Watt wins award for project helping students understand media law

Peggy Watt, a professor in the WWU Journalism Department, won an award in the Teaching Ideas Competition from the Law and Policy Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. It was presented at the annual conference in San Francisco in August. Watt won second place for her entry "Media Law in Pop Culture and Multimedia." In the entry, she used multimedia examples from pop culture to illustrate legal principles in a way that students find approachable, according to a release. 

"A little laughter helps one grasp a difficult concept," she wrote in her entry, according to the release. "And, in many cases, an example will help them better understand how these principles directly relate to their work as student journalists and, eventually, as professionals."