KCOU  has won a Communicator Award of Distinction for its coverage of the 2009 election, the second-straight year the department has been honored for an election night newscast.

KCOU offered the only live coverage of the election on the MU campus, including interviews with leaders of the MU College Republicans and Democrats. KCOU took listeners live to Virginia, where a handful of MU’s student Republicans helped the GOP candidate win the governor’s office.

“News departments that consistently win awards demonstrate they are trustworthy, ahead of the news, and provide unique coverage,” said Theo Keith, who served as KCOU’s news director for the 2009-2010 school year. “KCOU News is showing it belongs in that category.”

The newscast featured Blake Hanson and Scott Kanowsky as co-anchors. Danny Spewak, Matt Moreno, Drew Brackett, and Colin M. Hill gave up-to-the-minute reports from the KCOU newsroom, while political commentators David Teeghman and Jacob Kirn gave perspective on what the election meant nationwide.

KCOU News started operations in February 2009. KCOU is the only source for live MU campus news, and features the only student-produced weathercast at MU.

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