2022 Local Climate Change Reporting finalists

Nov. 5, 2022

National Scholastic Press Association announces the finalists in its 2022 Local Climate Change Reporting competition.

Individual Award winners will be announced at the JEA/NSPA Fall National High School Journalism Convention, at the 3:30 p.m. awards ceremony on Nov. 12. 

A gallery of winners will be posted after the Nov. 12 announcement.

Finalists below are listed by state.

Register for the convention.
Enter the convention’s Best of Show contest.

Pacemaker finalists
These Pacemaker finalists will be honored and winners announced at the Nov. 12 awards ceremony.

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Pacemakers in Innovation, Literary Arts Magazine, Online and Yearbook will be presented in spring 2023.

Pacemaker 100
To celebrate our 100th birthday, we’ll honor our top Pacemaker winners and recognize the Top 10 at the fall convention.


Local Climate Change Reporting

Urvi Kulkarni, Aimee Teyssier
Scot Scoop, Carlmont High School, Belmont, California
Earth Day recycles ineffective climate efforts

Gabrielle Shore
Scot Scoop, Carlmont High School, Belmont, California
Beyond the blue bin: how recycling might be a waste

Sasha Boudtchenko, Bella Daly, Melody Xu
Verde Magazine, Palo Alto High School, California, California
Lost in the flames

Saheb Gulati, Adam Akins, Nihal Gulati
The Octagon, Sacramento Country Day School, Sacramento, California
Almond Farming in a Changing Climate

Sabrina Zhu, Arely Sun
Harker Aquila, The Harker School, San Jose, California
It burns and it burns and it burns: California wildfires raze 2.4 million acres in midst of climate emergency

Sabrina Zhu, Kinnera Mulam, Sally Zhu
Harker Aquila, The Harker School, San Jose, California
Pulse of the People: Youth demand environmental action at local climate strike

Sabrina Zhu, Lavanya Subramanian
Harker Aquila, The Harker School, San Jose, California
Hero of Climate Change

Sarah Driscoll
The North Star, Naperville North High School, Naperville, Illinois
Sustainable farming needs to be our future

Staff
FHNtoday, Francis Howell North High School, St. Charles, Missouri
Environmental Consciousness Multimedia Package

Anna Holme
The Dispatch, James Bowie High School, Austin, Texas
Climate change: rising temperatures with a rising generation