The Rivers Edge Earns First Place in ASPA Scholastic Newspaper Awards

The Rivers Edge has been chronicling campus news and promoting student voices on Winter Street for decades and this year’s staff has done that legacy justice by earning top honors from the American Scholastic Press Association’s (ASPA) 2016 Scholastic Newspaper Awards.
 
The competition’s awards are based on a scoring system in which a publication can receive a maximum of 1000 points; First Place Awards went to any school that earned more than 850 points. With a total score of 950, The Edge earned a First Place Award and — as the highest scoring newspaper in its division — was also named the 2015-16 Most Outstanding High School Newspaper for schools with an enrollment of 500 students or less. The paper scored higher than high schools from near (Kingston, Massachusetts) and far (Pasadena, California).
 
According to ASPA, The Edge was recognized as “an excellent school newspaper, which shows the creativity and journalistic knowledge of your editors, reporters, writers, photographers, layout/graphics designers, and advisor.”
 
Editor-in-chief Silvia Curry ’16 and assistant editor Kate Regan-Loomis ’17 lead the newspaper’s talented staff of students.
 
“Any successful newspaper is a reflection of the caliber of its writers and the leadership of its editors, and this year we have a phenomenal group,” said the newspaper’s faculty advisor Alex Stephens ’83. “This award is certainly a validation of all their hard work.” 
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