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WBFO wins 7 AP awards
WBFO-FM 88.7, UB’s National Public Radio affiliate, won 7 awards—including three first place honors—at the New York State Associated Press Broadcasters Association’s annual awards banquet held recently in Saratoga Springs.
WBFO won more AP awards than any other station in the Class 2 radio category, which includes stations in Rochester, Syracuse and Albany-Schenectady, as well as Buffalo, notes 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,” Petro says.
WBFO won awards in the following categories:
Best News Special/Documentary: First Place, “The Jihad Next Door,” Mark Scott, news director.
Best Interview: First Place, “The Capozzi Family,” Eileen Buckley, assistant news director and news producer and reporter.
Best Feature: First Place, “The ‘Real’ Real World,” Joyce Kryszak, cultural affairs reporter and producer.
Best Continuing News Coverage: Special Mention, “The Bike Path Killer,” Buckley, Kryszak and Scott, and Special Mention, “The Lynn Dejac Case,” Kryszak, Buckley and Scott.
Best Enterprise Reporting: Special Mention, “Meet Neil Sanders,” Buckley, and Special Mention, “Homemade Pet Food,” Kryszak.
Grant funds internship clearinghouse initiative
Career Services has received a grant from the New York State Department of Labor to develop and coordinate Western New York internship opportunities for college students.
Working through the SUNY Research Foundation, the program will create a network of collaboration among Western New York employers, connecting them with interested college students who live in or attend school in Western New York.
The goal is to stem the brain drain from New York state, and in particular from Western New York, by providing a new online resource for employers to post internship opportunities and for students to view them. BuffaloInterns.com will go live this fall as a premier resource for this program.
“This exciting project will be one more important step in helping to bridge the gap between local employers who are actively looking for talent and the students who have the misperception that there are no good jobs here,” said Dan Ryan, director of Career Services. “The Department of Labor and the university have been active collaborators on other initiatives in the past, including the very successful annual Jobsapalooza job fair. This partnership will continue the concerted effort to help meet the workforce development needs of the community.”
The program will be under the supervision of Christine Demcie, UB internship clearinghouse coordinator.
“Our program goals are significant but reachable,” Demcie said. “Our plan is to reach out to students and businesses throughout the area to encourage participation. Students want to get paid for quality experiential learning opportunities and employers want to develop a talent pipeline to hire college graduates. This program represents a true ‘win-win’ for all the parties involved.”