Dan Hollis, a professor in Marshall University’s W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications, was awarded an Emmy Award by the Ohio Valley Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Saturday, July 20, at a gala hosted by Central Bank Center in Lexington, Kentucky.
The annual Emmy awards serve to recognize excellence in the full spectrum of television. Hollis received his honor in the category of Writer-Short or Long Form Content for his video on the West Virginia Waterfall Trail. The video can found at https://bit.ly/3Yfw5sj.
Hollis was named the 2012 West Virginia Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and was a two-time finalist, in 2020 and 2021, for the Faculty Merit Foundation West Virginia Professor of the Year.
Hollis was a 2020 inductee into the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications Hall of Fame and the winner of the Charles E. Hedrick Outstanding Faculty Award in the same year. He’s been with the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications since 1999.
“I am simply blown away not only by the award but just as much for the outpouring of love and warm wishes from so many friends in the days since,” Hollis said. “I cannot thank the Academy, Marshall University and all of them enough. I am honored.”
The Ohio Valley chapter spans 13 television markets in West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana including the cities of Columbus, Cincinnati, Louisville, Lexington, Evansville and Huntington/Charleston. This year, there were nearly 1,000 entries across all categories from 98 organizations in the region.
For more information on the Ohio Valley chapter, visit https://ohiovalleyemmy.org.