alt.news
An offbeat half-hour program, "alt.news," took first prize in the news, sports, and magazine show division, one of seven contest categories. The award was announced in January 2001. The winning episode, a "best-of" compilation, takes viewers to an underground rave party, a motocross rally, and a paintball "battlefield." It also profiles a daring volunteer whose odyssey is cleaning the banks of the muddy Mississippi. "alt.news" is seen once a month as part of "Studio A" productions, a series of student-produced entertainment programs that air on SIUC's two public television stations. Some 23 students in cinema, radio-TV, journalism, and art put together the program, logging 40-60 hours of production time per week. The five executive producers of "alt.news" shared $2,000 in prize money and a $2,000 Eastman Kodak grant for filmstock: Otto Arsenault, a freshman in cinema and photography; Michael Cioni and Ian Vertovec, both seniors in radio-television; Jody Paul Leggio, a junior in radio-television; and Alana Berry, a master's student in mass communication and media arts. --Paula Davenport, Media & Communication Resources
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