Shaune Killough of Glenwood Landing earns Broadcast Education Association honor

2014 Mar 17

Shaune Killough, a sophomore from Glenwood Landing, and two other broadcasting and mass communication majors from SUNY Oswego won a national award for their film about a cross-agency mobile radio communications system for E-911, fire, law enforcement and other first responders in Upstate New York.

The production, videography and writing team of Killough, Joseph Salvatore and Daniel Frohm tied for third in the instructional/educational category of the Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts, a national competition. Their video was made under contract with the Central New York Interoperable Communications Consortium. Nine counties in Central and Northern New York cooperate with the consortium's project for an effective cross-agency mobile radio communications system for first responders.

Through communication studies faculty member Marybeth Longo and a production company she helped form, Great Laker Communications at SUNY Oswego, Killough and teammates set to work on a Motorola-sponsored $10,000 project to produce an explanatory film about the need for reliable communications among the wide variety of first responders in New York state. The project had mentoring and assistance from Longo and from sound and lighting professionals.

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