College of the Ozarks ‘The Point’ Broadcast Newsroom earns 26 journalism awards for broadcast excellence
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Student journalists from “The Point” Broadcast Newsroom at College of the Ozarks have been recognized with 26 awards for excellence in collegiate broadcast journalism.
Top honors presented to the student journalists included: “Winner — Television Feature Reporting,” “Winner — Arts/Cultural Affairs,” “Winner — Food/Restaurant Reporting,” “First Place — News Writing,” and “First Place — Multiplatform Journalism.”
“These students are excellent young journalists,” said Erin Hayes, associate professor of the practice of journalism and supervisor of “The Point” Broadcast Newsroom. “They strive to produce quality work, and they work together beautifully as a team. They bring a professional mindset to all that they do. I am not just proud of them, I’m grateful for them. The profession of journalism needs good, honest, truth-seeking young people to fill its ranks, and our graduates of ‘The Point’ are proving to be well-suited for that mission.”
Hayes is an alumna of College of the Ozarks and an award-winning former ABC News national correspondent. She has received numerous prestigious awards, including four Edward R. Murrow Awards, the National Sigma Delta Chi Award for Investigative Reporting, and three Alfred I. du Pont-Columbia Awards, among others.
“The Point” is an applied-learning newsroom in which students produce a bi-weekly news magazine focused on stories relevant to the campus community. Students gain hands-on experience in reporting, videography, editing and producing. Since its establishment in 2016, “The Point” Broadcast Newsroom has received more than 170 collegiate journalism awards at the state, regional and national levels.