FAMU-TV 20 story picked up by ABC News

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The quality reporting by FAMU-TV News 20 at Five reporters Rebecca Azor and Kiarra Hart has attracted the attention of one of the biggest news organizations in the country.

ABC News picked up a story that TV 20 ran on May 3 based upon an earlier report by Azor and Hart. The two students went to Decatur, Ga. on Nov. 30, 2011 to cover the funeral of FAMU drum major Robert Champion, a hazing victim. The important information from their report is now spreading to ABC News affiliates across the nation and world.

After Leon County, Florida deputies booked drum major Rikki Wills for allegedly hazing Champion, TV 20 re-posted his interview with Azor and Hart at Champion’s funeral. Wills and two other drum majors who face third degree felony charges in the Champion case marched in front of the casket of the man they are accused of helping to haze.

Rattler Nation did its part to spread awareness of the TV 20 exclusive by posting Azor and Hart’s original report on May 5.

Christina Ng, an ABC News digital reporter and field producer, ran a national story on May 7 based on Azor and Hart’s video footage. She used a screen shot from the TV 20 clip on Rattler Nation (pictured above).

Ng’s photo caption read: “In this image from a video on the Rattler Nation blog, members of the Florida A&M University marching band lead a horse-drawn carriage carrying the casket of Robert Champion on Nov. 30, 2011 in Decatur, Ga. Champion was found dead on Nov. 19 on a bus parked outside an Orlando, Fla. hotel after a Florida A&M football game. (Rattler Nation)”

The Champion tragedy has brought sadness throughout all of Rattler Country. Azor and Hart are proof that even in this tough time for the Rattler family, FAMU can still take pride in having the very best journalism program and broadcast reporting students in the United States.

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