University News wins silver at CASE awards
Kelly Downs
Michael Peres, left, professor of photography in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, is interviewed by a television news crew from Croatian National Television for the Big Shot in Dubrovnik, Croatia, last April.
University News Services is the recipient of two CASE (Council for Advancement and Support of Education) District II Accolades Awards for public relations work in 2007.
Silver awards were presented to the following projects:
Specific Media Relations Programs: Kelly Downs, senior news specialist, for an assortment of work related to the Big Shot in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Downs’ work included media placements (including international coverage), blog posts, audio podcasts, a video podcast and a cover story in RIT: The University Magazine.
News Web site: The University News Web site was cited as among the “best of the best” news Web sites. Key players who developed the revamped Web site in 2007 were: Bob Finnerty, Michael Saffran, Pete Karl ’05 and Paul Stella of University News; and Jeff Arbegast, Jared Lyon and Mark Marcello of University Publications.
CASE District II includes the Mid-Atlantic states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Ontario, Canada.
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