Steven Baker is the new publisher of the Capital Journal in Pierre. He starts July 7.
Baker is from Minot, ND, where he studied business administration at Minot State University. He has served as a publisher at newspapers in Idaho and California, and also has worked in advertising, circulation, marketing and mailrooms in his 20-year career.
Beth Jensen is moving into the news director slot at KELO-TV, replacing Mark Millage who leaves mid-May to become president of Kilian College in Sioux Falls.
Jensen has worked at KELO for 12 years, starting as a reporter and rising to executive producer.
Mark Millage, long-time news director at KELO-TV, will become the president of Kilian Community College in Sioux Falls on May 19.
Kilian is South Dakota’s only community college, a private, non-profit institution serving about 450 students on its campus in downtown Sioux Falls (http://www.kilian.edu/).
Millage worked at KELO-TV in different roles over 25 years, the last 19 years as news director.
Audio
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First Place to KXRB Radio for “Rescue at Covell Lake”
Medium Market Radio
First Place to WNAX for “The 4th at the Beach”
Broadcast Writing
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Award of Merit to South Dakota State University for “Bell Ringers”
Documentary/Special
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First Place to KXRB Radio for “It Can Happen to You”
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First Place to WNAX for “Challenging the Recall”
General Reporting
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Award of Merit to KXRB Radio for “Remembering A Fallen Soldier”
Award of Merit to KXRB Radio for “Take Back the Night”
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Award of Merit to KXRB Radio for “Remembering A Fallen Soldier”
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First Place to KDLT for “Fuel Facts”
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Award of Merit to KYOT - TV - USD for “U. News”
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Award of Merit to KORN for “KORN News with JP Skelly”
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Award of Merit to WNAX for “10:07 News with Jerry Oster”
Photojournalism
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Award of Merit to KEVN - TV for “Box Elder Wildfire”
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First Place to WNAX for “Recall 2007”
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Award of Merit to KORN for “Mystery of the Round Rocks”
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Award of Merit to KDLT for “Christmas in Nora”
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Award of Merit to KORN for “Mitchell Kernel Football”
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Award of Merit to WNAX for “NDSU vs. SDSU”
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Award of Merit to KWSN - AM for “SDSU Coach Changes Mind”
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First Place to KXRB Radio for “Rescue at Covell Lake”
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Award of Merit to KXRB Radio for “Relationships”
First Place to KORN for “Let’s Talk with Mayor Lou Sebert”
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Award of Merit to KWSN - AM for “Sports Talk With Craig & Bob “Mark Heider - Boston Marathon””
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First Place to KELOLAND Television for “Jay Trobec 6 p.m.”
The former publisher of The Daily Republic at Mitchell plans to run for the state legislature.
Noel Hamiel retired as publisher last year and now works for the South Dakota Community Foundation.
The Daily Republic reported that Hamiel has taken out a petition to run as a Republican for the House in District 20, which includes Mitchell.
Hamiel was at The Daily Republic for nearly 14 years, most of those years as publisher.
David Collins of Huron has been named publisher of the Capital Journal in Pierre. Collins most recently worked as marketing and circulation director at the Plainsman of Huron, and also oversaw distribution of The Brookings Register, two weeklies and two other publications.
The Huron native worked at several other newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times and the Minneapolis Star Tribune, before returning to South Dakota in 2002.
He says he’s an avid golfer and a Harley-Davidson rider, so the move to Pierre just puts him that much closer to Sturgis. His goal is to expand Web coverage of Pierre and the entire area while partnering with businesses and organizations.
Randell Beck, the executive editor of the Argus Leader, has received the top award from the American Society of Newspaper Editors. The Award for Editorial Leadership was created in 2002 to honor editors who do outstanding work for their newspapers and communities.
Here is what ASNE President Gilbert Bailon had to say:
“Randell’s work over time has exemplified how editors establish leadership in two critical areas for ASNE: diversity and freedom of the press. Our association also is very happy to bestow a coveted award on an editor from a smaller market in numerical circulation, yet whose institution provides vital impact in its area of influence.”
The ASNE praised Beck’s work to open up government records, and his support of ethnic diversity among newsroom employees.
Long-time writer and columnist for the Rapid City Journal Bill Harlan will become public information officer for the Sanford Lab next month.
Harlan joined the Rapid City Journal in 1985. Before that he was a reporter at the Lead Daily Call-Deadwood Pioneer Times and editor of the Spearfish Queen City Mail. At the Journal Harlan has covered politics, forest fires, Ellsworth Air Force Base and the Sturgis rally as well as writing a humor column and contributing to Mount Blogmore.
Harlan’s new job starts in March. He will be the science, education and public-information officer for the South Dakota Science and Technology Authority and for the Sanford Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory at Homestake.
Here’s the url for the full story:
http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2008/02/20/news/local/doc47bbc6eb47a1b833182831.txt
Congratulations to KDLT-TV’s Jen Wahle on the birth of her first child, Ryley, born on September 8, to Jen and husband Chris. And also congrats on Jen’s promotion to news director of the NBC affiliate in Sioux Falls. She grew up near Omaha, Nebraska, graduated from the University in South Dakota in Vermillion and has been with the station since July of 2001. Also congratulations to KDLT-TV Chief Photographer Josh Bixler, who has been promoted to assignment editor.
Dennis Hinde is the new coordinator for student internships at the SDSU Department of Journalism and Mass Communication. He replaces Jack Getz, who doesn’t want anybody to know how long he had the job. (Tip: He started in a different century.)
Hinde will help match students with employers who offer internships — or jobs. Hinde can be reached at 605-688-4171 or via e-mail at dennis.hinde@sdstate.edu.
