{"id":10728,"date":"2022-11-14T08:15:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T14:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=10728"},"modified":"2022-11-14T11:01:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T17:01:28","slug":"two-students-earn-national-journalism-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2022\/11\/14\/two-students-earn-national-journalism-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Two students earn national journalism honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img class=\"size-fusion-400 wp-image-10731 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/11\/TikTok-Kendra-400x667.png\" alt=\"screenshot from Kendra's TikTok\" width=\"400\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/11\/TikTok-Kendra-186x310.png 186w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/11\/TikTok-Kendra-200x333.png 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/11\/TikTok-Kendra-400x667.png 400w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/11\/TikTok-Kendra.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Nov. 14, 2022&#8211;Two journalism students from Missouri Western State University recently received national awards for videos they created.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>News Engagement Day TikToks<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As part of Dr. James Carviou&#8217;s Journalism 202: Reporting for the Media course, students submit TikToks every year for a national competition on News Engagement Day that is sponsored by Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year Kendra Simpson, convergent journalism and public relations major from St. Joseph, was one of five national <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsengagement.org\/best-ned-2022-tiktok-video\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">News Engagement Day TikTok video contest winners<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with her video titled \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@peachykeendra\/video\/7150445959829507374?fbclid=IwAR1HbJoxd39gSS7acHaxuKR_BM69rnuM9ijWgJ7gL4AqVTxdsVEH1miWo04&amp;is_from_webapp=v1&amp;item_id=7150445959829507374\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some Unbiased and Trustworthy News Sources<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">News Engagement Day encourages everyone to read, watch, like, tweet, post, listen to, or comment on news and learn news reporting principles. In her video, Simpson suggests a variety of trusted news sources for 18 year-olds preparing to vote in their first election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>CMA Film and Audio Festival<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">KGSM-TV Reporter Trinity Knapp, convergent journalism and public relations major from Shawnee, Kansas, took <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegemedia.org\/news\/article_4f40e2d4-2ece-11ec-843b-7faf5d5cfddd.html\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">second place in the nation for video sports package<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as part of the College Media Association Film and Audio Festival that took place last month in Washington DC.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The CMA Festival competition includes universities of all sizes from across the country. Knapp finished behind a student journalist from Baylor University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Knapp\u2019s honored video was a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Z_6-o-4QPFM\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">recap of a Griffon softball game against Rogers State<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> last spring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Missouri Western State University is a student-centered learning community preparing individuals for lives of excellence through applied learning. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">missouriwestern.edu<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov. 14, 2022&#8211;Two journalism students from Missouri Western State University recently received national awards for videos they created. News Engagement Day TikToks As part of Dr. James Carviou&#8217;s Journalism 202: Reporting for the Media course, students submit TikToks every year for a national competition on News Engagement Day that is sponsored by Association for Education [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10728"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10732,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10728\/revisions\/10732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}