Famu Sjgc Congratulates the Southeastern Journalism Conference 2014 Broadcast/Multimedia awardees.

Thank you, Prof. Kenneth Jones for being the great motivator and primary instructor:

Let's congratulate FAMU SJGC Journalism students:

Brittany Collins for "Best Television Hard News Reporter" 
Gabby Dawkins for "Best Television News Feature Reporter"
Donovan Long for "Best Television Journalist"
Donovan Long and Alicia Turner (now a television reporter for WCTW) for "Best Multimedia Journalist."

Another deserved round of congrats to excellent, future multimedia communicators from Famu Sjgc: Keytron Hill, Jordan Kinsey and LaCrai Mitchell.

They were awarded scholarships to attend the Investigative Reporters and Editors workshops in Atlanta and Philadelphia. Thanks to the Knight Chair for Student Achievement (SJGC) Chair Francine Huff, our students were recommended and nurtured throughout the process.

According to IRE's website, the organization "is a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of investigative reporting. IRE was formed in 1975 to create a forum in which journalists throughout the world could help each other by sharing story ideas, newsgathering techniques and news sources.

IRE provides members access to thousands of reporting tip sheets and other materials through its resource center and hosts conferences and specialized training throughout the country. Programs of IRE include the National Institute for Computer Assisted Reporting and DocumentCloud."