Former Southeastern Channel news and sports reporter-anchor Dylan Domangue has been honored by the Louisiana Association of Broadcasters (LAB) with two Prestige Awards at its 2022 Prestige Awards Gala at the Roosevelt Hotel in Baton Rouge. Domangue won the state’s top professional television awards for “Best Investigative Report” for his series, “Issues Within the Alexandria Police Department” and “Best Election Coverage” for the 2021 Fall Primary Election. Domangue, who holds three major positions as Evening News Anchor, Morning News Reporter, and Sports Director at KALB-TV Ch. 5 (NBC) in Alexandria, La. (DMA 181), won the two statewide awards in the small market television division against 20 and 30-year veterans less than two years after graduating from Southeastern in May of 2020. 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 another for his personal documentary, “12 Seconds at Birth”. He was also nominated in the On-Camera Talent competition. Domangue won Emmy scholarships three separate years.
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