Kyle Wiebers and BVU Media Students Receive Awards at ICMA Conference

2017 Feb 13

Buena Vista University's (BVU) student media organizations took home several awards and other honors at the 2017 Iowa College Media Association (ICMA) conference held earlier this month in Des Moines.

Kyle Wiebers , a senior psychology major from Holstein , and other students in BVU's campus media organizations - KBVU, the University Cable Network (UCN) and The Tack Online - received 27 awards in numerous categories, including several first place honors.

Wiebers was awarded:

Best Blog: Third place for The Tack Online, "Rules of Life"

Best Air Personality: Second place for KBVU, "BVU Breakfast Club with Kyle"

"We are, of course, really proud of the accomplishments of the students in terms of the awards they brought home this year," said Jamii Claiborne, associate professor of digital media. "It's great to have the hard work of the students across all of our media organizations recognized on the state-level and provides some external validation of the media our students are producing in digital media."