{"id":298165,"date":"2019-10-19T14:09:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T19:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/?p=298165"},"modified":"2019-10-23T10:57:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T15:57:15","slug":"2019-social-justice-reporting-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/2019-social-justice-reporting-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Social Justice Reporting finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>National Scholastic Press Association has announced its finalists for the 2019 Social Justice Reporting competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All finalists will be recognized and the winners announced for the first time in a Saturday afternoon awards ceremony at the <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/dc.journalismconvention.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">National High School Journalism Convention,<\/a><\/strong> Nov. 21-24, 2019, at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First- through fifth-place winners will receive plaques, and five honorable mention winners will receive certificates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Finalists are shown below in alphabetical order by state.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RELATED: 2019 Individual Award Finalists<br><\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/2019-photo-of-the-year-finalists\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Photo<\/strong><\/a><strong>  |  <\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/2019-design-of-the-year-finalists\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Design<\/strong><\/a><strong>  |  <\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/2019-cartoon-of-the-year-finalists\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong><\/a><strong>  |  <\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/2019-broadcast-of-the-year-finalists\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Broadcast<\/strong><\/a><strong>  |  <\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/2019-social-justice-reporting-finalists\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Social Justice Reporting<\/strong><\/a><strong>  |  <br><\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/2019-story-of-the-year-finalists\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Story<\/strong><\/a><strong>  |  <\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/2019-best-use-of-social-media-finalists\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Social Media<\/strong><\/a><strong>  |  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/2019-portfolio-of-the-year-finalists\/\" target=\"_blank\">Portfolio<\/a>  |  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/2019-digital-story-of-the-year-finalists\/\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Story<\/a>  |  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/2019-local-climate-change-reporting-finalists\/\" target=\"_blank\">Local Climate Change Reporting<\/a>  |  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/2019-middle-school-finalists\/\" target=\"_blank\">Middle School<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mahika Halepete<\/strong><br><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/harkeraquila.com\/42684\/features\/against-the-current-the-refugee-story\/\" target=\"_blank\">Against the Current: The refugee story<\/a><\/strong><br>Harker Aquila<br>The Harker School<br>San Jose, California<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jacob Posner, Emma Trone<\/strong><br><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/uhighmidway.com\/4396\/indepth\/podcast-the-bubble\/\" target=\"_blank\">Podcast: The Bubble<\/a><\/strong><br>U-High Midway<br>University of Chicago Laboratory High School<br>Chicago, Illinois<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Anjali Huynh, Jessica Moonjely<\/strong><br><strong>In the minority <\/strong><br>West Side Story<br>Iowa City West High School<br>Iowa City, Iowa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Michael Melinger, Grace Snelling, Sara Stemmler, Lila Taylor<\/strong><br><strong>It doesn\u2019t have to end<\/strong><br>The Globe<br>Clayton High School<br>Clayton, Missouri<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ann Fitzmaurice, Katey Whaley, Moy Zhong<\/strong><br><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"92 seconds (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bearingnews.org\/category\/special-reports-2\/92seconds\/\" target=\"_blank\">92 seconds<\/a><\/strong><br>Bearing News<br>Rock Bridge High School<br>Columbia, Missouri<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ethan Peter<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Sectored off: Meacham Park (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thekirkwoodcall.com\/top-stories\/2019\/02\/14\/sectored-off-meacham-park\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sectored off: Meacham Park<\/a><\/strong><br>The Kirkwood Call<br>Kirkwood High School<br>Kirkwood, Missouri<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Staff<br>A closer look at masculnity <br><\/strong>Spark<br>Lakota East High School<br>Liberty Township, Ohio<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Staff<\/strong><br><strong>The homeless in Dallas<\/strong><br>Focus by ReMarker<br>St. Mark\u2019s School of Texas<br>Dallas, Texas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sam Ahmed, Colin Campbell, Lyle Ochs, Aaron Thorne, Sid Vattamreddy<\/strong><br><strong>Starting the conversations<\/strong><br>The ReMarker<br>St. Mark\u2019s School of Texas<br>Dallas, Texas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Maren Kranking, Maria McHugo, Jeremy Siegel, Jack Stenzel<\/strong><br><strong>A nation on the fence<\/strong><br>The Highlander<br>McLean High School <br>McLean, Virginia<br> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Scholastic Press Association has announced its finalists for the 2019 Social Justice Reporting competition. All finalists will be recognized and the winners announced for the first time in a Saturday afternoon awards ceremony at the National High School Journalism Convention, Nov. 21-24, 2019, at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park. First- through fifth-place winners will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":300233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298165"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305752,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298165\/revisions\/305752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}