Junior broadcast major Randy Gyllenhaal was awarded the Ken Kashiwahara national scholarship from the Radio and Television News Directors Association.
The exceedingly competitive minority scholarship gives Gyllenhaal $2,500 and a paid trip to next year’s RTNDA conference in Las Vegas. Kashiwahara is a retired ABC News bureau chief and correspondent who developed the annual award in 1998. His 23-year career with ABC includes coverage of the O.J. Simpson trial, Ronald Reagan’s presidential bid and the Vietnam War.