Vanderbilt University received six Mid-South Regional Emmy nominations for excellence in television, the industry’s highest honor, on Thursday, Nov. 19.
Peabody College received four nominations, and Vanderbilt Video in University News and Communications received two. The stories/categories nominated are:
- Informational/Instructional Program: Saving Lives: Safe and Supportive Schools in Tennessee (Lyle Jackson – Peabody College)
- Informational/Instructional Series: A VU Inside: Cotton Candy Organs (Amy Wolf, Zack Eagles, Mike Todd – Vanderbilt Video)
- Editor/Program: Saving Lives, Safe and Supportive Schools in Tennessee (Lyle Jackson – Peabody College)
- Photographer/Program: Zack Eagles Composite (Zack Eagles – Vanderbilt Video)
- Writer/Program: Saving Lives, Safe and Supportive Schools in Tennessee (Jack Isenhour – Peabody College)
- Writer/Program: A Century Past, Peabody on 21st (Jack Isenhour – Peabody College)
Winners will be announced Feb. 27, 2016, during a televised ceremony at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
Vanderbilt Video has received 39 Mid-South Regional Emmy nominations and won 11 times since the unit’s creation in 2007. Peabody College’s documentary team has received 17 Mid-South Regional Emmy nominations and won four since 2008.