Stamford Highs Online Student Newspaper Earns Gold Medal

STAMFORD, Conn. – The online edition of The Round Table, Stamford High School’s student newspaper, has been awarded a Gold Medal by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association’s Annual High School Journalism Review.

The online edition of The Round Table, Stamford High Schools student newspaper, was recently awarded a Gold Medal by the Columbia Scholastic Press Associations Annual High School Journalism Review.
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Nicole Briggs

12/18/2014 4:50 a.m.

The Round Table was critiqued by judges and received points in the following areas: essentials, which includes reviewing layout; contact information, credits, coverage and interactivity; verbal, which includes good reporting, use of quotes, journalistic writing, grammar and punctuation; and visual, which includes the use of images, art and layout.

The Round Table earned 910 points out of a possible 1,000 from Columbia.

“I couldn’t be more proud of our students,” said Stamford High School English Teacher and Round Table adviser Jon Ringel. “They are really stepping it up. This is a really professional and dedicated group of students, and it shows in their work.”

As part of the award process, the school receives a formal critique of its publication, which provides specific feedback and suggestions for improvement to consider going forward.

This is the 2014-15 Staff of The Round Table:

Faculty Advisers: Jon Ringel and Krista Deiana
Editors-in-chief: Mike Nunziante and Paulomi Rao
News Editor: Kerry Fahan
Features Editor: Rebecca Rakowitz
Arts Editor: Brian Roman
Opinions Editor: Sam Berkrot
Sports Editor: Bailey Bitetto
Fashion Editor: Olguyne Ermilus
Science / Technology Editor: Soren Rodriguez
Social Media Coordinators: Dorothy Toth and Kayla Gioielli

The online edition of The Round Table can be read here.

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