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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Karole L. White
August 15, 2018 (517) 484-7444
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MAPB Honors Paul J. Ryan, Mark T. Brush with 2018 Public Media
Impact Awards
MACKINAC ISLAND -
The Michigan Association of Public Broadcasters (MAPB) presented its 2018 Public Media Impact Awards on Tuesday, August 14 at the Grand Hotel.
The MAPB presents Public Media Impact Awards to professionals and donors for their contribution to public broadcasting in Michigan. The awards are given to recognize outstanding individuals involved in public broadcasting for their innovation and creativity, inspire others involved in public broadcasting to greater achievement in the field of public radio and television and to increase awareness of public broadcasting and the contributions talented individuals make to the industry statewide.
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2018 Public Media Award Impact Award Recipients
Paul J. Ryan, WGVU Public Media (Donor Recognition)
Paul J. Ryan has been an integral part of the expansion of community engagement and impact for WGVU Public Media. He began supporting the station in 2010, both philanthropically and through providing his expert knowledge and leadership to the station's desire to be a deep convener throughout its community. In 2010, Paul began a multi-year personal commitment to help fund a scholarship endowment for veterans and their dependents to attend Grand Valley State University directly through WGVU. Additionally, he contributed to building community outreach for veterans and made a substantial gift to allow WGVU Public Media to create a visual display of all Medal of Honor Recipients from the State of Michigan with images and biographical information. WGVU has leveraged this tool in schools and throughout its expanded community engagement efforts and it is only possible thanks to Paul. In September of 2017, Paul spearheaded the community effort to support WGVU Public Media's LZ Michigan, a "Landing Zone" to Remember, Honor and Celebrate the community's veterans and their families. He took the lead role in helping to raise the needed revenue to help support the statewide community engagement effort. His personal support is multiplied by his work to share his passion for WGVU and being able to help bring over $100,000 of additional philanthropic support for the station in recent years.
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L-R: 2018 MAPB Public Media Impact Award Recipent Paul J. Ryan and
retired WGVU Public Media General Manager Michael T. Walenta. |
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Mark T. Brush (1968-2018), Michigan Radio (Professional Broadcaster)
Mark T. Brush was Michigan Radio's Digital Media Director. He worked to develop and maintain the station's overall digital strategy. As a senior producer/reporter and the station's first online news content specialist from 2010 to 2016, he helped move the station toward publishing more online-first stories. From 2006 to 2010, as the unit's comanager and senior producer, Mark helped transition the station's regional environmental news unit into an award-winning national news service known as The Environment Report. He reported on many vitally important issues for Michiganders, including cyanobacterial blooms in Lake Erie, pollution from industrial animal production and arsenic in groundwater... and he covered all sorts of fun stories too, such as a profile of Christmas tree farmer Duke Wagatha and the history of the giant Uniroyal tire along I-94. Mark was a crucial member of the team at Michigan Radio that covered the Flint water crisis. He won the station's first regional Edward R. Murrow award for his investigation into the status of Enbridge's Line 5 under the Straits of Mackinac and spearheaded the "M I Curious" project that seeks to answer the questions our listeners are wondering about. Mark was a graduate of the University of Michigan ('00 MS in Environmental Policy and Planning & '91 BA in Political Science) and has been a "public radio junkie" since 1992. Much of Mark's storytelling philosophy was influenced through his close work with veteran CBC réalisateur David Candow.
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L-R: Mark T. Brush's father, Tom Brush, sister, Lisa Brush, mother, Sally Brush and brother-in-law Jim Frey accepted his 2018 MAPB Public Media Impact Award.
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Photos by Sarah Moore Kuschell. Reprint consent given.
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The Michigan Association of Broadcasters represents nearly 300 radio and television stations, representing
nearly 4,000 individual employees in the broadcasting industry. The MAB is dedicated to helping its members serve their communities, advertisers and staff by providing solutions to industry problems and satisfying members' needs.
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