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WUOT News Director Wins Edward R. Murrow Award
Matt Shafer Powell (pictured right with Linda Ellerbee), WUOT 91.9FM News Director and JEM instructor who teaches JEM 311-Electronic News Writing and Reporting, won his first National Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio-Television News Directors Association.
Named after newsman Edward R. Murrow, the annual awards honor outstanding achievement in electronic journalism.
Powell and WUOT were the national small market winner in the “Best Writing” category for a compilation of three different feature stories that aired in 2008, all written and produced by Powell: “In the Space of a Moment,” “Cicadian Rhythms” and “My Life. My Vote. (Sarah Moore Greene).”
“We congratulate Mr. Powell and WUOT for this marverous national recognition. JEM students can only benefit from an instructor who is proving himself to be an outstanding practitioner of everything that he is teaching in the classroom,” said Dr. Peter Gross, Director of UT's School of Journalism and Electronic Media.
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