Bolles journalists receive top FSPA honors
The Florida Scholastic Press Association named five Bolles journalism students as All-Florida winners in its Fall 2020 Digital Contest.
Freshman Isabel Bassin of San Jose, Sophomore Grace Albaugh of San Marco and Sophomore Cameron Gratz received contest honors in the commentary categories. Freshman Gabriel Coleman and Senior Ella Schellenberg received All-Florida designations in the deadline prose category.
The Bolles students, most of whom are staffers on The Bolles Bugle, were among 100 winners from across the state named in the annual contest. They were the only students from Jacksonville to be designated All-Florida award-winners.
Digital Contests allow Florida student journalists to showcase their work in a variety of categories such as writing, design, photography, art, broadcast, and multimedia journalism. Students receive prompts and have between 24 to 72 hours to craft stories and layouts in response. Professional journalists and photographers, many of whom are certified journalism teachers, judge their work by assigning a numeric score to each and providing written feedback. FSPA recognizes All-Florida winners online and names a Best of the Best at convention for each category.
The All-Florida winners will be evaluated, and one piece will receive the ranking Best of the Best so all of the Bolles students’ pieces are eligible to compete in that contest.
By Marcia Hodgson
Resident Community News
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