2007 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient:

Shane Bishop '86

Shane Bishop '86, a Conrad native, is the national producer for Dateline NBC. He began his career as a reporter at Missoula’s KPAX-TV and went on to produce at stations in Philadelphia and New York before becoming a Dateline producer in 1994. He covered the World Trade Center and Oklahoma City bombings, the Columbine massacre, the 9/11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina. He has received two national Emmy awards and was a member of the NBC team that won the 2007 duPont-Columbia University Broadcast Award for coverage of Hurricane Katrina. He also was among Dateline producers who received the Sigma Delta Chi award for outstanding breaking news coverage of the 9/11 attacks. Shane and his wife, Erika Colness Bishop ’89, also a radio-television graduate, maintain their connection to UM’s journalism school. They have three children.