Instructor of Video Production & Advisor for KDRU/DUTV

Office: Shewmaker Communication Center, Room 116

Phone: (417) 873-7850
E-mail: bshipman@drury.edu

Brian moved his video production company onto the Drury Campus in 2002 and began producing videos for the university. He taught a video production class in 2003 and immediately knew he wanted to teach for the rest of his life. He now teaches Principles of Videography 1 & 2, Television Studio Production, Comprehensive Media Production, and Media Activities.

Brian has twenty-one years of professional media experience as a broadcast journalist, photographer, producer, and editor. While working at local NBC affiliate KYTV, he won 2 Mid-America Emmy Awards for feature and spot news. The Associated Press twice awarded Brian first place for investigative reporting during his years as a reporter at KFSM TV in Fayetteville, Arkansas. For the past 10 years Brian has owned and operated his own video production company specializing in corporate marketing for various clients across the midwest. Currently, Brian is wrapping up an aviation documentary, which will be hosted and narrated by academy award winning actor Cliff Robertson.

B.A., Oral Communication, The University of Central Oklahoma