Former Southeastern Channel news reporter-anchor Raychelle Riley has been honored by the Louisiana Association of Broadcasters (LAB) as “Multimedia Journalist of the Year” for the state’s large market television stations at its 2022 Prestige Awards Gala at the Roosevelt Hotel in Baton Rouge. Riley’s selection as winner of one of the state’s top two professional television reporting awards, an award bestowed over Louisiana reporters with decades of experience at large market television stations, comes impressively just over one year after she graduated from Southeastern in the fall of 2020. A television news reporter for WVLA/WGMB-TV (NBC 33/FOX 44) in Baton Rouge (DMA 94) where her stories reach viewers in 293,000 households daily throughout the Baton Rouge area, Riley has now won a LAB Prestige Award three years in a row. Prior to joining WVLA/WGMB, Riley was named 2021 Student Broadcaster of the Year by all television and radio professionals in the state for her work as a reporter, anchor, and producer for the Southeastern Channel’s student newscast, “Northshore News”, which won first in the nation at the College Broadcasters, Inc. 2021 National Student Production Awards. In 2020, Riley won the LAB’s Student Broadcasting Scholarship worth $4,000, and in 2019 she was Southeastern’s first-ever recipient of the Robin Roberts ABC Good Morning America internship.
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