Over the weekend, the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association held their Student Seminar and announced the winners of both their scholarships and the Student Awards for Excellence. Students and recent alums from the J-School won 10 awards for different projects in broadcasting and WSUM received 13 awards.
We’re so proud of our current and former J-Schoolers! The full list of UW-Madison award winners is as follows:
News Series/Documentary (TV)
First Place: Tagged, Zoe Bockhorst
Newscast (Radio)
Second Place: WSUM, 5 p.m. News 9/27/21
Third Place: WSUM, 5 p.m. News 10/21/21
Newscast (TV)
Second Place: The Badger Report, 11/19/21, producers Gaby Vinick and Kim Leadholm
Writing (Radio)
Third Place: WSUM, All Across the World, Countries Commit to Climate Protection Efforts
Feature Story (Radio)
First Place: WSUM, Fort McCoy Refugees See Madison Ballet’s Nutcracker
Sports Story (TV)
Third Place: Head Injury Prevention, Kelsey Tehan
Sports Play-by-Play (Radio)
Third Place: WSUM, Las Vegas Bowl Play-by-Play
Photojournalism (TV)
Second Place: Hitchcock: A Radio Play, Jerome Barnett
Special Programming (Radio)
Third Place: WSUM, Totalmente Cobra Nenhum Lago
Audio Storytelling-Sound (Radio)
First Place: Commander’s Intent, Reagan Zimmerman
Second Place: Crushin’ in COVID, Grace Landsberg
Public Affairs/Talk Show (Radio)
First Place: WSUM, Midwifery Program at Stake
Second Place: WSUM, 4 Tha Culture
Third Place: WSUM, Travis Scott Festival Tragedy/Concert Safety
PSAs/Commercials (Radio)
First Place: WSUM, Poggers
Second Place: WSUM, Moshpit Safety
Third Place: WSUM, Socially Distanced Dates
Website
First Place: Curb Online
Second Place: On the Record
Third Place: Cutting Class
Social Media
First Place: Curb Magazine
Second Place: WSUM Instagram