The Columbian, the newspaper produced by Columbia High School students and academic advisors, has won the two national awards for high school journalism:
First Place in the 2014-2015 Scholastic Newspaper Awards by the American Scholastic Press Association (ASPA); and
Silver Medalist Rating by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA)
The newspapers are critiqued in the areas of content coverage, page design, photography & illustrations, layout, editing and creativity. Each section can earn a certain number of points and the total of all those sections generate a final score. Final scores from each entry are compared to generate placings.
A comment in the judge’s summary from the ASPA stated, “You have an excellent school newspaper, which shows the creativity and journalistic knowledge of your editors, reporters, writers, photographers, layout/graphics designer and advisors. Congratulations to all on your first place award!”
The 2014-15 production leaders of The Columbia were:
- Deana Singleton & Max Kitibayashi (Co-Editors-In-Chief)
- Sophie Fisher (Art Editor)
- Olivia Levine (Photo Editor)
- Ben Reichman & Alec Tyson (Design Co-Editors)
The 14-15 content editors were:
- Tyler Farnsworth & Dylan Karten (News Co-Editors)
- Siobhan Nolet (Opinions Editor)
- Russell Pinzino (In-Depth Editor)
- Calvin Yohannan & David DeFranco (Sports Co-Editors)
- Edward Willshire (Arts & Entertainment Editor)
- Delainey Fuschetto & Sabrina Rodrigues (Project Coordinators)
The 2014-15 designers were:
- Khalid Young, Lellani Schultz-Joy, Fabriz Gauthier, Nick Carbonara, Alex Rafkin, Emre Yenigun (Designers)
Staff advisors to The Columbian are Joshua Enyeart (English Department) and Cindy Malhotra (Fine Arts Department).
