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UC Professor Recognized by Broadcast Educators
David Chanatry Awarded for Overseas Reports
Written By Ami Olson, PR Intern
David Chanatry two-time winner in Broadcast Education Association Media Arts Festival
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Utica, NY (03/22/2007) - David Chanatry, assistant professor of journalism at Utica College and former NBC news producer, was recognized by the Broadcast Education Association Media Arts Festival for two stories he reported from the Balkans last year.His coverage of an Albanian youth group won Chanatry the audio short form category award, an honor which he garnered two years in a row. He also won the radio hard news category award for a story about lead poisoning affecting Roma refugees in Kosovo. Chanatry reported this year’s award-winning stories for Public Radio International’s The World.
Chanatry traveled to Albania in the spring of 2006, where he taught a class at the Murabi Film and Multimedia School – the only one of its kind in the country. He helped organize the first International Human Rights Film Festival of Albania, an event which Utica College sponsors. He returned to Albania recently for the second such human rights film festival, and to lecture at the school.
A native Utican, Chanatry joined the Utica College faculty in 2003, after 20 years of reporting, editing and producing news for NBC, N.Y. A graduate of Notre Dame High School, Chanatry holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Hamilton College and a master’s degree in telecommunications from Syracuse University. Before joining Utica College, Chanatry completed a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
About Utica College – Founded in 1946, Utica College is a comprehensive private institution that grants the Syracuse University baccalaureate degree and the Utica College master’s and doctoral degrees. The College, located in central New York, approximately 90 miles west of Albany and 50 miles east of Syracuse, currently enrolls nearly 3,000 undergraduate and graduate students in 32 undergraduate majors, 24 minors, 13 master’s and two doctoral degree programs.
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