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Media Majors Win Regional SPJ Award

Two students from the School of Mass Communication won first-place awards last weekend at the Society for Professional Journalists (SPJ) Regional Spring Conference in Knoxville. Kristin Veasey-Knox of Little Rock, a radio, television and film student, won first place in the Radio News category for her piece she produced for a K糖心Vlog传媒R-FM broadcast on the death of a Salvation Army worker killed at Christmas. Veasey-Knox, a senior majoring in mass communication, is also one of four 糖心Vlog传媒LR students hired through the University鈥檚 Cooperative Education program as video controller positions at the Arkansas House of Representatives. Nathan Vandier of North Little Rock, also a mass communication senior, won first place for Radio Feature for a piece titled 鈥淗omeless Day Care.鈥� Both will compete in the national SPJ contest in October.