Former Southeastern Channel news and sports reporter-anchor Dylan Domangue has been hired as a News Reporter/Anchor for KALB-TV Ch. 5 (NBC) in Alexandria, La. (DMA 181). A graduate of Southeastern this past May 2020, Domangue will focus on city council, the police jury, and other stories throughout the Cenla (central Louisiana) community. His first stories at KALB include a live shot from the courthouse reporting on discussions involving a confederate monument, ongoing meetings to enhance community relationships with police, and the plight of local bar owners having to close temporarily due to COVID-19. Domangue was officially welcomed to the KALB staff live on the set his first day at the station. During his four years at the Southeastern Channel Domangue won a multitude of national and regional awards for his reporting, anchoring videography and live directing and for his play-by-play of sports broadcasts for ESPN-Plus. He was recently honored by the prestigious Society of Professional Journalists with first place in the nation for “Broadcast News Videography” for his story, “Mayor’s Salary Debate“, for the Southeastern Channel’s student newscast, “Northshore News.” Domangue also won another national SPJ award- second place in the nation in the “Broadcast Sports Videography” category for his shooting of the Southeastern vs. Northwestern State football game in October 2019. Domangue won first in the nation at the National Student Production Awards given by College Broadcasters, Inc. for the weekly “Big Game” sportscast for which he was producer, anchor, and reporter, and for a live football game broadcast for which he was a producer and play-by-play announcer. Domangue has been named ‘Best College TV Journalist in the South” at the Southeast Journalism Conference (SEJC) (40 schools from an eight-state region), and he’s won regional reporting awards from the Louisiana-Mississippi Associated Press College Broadcasters and the Society of Professional Journalists (Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee). Live football game broadcasts he’s produced and directed have won national Finalist (top 4 in the nation) honors at the College Sports Media Awards and Broadcast Education Associations’ (BEA) Festival of Media Arts. Domangue won a Suncoast Region student Emmy for a football game broadcast, and he was nominated in the On-Camera Talent competition. Domangue won Emmy scholarships three separate years.
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