Saint Stephen’s Honored With Prestigious Journalism Award

For the fifth time in six years, Saint Stephen’s Episcopal School’s student-run newspaper, The Gauntlet, won the Silver Medal from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.

“We are enormously proud of the entire Gauntlet staff and each of the individual award winners,” said Nadia Watts, the students’ journalism teacher. “The students form a talented team, and it is exciting for them to have their efforts recognized on a national level.”

The Columbia Scholastic Press Association sponsors the annual contest to “seek out and publicize the best practices in student writing, editing and publishing”  at high school newspapers across the U.S.

Saint Stephen's award is for the 2010-11 school year.

In addition to The Gauntlet staff’s Silver Medal, five students each won individual awards:

• Aiste Zalepuga, second place, News Features: "These Are Our Heroes"
• Amber Falkner and Liam Mercier, First place, Page One Design: Issue 4, Summer 2011
• Isabelle Bermudez and Ashley Peterson, Certificate of Merit, Overall Design, "A Day in the Life of a Pre-K Student"

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More information about the Columbia Scholastic Press Association awards can be found at http://cspa.columbia.edu.