Jay Buckner

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As news manager, I am responsible for developing and pitching news to the media.  Additionally, I am the primary contact for media and other inquirers.  I also manage our video operations and produce feature and news videos.  Since 2004, I have earned 18 CASE (Council for the Advancement and Support of Education) awards for various projects.

I began working at Berea College in 2002. After graduating with degrees in communications and public relations from Morehead State University in 1993, I worked as a television news reporter at WYMT-TV in Hazard, Ky.

Prior to joining Berea, I worked in communications and research for a University of Kentucky program and managed a conferencing center in Lexington, Ky.

Some of Jay’s noteworthy projects include:

Video Projects

• John Fenn, Nobel Prize Winner, Visits Alma Mater
• Students and Alumni Re-enact Civil Rights March
• Schmidlapp Fund Benefits Single Parents
• Berea Sells Utilities
  
  Web
  
• BCnow – Berea’s online news and events portal
• Berea’s Sesquicentennial Portal
  
  Feature Writing
  
• Crack Fiddler Jake Crack- a Young Old-Timey Fiddler
• Convos Bring the World to Berea
• Learning New Ways to Serve
• “No Going Back”- Jess Williams Won’t Lose
• Into the Woods- Taking a Different Path to Learning
  
  Graphic Design
  
• Boone Tavern Ad
• Sustainability Ad
  
  Media Relations
  
• Lady Mountaineers National Tourney Media Packet