Tuesday, Apr 2, 2013
Rider鈥檚 chapter once again claimed multiple first-place awards from the prestigious national competition at the annual NBS Convention, held this year in Washington, D.C.
by Sean Ramsden
The Rider chapter of the National Broadcasting Society (NBS) captured five first-place awards at the NBS鈥 50th National Undergraduate Student Electronic Media Competition on March 23 in Washington, D.C. The competition was part of the 71st Annual Convention of the NBS-Alpha Epsilon Rho.
Rider students Ryan Hanratty 鈥13 of Valley Stream, N.Y., Dan Marley 鈥13 of Manalapan, N.J., and Kelly Sousa 鈥13 of Delran, N.J., earned first-place nods in the category of Video Music Entertainment Program for Backstage Story, while Sousa also claimed top honors for Where Have You Been, in the Video Public Affairs/Interview Program category.
In the Video Magazine Program category, Alex Valerio 鈥16 of Bridgewater, N.J., and Nic Stasi 鈥13 of Monroe, N.J., earned first-place awards for 小优视频 Geared Up, while Emily Mazzio 鈥13 of Medford, N.J., took top honors in the Audio Station Imagine category for 107.7 The Bronc Space Sweep.
Travis Hastings 鈥13, of Ulster Park, N.Y., was awarded the first prize for his Audio Public Service Announcement, Screen for Life, which urged people to be screened for colorectal cancer. Hastings lost his father to this type of cancer.
鈥淚 know the project, and being rewarded for it, meant a lot to him,鈥 said Scott Alboum, video technologies coordinator in the Department of Communication and Journalism, whose two-year term as chair of the NBS-Alpha Epsilon Rho Board of Governors is expiring.
Hastings and Sousa won first-place awards in 2012, as well. The Rider students were competing against their peers from such institutions as the University of Miami, the University of North Carolina, the University of Florida and the University of Southern California.
鈥淚t鈥檚 great to see the students rewarded for such good work over the past year,鈥 said Alboum, who added that 26 students attended this year鈥檚 convention, an experience that will benefit them all. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a wonderful convention that gives them all the chance to network with media professionals and tour their television and radio production facilities. It鈥檚 such a great experience for them.鈥
The Rider NBS first-place awards were not confined to students, however. Dr. Shawn Kildea, assistant professor of Communication, captured top honors for his documentary Children of Terror, in the NBS-Alpha Epsilon Rho Professional and Alumni Competition.
More than 70 colleges and universities have chapters in the National Broadcasting Society, whose purpose is to encourage and reward scholarship and accomplishment among students of broadcasting, to establish meaningful communication between student and professional broadcasters and to foster integrity in the use of the powerful instruments of radio, television, film, cable and its many associated businesses and industries.
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