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Eiles at WCHS-TV, Portland, Maine. The top three newscasts from eachpreliminary judging panel where then sent to the NBC News bureau in Washington,DC, where national correspondent Rosalind Jordan led the final judging process.Judging captain for the hard news reporting competition was Danielle North,anchor/reporter at WPRI-TV in Providence, Rhode Island. Eileen Floyd, news directorat KTVA-TV, Anchorage, took charge of the feature news reporting selection processand KUSA-TV sports anchor Tony Zarrella served as sports reporting judging captainfrom his mile-high desk in Denver.Six schools from the entered 23 took away win, place and show awards this year.Among them, Colorado State University, took top honors in the newscast categoryafter placing second last year, and Arizona State University captured two first placeawards. The University of Maryland also took two first place certificates from theawards program in Las Vegas on April 5th. Other winning television reports came fromstudents at Southern Illinois University, Northwestern University and the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill.TABLE 32002 BEA News Division Student News Competition: TelevisionCategory 1st place 2nd place 3rd placeNEWSCAST Colorado State Southern Illinois NorthwesternUniversity University UniversityHARD news reporting Katie Calautti Rishi Barran Regina WillisU. of Maryland U. of Maryland UNC/Chapel HillFEATURE news reporting Holly Naylor Adam Atchison Alex LawsonArizona State U. Colorado State U. UNC/Chapel HillSPORTS reporting Dan Bubany Ricky Doyle Rishi BarranArizona State U. Northwestern U. U. of MarylandTeam Zarrella called ASU Dan Bubany’s “Young Gun QBs” creative and fun. Judgesin Alaska described ASU Holly Naylor’s winning feature, “Charlie VanDyke,” about aformer hard-partying voice-over professional turned man of the cloth, as a great featureidea with good use of music and a great ending. The Rhode Island judging crew choseMaryland Katie Calautti’s “IMF Impact” as the best hard news reporting piece of theyear for its pacing, stand-up and very professional overall feel and flavor.Judges from the three panels viewing newscasts praised all six finalists (the other threefinalists were from Arizona State University, University of Maryland and the Universityof North Carolina at Chapel Hill) for strong graphics, solid weather presentations(“Better then some of what I’ve seen in smaller markets,” raved one judge), interestingstory selection and well-told stories. The network judges gave the edge to ColoradoState University for its hard-hitting local lead, good tease and quantity of video.58Feedback April 2003 (Vol. 44, No. 2)