Written by Maggie Samples \/\/ Photo provided by Ethan Conn <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The spring 2023 HU16 staff won a Student Emmy from the Mid-America Foundation for their coverage of the fall 2022 election, and the studio was nominated for Emmys in College Long Form Nonfiction and College Sports Program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The show was directed by senior Kendall Moshinsky and produced by senior Ethan Conn. Harding alumna Morgan Wrigley and senior Carter Thweatt were anchors for the show with senior Mattie Powers reporting live from the White County extension office. Approximately a dozen people were a part of the behind-the-scenes crew. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Associate professor of communication at the University of Arkansas Dr. Ginger Blackstone was the faculty adviser for the show during her time at Harding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“You don\u2019t know who\u2019s going to win,\u201d Blackstone said. \u201cYou don\u2019t know what the numbers are at a time. So, you have to use student anchors who are good to talk without teleprompter, which is not easy to do. So that was challenging on their part \u2026 All of the students contributed to the success of that night and they all deserve recognition for it.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brandon Emlaw graduated in 2018 but came back to Harding to provide the graphics system used for the show. Blackstone said she was appreciative of his work and production manager Mark Prior\u2019s work on HU16. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thweatt said he was shocked when he heard about the win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt had been months since the broadcast, and I\u2019d forgotten they were coming up,\u201d Thweatt said. \u201cIt was a really cool moment when I heard.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thweatt said the show went smoothly and it was due to the efforts of the full crew. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOnly five of us were on-air, but I\u2019d say 20 to 30 people worked together to make the show a success,\u201d Thweatt said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wrigley learned about the Emmy win by text and said she wasn\u2019t surprised by the win because of the hard work the crew had put into the show. She said the HU16 team had opportunities like producing an Emmy-award-winning show because professors invested in them. Wrigley said she appreciated the chance HU16 gave her to work with students who were passionate about journalism and professors who believed in the abilities of the students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNot every school gives students the opportunity to work on a live newscast every day,\u201d Wrigley said. \u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s a class I could have taken that would replace what I learned from that hands-on experience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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