By Ashton Pack, The Parthenon
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Marshall’s student radio station created a Halloween newscast last year; this Halloween, they will accept one of the country’s top broadcasting awards.
The Murrow Award is one of the most significant awards any student radio station could receive Charles Bailey, professor of journalism and mass communications and WMUL-FM’s faculty advisor, said.
“It’s one of the top three or four awards. I mean, you have the Pulitzer award, you have the Peabody, you have the duPont award and you have the Murrow,” Bailey said. “It’s one of the few awards that most people around the country would recognize. There’s only five universities honored at this year’s event, and they’re the cream of the accreditation crop.”
Emma Johnson, the executive director and news director at WMUL-FM, said she did not realize they had submitted anything for the award at first.
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