednesday over low-power TV, Cox Cable channel 8, and to YouTube from Studio B in Dole Hall. The newscasts are recorded and played back at 6 a.m., noon, 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. every day on Cox Cable Arts channel 8 until the following week's Wednesday broadcast.
Wildcat Watch is a student video production group that creates video projects and three-camera coverage of K-State events.