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Every great newscaster learns the tricks of the trade from somewhere. And if a recent spate of awards is any indication, more than a few will one day say they got their start at Fordham’s WFUV 90.7 FM. In the past year, citations from the Radio and Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) and American Women in Radio and Television Inc. (AWRT) have put a number of Fordham students in the same company as NPR’s Bob Edwards and CBS’ Hannah Storm.
WFUV graduate assistants Angie-Lyn Hamilton-Lowe (GSAS ’05) and Jen Guerra (GSAS ’04), both received the Edward R. Murrow Award from the RTNDA for a series they produced on the subway centennial called Subculture. The series also received a 2nd place award among small news shops nationwide from PRNDI. An hour-long documentary version of Subculture won a Gracie Allen award from the AWRT. Hamilton-Lowe now works in production at NPR’s network talk show News & Notes with Ed Gordon, Guerra was recently hired as an announcer and producer in her home state at Michigan Public Radio.
Recent Fordham College at Rose Hill alumnas Jennifer Pulsone (FCRH ’05) and Anne Shaknis (FCRH ’05) also received Gracies. Pulsone was honored as Best Student Newscaster, while the short feature documenting Shaknis’ summer as a camp counselor won Best Documentary in the same competition.
WFUV political reporter Shane D’Aprile’s (FCRH ’06) report on how 9/11 families would weigh in on the 2004 presidential election won him special mention in the Society of Professional Journalists’ (SPJ) national Mark of Excellence awards. D’Aprile also picked up top honors as Best Newscaster in the New York Associated Press’ student competition.
Evelyn Lombardo (FCRH ’06), Jonathan Vigliotti (FCRH ’05), and Pulsone shared Best Newscast honors in SPJ’s Mark of Excellence student awards competition. Vigliotti also won a first place feature award in the student category from the New York Associated Press for his documentary report on the lives of workaholics in New York City.
Scott Detrow (FCRH, ’07), a relative newcomer to WFUV, won his first broadcasting award for a spot news report on the rock band U2’s impromptu concert under the Brooklyn Bridge. PRNDI awarded him a $500 scholarship and flew him to Chicago for the awards ceremony.
WFUV’s news team won awards from PRNDI, the AP and RTNDA for their 2005 hour-long documentary “Working the Night Shift.” A team of student reporters, under the direction of Assistant News/Public Affairs Director George Bodarky, hit the streets of New York City between midnight and 6 a.m. to document the lives of nightshift workers.
WFUV-FM, Fordham’s 50,000-watt public radio station, is an affiliate of National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Radio International (PRI) and offers an eclectic mix of music programming 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Chartered in 1947, the station serves more than 300,000 listeners per week in New York City’s five boroughs, Long Island, and the northern New York suburbs as well as neighboring New Jersey and Connecticut.
With WFUV’s new, state-of-the-art facilities in Keating now completed, the entire news staff is assured that they will be able to continue to uncover New York’s richest stories—and win awards.
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