{"id":4282,"date":"2016-08-09T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T09:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/?p=4282"},"modified":"2016-08-16T11:16:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T16:16:06","slug":"2016-broadcast-pacemaker-finalists-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/2016-broadcast-pacemaker-finalists-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Broadcast Pacemaker Finalists announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Congratulations to all Broadcast Pacemaker finalists!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Judging took place over July 25 and 26, with three professional and experienced broadcast journalists serving as judges. NSPA Contest and Critique Coordinator Mariah Keith moderated the process. During the span of judging, the four met in person in Minneapolis to review the initial 60 entries. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI was very gratified to see the kind of work that students are doing\u2014the curiosity and, really, the very high production values,\u201d one judge said. \u201cI think that students are paying close attention to what professionals are doing, and with a lot of determination and hard work and the kind of equipment people have access to, they can turn out a really professional product.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the first day, 23 entrants moved on to the next round of judging. The second day consisted of choosing 12 finalists from the remaining entries, and six of those were named Pacemaker winners. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI think the process was terrific,\u201d said a second judge. \u201cWe saw a lot of great work; it was tough making some of the finalist and winner decisions because there\u2019s a lot of good work being done out there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All judge comments were recorded for the 12 finalists and will be made available to them after winners are announced at the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/indy.journalismconvention.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JEA\/NSPA Fall National High School Journalism Convention<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Indianapolis, Nov. 10-13.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Nighthawk Update<\/strong><br \/>\nRocky Heights Middle School, Highlands Ranch, Colorado<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zh0p8Z9htWM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>CCNN Live<\/strong><br \/>\nChristopher Columbus High School, Miami, Florida<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mKKfX5HEaaU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>WAHS News<\/strong><br \/>\nAmerican Heritage School Plantation, Plantation, Florida<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LhxKvK6obSw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mustang Magazine<\/strong><br \/>\nNorwood High School, Norwood, Massachusetts<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OSID9LPNha4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>DTV News<\/strong><br \/>\nDavison High School, Davison, Michigan<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5VLICm8iupk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tiger Broadcast<\/strong><br \/>\nLee&#8217;s Summit High School, Lee&#8217;s Summit, Missouri<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dF2Kwv5pxlQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>PHS-TV&#8217;s Southside Scoop<\/strong><br \/>\nPark Hill South High School, Riverside, Missouri<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DqxXPOuYCwk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wave TV<\/strong><br \/>\nSummerville High School, Summerville, South Carolina<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5OPBHD6kGNQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Frisco ISD-TV<\/strong><br \/>\nFrisco ISD Career and Technical Education Center, Frisco, Texas<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sSD4nue2Qt8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>MHS1<\/strong><br \/>\nMcKinney High School, McKinney, Texas<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/144063755\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>NTV<\/strong><br \/>\nMcKinney North High School, McKinney, Texas<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/71W_ykv2xAw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>CHS Wired<\/strong><br \/>\nCody High School, Cody, Wyoming<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/143770539\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to all Broadcast Pacemaker finalists! Judging took place over July 25 and 26, with three professional and experienced broadcast journalists serving as judges. NSPA Contest and Critique Coordinator Mariah Keith moderated the process. During the span of judging, the four met in person in Minneapolis to review the initial 60 entries. \u201cI was very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4282"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4377,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282\/revisions\/4377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}