Thursday October 15, 2009
Illinois Broadcasters Association has singled out a heart warming feature report on NIU football player Jake Coffman and honored the recently graduated broadcast journalism student, Ben Hutchison, who produced the report, with a coveted 2009 Student Silver Dome Award. The award is one of three prizes claimed by students in the Dept. of Communication broadcast journalism program at the Northern Television Center.
The Jake Coffman story won top honors in the category of Best Television Sports Package Reporting.
NTC students also won finalist certificates in two other categories: 1) for Best Television Longform Program - Top Shelf Sports, our Sports Magazine show produced by Ben Hutchison; and 2) for Best Television News Package, for an investigative report into the financial problems of Habitat for Humanity in DeKalb County by now graduated student Cristina Vujnich.