Brooklyn College grads grab Emmys
Trio produced newscast judged best in country
A trio of talented news hounds left Brooklyn for the bright lights of Hollywood to pick up Emmys they won for a college newscast they produced and got a golden opportunity to meet with leaders of the broadcast news industry during a whirlwind stay in Tinseltown last month.
Two Brooklyn College graduates, Michael Gomez and Anthony Tart (both members of the Class of 2013), and Brooklyn College senior Nickesha Johnson were the toast of the town at the 35th College Television Awards, presented on April 23 by the Television Academy Foundation.
They won the College Emmy for Best Newscast, beating out their peers from across the country. The award was given to them for a newscast they wrote, shot, and produced last year while they were studying at Brooklyn College’s Summer Broadcast News Institute under famed television journalist Barbara Nevins Taylor. Nevins Taylor, who has worked at Channel 2 News and Fox 5 over the years, has won 22 Emmys in her career. She is now a professor at the Department of Television and Radio at Brooklyn College and is the founder of consumermojo.com, a website focusing on consumer and financial issues.
Nevins Taylor said she encourages all of her students to apply for big awards like the Emmys because it’s important for them to see how they measure up against their peers.