A TV newscast produced by Penn State students was named the nation’s best — earning the equivalent of an Emmy Award for college television — during the 37th College Television Awards in Los Angeles.
The Nov. 20, 2015, episode of ‘Centre County Report,’ a weekly newscast produced by Penn State students, included segments about the local response to terrorist attacks in Paris, bomb threats at a local high school, a crackdown on ‘tourist homes’ in State College and a one-on-one interview with Penn State football coach James Franklin.
It was the second year in a row a Penn State student-produced show earned a top honor at the College Television Awards. Last year, a special, hourlong episode of ‘Centre County Report’ was named Outstanding Magazine Show. This year, ‘Centre County Report’ finished second in that category with a special driven by an international reporting class’s trip to Hong Kong.
The top finish for newscast marked the third time in the past five years “Centre County Report” has been named the nation’s best by national organizations. In 2012 and 2013, the Broadcast Education Association named it the nation’s top college newscast, and the show finished second in that category earlier this year.
‘Centre County Report,’ produced as part of a capstone journalism course, expanded during the recently completed spring semester. Separate editions of the newscast air at noon Tuesday and Friday on Campus Cable. Those same newscasts reach 530,000 households in 29 Pennsylvania counties through of a partnership with WPSU-TV.
‘Centre County Report’ segments are regularly published on StateCollege.com
The Television Academy Foundation is the charitable arm of the Television Academy, which coordinates the Primetime Emmys. The foundation conducts an internship program, presents faculty seminars and provides college scholarships as part of its mission to preserve and celebrate the history of television while educating and inspiring those who will shape its future.
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