{"id":299678,"date":"2019-10-20T13:53:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T18:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/?p=299678"},"modified":"2019-10-23T10:57:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T15:57:27","slug":"2019-cartoon-of-the-year-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/2019-cartoon-of-the-year-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Cartoon of the Year finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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National Scholastic Press Association has announced its finalists for the 2019 Cartoon of the Year competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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,<\/a><\/strong> Nov. 21-24, 2019, at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First- through fifth-place winners will receive plaques, and five honorable mention winners will receive certificates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finalists are shown below in alphabetical order by state.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

RELATED: 2019 Individual Award Finalists
<\/strong>Photo<\/strong><\/a> | <\/strong>Design<\/strong><\/a> | <\/strong>Cartoon<\/strong><\/a> | <\/strong>Broadcast<\/strong><\/a> | <\/strong>Social Justice Reporting<\/strong><\/a> |
<\/strong>Story<\/strong><\/a> | <\/strong>Social Media<\/strong><\/a> | Portfolio<\/a> | Digital Story<\/a> | Local Climate Change Reporting<\/a> | Middle School<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Comics Journalism <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Jessica Berton<\/strong>
Bear Witness
Branham High School
San Jose, California<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Selena Chen<\/strong>
Spark
Lakota East High School
Liberty Township, Ohio<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Comic Strip\/Panel <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Jai Uparkar<\/strong>
El Estoque
Monta Vista High School
Cupertino, California<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brenda Gao<\/strong>
West Side Story
Iowa City West High School
Iowa City, Iowa<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maya Weslander<\/strong>
The Budget
Lawrence High School
Lawrence, Kansas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jaden Dudrey<\/strong>
Spotlight
Blue Valley West High School
Overland Park, Kansas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Isabel Kjaer<\/strong>
Echo
St. Louis Park High School
St. Louis Park, Minnesota<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maggie Klaers<\/strong>
Echo
St. Louis Park High School
St. Louis Park, Minnesota<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Grayden Kurtz<\/strong>
The Image
Lafayette High School
Wildwood, Missouri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vince Hofer<\/strong>
Statesman
Lincoln High School
Sioux Falls, South Dakota<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dasha Makarishcheva<\/strong>
The Highlander
McLean High School
McLean, Virginia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sanjana Singh<\/strong>
The Woodstocker
Woodstock School
Uttarakhand, Uttarakhand, India<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Editorial Cartoon <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Jessica Berton<\/strong>
Bear Witness
Branham High School
San Jose, California<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Annie Zhang<\/strong>
El Estoque
Monta Vista High School
Cupertino, California<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yue Shi<\/strong>
Verde
Palo Alto High School
Palo Alto, California<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Evie Horton<\/strong>
The King\u2019s Courier
El Camino Real Charter High School
Woodland Hills, California<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Margo Kazak<\/strong>
The Oracle
Glenbrook South High School
Glenview, Illinois<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shannon McGreevy<\/strong>
Southwords
Maine South High School
Park Ridge, Illinois<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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River Hennick<\/strong>
The Harbinger
Shawnee Mission East High School
Prairie Village, Kansas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Valeria Valesquez<\/strong>
The Rock
Rock Bridge High School
Columbia, Missouri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexandra Fernholz<\/strong>
Spark
Lakota East High School
Liberty Township, Ohio<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dasha Makarishcheva<\/strong>
The Highlander
McLean High School
McLean, Virginia

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National Scholastic Press Association has announced its finalists for the 2019 Cartoon of the Year 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":300232,"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\/299678"}],"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=299678"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305756,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299678\/revisions\/305756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}