Brianna Borresen Wins National Award for Radio Programming

2015 Apr 2

Brianna Borresen, a student journalist at WRHU 88.7 FM Radio Hofstra University, has won the national Gracie Award for outstanding news programming from the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation.

The prize honors the work of women in television, radio, and online media. Borresen's piece, "Sexual Assault on College Campuses," won the Gracie Award for outstanding hard news feature.

A graduate student in the Master of Arts program in journalism, Borresen is interning at NY-1 News' interactive newscast, "The Call," and has previously interned at FOX News and Cox Media Group. At WRHU, she is a morning show host, news anchor, producer, and reporter and a former assistant news director. On campus, she is also the treasurer of Her Campus Hofstra and a graduate assistant for the Center for Civic Engagement.

The award will be presented at a luncheon in New York City on June 22. The Alliance for Women in Media is a nonprofit professional organization working to advance the impact of women in the media industry.

WRHU has recently established itself as one of the leading college radio stations in the country. It was ranked number one in The Princeton Review's 2015 edition of The Best 379 Colleges. Also, the National Association of Broadcasters named WRHU the "Non-Commercial Radio Station of the Year" in the prestigious Marconi Awards competition last September.