Friday, November 3, 2023
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Students from Marshall University’s public radio station, WMUL-FM, received two (2) Silver Awards in the 19th Annual Davey Awards Competition for 2023. The winners were named in an email sent to WMUL-FM from the International Academy of the Visual Arts (IAVA) in New York, New York.
The Davey Awards are creative awards focused exclusively on honoring outstanding creative work from the best small firms worldwide. Just as David defeated the mighty Goliath with a big idea and a little rock, that is the sort of thing small firms do every day. The International Davey Awards level the playing field so entrants compete with only their peers. There were more than 4,000 entries in the Davey Awards Competition for 2023 from ad agencies, radio stations, production firms, in-house creative professionals, graphic designers, design firms and public relations firms.
Entries are judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts. The International Davey Awards offer two levels of award recognition – Gold and Silver. Entries are scored on a ten-point scale by the judges. Generally, Gold Winners receive a score of 9.0 or above and Silver Winners receive a score of 7.0 to 8.9. The two levels of winners, which are approximately ten percent of the total entries, are listed on the Davey Awards 2023 website at www.daveyawards.com.
Dr. Chuck G. Bailey, professor of radio-television production and management in the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Marshall University and faculty manager of WMUL-FM, said, “It is gratifying to have the WMUL-FM student broadcasters recognized with silver awards for the engaging station Instagram social media presence and having created a worthy historical documentary. These silver awards indicate a strong social media presence by the radio station’s staff and the writing, plus long-form programming production skills of our broadcasting students.”
“I am proud of the honor these Davey Awards bestow on WMUL-FM, the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications, the College of Arts and Media and Marshall University. These silver awards indicate the respect the IAVA judges have for the writing and production abilities of our students along with the commitment of our student broadcasters to their Instagram social media account that the radio station’s social media entry exhibited during this worldwide competition against professional practitioners in similar-sized organizations.”
Silver Award Winning Entries
Social Features—Best Social Presence
WMUL’s FM 88 Instagram social media account is recognized for its use during radio station events throughout the 2022 academic year. The WMUL-FM Instagram social media account was overseen by Social Media Director Rebecca Law, a senior from Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Individual Episodes—Documentary and Historical
“Chapters: Chuck Yeager” written and produced by Nick Matawa, a recent graduate from Brick, New Jersey, broadcast on “Aircheck” Monday, December 12, 2022.