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Knowles to receive 2006 Bliss Award Knowles to receive 2006 Bliss Award
Broadcast professor Bill Knowles has been named the winner of the 2006 Edward. L. Bliss Award for Distinguished Broadcast Journalism Education. Edward L. Bliss was a long-time writer for CBS News, starting in 1943 during World War II. He later became a journalism educator and wrote a comprehensive history of radio and television news. He died in 2002 at 90 years old. The Bliss award has been conferred annually since 1983 by the Radio-Television Journalism Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Knowles, who will be honored at the AEJMC convention in San Francisco in August, is the 24th winner of the award. “I’m not sure I belong in the league with some of the guys that are on the list,” said Knowles, who had a 20-year career at ABC before beginning his teaching career at the University of Montana. “These are people I know and who have had long distinguished careers.” Knowles is retiring this year, but will return in the fall to teach two classes. Broadcast professor Denise Dowling nominated Knowles for the award and gathered letters from other people about his effect on their lives and careers. "Just the way Bill works with students and former students here at the university, in addition to being a terrific teacher, he is a mentor and friend to teachers and students,” Dowling said. “Those are the things to me that have set him apart from the other hundreds of journalism educators that are out there.” - Sarah Swan UM J-School places 12th overall in Hearst With two first-place awards, the UM School of Journalism placed 12th overall — and 10th in broadcast competition — in the recently concluded Hearst Journalism Awards. The Hearst Journalism Awards program is a year-long competition made up of 13 separate contests: six in writing, three in photojournalism and four in broadcast news. In the final competition of the year, UM print student Quinn Riedy received a 12th place in the spot news competition. In the year-long contest, UM students won a total of seven awards. The winners are:
Pillman was one of 10 students chosen to compete this June in the 46th annual National Broadcast News Championships in San Francisco. Riedy's story, "Drunken brawler bites off Rose barkeep’s middle
digit,” appeared in the Montana Kaimin in
April 2005.
The story chronicles an unusual night at the Golden Rose
Casino bar in downtown Missoula when a bartender trying to break
up a fight had his finger bitten off by one of the combatants. The Hearst program, which gives more than $400,000 in awards, matching grants and stipends yearly, was founded in the late 1940s by publisher William Randolph Hearst. Of approximately 400 journalism programs in the country, 105 are accredited by the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication and are eligible to participate in the program. - Katrin Madayag Functional, flexible and faster: Welcome to the new Montana Kaimin Web site. The Montana Kaimin launched its new Web site last month, which included the first Kaimin blog and the ability for readers to leave feedback.
The new design was made for the reader, said Kaimin Web Editor Denny Lester, a photojournalism junior. The Kaimin switched from the University server to a commercial host, said Lester, rebuilt the Web site from the ground up. “We needed to understand the nuts and bolts,” he said. The Kaimin Web team had been working on the template for a year. Last fall’s Pollner professor, Chris Boese, helped the Kaimin with its new design as well. The Kaimin already introduced its first blogger, Tim Ratte, who visited New Orleans and filed his reports from there. The Web site also now features an RSS feed. “It’s a great way for people on the move,” Lester said. The final completed Web site will be up in the fall, and Lester is excited about it. He sees more projects going up on the Web site, like blogs, podcasts and possibly putting up Web-exclusive tabs online. Between classes, Lester is working on his next project, fixing the archives for past and present Kaimin stories, a critical part of the Web site, he said. “It’s who we are and who were were as students,” he said. - Katrin Madayag RTV students, faculty earn national honors The Broadcast Education Association chose projects produced by UM Radio-Television faculty and students as the best in the nation at its recent conference. The awards were given in special ceremonies in Las Vegas in April. The BEA News Division honors the best in radio and television news produced by students at universities around the country. Eli Bierwag and Kevin Farmer took top honors in the television sports reporting category with a story on UM’s lacrosse team. One judge said “This is an example of taking a story nobody would normally care about, and making it a creative, visual experience that brings you closer to the game.” The News Division also selected University of Montana students as finalists in several categories including television hard news, Stan Pillman and Andy Atkins; television feature reporting, Tiffany Toepper and Trent Gary; radio hard news, K’Lynn Sloan; and radio features, Emilie Ritter. Student producers of The Footbridge Forum won first place in the student audio competition and were also named “Best of Festival” winners. That designation brought a trophy and $1000 at a black tie awards ceremony on the last night of the conference. Students Abby Lautt, Tyler Claxton and Sarah Hubbard were in Las Vegas to accept the award. Junior Ryan Coleman received the BEA's Harold E. Fellows scholarship, awarded to a student who shows superior academic performance and compelling evidence of high personal integrity and responsibility. Associate professor and RTV Chair Ray Ekness took top honors in the faculty television news competition for his work “Cowboy Poet”. The profile of Great Falls resident Paul Zarzyski was produced as part of the Montana Arts Council’s Governor’s Arts Awards. - Denise Dowling
The University of Montana School of Journalism's Native News class recently purchased equipment to increase its multi-media capabilities. The 17-person class is made up of seven reporters, seven photographers, a Web designer, a picture editor and a page designer, all working on this year’s project – Native American education.
The students now have access to some new recording equipment that allows them to put audio on their Web site. They are using it to record introductions of themselves, and hope to add audio from their research. The new equipment includes adaptors for people who have iPods that can record sound, and Sony microphones that attach to the adaptors. Native News teachers Carol Van Valkenburg and Teresa Tamura hope to add more equipment in the future, but funding is tight. They have, however, been creative with budgets in the past. “(Professor) Denny McAuliffe has really been instrumental in writing grants that encompass both Native News and Reznet,” said Van Valkenburg. If they are able to secure more funding in future semesters, Tamura said they would first like to purchase new software, and then hardware to put the Native News project in the multi-media arena. This year's Web site was designed by class Web designer Jaydn Welch. - Hannah Heimbuch
‘Backroads’ TV program earns award "Backroads of Montana," produced by KUFM-TV at The University of Montana, has been selected to receive a Dorothy Ogg Award for Excellence from the Missoula Historic Preservation Commission. For the past 15 years, "Backroads" has highlighted interesting people, places and events across Big Sky Country. The Montana PBS program won in the "Preservation Information and Education" category. "Backroads" host William Marcus and producers Gus Chambers, Ray Ekness and John Twiggs will receive their award at 6:30 p.m. May 12 in the Governor’s Room of the Florence Building at 211 N. Higgins Ave. in Missoula.
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