Loyola Senior Wins Elite Hearst Television 新闻 Award
(路易斯安那州新奥尔良. ——2020年4月23日) 突发新闻! A 易胜博 senior has been named one of the top 10 winners in Television 新闻 in the 60th annual William Randolph Hearst Foundation’s 新闻 Awards program. This is the first-ever Hearst Award won by a student from Loyola 新奥尔良. The elite competition pulls from the nation’s top journalism and communication schools. One hundred and four universities with accredited undergraduate journalism programs are eligible to participate in the Hearst competitions.
Loyola 新奥尔良 journalism senior Lily Cummings, who has interned with WDSU-TV, worked on the assignment desk at WWL-TV and interned at CBS 新闻, placed seventh in the Hearst Awards, which selected winners from 45 schools nationwide in the second and final TV competition held this academic year. Cummings won by submitting two broadcast news packages, including one about the recent collapse of the Hard Rock Hotel in 新奥尔良. She returns this summer to her hometown of Tulsa, Okla., to be a reporter for KTUL-TV, “Tulsa’s Channel 8.”
“这是一个难以置信的荣誉, bestowed on only the best in television news,索尼娅·杜赫说, director of Loyola 新奥尔良’ School of Communication and Design. “The Hearst Award is an awesome acknowledgement of Lily Cummings' talent – and the wonderful work we do here at Loyola 新奥尔良 in the School of Communication and Design.”
The incredible honor marks a triumph for both Cummings and the university, 说Duhe, who has led Loyola’s award-winning School of Communication and Design in recent years to attain accreditation from the Accrediting Council on Education in 新闻 and Communications and the Certification in Education for Public Relations.
在她的领导下, 从2009年开始, journalism faculty at Loyola have worked hard to ensure the university acquired state-of-the art broadcast equipment and professional television studios, as a means to advancing excellence through the journalism curriculum. A Board of Regents grant in 2015 provided funds for foundational equipment and a studio that allowed students to produce television broadcasts.
Endowed funds and recent fundraising through the university’s Faith in the Future campaign allowed Loyola top open its 最新技术. Michael Early工作室 this fall and to complete the university’s Digital Communication Hub, a digital and audio transmissions facility that allows students, 教师专家, industry leaders and residents to conduct real-time interviews around the world via broadcast, 广播甚至播客.
As Loyola has updated its journalism program in recent years, capstone journalism students have been given backpacks filled with broadcast equipment that have allowed them to cover breaking news 24/7. 教员们有吗?mplemented a Producer Incubator Lab, which uses industry professionals from Gray Television to train future newsroom producers; built a diverse roster of professionals in residence; expanded digital media capabilities, and helped students to garner a host of competitive awards, including the College Media Association’s Pinnacle Award and a Pacemaker Award from the Associated College Press, widely considered ‘the Pulitzer Prize of College of 新闻.’