Members of the staff of the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School student newspaper, The High School View, won a number of major journalism awards at the New England Scholastic Press Association (NESPA) 67th annual conference, held recently at Boston University.
The awards reflect both individual student achievements and the outstanding quality of the entire body of work published by the students during the 2014-15 school year.
The High School View won the Highest Achievement Award in Class III, which is based upon school size. The award honored the outstanding efforts of newspaper co-editors in chief senior August Welles and juniors Olivia Jacobs and Christopher Aring-Sharkovitz, and our webmaster, senior Elie Jordie.
Four students received individual Special Achievement Awards for excellence in scholastic editing and publishing. Olivia Jacobs won an award for “Vineyard Grads Buck Odds”; senior Giulia Leite won for her bylined column, “Through Hardship Grew Strength”; senior Russell Shapiro won for a feature story, “Peers Learn to Lend a Helping Hand”; and senior Katherine Reid won for the illustration, “Through Hardship Grew Strength.”
The High School View is prepared by MVRHS students and published during the school year in The Martha’s Vineyard Times, with the support of many Island businesses and individuals.
NESPA is an association based in Boston University’s College of Communication. Its mission is to promote all forms of student journalism, including print and broadcast journalism, yearbook production, and literary magazines. The program offers journalism awards for excellence in scholastic writing, editing, and publishing, and is open to all New England secondary schools.
Regional high school English department Chairman Dan Sharkovitz has served as the newspaper’s faculty adviser since 1995.