Awards & Honors

Camera operator for Midwest Regional Emmy (1999) for “Live Sports Coverage” of Cincinnati Reds baseball with Fox Sports Net Ohio.
Camera operator for Midwest Regional Emmy (2002) for “Live Sports Coverage” of Columbus Bluejackets hockey for Fox Sports Net Ohio.
Camera operator for Cincinnati Reds winning scoreboard productions of two Golden Matrix Awards (2005) given by the Image Display & Entertainment Association for the best in-house video productions at arenas and stadiums in North America. First place for “Best Overall Video Display” and first place for “Best Video Display” in baseball.
Camera operator for Cincinnati Bengals scoreboard crew winning Golden Matrix Award (2007) given by the Image Display & Entertainment Association for the best in-house video productions at arenas and stadiums. First place for “Best Overall Video Display/ Football.”
Nominee Midwest Regional Emmy (2010) for “Sporting Event/Game-Live/Unedited” Cincinnati Bengals Pre-Season Television on WKRC-TV.
Telly Award (2007) for “Studio ‘89” televised concert performances for Kentucky’s PBS affiliates
Telly Award (2007) for “NKU News” in online student program category
Nominee Midwest Regional Emmy(2010) for “Sporting Event/Game-Live/Unedited” Cincinnati Bengals Pre-Season Television on WKRC-TV, channel 12, Cincinnati
Camera operator for Midwest Regional Emmy (2010) for “Sporting Event/Game-Live/Unedited” , High School Football Game of the Week, Fox Sports Ohio
Producer, “I:69 Are We There Yet?” News documentary for WTIU-TV at Indiana University in Bloomington. Nominated for Emmy (2013) from Lower Great Lakes Emmy Chapter under “News Special” category
Edward R. Murrow (2014) regional award from Radio Television Digital News Association for best small market radio news documentary. field/co-producer, “Sexual Assault Among Youth”, WFIU-FM, Indiana University public radio station, Bloomington, Indiana.
Co-Producer, “Shadows of Innocence: Sexual Assault Among Youth” News documentary for WTIU-TV at Indiana University in Bloomington. Nominated for Emmy (2014) from Lower Great Lakes Emmy Chapter under “News Special” category
Advisor to student director and producer Tori Lentz and student Director of Photography Kasey Long for their “Award of Excellence” for the documentary “From Addiction to Recovery: A Community’s Response to the Heroin Epidemic” from the Broadcast Education Association’s 2017 Festival of Media Arts.

The television and radio documentaries in which I was producer (TV) and field/co-producer (radio) along with NKU students and the news team at WTIU and WFIU at Indiana University, Finding the Fix: Heroin’s Hold on the Heartland, achieved the following awards and recognition:

(2017) Regional Emmy Nomination from the Lower Great Lakes Region of the Academy for Television Arts and Sciences in the “Documentary-Topical” category.
(2017) The Indiana Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, first place in television “Documentary or Special” category (outside Indianapolis market) And, first place, radio “Documentary or Special”.
(2017) Public Radio News Directors Incorporated, nationally, second place, long documentary category (radio)
(2017) Regional (Region 7) Edward R. Murrow award from the Radio Television Digital News Association radio small market in the “Excellence in Innovation” category
(2017) Indiana Associated Press Broadcasters Association, local TV, “Best Community Impact” category, second place.
(2017) Indiana Associated Press Broadcasters Association, radio, first place, in “Best Public Affairs Program”
(2017) National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation, Research and Journalism Awards, finalist in Television and Journalism Award category.

Crewmember (Jib, Libero, sponsorship logger), (2023) Emmy nominees, from Ohio Valley Regional Emmy Chapter in “Sports Program Live” category for both “Reds Live” and “Blue Jackets Live,” for Bally’s Sports Ohio.
Crewmember (PA, sponsorship logger), (2024) Emmy, from Ohio Valley Regional Emmy Chapter in the “Live Sporting Event/Season” category for Columbus BlueJackets hockey on Bally's Sports Ohio.
Producer, “Best of Competition” award from 2025 Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts for short-form documentary in the Faculty competition, under the Adjunct, Faculty, and Staff category with production team from WTIU-TV (PBS), Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

ACADEMIC PANELS AND PRESENTATIONS

“To ‘B’ or Not to ‘B’: Keeping Broadcasting in the Electronic Media and Broadcasting Major at Northern Kentucky University” panel presentation at Broadcast Education Association national convention in Las Vegas, NV 2012.
“Summer Bootcamp: Preparing Graduate Students with Multi-Media Journalism Skills to Work in a Converged Newsroom at Indiana University” panel presentation at Broadcast Education Association national convention in Las Vegas, NV 2012.
“The Class Website Take 2: Easy Access to Learning Materials” panel presentation at Broadcast Education Association national convention in Las Vegas, NV 2014.
“From Public Access to ESPN3 and Fox Sports Ohio: A Sports Production Class Evolves with the Technology” panel presentation at Broadcast Education Association national convention in Las Vegas, NV 2019. (This presentation was a late addition that was not included in the conference program.)