Loyalist grads recognized for broadcasting excellence
Submitted by rwashburn on Tue, 06/22/2010 - 10:59pm.
Several Loyalist College Alumni were recognized this past weekend in Edmonton for excellence in broadcast journalism by both the Radio and Television News Directors Association of Canada and recognized internationally by the Radio, Television and Digital News Association in the United States.
Winning RTNDA national awards for best large market TV newscast was CTV-Winnipeg . The news director there is Karen Mitchell (Burton), a 1991 graduate of the Broadcast Journalism Program. Her station also won a Prairie Region award for best large market newscast.
BJ grads Allan Dearing ('98) and Chris Mckee ('95) and Radio Broadcasting grad Jen Hudson are all part of the news team at "News 91.9" in Moncton. The Rogers all news station Morning News won the RTNDA's Byron MacGregor national award for best newscast in a small market. Allan is the morning news co-anchor and Chris the morning editor. Jen is part of the station's news team.
And BJ grad Cecil Haire (BJ '86) is the morning news anchor at CBC Radio One in St. John's, NL. Cecil is part of the team that won the Peter Gzowski Award for the best news and information program
Finally, 1988 Broadcast Journalism graduate Steve Lawrence (Usifer), a videographer for CBC-TV, Nova Scotia, was part of the team that covered the Ferguson's Cove forest fire outside Halifax last spring. Steve captured dramatic footage as flames engulfed a neighborhood and nearly trapped him and his reporter. Both barely escaped the fire as it swept down a residential street.
The coverage by CBC-TV, Nova Scotia captured the 2009 Edward R. Murrow National Award for Small Market TV presented by the RTDNA in the US. The award will be officially presented at a ceremony in New York on October 11th.
