Allison Bennett Dyche

Awards

• Recipient of the Kay Phillips Distinguished Service Award from the North Carolina Scholastic Media Association at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, for work done on behalf of the Appalachian State University’s student media outlets and the Department of Communication, 2023
• Recipient of the Four-Year Distinguished Newspaper Adviser of the Year national award by the College Media Association, 2022
• Named Official Select in the international short-form creative audio works open call, On Air Fest 2021 virtual conference, for the audio piece “Now, Then, and When?,” 2021
• Named Third Place winner in the Student Audio Competition in the Specialty Program/Podcasts category, BEA (Broadcast Education Association) Festival of Media Arts, 2020, for the audio story “Local Organization Mentors Young Black Men Through Old School Values,” which aired on VPM in Richmond, Virginia, in August 2019
• Named Honorable Mention winner for the inaugural NPR Student Podcast Challenge in the category of middle school students, for producing the “Telling Stories Through Fulton Hill: The Cornbread Episode,” 2019
• Named Award of Excellence winner in the Student Audio Competition in the Specialty Program category, BEA (Broadcast Education Association) Festival of Media Arts, 2019
• Named a Top 10 Finalist in the KCRW’s 6th Annual 24-Hour Radio Race, 2018
• Presented with a Presidential Citation by the College Media Association (CMA), 2014
• Presented with the Honor Roll Adviser Award for Four-Year Multimedia by the College Media Association (CMA), 2013
• Received Wilton C. Scott Award for Excellence in Advising from the Southern Regional Press Institute at Savannah State University, 2013
• Named Outstanding New Adviser by the Society for Collegiate Journalists national organization, 2011