{"id":624716,"date":"2026-04-18T13:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T18:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/?p=624716"},"modified":"2026-04-22T20:17:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:17:48","slug":"2026-innovation-pacemakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/2026-innovation-pacemakers\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Innovation Pacemakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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NSPA honors innovation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Three scholastic media programs named Pacemakers<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

April 18, 202<\/em>6<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MINNEAPOLIS \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 2026 Online Pacemaker, 2025 Yearbook Pacemaker and 2025 Literary Arts Magazine Pacemakers winners, were announced during the closing awards ceremony of the JEA\/NSPA Spring National High School Journalism Convention, on April 18.<\/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 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<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2025 Spring convention awards<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

2026 Innovation Pacemaker
2025 Literary Arts Magazine Pacemaker
2026 Online Pacemaker
2025 Yearbook Pacemaker<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Individual Best of Show
Staff Best of Show<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pacemaker finalists<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

2026 Innovation Pacemaker finalists
<\/a>2025 Literary Arts Magazine Pacemaker finalists
<\/a>2026 Online Pacemaker finalists
<\/a>2025 Yearbook Pacemaker finalists<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2026 Innovation Pacemakers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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

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The Communicator
<\/strong>Community High School
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Student Leadership: Della Bank, Kennedy McDonald, Sadie Palay, Izzy Santiago, Andrea Skerlos
Adviser: Tracy Anderson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LHS Publications
<\/strong>Liberty High School
Lake Saint Louis, Missouri
Student Leadership: Emily Nguyen, Will Nolan
Adviser: Jonathan Hall<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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KCBY Espa\u00f1ol
<\/strong>Coppell High School
Coppell, Texas
Student Leadership: Aaron Montes, Hemi Riojas
Advisers: Irma Lazos-Kennedy, Stephen Jones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NSPA honors innovation Three scholastic media programs named Pacemakers April 18, 2026 MINNEAPOLIS \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 2026 Online Pacemaker, 2025 Yearbook Pacemaker and 2025 Literary Arts Magazine Pacemakers winners, were announced during […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624716"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624716"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":624769,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624716\/revisions\/624769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}