OU Nightly Wins Best Student TV Newscast
from the Oklahoma OBEA

OU’s official student newscast, OU Nightly, has been named the Best Student TV Newscast by the Oklahoma chapter of the Broadcast Education Association. The award marks the second year in a row the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication production has taken top newscast honors. The award will officially be presented at ceremonies in Oklahoma City on March 28th as part of the OBEA Student Day.

“We have a growing number of volunteer students giving a growing number of hours to delivering true local news to the Norman community and it’s thrilling to see them so rewarded,” says McMahon Centennial Professor Dana Rosengard, Ph.D., faculty advisor for the student newscast both years it has taken the first place award.

OU Nightly’s winning entry was produced by Amanda Guerra who can now be seen as a general assignment reporter on KOCO-TV/Eyewitness News 5 in Oklahoma City.  Brianne Ballard and Julie Musgrave anchored the winning the newscast that featured a lead report by Ashley White and the weekly Leaders Live segment hosted by Brittney Tyler. White’s report on the historic troop deployment ceremony held at the Lloyd Noble Center on the OU campus was the lead story on the newscast just 90-minutes after the ceremony began.

“Judges, all professional journalists in the state, were impressed by the true news nature of the stories presented and by the all-local content provided to the Norman audience,” Rosengard reports.

OU Nightly can be seen Monday through Friday live at 4:30 p.m. on TV4OU (Cox 4 Norman) with a rebroadcast at 9:30 p.m.  The newscast can also be viewed live at 4:30 p.m. Central via the Web at  http://tv4.ou.edu/newsfull.html.