Journalism students win multiple awards in regional contests

Three Campus News Stories Move On to National SPJ Contest Three stories from Campus News, MSUM’s student produced newscast, were named as winners in the Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards. Stien Michalsen, a photographer for Campus News last spring, won in both the television news photography and the television sports photography categories. Collin Boyles, a 2013 graduate, […]

Campus News receives honorable mention

MSUM’s Campus News received an honorable mention from the Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts, a competitive festival open to BEA individual faculty and student members. Campus News won in the category for television newscasts that air three days per week or less. Separate competitions for faculty and students cover the range from dramatic narratives, through non-fiction documentary and […]

Alum featured on “House Hunters” Saturday

“House Hunters,” one of HGTV’s most well-known shows, recently featured Lindsay (Hartmann) Hample and her husband, Ryan. Lindsay, a 2005 graduate of MSUM, majored in mass communications and loved anchoring on Campus News and playing on the conference champion women’s basketball team. Lindsay also serves as the vice president of the MSUM Alumni Foundation Board of Directors. While in the […]

Mass Communications students win multiple awards in regional contests

Campus News Wins NATAS Award in College Newscast Category, wins most of the SPJ Awards Campus News, MSUM’s student produced newscast, took home a Crystal Pillar Award in the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Upper Midwest Chapter Student Awards of Excellence in the newscast category. Campus News was the only newscast honored with a Crystal Pillar out of […]

Campus News reporter named finalist in national contest

Lane Zyvoloski, an MSUM junior and a Campus News reporter last spring, has been named a national finalist in the College Broadcasters Inc. National Student Production Contest. College Broadcasters, Inc. is a national organization that represents students involved in radio, television, webcasting and other related media. Her piece titled “Mandala” is one of four finalists in the Best News Reporting […]