{"id":12597,"date":"2026-11-11T15:45:32","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T21:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=12597"},"modified":"2026-11-11T15:45:32","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T21:45:32","slug":"griffon-media-earns-national-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2026\/11\/11\/griffon-media-earns-national-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Griffon Media earns national recognition\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12598\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12598\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/11\/group.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-fusion-600 wp-image-12598\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/11\/group-600x374.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/11\/group-200x125.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/11\/group-310x193.jpg 310w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/11\/group-400x249.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/11\/group-600x374.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/11\/group-768x479.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/11\/group-800x498.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/11\/group-1024x638.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/11\/group-1200x748.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/11\/group-1536x957.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12598\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Luling Huang, Noah Woods, Jessica Andreas, Eric Weightman, Charlie Sample, Kendall Warren and Dr. James Carviou attended the 2026 Fall College Media Association Convention in Kansas City, Missouri.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nov. 11, 2026\u2013Griffon Media students returned home from the 2026 Fall College Media Association Convention in Kansas City, Missouri with several national awards. The honors for the student-led news organization at Missouri Western State University included three first-place awards.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Griffon Media received the following national Pinnacle Awards (Division III):<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First Place, Multimedia Sports Story: Charlie Sample, senior applied communication and journalism major from Columbia, Missouri<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First Place, Coverage of Diversity: Kendall Warren, junior applied communication and journalism major from Kansas City, Missouri<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First Place, General News Package (audio\/video): Bailey Woodbury, senior cinematic arts major from Saint Joseph<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Second Place, Sports Feature (audio\/video): Sample<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Honorable Mention, Podcast: Warren &amp; Kyla Spradlin, a 2026 graduate in wildlife conservation and management from Platte City, Missouri.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, the Associated Collegiate Press presented Best of Show awards at the conference. This category doesn\u2019t sort schools into divisions, so MoWest students competed against some much larger programs. One Griffon Media student was honored:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seventh Place, Broadcast Sports Story: Mila Larrieu, sophomore applied communication and journalism major from Rang-du-Fliers, France\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also at the conference, Griffon Media students and faculty advisers Dr. James Carviou and Dr. Luling Huang presented at two well-attended sessions.\u00a0<\/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. MoWest 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;\">. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov. 11, 2026\u2013Griffon Media students returned home from the 2026 Fall College Media Association Convention in Kansas City, Missouri with several national awards. The honors for the student-led news organization at Missouri Western State University included three first-place awards.\u00a0 Griffon Media received the following national Pinnacle Awards (Division III): First Place, Multimedia Sports Story: Charlie  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comm","category-news-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=12597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12599,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12597\/revisions\/12599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}