{"id":36921,"date":"2025-03-27T17:19:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T21:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=36921"},"modified":"2025-03-28T12:53:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T16:53:48","slug":"furman-students-bring-home-natas-southeast-student-production-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-students-bring-home-natas-southeast-student-production-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman students bring home NATAS Southeast Student Production Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Furman University students brought home two wins across five nominations from the Southeast Student Production Awards, hosted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/southeastemmy.com\/\">National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences<\/a> (NATAS), the professional organization behind the Daytime and Primetime Emmy Awards.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Each year the student production awards provide a chance for Furman\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/communication-studies\/\">communication studies<\/a> students to show off the hard work they put into multimedia productions for their digital storytelling, advanced multimedia storytelling or broadcasting classes.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36904\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36904\" class=\"wp-image-36904 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2025\/03\/2024-6-28-Anastasiia-Savchenko-Taekwondo-Pics-Edited-171-768x768.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a taekwondo dobok does a leaping kick against a training dummy\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2025\/03\/2024-6-28-Anastasiia-Savchenko-Taekwondo-Pics-Edited-171-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2025\/03\/2024-6-28-Anastasiia-Savchenko-Taekwondo-Pics-Edited-171-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2025\/03\/2024-6-28-Anastasiia-Savchenko-Taekwondo-Pics-Edited-171-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2025\/03\/2024-6-28-Anastasiia-Savchenko-Taekwondo-Pics-Edited-171-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2025\/03\/2024-6-28-Anastasiia-Savchenko-Taekwondo-Pics-Edited-171-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2025\/03\/2024-6-28-Anastasiia-Savchenko-Taekwondo-Pics-Edited-171-512x512.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2025\/03\/2024-6-28-Anastasiia-Savchenko-Taekwondo-Pics-Edited-171-1280x1280.jpg 1280w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 400\/400;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-36904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The story of Ukrainian taekwondo champion Anastasiia Savchenko \u201927 earned communication studies major Ella Harrison \u201925 a NATAS Southeast Chapter Student Production Award.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cIt\u2019s a difficult competition because we\u2019re up against institutions that have a journalism school or design schools,\u201d said media specialist and instructor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/mary-sturgill\/\">Mary Sturgill<\/a>, a former news anchor and r<\/span>eporter.<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Furman students \u201cmake amazing connections with faculty mentors in and outside the classroom,\u201d which leads to professional-quality storytelling every day in the Digital Storytelling Studio and Media Lab, said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/john-a-mcarthur\/\">Mac McArthur<\/a>, professor and chair of the Department of Communication Studies at Furman. \u201cWith 24 nominations and 12 wins in the past five years, Furman students continue to showcase their media production skills, which are competitive on the national level,\u201d McArthur said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The winners recognized at this year\u2019s Southeast NATAS <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1EGS_3PkmoSGqu4i9GHV3iUIfOj9mXnB4\/view\">Student Production Awards<\/a> are:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ella Harrison \u201925, sports story or segment, \u201cBorn to Fight\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Kaylie Armitage \u201925, sports program, \u201cFollowing Footsteps Episode One\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Harrison\u2019s video tells the story of Anastasiia Savchenko \u201927, a Ukrainian national taekwondo champion who fled Ukraine with her family when war broke out. Harrison couldn\u2019t attend the awards ceremony, and was studying in the James B. Duke Library when she learned her story had won.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0\u201cI was trying to be quiet when I called my mom and said, \u2018I think I won a student production award,\u2019\u201d she said with a laugh.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Students who received nominations at the Southeast NATAS Student Production Awards are:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"2\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Marissa Schabes \u201924, Ella Harrison \u201925, Esmie Fernandez \u201925 and Cole Morehead \u201925, newscast, Knightly News Episode 9<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"2\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Aru Sakhariyanova \u201926, news report, \u201cUnearthed\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"2\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Alyssa Hildenbrandt \u201925, Andrew Brown \u201927, sports story or segment, \u201cAll American Dream\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\"><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_36903\" style=\"width: 417px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36903\" class=\"wp-image-36903 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2025\/03\/Ella-Harrison-768x420.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman stands outdoors in front of a building, holding a stick microphone and facing the viewer\" width=\"407\" height=\"223\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 407px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 407\/223;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-36903\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ella Harrison \u201925 was part of the Knightly News crew nominated for a NATAS Southeast Chapter Student Production Award, and won an award for her sports story, \u201cBorn to Fight.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Furman\u2019s communication studies students engage in digital storytelling that Sturgill said raises their reputation as journalists and media producers. In the classroom, instructors open students\u2019 eyes to potential stories all around them, encouraging them to be curious and think critically about the communities they\u2019re in.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cWe\u2019ve really been given the opportunities to tell stories about topics that extend outside of Furman and into the community,\u201d Harrison said. \u201cThat experience is so valuable and it\u2019s something I may not have gotten at another school. These are the kinds of skills I can take with me wherever I go and into any career I decide to pursue.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman communication studies students scored two wins out of five nominations for their multimedia productions, earning recognition by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":401,"featured_media":36906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communication-studies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36921"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36957,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36921\/revisions\/36957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}