Gary Cummings Memorial Award
Gary Cummings Memorial Award
The Gary Cummings Memorial Award honors Medill’s broadcast director who died in 1987. The award is given to seniors who have excelled in undergraduate broadcast journalism courses. Recipients are selected by the faculty and honored at graduation convocation.
Cummings (BSJ63) had been vice president and general manager of WBBM-TV in Chicago prior to joining the Medill faculty. He previously reported for UPI and Chicago’s American, which later became Chicago Today. As a broadcast journalist, Cummings' on-air editorials earned him three Chicago Emmys and a Peter Lisagor Award.
Winners
2023
- Andrew Rowan, Olivia Yarvis
2022
- Megan Celia Lebowitz
2021
- Jonina Maya Safchik
2020
- Rahul Parikh
2019
- Meredith Sonnefeldt
- Adam Yates
2018
- Olivia Bailey Reiner
2017
- Isabella Gutierrez
- Alexander Perry Lederman
2016
- Gabrielle Elizabeth Ake
- Antonio Jose Vielma
2015
- Omar Jimenez
2014
- Harry Swartout
2013
- Dan Q. Tham
2012
- Kayla Stoner
2011
- Dana Molina
2010
- Jennifer Lynn Trammell
2009
- Ryan Robert Dietz
2008
- Emily Christiana Baucum
2007
- Robert Thomas Moses
2006
- Shayla Michelle Reaves
2005
- Susan Ying-Jane Ru
2004
- Alina de la Caridad Machado
2003
- Amanda Grace Cruickshank
2002
- Alexandra N. Rasmus-Vorrath
2001
- Jolene Ellen Loetscher
2000
- Joseph Fryer
- Sheinelle Jones