Journal produced by the students of Evanston Township High School The Evanstonian won 32 awards, including best overall publication for schools with more than 2,600 students, in the annual competition organized by the Illinois Journalism Education Association (IJEA).
The Evanstonian and ETHS students achieved first place, second place, third place and honorable mention awards in the following categories:
First place prize (13):
Best overall publication, The Evanstonian
Best hybrid publication, The Evanstonian
Best Reporting, Zachary Bahar, ETHS announces in-person experiences
Best In-Depth Story, Zachary Bahar, Lauren Dain, Jessica Sehgal, Bridget Baker, Kayla Drajpuch, Meg Houseworth, Stella Israelite & Zoe Kaufman, Trade-offs and sorting: students learn about mental health in e-learning
Best Personality Profile, Foster Ellen, From one circus family to another
Best Sports Report, Eli Cohen, Men’s basketball takes its first loss after a bad night of shooting
Best Staff Editorial, The Evanstonian Editorial Board, ETHS neglects the student experience
Best Serious Commentary, Nora Miller, Draw the house that could be
Best Reviewer, Quinn Hughes, Clothing and capitalist abstraction
Best Editorial Cartoon, Sabrina Barnes, Lame duck trump
Best Illustration, Sabrina Barnes, The fight for the seat: overtaking and the legacy of RBG
Best Center-Spread Stories Package, Zachary Bahar and Ellie Lind, “My crown, my sword:” Life in hijabi at ETHS
Best Overall Design, Nora Miller, February 22, 2021 issue
Second place prize (eight):
Best Sports Report, Eli Cohen, Women’s basketball wrestles offensively against top-ranked loss-making Simeon
Best Sports Report, Peter Barbato, ETHS alumnus minor Ligeur on baseball during pandemic
Best title, Jojo Wertheimer, Fashionable political figures
Best Alternative Storytelling, Zachary Bahar and Sari Oppenheimer, ETHS mock election results
Best Use of Social Media, Eli Cohen, Evanstonian twitter
Best Audio Journalism, Nora Miller and Zachary Bahar, Kit Chat: Episode 8: Evanston’s Next Four Years (and Beyond)
Best Website, Eden Drajpuch, The Evanstonian
Best COVID-19 Coverage, Bridget Baker, Jessica Sehgal, Lauren Dain, Meg Houseworth, Sofia Williams, Stella Israelite & Zachary Bahar, The question of e-learning
Third place prize (four):
Best Reporting, Nora Miller, Authentic Deliverance: Melting Gender Binary at ETHS
Best Humorous Commentary, Zachary Bahar, All the faces I know: The Office, the Evanstonian
Best Computer Graphics, Zachary Bahar, Timeline of the summer of activism
Best One Page Story Package, Ali Cutter, Lila Portis & Nora Miller, Students and staff pay tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Honorable mention (seven):
Best Reporting, Gabi Karlan, Combating environmental racism in Evanston
Best Sports Commentary, Kamau Ransom, My journey as a Division I football prospect during COVID-19
Best Humorous Commentary, Anika Radhakrishnan, How panel rooms are the blind dates of e-learning
Best Computer Graphics, Nora Miller, The four chords and the six conditions
Best One Page Story Pack, Ali Cutter, Lila Portis, Jojo Wertheimer & Nora Miller, Music that sums up this year
Best Front Page Design, Nora Miller, December 14, 2020 issue
Best Audio Journalism, Nora Miller and Zachary Bahar, Kit Chat, Episode 3: Student political engagement and climate activism
The Illinois Journalism Education Association sponsors a number of awards and competitions to recognize the efforts of high school journalism educators and their students, as well as school administrators and members of the public who support school journalism. More information is available on the IJEA website.
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