Student News
Broadcasting Students visit New York and Win at NBS The National Broadcasting Society held its annual national convention on March 25-28 in New York City. Western students attended and some of them were!
Left to right: Julio Rausseo, Melissa Maddoz, Ebony Washington, Lisa Glaub, Dana Fishman, Hanna Logan, Carly Babington
Nick Wilkens: Audio News Segment Category, "Grape Festival" Grand Prize Winner
Liz Bales and Nick Moron: Video News Package Category, "Avoiding Tragedy" Honorable Mention
Nick Wilkens: Audio Feature Segment Category, "Food Services" Honorable Mention
Nick Wilkens: Audio Sports Segment Category, "Marching Necks" Honorable Mention
Beth Terpening: Audio Commercials Category, "Brighter Light Bookshop" Honorable Mention
Kyle Dierking: Video Sports Program Category, "Pigskin Preview" Honorable Mention
Julio Rausseo: Sports Play-By-Play Programming Category, "Macomb High vs. Illini West" Nick Wilkens, Nick Moron, Liz Bales and Kyle Dierking are broadcasting alums and they are all employed! Nick Wilkens (BA 2008) is the News Director at KCII in Washington, IA. Nick Moron (BA 2008) is a videographer for KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids, IA. Liz Bales (BA 2008) is a news reporter for WHBF-TV in Rock Island, IL. And Kyle Dierking (BA 2007) is a video journalist at Newson6.com, KOTV-TV in Tulsa, OK.
Faculty News Sam Edsall has created a couple of online shows. One show is titled 'Senior Showcase' and features the audio and video projects of the senior broadcasting students. This first episode showcases the work of students currently enrolled in the production capstone class BC 490 Senior Workshop in Production. These examples are their midterm projects. See the show. The second production is the 2009 Miss Macomb Scholarship Pageant. Edsall has been covering this event every year since 1990. He used two Panasonic P2 cameras (one for wide shots and the other for close-ups) and he shot the event digitally without tape. He then edited the show using Final Cut Pro and Motion. He burns DVD's that the broadcasting department sells to the public. The Miss Macomb Scholarship Pageant will air on wiutv3. Edsall also presented "Creating Vodcasts for Mobile Devices from PowerPoint Lectures - Tools for PC and Mac" at the the 10th Annual TechFest at WIU.