<i>The Crane-Clarion</i> Wins Top Awards for 2006-2007
In August, the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) awarded the 2006-2007 Crane-Clarion a First Class rating with three marks of distinction (in coverage and content, layout and design, and school leadership). This is the third year in a row the Crane took this award.
The Crane was also nominated a finalist for the NSPA Pacemaker award for the first time. The Pacemaker is the highest honor available to NSPA members; of 348 newspapers, only 56 are finalists.
The anonymous judge called the paper “amazing,” adding: “Your coverage, leadership, and design blew me away. The writing is so in-depth, [with] great stories to choose from.”
In September, Crane editors learned that they had also taken a First Place/Gold Award for 2006-2007 from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.
The anonymous judge singled out for special praise the variety of articles; the balance of international, national, and school issues; the design of the center pages; and the humor section.
This is the sixth Gold Medal the Crane has earned in the last seven years, the fifth in a row.
Last year’s editors were Francis Simpson, Managing Editor (now at Vanderbilt University and contributing to the newspaper); Natt Phenjati, Technology and Design Editor (at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and also doing photography for student publications); Anasa Hicks, News Editor (now a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and publishing front page articles for The Tar Heel); Soo Hoon Oh, News Editor (at the University of Pennsylvania); Lucy Liu, Arts and Features Editor (at Cornell University) ; and Marissa Ash, Editor-at-Large (now at Harvard University). Congratulations to this year’s team as well for playing an important role in achieving this award.
The awards issue from June 2007 is still available at school for students, parents, and alums who did not see it. The first issue for the 2007-2008 Crane-Clarion will be out on Thursday, October 11. Both issues will be available to parents and students on Parents Visiting Day, Friday, October 12.
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The Crane was also nominated a finalist for the NSPA Pacemaker award for the first time. The Pacemaker is the highest honor available to NSPA members; of 348 newspapers, only 56 are finalists.
The anonymous judge called the paper “amazing,” adding: “Your coverage, leadership, and design blew me away. The writing is so in-depth, [with] great stories to choose from.”
In September, Crane editors learned that they had also taken a First Place/Gold Award for 2006-2007 from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.
The anonymous judge singled out for special praise the variety of articles; the balance of international, national, and school issues; the design of the center pages; and the humor section.
This is the sixth Gold Medal the Crane has earned in the last seven years, the fifth in a row.
Last year’s editors were Francis Simpson, Managing Editor (now at Vanderbilt University and contributing to the newspaper); Natt Phenjati, Technology and Design Editor (at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and also doing photography for student publications); Anasa Hicks, News Editor (now a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and publishing front page articles for The Tar Heel); Soo Hoon Oh, News Editor (at the University of Pennsylvania); Lucy Liu, Arts and Features Editor (at Cornell University) ; and Marissa Ash, Editor-at-Large (now at Harvard University). Congratulations to this year’s team as well for playing an important role in achieving this award.
The awards issue from June 2007 is still available at school for students, parents, and alums who did not see it. The first issue for the 2007-2008 Crane-Clarion will be out on Thursday, October 11. Both issues will be available to parents and students on Parents Visiting Day, Friday, October 12.
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