UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Work produced by Penn State students earned five honors, including two first-place finishes, in a national competition conducted by the College Media Association.
Submissions from Penn State topped categories for Best Video Newscast and Best Use of Short Video for News and Information as the association announced its 2023 Individual Pinnacle Awards at its convention in Atlanta.
Additional entries finished second for Best Video Sportscast, third for Best Audio Special Event Coverage, and an honorable mention for Best Video Newscast.
All the work was produced by students in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications as part of the “Centre County Report” newscast or CommRadio, the official radio/streaming station of the Bellisario College with students covering news, sports, arts and entertainment.
“Centre County Report” is produced by students in the capstone broadcast journalism course in the Bellisario College. The weekly program airs across Pennsylvania on WPSU-TV (PBS) to 29 counties and 500,000 television homes. It also streams throughout Pennsylvania as the result of partnerships with KDKA-TV (Pittsburgh) and KYW-TV (Philadelphia). Viewers also can watch the newscasts on YouTube.
The newscast has won numerous regional and national awards and has been named the best college newscast in the nation a half dozen times in the past 10 years.
CMA is the nation’s largest organization dedicated to serving collegiate media advisers and the Pinnal Awards honor the best college media organizations and individual work.