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Documentation of Supplemental Outreach Initiatives 4/01/09-4/01/10

WKMS-FM Station manager and/or station representative(s) met with prospective employees during career fairs, October 7, 2009 and March 3, 2010 at Murray State University.

We continue to provide scholarship programs for students desiring a career in broadcasting.  One way we do this is by a news internship program involving the recruitment and training of Murray State University students, undergraduate and graduate students, without prior broadcasting experience or education.  The students acquire news reporting, research, writing, and digital editing skills.  See News Director Certification below.  Furthermore, one of these student interns continues to manage and improve services at www.wkms.org, which has also been nominated for recognition.

We continue to offer broadcast training to any volunteers who wish to become involved in the station.  Usually we offer several hours of board training for potential air-talent, then offer them board work during the weekend.  Sara Becker continues in this capacity and now brings her new-born daughter to work with her Saturdays and Sundays.  Last year a former blues music program volunteer producer/host brought the station a new concept and is in his second year with Juke Joint Shuffle.  He has also brought a new volunteer to the station to assist with this program and learn about broadcasting.  This spring MSU Jazz Director Todd Hill has volunteered to produce a jazz show and has been taught broadcasting protocol to do so.

WKMS is working in the local schools through volunteer Constance Alexander who coordinates the writing, reading and recording of student poetry for WKMS air broadcast and webcasting.  (Matt Markgraf and I have been working on Poetry Minutes for National Poetry Month. As we've done in the past, this year we are planning on broadcasting poems written by kids from the region each day during April. Of course, things are hectic. I have one more disk for Matt and I have not written media releases yet. I will get media releases done today. Thanks so much.  Constance Alexander to Ronda Gibson, WKMS Promotion Development Director, 3-29-10.)

The Promotion/Development Director has represented WKMS and public radio at several Ballard County elementary school programs in the last year.  The Station Manager has met with school groups touring the station, including a cub scout troop whose voices were incorporated in station id's from time to time.  The Station Manager has taught a merit badge course in communications.  WKMS-FM continues to gives an hour of time to a minority student for a program on contemporary Christian music.

WKMS maintains an open door for students who wish to job shadow from the local school systems.  We have enjoyed new relationships from these monthly day-long employment modeling visits.  During their days at WKMS these students typically do jobs in all areas of the broadcast unit.   In the last year we have not been contacted by any interested students regarding this opportunity.  We have logged the following outreach activities:

News Director Certification of WKMS participation in scholarship programs for students desiring a career in broadcasting:

To EEO Public File:

As news director from August 2007 to present, I have recruited and hired 12 students to learn the following:
        a.  basic to advanced broadcasting skills
        b.  basic to advanced journalism skills
        c.  basic to advanced electronic editing skills
        d.  basic to advanced production of hard news and feature reports meeting NPR quality standards.

During my tenure these students have won the following awards as a result of learning on the job with WKMS:

2008 Kentucky Associated Press Awards

2nd Place Awards for WKMS:
Best Special Series:  WKMS News Staff's Fueling the Purchase
Best Light News Feature Jacque Day The 101st Airborne at Little Rock

Honorable Mentions:
Best Enterprise and Investigative Reporting: Jacque Day's Creationist Astronomer
Best Hard News Feature:  Jacque Day's The Execution of Marco Allen Chapman
Best Light News: Casey Northcutt's Calvert City Follies; Angela Hatton's Post Secret @ the YAC
Best Public Affairs:  Angela Hatton's HIV in the Commonwealth
Best Use of Sound: Ham Biscuit, Angela Hatton

2009 Society for Professional Journalists (SPJ) Mark of Excellence Region 5 Awards

Radio Feature
First Place: The Horse Whisperer - by Rebecca Feldhaus, Murray State University.
Second Place: The Birdman - by Angela Hatton, Murray State University.
Third Place: Mock Bank Robbery - by Caleb Campbell, Murray State University.

During my tenure these students have gone on to jobs using the skills learned with WKMS.
           
Casey Northcutt: Writer and Photographer for the “Journeyman” project in Southeast Asia.
Katie Walker: Special Events Coordinator with the Nashville Science Center.
           
Kentucky Associated Press Awards, Class II Radio 2009

Best Light News Feature:  
1st Place: Todd Hatton “Market House Ghost Walk”
2nd Place: Jacque E. Day, "Hearts 4 Babies"
Honorable Mention: Carrie Pond, "The Lives of Immigrant Women"

Best Hard News Feature:   
1st Place: Chad Lampe, "Ice Storm Overview"
Honorable Mention: Angela Hatton, "LBL Burn"

Best Use of Sound:         
1st Place: Rebecca Feldhaus, "Horse Whisperer"
Honorable Mention: Caleb Campbell, "Mock Bank Robbery"

Best Special - Series/Documentary:
1st Place: Jacque E. Day, "The Difference They Made"
2nd Place: Angela Hatton, "The Marijuana Belt"
Honorable Mention: Chris Taylor, "The Great Generational Divide"

Best Public Affairs:                          
Honorable Mention: Angela Hatton, “KY Asthma”

Best Enterprise / Investigative Reporting:  
1st Place: Jacque E. Day, Carrie Pond, "The Struggle for LGBT Rights"

Best Continuing Coverage:             
1st Place:  Staff, "Ice Storm 2009"
2nd Place: Jacque E. Day, Carrie Pond, "County Battle to End Prohibition"

Best Website:                                    
2nd Place: WKMS, Matt Markgraf, "wkms.org"

Chad Lampe

To Whom it May Concern,
As interim news director from 2005 to May 2007, I recruited and hired 4 students to learn the following:
     a.  basic to advanced broadcasting skills
     b.  basic to advanced journalism skills
     c.  basic to advanced electronic editing skills
     d.  basic to advanced production of hard news and feature reports meeting NPR quality standards.

During my tenure the WKMS Newsroom won the following awards

2006 Kentucky Associated Press Awards

2nd Place Awards for WKMS:
Best Newscast
2007--1st Place, Light News Feature, "Graves Symphony"
2007--2nd Place, Light News Feature, "Murray Fly-in"
2008--2nd Place, Light News Feature, "Paducah Quilt Show."

During my tenure these students have gone on to jobs using the skills learned with WKMS.   
James Burress: Reporter and News Anchor for WABE, Atlanta, GA
Elizabeth Erwin: Reporter and News Anchor for WKNO, Memphis, TN
Chad Lampe:  News Director for WKMS, Murray, KY

Bryan Bartlett 
WKMS News Director

To Whom It May Concern:
As WKMS news director from 2001-November 2005 I recruited and hired 12 students to learn the following:
        a.  basic to advanced broadcasting skills
        b.  basic to advanced journalism skills
        c.  basic to advanced electronic editing skills
        d.  basic to advanced production of hard news and feature reports meeting NPR quality standards.

During my tenure, Beth Graham went on to work as news director at WVPE in Elkhart, IN using the skills she learned with WKMS.

Gary Scott.

Placed in file and forwarded for placing online 4/1/10  by Kate Lochte.

Additional Outreach Activities:

7/27-8/3/10& 17/09 – Co-administered Communications Merit Badge Training for Eagle Scouts, Troop 57, Murray, Kentucky led by Andres Ferreya.

8-15-10 Presented booth on WKMS for MSU Great Beginnings – offering thousands of incoming students and parents information about WKMS.

8-26-09 – Presented WKMS Overview Program for approx. 150 member Rotary Club of Paducah.

9/17/09 Provided international music for MSU Center for International Studies Study Abroad Fair.

9/24/09 Recorded 7 students from schools around the region reading original works written with the Purchase Area Writing Project coordinated by Doris Cella.  Some of these were aired during WKMS Front Page airing 1-29-10, commemorating the Ice Storm of 2009, topic of the writings.

10/21/09 Ballard County Elementary speech judge  from 8 - 11:15 a.m.

10/28/09 – Presented WKMS Overview Program for approx. 20 member Lion's Club of Benton

11/16/09 Presented tour of WKMS studios for Scouts and Parents of Troop 57, Murray, Kentucky, organized by Ruthie Henson

11/18/09 – Presented WKMS Overview during Community Telethon produced by Rotary Club of Murray.

1-15-10 – Presented WKMS Overview program for approx. 75 member Madisonville Kiwanis Club, Madisonville KY

Placed in file 4/1/09 and forwarded for placing online 4/3/09  by Kate Lochte.

WKMS MODEL EEO PROGRAM (updated 4-01-09)

I. General Policy:
As a unit of its licensee, Murray State University, (Equal education and employment opportunities M/F/D, AA employer), WKMS follows its policies regarding employment searches, as mandated by federal law.

WKMS conducts a full recruitment campaign for each full time job vacancy and provides a notice of every full-time vacancy to any organization that requests it. WKMS offers equal employment opportunity in all personnel actions without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, or sex. WKMS has adopted an EEO program, which is designed to fully use the skills of qualified persons.

The full-time personnel at WKMS include: accounts specialist; program director/production coordinator; station manager; news director; promotion/development director; membership coordinator, operations/jazz/web director; and chief engineer. Part-time positions include: underwriting representative; voice talent; and board operators.

II. Responsibility for Implementation:
The station manager, Kate Lochte, kate.lochte@murraystate.edu, 270-809-4745, is responsible for the implementation of the WKMS Model EEO Program. She coordinates the station's activities with the Murray State University Office of Equal Employment Opportunity and the Murray State University Office of Human Resources and follows their published procedures for filling vacancies, including "Permission to Hire; Position Advertisement; Authorization to Interview; and Employment Summary."

III. Policy Dissemination:
In addition to being placed on the Murray State University website, www.murraystate.edu, and wkms.org, all position notices are also sent to the national Job Line of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting accessible at CPB.org. In addition, WKMS places position advertisements in local and regional newspapers. Jobs at Murray State, including any positions vacant at WKMS, are posted at the station's bulletin board.  Part-time student positions are also listed through the web service of Murray State's career placement office. Additional outreach is accomplished by advertising jobs by sending search announcements to HCBU academic programs.  WKMS also announces job openings on its own air.

Each advertisement lists the position's requirements, duties and materials necessary for application, including a notice that discrimination is prohibited and that persons who believe that they have been discriminated against may notify appropriate governmental agencies. Upon hire, each employee undergoes orientation with the Murray State University Department of Human Resources, including a probationary period during which expectations are stipulated and performance is monitored.
We convey our EEO policy primarily via the WKMS website, wkms.org.

IV. Recruitment:
WKMS maintains a continuing dialogue with other universities in the Commonwealth of Kentucky regarding any vacancies in its full-time staff through the Kentucky Public Radio News Exchange and other communications.

In compliance with the third prong of FCC EEO rules, WKMS participates in at least four job fairs every two years through representation by station management personnel who have substantial responsibility for hiring decisions.

WKMS provides its management level personnel training as to methods of ensuring equal employment opportunity and preventing discrimination by complying with the University's EEO office's requirement for a first meeting with its staff for rules refresher. During each search conducted by the station, at least two WKMS staff members are involved with community and academic volunteers and a representative of the EEO office charges the committee with the applicable procedures and requirements.

WKMS also offers volunteers from the community hands-on training in radio operations, programming production, and other facets of broadcasting in a regular recruitment effort as openings occur. WKMS trains volunteer commentators how to use studio equipment to produce their air content.

WKMS maintains a student news intern program open to any student, not for academic credit, but for wage. At minimum, WKMS has two students working as news interns each academic semester. WKMS trains student workers in all aspects of broadcast operations, including back office work.

We continue to seek established organizations that regularly distribute information about employment opportunities to job applicants or have job applicants to refer. If your organization would like to receive notification of job vacancies at our station, please notify Kate Lochte. You may also mail your contact information to WKMS, 2018 University Station, Murray, Kentucky 42071 or email wkms@murraystate.edu.

EEO Public File Report

There were no full time positions filled from 4/1/09 to 4/1/10

Full Time Positions filled at WKMS 4/01/08-4/1/09
Facility ID#'s
WKMS-FM Murray, KY 47080
W221BB Paducah, KY 81527
W258AJ Paris, TN 85723
W286AM Madisonville, KY 149023

Title:  Membership Coordinator
Recruitment Sources:
WKMS-FM on-air
www.wkms.org (contact:  Tracy Ross 270-809-6590
www.murraystate.edu  (contact:  MSU HR:  270-809-3155)
CPB.org Jobline  (www.cpb.org)
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (mailing list)
The Murray Ledger and Times Newspaper (270-753-1916)
KY Public Radio News Exchange Online
There were two interviewees.
Recruitment Source:
Personal reference by MSU Associate VP for Development

Full Time Positions filled at WKMS 4/01/07-4/1/08
Facility ID#'s
WKMS-FM Murray, KY 47080
W221BB Paducah, KY 81527
W258AJ Paris, TN 85723
W286AM Madisonville, KY 149023

Title:  News Director
Recruitment Sources: 
WKMS-FM on-air
www.wkms.org (contact:  Tracy Ross 270-809-6590
www.murraystate.edu  (contact:  MSU HR:  270-809-3155)
CPB.org Jobline  (www.cpb.org)
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (mailing list)
Paducah Sun Newspaper (270-575-8700)
KY Public Radio News Exchange Online
There were two interviewees.
Recruitment Source for Hire:  WKMS-FM on-air

Full time positions filled at WKMS 4/01/06-4/01/07
Facility ID#s
WKMS-FM Murray, KY 47080
W221BB Paducah, KY 81527
W258AJ Paris, TN 85723
W286AM Madisonville, KY 149023

Title: Announcer/Producer
Recruitment Source:
www.murraystate.edu
KYPR News Exchange Listserv
CPB Jobline
HBCU.com
Murray Ledger and Times
Lexington Herald Leader
Address, contact person and telephone number of recruitment source:
Murray State University EEO: 270-809-3155
Murray Ledger and Times: 270-753-1916
HBCU careercenter.com/wrmoss@hbcuconnect.com
http://stations.cpb.org/jobline
Recruitment Source for hiree:
www.murraystate.edu
There was one interviewee.

Full Time Positions filled at WKMS 4/01/05 through 4/01/06
Facility ID #s
WKMS-FM Murray, KY 47080
W221BB Paducah, KY 81527
W286AM Madisonville, KY 149023

Title: Announcer Producer
Recruitment sources:
www.murraystate.edu
Murray Ledger and Times
HBCU CareerCenter.com
CPB Jobline
Address, contact person and telephone number of recruitment source:
Murray State University EEO: 270-809-3155
Murray Ledger and Times, Murray, KY 270-753-1916
HBCU Career Center.com/wrmoss@hbcuconnect.com
http://stations.cpb.org/jobline
Recuritment source for hiree:
www.murraystate.edu
There were 2 interviewees
Recruitment source for interviewees:
www.murraystate.edu

Title: Membership Coordinator
Recruitment sources:
www.murraystate.edu
Murray Ledger and Times
Paducah Sun
HBCU CareerCenter.com
CPB Jobline
Address, contact person and telephone number of recruitment source:
Murray State University EEO: 270-809-3155
Murray Ledger and Times, Murray, KY 270-753-1916
Paducah Sun, Paducah, KY - 270-575-8600
HBCU Career Center.com/wrmoss@hbcuconnect.com
http://stations.cpb.org/jobline
Recuritment source for hiree:
Ted Brown, Murray State, Murray, KY 270-809-6953
There were 7 interviewees (first search failed - readvertised)
Recruitment source for interviewees:
HBCU CareerCenter.com
www.murraystate.edu
Rest unknown

Full Time Jobs filled at WKMS 4/01/04 through 4/01/05
Facility ID #s
WKMS-FM Murray, KY 47080
W221BB Paducah, KY 81527
W258AJ Paris, TN 85723

Title: News Director
Recruitment sources:
www.murraystate.edu
Paducah Sun Newspaper
Courier Journal Newspaper
CPB Jobline
Address, contact person and telephone number of recruitment source:
Courier Journal, Louisville, KY -502-582-4736
Paducah Sun, Paducah, KY - 270-575-8600
http://stations.cpb.org/jobline
Murray State University EEO: 270-809-3155
Recuritment source for hiree and interviewee (same person-previous employee):
WKMS-FM, 270-762-4745