Mass Comm alum joins CBS News

Terrell Brown graduated in May 2009 with a B.S. in Mass Communicaton with a focus in broadcast journalism. While at VCU, Brown was the full-time anchor of the breaking news desk, on WWBT-TV, the NBC affiliate in Richmond. (more)

Grad app deadline is June 26

June 26 is the last day to submit a graduation application for August 2009 graduation. Mass Comm students should email either carol Mawyer or Natasha Long for an appointment to complete the application. Students should bring a completed graduation worksheet (for the year they started at VCU), the graduation application and a current copy of their eServices transcript with them to the appointment.

Students who miss this deadline will have their degrees conferred with the December 2009 graduates.

Emmy Awarded to School of Mass Comm Alumni

Alumna and adjunct instructor Lisa Figueroa and alumnus Jordan Rodericks earned an Emmy Award for a documentary they produced for VCU TV/HD, one of the first student-run operations in the country to produce TV programming in a high-definition format. The two received the award at the 51st Emmy Awards held on June 6 in Washington, D.C.

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VCU student takes first place in Hearst multimedia competition

San Francisco – The top 10 winners in college multimedia were announced on May 13 in the 49th annual William Randolph Hearst Foundation's Journalism Awards Program. This was the second annual Multimedia Competition in which 78 entrants from 47 undergraduate journalism programs at colleges and universities across the nation participated.

First Place has been awarded to TRACY KENNEDY, a freshman from Virginia Commonwealth University. She will receive a $2,000 scholarship for her entry “Distracted Delegates” posted on Capital News Service. Virginia Commonwealth University will receive a matching grant, as do the journalism departments of all scholarship winners.

Other scholarship winners are:

TIM HUSSIN, University of Florida, second place, $1,500 scholarship
KRISTA SCHINAGL, Western Kentucky University, third place, $1,000 scholarship
ALI TABATABAI, San Francisco State University, fourth place, $750 scholarship
PHILIP ANDREWS, Western Kentucky University, fifth place, $600 scholarship
ALEX BLACKWELDER, Middle Tennessee State University, sixth place, $500 scholarship
KHARI JOHNSON, San Francisco State University, seventh place, $500 scholarship
McKENNA EWEN, University of Minnesota, eighth place, $500 scholarship
ASHLEY P. LAU, Northwestern University, ninth place, $500 scholarship
MICHAEL CALCAGNO, University of Oregon, tenth place, $500 scholarship

Western Kentucky University was first place in the Multimedia Competition with the highest accumulated student points in this competition. They are followed by: San Francisco State University; University of Florida (tie); Virginia Commonwealth University (tie); Syracuse University; Middle Tennessee State University (tie); Northwestern University (tie); University of Oklahoma; Temple University (tie); University of Minnesota (tie).
The Hearst Journalism Awards Program is conducted under the auspices of accredited schools of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication, and fully funded and administered by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation. It consists of six monthly writing, three photojournalism and four broadcast news competitions and one multimedia competition, with championship finals in all divisions except multimedia. The program awards more than $550,000 in scholarships and grants annually.

Judging the multimedia competition this year were: Arthur S. Brisbane, ASB Consulting, East Dennis, MA; Janet Reeves, Former Senior Editor/Photography and Multimedia, The Rocky Mountain News, Denver, CO; Fred Young, Former Senior Vice President of News, Hearst-Argyle Television, New York, NY.

For more information, see the Journalism Awards’ website, http://www.hearstawards.org/.