Loyola SoC Award Winners for TV and video work
| December 8, 2017 |
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Six Loyola School of Communication students received awards for their video productions at a recent ceremony hosted by the Chicago/ Midwest chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Additionally, one Loyola student won a prestigious scholarship.
In the category of general assignment news, Crystal Pillar awards were given to Loyola graduate students Erin Law and Megan McKinley. They won the award for their story 鈥淒ress for Success,鈥� profiling a non-profit organization鈥檚 efforts to provide professional clothing for disadvantaged women to help them enhance their career opportunities. Their story was completed in Professor John Goheen鈥檚 Video Documentary class in Spring 2017.
Also winning a Crystal Pillar in general assignment news was Byron Macias, a member of the Claretians missionary order and a student in the Digital Storytelling master鈥檚 program. His video essay, 鈥淛ust a Shower,鈥� shared a unique perspective on an everyday activity that becomes infinitely more difficult for someone with a disability. He produced the work in Professor Goheen鈥檚 Backpack Journalism course in Spring 2017.
The third award went to students Ronnita Dumas, Hans Hart, and Jessica Kirstein for their public service announcement, 鈥淪ophie鈥檚 Gun Shop.鈥� The video was produced for the multimedia commercial production class taught jointly by Professor Goheen and Professor Pam Morris in Fall 2016. It featured a scene with a dark message: what if a child, instead of selling cookies and lemonade, set up a sidewalk stand to sell guns? The PSA promoted the mission of the Illinois Coalition Against Gun Violence, and supported the School of Communication鈥檚 social justice theme for the 2016-2017 school year.
In addition to the Crystal Pillar winners, multimedia journalism major Nick Coulson was honored as the winner of the Bernstein Global Wealth Management Scholarship, worth $5,000.
Coulson is a senior who was recently chosen for a prestigious internship with the ABC News program "Nightline" at the network鈥檚 headquarters in New York, where he will spend the spring semester.
Six other Loyola entries were finalists for Crystal Pillar awards, representing work by students Nader Issa, Madeline Kenney, Nicolas Lopez, Trisha McCauley, Grace Runkel, Jacob Voss, Jeff Chow, Hanlin Guo, Caitlin Higgins, Ashley King, and Nikhil Sequeira.