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WUGA-FM News and Public Affairs |
WUGA-FM WINS FOUR AP AWARDS
The Georgia Associated Press Broadcasters Association honored
WUGA-FM with four awards for radio reporting. Mary Kay Mitchell,
WUGA news director, won first place for "best general reporting."
She spoke with University of Georgia officials and students
about the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on affirmative
action in admissions decisions.
Mitchell and David Bryant, public relations coordinator for
the Georgia Sea Grant program, won second place for "best
series reporting" for the two-and-one-half hour series,
Earth, Air, Fire, and Water.
WUGA intern James Montgomery and Mitchell took second place
for "best feature" reporting for a story on scrambled
egg meals-ready-to-eat that Romeo Toledo (a professor in UGA's
Department of Food Science and Technology) is developing for
the military.
And WUGA reporter Cari Gervin received second place for "best
use of sound" for her profile of the Zoom Bait Company,
a family-owned business in Athens. The awards were presented
at GAPBA's annual banquet, held May 1 in Atlanta. |
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Mary Kay Mitchell, News and Public Affairs Director
Award-winning news director Mary Kay Mitchell has headed-up
WUGA's news efforts since the station first signed-on the air
in 1987. Over the years, she has led a team of reporters that
has resulted in more than a hundred awards from the Associated
Press, the Georgia Association of Broadcasters, the Society
of Professional Journalists, and other professional organizations |
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