Greenlee School’s Tony Moton, a second-year assistant teaching professor, was elected to the Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association Board of Directors at its annual convention Saturday in the Twin Cities. Moton is one of two Iowa Board of Directors alongside Sheila Brummer of Iowa Public Radio.
MBJA, established in 1948 and based in Sturgis, South Dakota, serves “electronic journalists with training, networking and career growth,” according to the organization’s website. Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota make up MBJA’s six-state region.
MBJA annually presents the Eric Sevareid Awards for student and professional journalists working for small, medium and large markets in the six-state region on radio, television and online. This year’s convention was held in conjunction with the Upper Midwest Emmy® Foundation’s 14th annual Student Production Awards at the Hilton DoubleTree Hotel in Bloomington, Minn., which took place Friday night.
Moton, who teaches sports media, journalism and broadcasting, was instrumental in helping KURE 88.5 – Ames Alternative, Iowa State’s student-run campus radio station, become an affiliate organization of the Greenlee School last fall.
“I am looking forward to my role with MBJA while developing Greenlee’s radio broadcasting opportunities for students,” Moton said. “Radio skills translate in so many ways to other disciplines in the media industry, and I want our students to share their voices as both sports and news broadcasters at professional levels before they graduate to the real world.”