Penn State Public Media, WPSU has won one 2014 Mid-Atlantic Emmy award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. These regional awards recognize local productions for excellence in television programming. Jeffrey A. Hughes, lead producer for WPSU, was also inducted into the inaugural Silver Circle Society, an honor society within the Mid-Atlantic chapter for members who have spent 25 years doing exceptional work in the television industry.
Mark Stitzer received an Individual Achievement Emmy in the Photographer – Program category. Stitzer’s entry submission included video clips from “Water Blues, Green Solutions,” an interactive film project telling the stories of communities creating solutions for our water blues – flooding, pollution and scarcity.