Mohammad Najafian, KVSC news director, left; Daniel Papp, sports director; Gabe Anderson, sports reporter/training director; and Dante Smith, assistant sports director accept the KVSC Associated Press awards.
KVSC 88.1 FM reporters earned four 2015 Minnesota Associated Press Broadcaster awards and a finalist honor in the Society of Professional Journalists 2015 Mark of Excellence Awards.
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The awards were presented at the organization’s events April 8-9 at the Midwest Journalism Conference in Bloomington.
KVSC took home four awards from the AP Banquet:
- Declan Goff, Daniel Papp and Jeremiah Graves earned first place honors in Sports Reporting for “Huskies Sports Friday.”
- Papp and Gabe Anderson took first place in Sports Play-by-Play for “SCSU Women’s Basketball vs. MN-Crookston.”
- Goff and Jeremy Klein earned honorable mention in Sports Play-by-Play for “Huskies Baseball.”
- Korina Borash earned honorable mention in spot/hard news for her piece “Kidnapping in Melrose.”
KVSC earned a finalist award at SPJ’s Region 6 Spring Conference in Radio News Reporting for Korina Borash’s report “#StrongEnough Bully Prevention Campaign.”
SPJ’s Mark of Excellence Awards honors the best of collegiate journalism from a calendar year.
