The Graves County High School television station, WGCE-TV, won the General Excellence Award in Class AAAA of the 2010 Kentucky High School Journalism Association Contest in Louisville recently. The GCHS student newspaper, the Eagle's Eye, placed third in the newspaper AAAA division. The two GCHS entities and the Aquila high school yearbook each won several individual, team, and staff awards. Class AAAA includes Kentucky high schools with the highest enrollments. The specifics, including judges' comments, are posted on the KHSJA website. All results are posted on www.khsja.org. WGCE between 2000 and 2010 has won the general excellence category ten times and every year except one (2006). Teacher Randy Herndon has served as the WGCE advisor throughout that time. Graves County has won the KHSJA grand championship for general excellence in all three media three separate times: 2005, 2007, and 2008. Graves County TV students who placed well and their awards this year are listed here.
The WGCE staff won both the newscast and newsmagazine categories. Kristian Morris won for videography and for music video or short video competition. Bart Hatton won for sports feature package. Alex Heath and Carter Deasel won for sports package. Neil Purcell won for voiceover or voiceover/sound on tape. Drake Hicks won for humorous feature. Drake Hicks and Josh Henderson placed second in humorous feature. Gabby Lopez placed second in documentary. Bart Hatton, Mark Toon, and Tyler Violet placed second in sports feature package. Jordan Hubney and Kelsey Colley placed second in news package. Aaron West and Hanna Marrs placed third in spot production. Kayla Smithson and Jasmine Bills placed third in news feature package. Josh Henderson, Drake Hicks, and Neil Purcell placed third in news package.
The Eagle’s Eye newspaper placed well in categories listed here. Connie Moreland won newswriting and placed second in illustrations/graphics. Rachel Smith placed second in editorial writing. Tesia Smith placed third in newswriting. The Eagle’s Eye sponsor for 2009-10 was Meg Black.
The Aquila yearbook placed second in overall design and third in overall coverage, theme development, and use of graphics. The Aquila advisor is Kym Rickman.
The Kentucky High School Journalism Association was formed in 1997 by the Kentucky Press Association Board of Directors. For some 15 years prior to 1997, Kentucky high schools had no statewide association for students interested in the communications industry -- high school newspapers, yearbooks, Internet, radio and TV. The Kentucky High School Journalism Association brings together students and advisers from high schools across Kentucky with news media professionals and university personnel.
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