Review wins awards, names new editors

By Staff

In November, more than a dozen Review editors attended the NSPA/JEA Fall Journalism Conference in St. Louis, and, for a third straight year, came home with the prestigious Best of Show award for the top single edition of any small-school newspaper.

“It was truly amazing to be honored for all of our hard work on that issue,” said sophomore design editor Amanda Brantley. “It was magical.”

Also at NSPA, sophomore design editor Serina Yan won rst place for her editorial cartoon. This year’s Editor-in-Chief Wilson Bailey and Executive Editor Ella Chen (’22) placed third for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion reporting (“16 years after Katrina, Hurricane Ida wreaks havoc, displaces alums from New Orleans to N.J."). Multimedia editor James Li and sophomore Annie Villa were awarded fth place in the Broadcast Feature Story category ("Mountain Biking Club hits the trail").

For the fourth straight year, the Review received the highest recognition for hybrid news (print and online): a Gold Crown, awarded by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.

Individually, the CSPA Gold Circle winners included Ella Piper Cla y for rst place personal opinion (on-campus issues), Jennifer Liu for rst place cultural feature, Ellie Monday (’22) for second place sidebar writing, Diane Guo for second place cartoon portfolio, Diane Guo and Alice Xu for second place cartoon, Guo, Xu and Celine Huang (’22) for second place two-page design, and Huang for third place computer-generated art and illustration. The editorial board also placed second in editorial writing.

Annie Jones and Aleena Gilani won National Gold Medals from the National Scholastic Writing Awards in Journalism for “Protests spark fear, memories of 1979 Iranian Revolution" and “The struggle to conform: How Eurocentric beauty standards alter our self-perceptions," respectively.

The website was also named a Distinguished Site by Student Newspapers Online in March, marking four consecutive years of receiving the honor. Distinguished Sites meet criteria for six categories: continuous coverage, site excellence, story page excellence, excellence in writing, audience engagement and multimedia.

“At rst we struggled to get some of the badges because it was harder this year," said Multimedia Editor James Li. “But, ultimately, we came together as a team and got them."

The Review Online also received 10th place Best of Show for small school websites.

In the Private School Journalism Association Awards, publications earn points for each individual award their sta ers receive, and those points contribute to cumulative awards. The Review claimed the second place Blue and Gold award, meaning that it earned the second-highest number of points. Individual awards included rst place in Editorial Leadership, rst place News Writer of the Year (sophomore Elizabeth Hu), rst place Sports Writer (sophomore Katharine Yao), rst place Sophomore of the Year (Aleena Gilani), second place Versatile Journalist of the Year (Wilson Bailey), third place Sports Writer of the Year (Pierce Downey), second place Features Writer and third place Junior Writer of the Year (both Annie Jones), and third place Features Writer of the Year (Lily Feather).

Annie Jones will return as editor-in-chief along with Ella Piper Cla y. The Review Online will be led for a second year by Dawson Chang and rising junior Aleena Gilani, along with assistant online editors Emma Chang, Elizabeth Hu and Lucy Walker and online technical editor Arjun Maitra. Online section editors are Eshna Das, Aien Du and Alia Jiang. Video editor is Kenna Lee, photo editor is Katie Czelusta and social media editor is Virginia Carolyn Crawford. Deputy editors, who are responsible for assigning articles and training sta , are Lauren Baker, Mia Hong, Richard Liang and Lillian Poag. Lily Feather is the Managing Editor, who will be overseeing work ow. Print copy editors are Ellison Albright and Riya Nimmagadda.

Georgia Andrews will serve as the Executive Design Editor, heading a team of editors including Amanda Brantley, Serina Yan and Willow Zerr.

Print production editors are Dalia Sandberg and Lee Monistere, who will be tasked with handling the Review’s contest entries and editing articles.

Advisers for the Review are David Nathan, Shelley Stein (’88) and Sam Abramson.