Beachcomber Wins First Place Rating For Third Consecutive Year

April 12, 2015

The Beachcomber staff had a successful weekend at the Ohio Scholastic Media Association conference held at Kent State on April 10-11, bringing home awards 1st place newspaper, 1st place web site and 37 individual awards.

This is the third consecutive year that the newspaper has won a first place rating and a record number of individual awards.

See the complete list of awards below:

Beachcomber Staff
Superior Editorial
Honorable Mention Editorial
Excellent Online Opinion
Honorable Mention Online Package

Danielle Adelstein
Superior Review

Alex Cala
Excellent General Feature
Superior Facing Pages

Emily Dann
Excellent Newswriting 2 reporters

Bradford Douglas
Honorable Mention Sports Photo

Susan Eiben
Superior Facing Pages
Excellent Facing Pages
Second Place Day-of Newspaper Design
Honorable Mention Front Page Newspaper Layout
Honorable Mention Sports Page Layout

Cameron Godfrey
Excellent Sports Opinion
Excellent Online Sports Story

Soliana Goldrich (2014 grad)
Excellent Art/Non-Editorial (for work published in spring of 2014)

Naomi Grant
Excellent In-Depth Reporting
Excellent General Feature
Honorable Mention Commentary

Grant Gravagna
Superior Newswriting
Honorable Mention Online News Story

Hannah Leland
Superior Online Opinion

Kaustav Malik
Excellent Commentary

Cathy Perloff
Superior In-Depth Reporting
Excellent Personality Profile
Excellent Personality Profile
Honorable Mention News Feature

Alexander Robison
Superior Review

Jon Shapiro
Excellent Newswriting 2 reporters

Swathi Srinivasan
Excellent Sports Feature

Aden Stern
Honorable Mention Sports Feature
Honorable Mention Online Sports Story

Emily Topilow
Honorable Mention News Feature