Applications are now being accepted for the Boyd Huppert Education Debt Assistance Grant.
The Boyd Huppert Education Debt Assistance Grant was established to help broadcast journalists with paying off student loans. This grant is available to journalists currently employed in Wisconsin broadcasting or related media.
Award-winning and widely acclaimed broadcast journalist Boyd Huppert grew up on a dairy farm outside of River Falls and got his start in broadcasting as a 16-year-old announcer at his hometown radio station, WEVR. He majored in journalism and political science at UW-River Falls and began his television career in 1984 at WSAW-TV in Wausau. Huppert worked at two more TV stations, KETV-TV in Omaha and WITI-TV in…
