Barney McCoy

Bernard "Barney" R. McCoy<br>Professor, College of Journalism and Mass Communications<br>University of Nebraska-Lincoln<br><br>Barney McCoy teaches multimedia, broadcast news, journalism, news literacy, social justice/human rights and depth reporting courses at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Before arriving at UNL in 2006, McCoy was a full-time journalist for 27 years. McCoy has been honored with numerous television, radio, and multimedia news awards.<br><br>In 2023, he was the recipient of "Best of Competition" award in the Faculty Audio News Reporting category for Hard News radio reporting by the Broadcast Education Association and was "Best of Show" honoree in the faculty documentary catagory at the fall BEA On-Location awards competition for his documentary short "Seven Years A Correspondent."<br>The Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association honored McCoy with a 1st place award for Soft Feature radio reporting and an Award of Merit for General radio reporting in 2023. McCoy won regional Edward R. Murrow Awards from the Radio, Television, Digital News Association for "Excellence in Sound" and radio "Feature Reporting."<br><br>In 2022, he was the recipient of "Best of Show" awards in the Faculty Audio and News and Sports categories and an "Award of Excellence" for his radio reporting by the Broadcast Education Association. The Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association also honored McCoy with a 1st place award for Hard Feature radio reporting and an Award of Merit for Soft Feature radio reporting in 2022.<br><br>His television documentary "Black Jack Pershing: Love and War" was a 2018 recipient of a national Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, an Award of Excellence, Special Mention from the Accolade Global Film Competition, an Award of Excellence from the Impact DOCS Global Documentary Competition, an Award of Excellence from the Broadcast Education Association, and an Eric Sevareid Award from the Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association.<br><br>Another McCoy documentary, "They Could Really Play the Game: Reloaded," was a 2015 Canada International Film Festival Award winner. McCoy has been honored with six regional Emmy awards and numerous other citations for journalistic excellence.<br><br>McCoy has authored several peer-reviewed journal articles involving his multi-phased national research on digital distractions in the classroom. His most recent published research examined student perceptions on their remote learning experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. McCoy also published another research project on professional and scholarly expectations for Journalism graduates in the workplace and co-authored a book chapter on mixed methods research in documentary filmmaking.<br><br>McCoy holds a master's degree in telecommunications management from Michigan State University. He holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Kansas.<br><br>He has taught multimedia reporting courses at the Kosovo Institute of Journalism and Mass Communication in Pristina, Kosovo and has produced and advised on five award-winning documentaries at UNL.<br><br>McCoy has worked as a documentary director and producer, television and print news reporter, photographer, news producer, and anchor. He has been employed by WIBW-TV, Topeka, KS., KCTV, Kansas City, MO, WKBD-TV, Detroit, MI., WILX-TV, Lansing, MI. and WBNS-TV, Columbus, OH.<br><br>McCoy has also contributed reporting for The Columbus Dispatch, The Kansas City Star, Associated Press, USA Today, CBS, CNN, Nebraska Educational Telecommunications, WTTW Public Media, Chicago, Illinois, WOSU Public Media, Columbus, Ohio, WOUB Public Media, Athens, Ohio, and the Ohio News Network.