Students receive Broadcast Education Association award
Friday, April 25, 2008
(April 25, 2008 Stillwater, OK) - OSU School of Journalism and Broadcasting students
Eric Hinson (junior from Ardmore) and Chris Byers (senior from Muskogee) received
a “Best of Festival” award in the Broadcast Education Association’s national student
media competition. Hinson recently accepted the award in Las Vegas for a commercial
the pair created for a music store. The commercial was an assignment for Dr. John
McGuire’s audio production class. The OSU entry was one of only eight to receive “Best
of Festival” out of hundreds of student entries submitted in the national competition.
Hinson and Byers received a $1,000 prize provided by the Charles and Lucille King
Family Foundation. They also received complimentary video editing software from Avid
Technology.