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Nov 27, 2024

Student Media Business Office at CMBAM

The Student Media Business Office recently attended the College Media Business and Advertising Managers Convention (CMBAM). The convention was hosted in Philadelphia this year, and the Office was able to send their Business Adviser Abi Barefoot, General Manager Allie Gervase and Media Consultants Layla Faith Batts and Caitlyn Muniz. 

Nov 27, 2024

WKNC Earns International Broadcasting Awards

WKNC 88.1 FM HD-1/HD-2 received multiple accolades in the second annual International Student Broadcasting Championship. 

Nov 21, 2024

Gilbert Honored For Work With Digital Accessibility

Student Media Associate Director Jamie Lynn Gilbert was among three outstanding staff finalists at the Chancellor’s Creating Community Awards. 

Nov 12, 2024

WKNC Leads Sessions At National Media Convention

WKNC General Manager Rose Kelley and Station Adviser Jamie Lynn Gilbert presented “I’m In Charge. Now What?” at the College Broadcasters, Inc. National Student Media Convention Oct. 23-26 in Seattle. 

Nov 11, 2024

WKNC Wins College Media Awards

Emma Bookhardt, a third-year student studying English and communication, earned first place in the best DJ personality category in College Media Association’s 2024 Film and Audio Festival. 

Nov 11, 2024

WKNC Provides Live Election Coverage

Created as a non-partisan news hub to amplify the voices of student journalists, Student News Live coordinated a live audio and video feed starting at noon ET on Tuesday, Nov. 5. 

From left, NC State graduate student and WKNC 88.1 FM podcaster Abdullah Najjar, News & Observer Capitol Bureau Chief Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan and NC State senior Emilia Rivadeneira, a WKNC 88.1 FM podcaster and Nubian Message staff writer, participate in a panel discussing coverage of the 2024 elections at “J-Day” held Oct. 15 at Talley Student Union.

Oct 23, 2024

Student Media hosts “J-Day” at Talley

NC State Student Media welcomed 226 student media students and their advisors from high schools across central North Carolina for the North Carolina Scholastic Media Association’s Central Carolina “J-Day” over fall break. 

Six DJs in the WKNC production room.

Sep 26, 2024

WKNC To Host Fourth Annual 24-hour Broadcast for World College Radio Day

Starting in 2012, over 600 colleges across the globe have participated in the annual World College Radio Day. Oct. 4 will mark the fourth year WKNC has participated in the festivities. 

Picture of Jeanine Ikekhua, managing editor of Nubian Message, and winner of the Ebony Harlem Award for Visual/Literary Art.

May 2, 2024

Jeanine Ikekhua receives Ebony Harlem Award

Jeanine Ikekhua is one of the recipients of this year’s Ebony Harlem Awards for Excellence. The awards, which began in 1993, are sponsored by the African American Cultural Center.  

Apr 26, 2024

WKNC honored for design work

Student radio station WKNC 88.1 FM HD-1/HD-2 continues its tradition of teaching marketable skills on air and off, as Emma Bookhardt earned second place in a national design contest.