From Our Archive
Sept. 1, 2000
Scripps Howard Foundation
names winners
of "Most
Valuable Staffer" broadcase competition
CINCINNATI -- The Scripps Howard
Foundation has named the five winners of its first “Most
Valuable Staffer” broadcast competition, which was open to
students who work at U.S. college broadcast stations.
The winners, all
seniors, were selected from 29 nominees. The winners
are:
Jason Bruce,
executive vice president and production manager of Cable 8
television at Washington State University, Pullman,
Wash.
Sarah M.
Drake, sales director, WZND radio at Illinois State
University, Normal,
Ill.
Erik
Gudmundson, station manager, WIXQ radio at
Millersville University, Millersville,
Pa.
Lynn
Fink, station manager, ECTV40 television at
Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown,
Pa.
Katie
Tevis, producer, WASB television’s Newswatch at
Asbury College, Wilmore, Ky.
The five winners each
will receive a $5,000 scholarship. Winners also will receive
an all expenses paid trip to Washington, D.C., for an awards
presentation Nov. 8-12 during the national College Media
Advisers convention, co-sponsored by the Associated Collegiate
Press and College Media Advisers. The broadcast stations where
the students work will each receive a matching $5,000 grant.
The competition was sponsored by the Scripps Howard
Foundation in cooperation with College Media Advisers.
“Scripps Howard Foundation is proud to recognize the
accomplishments of these fine college broadcast staffers,”
said Judith G. Clabes, president and CEO of the foundation.
“Each exemplifies the dedication and talent needed to meet the
unique challenges of working at campus radio and television
stations.”
Chris Carroll, president of College Media
Advisers and director of student media at Vanderbilt
University in Nashville, said, “This competition has provided
a great opportunity for these deserving college students who
might not otherwise have been so well rewarded for their hard
work. Their college broadcast stations also are happy
beneficiaries thanks to the unprecedented matching grants.”
The competition was open to any member of
student-operated college radio or television stations licensed
for broadcast by the Federal Communications Commission or
available campus- or community-wide via a closed circuit
system. Nominees had to be enrolled as full-time students in
the college or university. They were not required to be
journalism or communications majors. Winners were required to
be enrolled in an undergraduate program in the fall of 2000,
when the award will be made.
The competition was
judged by Gary Hawke, University of Kansas; Drew Berry, vice
president and general manager, WMAR-TV, Baltimore; and Clyde
Gray, news anchor, WCPO-TV, Cincinnati.
College Media
Advisers, with more than 700 members, coast to coast,
represents the people who advise the nation’s collegiate
newspapers, yearbooks, magazines and electronic media.
Dedicated to
excellence in journalism, the Scripps Howard Foundation is a
leader in industry efforts in journalism education,
scholarships, internships, literacy, minority
recruitment/development and First Amendment
causes.
Contact: Vickie Martin, Scripps Howard Foundation, 513-977-3034, vlmartin@scripps.com