Sunday, April 23, 2006

AP Names Emerson News Media Outlets Best College Stations in Region

WERS has just been named the top college radio station in the region by the Associated Press. For an excerpt from the article, read on:

David Rosen
Public Affairs
03/27/06

From the article on Emerson's E-Campus (www.emerson.edu/ecampus)

WEBN and WERS-FM at Emerson College have been named by the Associated Press as, repectively, best college television station and best college radio station in this area. Student broadcast news groups on campus also garnered 11 individual prizes in the 2005 Associated Press Broadcasters Awards for Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The awards, were presented on Saturday, April 8 in Sturbridge, Mass.

Seven awards were handed out to WEBN and WERS-FM and Emerson Independent Video (EIV) will each receive two. The awards recognize exceptional coverage of events and issues related to the Iraq War and Hurricane Katrina. Others are in categories ranging from sports, weather, public affairs and enterprise reporting. Rachel Gabrielsen is the WEBN news director; Thaddeus Williams is the EIV station manager; and Blake Nebel is the WERS-FM news director.



(Photo credit: David Rosen; Two newscasters on WEBN, Emerson's television station, which was also named #1 in its category by the AP this year)

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