Philip Merrill College of Journalism | University of Maryland

'Changing Media' Wins Two Telly Awards

For immediate release, July 24, 2006

COLLEGE PARK, Md.— UMTV, the University of Maryland’s cable television station, has added two more awards to its long list of achievements for outstanding work in the field of television programming.

Dr. Lee Thornton, the Richard Eaton Chair in Broadcast at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, was honored in the 27th Annual Telly Awards for two episodes of her program “Changing Media.” The shows featured public radio personality Diane Rehm and NPR’s Scott Simon and Jay Kernis.

These awards are the most recent in a string of honors for Thornton and her program. Earlier this year the Rehm episode and one featuring the Merrill College’s Susan Moeller each won an “Award of Distinction” from the ICA’s Communicators Awards.

Thornton has previously won five Telly’s for “Changing Media” and others for previous shows on UMTV including “The President’s Show” with University of Maryland president C.D. Mote Jr. and “Discovery Maryland,” a program about the work of the University.

“Changing Media” is produced by the Merrill College and is shown on UMTV in the Washington region and nationally on the Research Channel consortium. UMTV is a 500,000-viewer station broadcast in Prince George’s and Montgomery counties of Maryland and the city of Baltimore.

For more information contact: Matthew C. Sheehan at 301.405.8320.