WAVERLY, IA (02/16/2015)(readMedia)-- Wartburg College student media organizations won 29 awards at the annual Iowa College Media Association conference, Feb. 5-6, in Des Moines.
Kaitlyn Ketelsen of DeWitt was among the honorees, earning honorable mention in "Best PSA."
Wartburg Television won 11 awards, The Circuit took home nine, KWAR earned six and the Trumpet three. The television station swept the "Best Long Form Documentary" category; the radio station swept "Best Sports Broadcast."
Winners were selected from more than 700 entries submitted by 20 member schools.
Wartburg student media outlets are advised by journalism and communication professors Cliff Brockman, Travis Bockenstedt and Pamela Ohrt, who also is executive director of the ICMA.
Wartburg, a four-year liberal arts college internationally recognized for community engagement, enrolls 1,661 students. Wartburg is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and named after the castle in Germany where Martin Luther took refuge disguised as a knight during the stormy days of the Reformation, while translating the Bible from Greek into German.
