City High Little Hawk Editors Talk Pacemaker Award Nomination, Multimedia: With Links to Favorite Stories

Iowa City High School’s Little Hawk newspaper was recently named as one of 50 finalists for the National Scholastic Press Association’s (NSPA) Online Pacemaker contest, selected from a record high 252 entries. 

National Pacemaker Awards are considered to be the highest honors in student journalism. Online competitions are judged based on website design, navigation, writing, editing, graphics and interactivity.

This is nothing too new, as the Little Hawk website (www.thelittlehawk.com) earned Pacemaker finalist in 2011 and 2012. But I stopped in today to talk to web editors Nat Alder (right) and Max Friedman (left), both seniors at City High, about their most recent nomination as a finalist despite having to redesign the website midyear.

Some of the staff favorites from the Little Hawk this year:

Dating at City High: A Valentine’s Day Special, By Oli Peters

Top Foreign Online Shopping Spots By Emma Baxter

November Pep Assembly – The Mechanical Bull By Max Friedman

Hawk Talks #10: With Special Guest Mr. Bacon! By Max Friedman, Gabe Basile, and Nat Alder

Sounds of a City #3: Sylvia Dean – Hallelujah By Will Lubaroff

Hawk Talks Best of 2012  

An Evening in the Park Prom Slideshow By Kierra Zapf

Cutest Couple Photo Contest By Annika Wasson

City Volleyball Defeats West: Time-Lapse Video and Photo Slideshow

50 People 1 Question:  If you could wish for one thing what would it be? Video story By Daniela Perret

Dating at City High: A Valentine's Day Special (Video)

4th Avenue Final Show & Preperations for Grand Championship (Video)