{"id":621110,"date":"2024-03-20T10:01:17","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T15:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/?page_id=621110"},"modified":"2024-04-06T17:55:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T22:55:54","slug":"2024-innovation-pacemakers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/2024-innovation-pacemakers\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 Innovation Pacemakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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NSPA honors innovation<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Three scholastic media programs earn Pacemakers<\/strong><\/em><\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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April 6, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI \u2014 Honoring the nation\u2019s best, the National Scholastic Press Association named three high school student media programs as Innovation Pacemaker winners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The innovation winners, plus the 2024 Online Pacemaker and 2023 Yearbook Pacemaker winners, were announced for the first time during the closing awards ceremony of the JEA\/NSPA Spring National High School Journalism Convention, on April 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Pacemaker is the association\u2019s preeminent award,\u201d Executive Director Laura Widmer said. \u201cNSPA is honored to recognize the best of the best.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NSPA Pacemaker, one of the oldest awards for scholastic journalism, has a rich tradition. The association started presenting the prestigious award to high school newspapers soon after the organization was founded in 1921. Throughout the years, yearbooks, magazines, online sites and broadcast programs were added to the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Innovation Pacemaker, in its third year, is designed to encourage out-of-the-box thinking and reward student media for the courage to take chances to improve service to their customers, readers and communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cStudent media is rapidly changing and top programs are finding innovative ways to deliver content to their readers while building unified and converged teams,\u201d associate director Gary Lundgren said. \u201cPrint is now just one component \u2014 there is far more to a successful student media program than publishing the campus newspaper and yearbook.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On March 1, six finalists, representing five states, were named as 2024 Pacemaker finalists.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2024 Pacemakers<\/strong>
Innovation<\/a>
Literary Arts Magazine<\/a>
Online<\/a>
Yearbook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2024 Pacemaker finalists<\/strong>
Innovation<\/a>
Literary Arts Magazine<\/a>
Online<\/a>
Yearbook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fall 2023 Pacemakers<\/strong>
<\/strong>Broadcast<\/a>
<\/strong>Newspaper\/Newsmagazine<\/a>
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Kansas City convention awards & Best of Show<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NSPA awards archive<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NSPA contests at a glance<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2024 Innovation Pacemakers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

listed by state<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NCHS Live!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

North Central High School
Indianapolis, Indiana<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Student leadership: Janie Akers, Heath Kizer, Patrick McPherson, Luke Routt<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adviser: Tom Gayda<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NCHS Live! is the converged news source informing North Central High School by delivering integrated content on the web, social media and in print. This year, NCHS Live! used social media to bring attention to important topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In October, NCHS Live! focused on micro-aggressions by highlighting a different student\u2019s experience each day with 21 \u201cDear World\u201d posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In January, NCHS Live! Cares launched a five-month series on mental health, focusing on a different topic each month with content delivered daily. Resources were provided on the website. The reporting culminated in May with a special edition of the print newspaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ladue Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Ladue Horton Watkins High School
St. Louis, Missouri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Student leadership: Mac Huffman, Rory Lustberg, Annie Zhao<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Advisers: Abigail Eisenberg, Sarah Kirksey<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Talon is serving its school with an inclusive yearbook program that transcends traditional boundaries and fosters unity as students with and without disabilities work together. The journalists (four students in special education), collaborate with their assistants (four general education students), to report the school year on the pages of the Talon. The collaboration extends to training sessions where all the students learn together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Student response to an \u201cInside Identity\u201d section published in Panorama magazine covering teen identity ranging from race to gender inspired the creation of \u201cID\u201d \u2014 an in-depth magazine reporting on the personal stories of student and staff identity. The first issue of ID Magazine<\/a><\/strong> was published in January 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Talon<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Lincoln Southwest High School
Lincoln, Nebraska<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Student leadership: Staff<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adviser: Brandi Benson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Talon is serving its school with an inclusive yearbook program that transcends traditional boundaries and fosters unity as students with and without disabilities work together. The journalists (four students in special education), collaborate with their assistants (four general education students), to report the school year on the pages of the Talon. The collaboration extends to training sessions where all the students learn together.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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NSPA honors innovation Three scholastic media programs earn Pacemakers April 6, 2024 KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI \u2014 Honoring the nation\u2019s best, the National Scholastic Press Association named three high school student media programs as Innovation Pacemaker winners. The innovation winners, plus the 2024 Online Pacemaker and 2023 Yearbook Pacemaker winners, were announced for the first time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"single.php","meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/621110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621110"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/621110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621207,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/621110\/revisions\/621207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}