Archive for March, 2009

Faculty member recognized in NPPA BOP web category.

Posted by Tim Broekema on March 29th, 2009 under contest winners, faculty work  •  No Comments

Faculty member Tim Broekema and former WKU student Mark Osler worked together during the Democratic National Convention in the fall of 2008 telling stories for AARP Bulletin Today.
Osler gathered content in Denver and transmitted his pictures and audio back to WKU where Broekema worked on deadline overnight producing multi-media projects that were posted on the [...]

WKU’s Carl Kiilsgaard Wins Clif Edom’s “New America Award”.

Posted by Tim Broekema on March 25th, 2009 under contest winners  •  No Comments

ST. PETERSBURG, FL (March 25, 2009) – Student photojournalist Carl Kiilsgaard of Western Kentucky University has won Cliff Edom’s “New America Award” in the National Press Photographers Association’s Best Of Photojournalism competition today during judging at the contest’s host site, the Poynter Institute for Media Studies.
“Wow,” Kiilsgaard said when he was called with the news. “I was just walking out [...]

The “Mountain” tentatively finds its new home for 2009 workshop.

Posted by Tim Broekema on March 25th, 2009 under workshops  •  No Comments

Faculty members and staff have made a couple of trips this spring to Murray, Ky., sight of the 2009 Mountain Workshops. Just last week we toured Murray State  University’s basketball stadium, a possible location for the headquarters. While looking thru one of the storage closets we ran across this sign. Seems to me that the [...]

Highlights: Student’s work from the Projects in New Media class.

Posted by Tim Broekema on March 20th, 2009 under photojournalism projects class  •  No Comments

Seniors in the Projects in New Media class, a capstone course, produced stories that provide thought provoking story telling using multiple forms of media to produce mini-documentaries. Click on the images below to see their stories.