Steven Hames, adviser and technology specialist for Berry College Department of Communication, has earned a 2016 Honor Roll Broadcast Adviser Award from the College Media Association.
Hames is the adviser for Viking Fusion, a student-run multimedia website that seeks to inform and entertain both the Berry student community and the public. Content on the site is exclusively authored and produced by Berry students.
The Honor Roll Adviser Award is presented to a College Media Association member with fewer than five years’ experience in college media advising who has distinguished him- or herself in the area of service.
“It’s humbling to receive an award for doing a job that I love,” said Hames, who became Viking Fusion’s staff adviser in 2011. “Looking back at Viking Fusion’s accomplishments during my five years at Berry, it makes me proud that I was able to guide them to such success.”
During his time at Berry, Viking Fusion has won and been nominated for multiple awards from national, regional, and state organizations, such as the Southeast Regional EMMY Awards, the Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards, the CMA Pinnacle Awards and College Broadcasters, Inc. National Student Production Awards.
“I get to see up close every day his dedication to our students, his leadership of our co-curricular Viking Fusion multimedia news and entertainment hub, and his collaboration across the College to create teaching and learning opportunities for our majors,” said Brian Carroll, professor and chair of the Department of Communication at Berry.
Before coming to Berry, Hames spent 15 years as a producer, director and editor for local television stations in north Georgia. Over the course of his career, he has won six Telly Awards.
“Steven has the unique ability to bridge the gap between being a boss and a friend,” said alumnus Elizabeth Blount. “He empowers his staff to take leadership in their roles in the studio and honors the student-run nature of the organization.”
For more information about the Berry Communication Department and Viking Fusion, go to http://berry.edu/academics/humanities/communication/
The College Media Association is the nation’s largest organization dedicated to serving the needs of collegiate student media programs and their advisers.
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