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DSS to open with Edwards-Rove debate
The 22nd season of UB’s Distinguished Speakers series will kick off on Sept. 26 with a debate between John Edwards and Karl Rove.
A debate between John Edwards (left) and Karl Rove will open the 2008-09 Distinguished Speakers Series
The program featuring the former candidate for the Democratic nomination for president and the former advisor and deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush will be held at 8 p.m. in Alumni Arena, North Campus.
Tickets will go on sale once the remainder of the 2008-09 Distinguished Speakers Series is finalized later this summer. Series subscribers will have an early-bird opportunity to purchase subscriptions, as well as tickets for individual lectures.
Tickets for the general public are expected to go on sale shortly afterward, at a time to be determined.
Updates on the series, as well as ticket information, will published in the Reporter and posted on the series’ Web site.
WBFO wins 7 NY AP awards
WBFO- FM 88.7, UB’s National Public Radio affiliate, won seven awards—including three first-place honors—at the New York State Associated Press Broadcasters Association’s annual awards banquet held recently in Saratoga Springs.
Members of the WBFO news team are Mark Scott, news director; Eileen Buckley, assistant news director and news producer and reporter; and Joyce Kryszak, cultural affairs reporter and producer.
“The WBFO news team was recognized for its creativity, great writing and strong production values. This year, WBFO won more AP awards than any other station in the Class 2 Radio category, which includes Buffalo stations, as well as those in Rochester, Syracuse and Albany-Schenectady,” said Carole Smith Petro, associate vice president and WBFO general manager. “The talent and energy of our news team allows WBFO to bring first-rate local news reporting to Buffalo/Niagara and the Southern Tier each and every day.”
WBFO won awards in the following categories:
Best News Special/Documentary: First Place, “The Jihad Next Door,” Mark Scott.
Best Interview: First Place, “The Capozzi Family,” Eileen Buckley.
Best Feature: First Place, “The ‘Real’ Real World,” Joyce Kryszak.
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Best Continuing News Coverage: Special Mentions for “The Bike Path Killer,” Eileen Buckley, Joyce Kryszak and Mark Scott, and for “The Lynn Dejac Case,” Joyce Kryszak, Eileen Buckley and Mark Scott.
Best Enterprise Reporting: Special Mentions for “Meet Neil Sanders,” Eileen Buckley, and for “Homemade Pet Food,” Joyce Kryszak.
In the past decade, the WBFO news department has received 46 Associated Press Awards, including the 2006 Steve Flanders Award, named in memory of a New York City radio reporter who died of a heart attack while on his way to a City Hall news conference in 1983. The Flanders award—the AP’s highest radio honor—is given to the station in New York with the most top finishes in the competition among news stories aired during the calendar year.