{"id":4408,"date":"2023-07-20T15:35:35","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T15:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=4408"},"modified":"2023-07-20T15:35:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T15:35:37","slug":"troy-graduate-wins-big-at-national-journalism-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/07\/20\/troy-graduate-wins-big-at-national-journalism-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"TROY graduate wins big at national journalism competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 TROY graduate and former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/student-life-resources\/campus-media\/troy-public-radio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Troy Public Radio<\/a> (TPR) intern Jared McBride&#8217;s radio work is being recognized on a national level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McBride has been with TPR for over a year. Now, his work is paying off as his story &#8220;Mobile residents learn the history of the last known slave ship in Alabama&#8221; recently won first place in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spj.org\/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Society of Professional Journalists&#8217;<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spj.org\/a-moe.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mark of Excellence<\/a> competition for Region 3. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McBride says he was inspired to report on the Clotilda because it is close to his hometown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I&#8217;m originally from Washington County, that&#8217;s pretty much Mobile, Alabama,&#8221; McBride said. &#8220;Knowing that I grew up right there, didn&#8217;t know anything about it, and then it was so significant, so important that people do documentaries. People doing all type of things, writing articles about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McBride wrote the story in the summer of 2022 while he was interning at Troy Public Radio. He says he wanted to write something that would grab people&#8217;s attention, but still be educational.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I wanted to do a story that I knew was going to be interesting to me because I feel like if you do a story that&#8217;s interesting to you, that&#8217;s most likely going to be your big story.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McBride plans to continue writing. He says he wants his work to be impactful for many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I want my stories to mean something to other people, mean something to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can listen to McBride&#8217;s reporting <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/troypublicradio\/230714feature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 TROY graduate and former Troy Public Radio (TPR) intern Jared McBride&#8217;s radio work is being recognized on a national level.<\/p>\n<p>McBride has been with TPR for over a year. Now, his work is paying off as his story &#8220;Mobile residents learn the history of the last known slave ship in Alabama&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/07\/20\/troy-graduate-wins-big-at-national-journalism-competition\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":4409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[508],"topics":[5,17],"class_list":["post-4408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-troy-public-radio","topics-college-of-communication-and-fine-arts","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4408"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=4408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}