News

June 2010

TSU Professor garners several honors

Tennessee State University¹s Head of the Department of Communications, Dr.

Terry Likes, wins numerous national, regional and local honors for his reporting about the media.

Likes produced a radio documentary dealing with the state of international news coverage. The programs aired on the Tennessee Radio Network and won the

following:

- Broadcast Education Association ³Best of Competition² award

- Edward R. Murrow regional award (from the Radio/TV Digital News

Association)

- Tennessee Associated Press, 1st Place, Best Public Affairs program

- National Broadcasting Society 2nd place award

Likes has produced a number of audio and video documentary and educational programs over the last dozen years and has won nearly two dozen awards during his career. He joined TSU in 2008 after teaching for twenty years at Western Kentucky University.