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Media Personalities to speak at MSU Media Forum

 

            MURRAY, Ky. — Media personalities Kevin Finch and Duke Conover are the featured speakers at a media forum on Murray State University’s campus. The presentation, “The Future of Daily Newspapers and Local TV Stations,” will take place on Wednesday, April 15, 4:30 p.m., in the Mississippi Room on the 3rd floor of the Curris Center.

            Kevin Finch, national Edward R. Murrow Award-winning broadcast journalist, has 24 years of experience in radio and TV news. Finch has been the news director at WISH-TV, the CBS affiliate in Indianapolis, since early 2007. Before that, he served as the assistant news director. Before coming to WISH-TV in 2003, Finch worked for 13 years at the NBC affiliate in Indianapolis, WTHR-TV.

            Throughout his career, Finch has covered major political and sporting events. He headed up large crews at the Olympic Games in Atlanta; Sydney, Australia; and Salt Lake City. He has also executively produced coverage of 11 Indy 500’s, the NBA Finals, AFC Championships and NCAA Men’s Final Four. Finch was executive producer and organizer for 15 election nights and 10 televised political debates for U.S. Senate, governor and other offices. He has covered four national political conventions, a presidential inauguration and the Senate impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton. He arrived in Washington on Sept. 11, 2001, and guided coverage there for the next couple of days. A year later, he covered the first anniversary of 9/11 in New York. He has also produced reports from Washington on the start of the current war in Iraq.

            Finch, a graduate of Murray State University, was a late night rock and jazz DJ at WKMS-FM and was the news director at MSU-TV 11. While at MSU, Finch was involved in AERho, Gamma Beta Phi, Omicron Delta Kappa and Alpha Chi. Through his years of work, he has been honored with a regional Murrow for writing, two national Community Service Emmy Finalists, two regional Emmy Awards, several first place awards from the Indiana Associated Press Broadcasters and Society of Professional Journalists, and a few community service honors. In his tenure as news director, Kevin’s station has won several national and regional honors, including a George Foster Peabody Award, several regional Emmy’s and the Indiana AP Outstanding News Operation and Outstanding Weather Operation Awards.

            Duke Conover, managing editor of the Paducah Sun, has been a newspaper reporter and editor since 1986. Conover worked as a freelance journalist in Los Angeles for the Los Angeles Daily News and in Santa Barbara, Calif., from 1986-94. He spent the next two years working as a teaching associate and editor at the University of Missouri, and was a city reporter and copy editor for The High Point Enterprise in High Point, N.C. from 1996-98.

            From 1998 through 1999, Conover was the editor at CM Publishing (CNHI) in King, N.C., where his work included seven weekly newspapers. He spent the year working as the media general and deputy editor of the Danville Register & Bee, and the subsequent seven years as the editor of The News Herald, Morganton, N.C., Conover has been working at the Paducah Sun since 2007.

            For more information about this media forum, please contact Dr. Bob Lochte at bob.lochte@murraystate.edu.

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