News and updates
Southeastern Channel news reporter-producer Tara Barbe has won 4th Place for “Television Hard News Reporting” in 2017 “Best of South” competition awarded by the Southeast Journalism Conference. Also honored as “Best of the South” by the SEJC was former student reporter-anchor Jaylon Morris, who finished 9th in the “Television Feature Story Reporting” category.
Southeastern Channel reporter-anchor Jordan Rheams has been hired as News Producer by WBRZ-TV Ch. 2 (ABC) in Baton Rouge.
Morris broke this story on Gulfport’s Billy Bennight, the D’Iberville, Ms. bail bondsman who encountered Parkland, Fla. school shooter Nikolas Cruz on YouTube last September.
A Southeastern Channel live basketball broadcast production has been named fourth best in the nation by the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) at its national 2018 Festival of Media Arts student competition.
For the third time this season, the Southeastern Channel will broadcast men’s and women’s basketball games live with Saturday’s doubleheader with Abilene Christian. Pregame starts at 2 pm. for the Lady Lions and 5 pm. for the men.
Former Southeastern Channel news anchor-reporter Caroline Patrickis has been hired as a TV Reporter for WJLA-TV ABC 7 News in Washington, D.C. (DMA 6).
Former Southeastern Channel anchor/reporter Michael Vinsanau is already filing key daily live reports as the Morning Reporter for WDSU-TV Channel 6 (NBC) in New Orleans (DMA 52).
Former Southeastern Channel anchor/reporter Paul Rivera, now an anchor/reporter for WIS-TV (NBC) in Columbia, S.C. (DMA 73), appeared live on MSNBC Jan. 15th with this report of his conversation with Sen. Lindsay Graham about Pres. Donald Trump’s controversial Haiti comment.
Former Southeastern Channel anchor/reporter Jaylon Morris has hit the ground running in his new job as reporter for WXXV-TV (ABC/FOX) in Gulfport, Ms.
Former Southeastern Channel anchor/reporter Ryan Harrison has been hired as a TV news reporter/producer by WABG-DT2 WXVT WNBD TV Delta News in Greenville, Ms.
