by Derek Jones, Interim Station Manager, WGLS Heroin High, a WGLS-FM documentary about the drug culture in South Jersey high schools, won first place in the Best Radio Feature category of the Garden State Journalists Association awards competition. Rowan University students Joe Mineo, Allie Volpe, and Robert Zettlemoyer developed Heroin High, a 30-minute documentary focused...
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Student Accomplishments
Rowan Radio Documentary Wins First Place
Rowan Television Network Telethon: Overcoming Hurricane Sandy
By guest author Priyal Dubal Rowan University’s own college television network strives to make a difference. For the sixth year in a row, the Rowan Television Network will host a telethon on Wednesday, April 10th, 2013, raising donation money in a five-hour live broadcast for a charity chosen by the club. The funding goal...
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Restoring the Shore One Shirt at a Time
Rowan CCCA student Derek Koch (Art with a specialization in Graphic Design) is a NJ native with strong connections to the areas devastated by Hurricane Sandy. So, after the storm abated, he used his skills in graphic art and his dedication to the area to design a graphic for relief efforts. It was a...
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Recent Awards for CCCA Students
Rowan Radio 89.7 WGLS-FM wins three SPJ Awards Rowan Radio 89.7 WGLS-FM won three awards at the 2012 Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Greater Philadelphia Chapter awards competition. “Your Health Matters” received first place in the competition’s Report/Health Science category. WGLS-FM earned second place recognition in the Radio Documentary category for “Smoking: Unfiltered,” a 30-minute documentary about...
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WGLS-FM Honored in Freedom of Speech PSA Contest
by Frank Hogan Rowan Radio was recognized in the 2012 Freedom of Speech PSA competition, presented by the National Association of Broadcasters and Broadcast Education Association. WGLS –FM Production Director Joe Mineo and Operations Manager Allie Volpe earned second place in the Freedom of Speech PSA competition’s radio division. “Freedom of Speech Means…” was...
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Another Alumnus Nominated for Emmy for Work with NBC10.
Geoff Nichols, a graduate of the College, has been nominated for an Emmy for his work with NBC10 Philadelphia in the category “Outstanding Regional News Story – Spot News.” See more at the NBC press release. This is the second Emmy nomination for a Rowan grad this year. Congratulations to Geoff and the NBC10...
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Two more awards for RTN!
An announcement from RTN Rowan Television Network is pleased to announce that RTN has won two Telly awards this year to add to the collection of awards RTN has won over the years. Sketches from Season Two of “Socially Awkward” and Valentine’s Day from “The Wordsman Show” have been selected by the Telly Awards...
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Alumnus Scores an Emmy Nomination
Adam Chazen, a 2008 RTF grad, was honored with an Emmy nomination last week, along with the other members of his visual effects team, for the Outstanding Special Visual Effects for episode 2.10 of HBO’s Game of Thrones. Chazen has previously worked on Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Lightning Thief, 2012, and Yogi Bear....
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WGLS-FM – The Hits Keep Coming!
Rowan Radio added to its award total on Wednesday in competitions held by the Philadelphia Press Association and the New Jersey Broadcasters Association. WGLS-FM News Director Waldy Diez received first place honors in the NJBA’s Student Division for Best News Reporting. Diez’s entry, produced for The Rowan Report, covered the Tent State University event...
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Rowan Radio Wins Two NJSPJ Awards
WGLS-FM received a pair of honors in the 2012 New Jersey Chapter Society of Professional Journalists Excellence in Journalism Awards competition. Studio 89.7 grabbed second place in the Radio Enterprise category. Hosted by Rowan University adjunct instructor and radio veteran Paul Perrello, the award-winning entry featured an interview with legendary Philadelphia broadcaster Jerry Blavat....
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