{"id":167743,"date":"2026-08-11T09:43:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T13:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=167743"},"modified":"2026-08-11T09:43:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T13:43:42","slug":"wright-state-video-producer-earns-regional-emmy-and-state-journalism-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2026\/08\/11\/wright-state-video-producer-earns-regional-emmy-and-state-journalism-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State video producer earns Regional Emmy and state journalism award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_151905\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/07\/25\/wright-state-videographer-kris-sproles-wins-regional-emmy-and-ohio-journalism-awards\/kris-sproles-emmy-award-studio-portrait-7-24-24\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-151905\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-151905\" class=\"wp-image-151905 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2024\/07\/Sproles-Kris_013-7-24-508x339.jpg\" alt=\"A close up photo of a man hold an Emmy Award. The award is in focus in the forefront of the photo, with the man in the background, blurred.\" width=\"460\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-151905\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kris Sproles, Wright State video content producer, won a Regional Emmy and a state journalism award.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Kris Sproles, video content producer in Wright State University\u2019s Office of University Communications and Marketing, earned two professional awards for his outstanding storytelling and visual journalism: a Regional Emmy and a state journalism award.<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Sproles received the Emmy for Multimedia Journalist \u2013 Solo Storyteller from the Ohio Valley Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The chapter includes members from Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The multimedia journalist award recognizes excellence by a single, cross-disciplinary individual who serves as a photojournalist, editor and writer for a single or multi-part video story or topic intended for a news audience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The award recognized Sproles\u2019 work on stories he produced for the Wright State Newsroom, including:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jYvIkWCN_gU\"><span data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">Crash course<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OvtLx9sS_T0\"><span data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">Delicious bytes and beats<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oo9Bxf0ZMyM\"><span data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">Medical students conduct Teddy Bear Hospital at Mini University<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I5jCceNLifE\"><span data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">Athletics partners with Habitat for Humanity<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5l_byxSOnJk\"><span data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">Calamityville hosts large-scale medical training<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PQ8tRKG68C0\"><span data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">Wright State hosts Air Force Marathon 5K and Expo<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">This is the third consecutive year Sproles received a Regional Emmy. The previous two years, he won the award for video essayist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">He also received the second-place award for Best Videographer in the Digital Media\/Freelance category in the 2026 Ohio\u2019s Best Journalism Contest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The award honors the best visual storyteller demonstrating excellence in online videography in spot news, general assignment or specialty reporting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The statewide journalism contest was sponsored by the Cincinnati, Cleveland and Columbus chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists and included entries from media outlets and universities across Ohio.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">See more of Sproles\u2019 award-winning work in the <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/\">Wright State Newsroom<\/a> and on <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/WrightStateU\">Wright State\u2019s YouTube channel<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kris Sproles, a staff member in Wright State\u2019s Office of University Communications and Marketing, earned two professional awards for his outstanding storytelling and visual journalism. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2026\/08\/11\/wright-state-video-producer-earns-regional-emmy-and-state-journalism-award\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":160332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[724,725,715,2024],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-home-news-sidebar","category-news","category-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167743"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168054,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167743\/revisions\/168054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}