"Carolina Week" students take RTDNAC honors
Left to right: Dave Cupp, assistant professor, with J-school student winners Lindsey Hawkins, Emily Palmer and Patrick Wright at the Oct. 20, 2012, convention of RTDNAC in Charlotte. (Photo courtesy of Lindsey Hawkins)
UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media electronic communication students and “Carolina Week” crew members placed in seven of eight student categories and May 2012 graduate Patrick Wright was named D. Haney Howell Student Journalist of the Year at the Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas (RTDNAC) annual convention held Oct. 20 in Charlotte, N.C.
The convention gathered professionals and journalism students to honor the best in broadcast journalism in North Carolina and South Carolina. Students honored included 2012 graduates Wright, Lindsey Hawkins, Preston Jones and Andy Rives. “Carolina Week” meteorologists Tom Meiners and Drew Day, students of NC State’s meteorology program, also were recognized.
Emily Palmer, a junior working with “Carolina Week,” received the John R. Bittner Scholarship during the ceremony. The $1,000 scholarship is given to a rising junior or senior studying broadcast or electronic communication and is named for the late Carolina J-school professor and executive director of the RTDNAC.
Students placed in the following categories:
- Best Student Feature Reporting
Lindsey Hawkins, first place, “Brother Sister Team”
- Best Student News Reporting
Preston Jones, second place, “Tuition Hike Controversy”
- Best Student Newscast
Lindsey Hawkins, first place, “Carolina Week” April 18, 2012
- Best Student Photography
Patrick Wright, first place, “Chapel Hill Towing”
- Best Student Sportscast
Andy Rives, second place, “Carolina Week” sportscast Nov. 21, 2011
- Best Student Weathercast
Tom Meiners, first place, “Carolina Week” weathercast April 18, 2012
Drew Day, second place, “Carolina Week” weathercast Nov. 30, 2011
- D. Haney Howell Student Journalist of the Year
Patrick Wright