Awards

Over the years, The Urban Legend and its staff have won multiple awards for reporting, writing, design and photography, at the state, regional and national level, and at national journalism conventions.

Please click on the links below to see award-winning work. To view the Legend in print layouts, click on “current print edition,” located in the right navigation bar on the homepage, or feel free to email us at urbanlegendstaff@gmail.org. We are happy to provide PDFs if you send us your mailing address. —The editors

2011-12 School Year Awards

Second place, Story of the Year-Multimedia Package, for  “Proposition 8: Battling Over Same-Sex Marriage,” at the National Scholastic Press Association’s  High School Journalism Convention on Nov. 19.

 

2010-2011 School Year Awards

20 individual awards, for single-page layout, double truck layout, video news story, news, features, sports, editorial and opinion, in the California Press Women’s 2010 High School Communications Contest.

Two students, Adrienne von Schulthess and Isabel Moore, received 1^st place awards, for front page layout and news video, respectively, and advanced to the national round of judging. Several students — von Schulthess, Cassiel Chadwick, Megan Madden, Sabrina Werby and Isabel Moore — received two or more awards.

1^stplace, single-page layout, Adrienne von Schulthess, for “Balancing life: finding the equilibrium between teenage freedom and safe parenting,” National Federation of Press Women

Honorable mention, news video, Isabel Moore and Sara Brooks, “Proposition 8 demonstration,” National Federation of Press Women

1st place, Journalism Education Association/Northern California (JEANC), online feature package: the entire staff, for the “Proposition 8: Battling Over Same-Sex Marriage”

First place, news story, JEANC, to Jamie Friedman for “The debate over marijuana”

First place, front page design, JEANC, to Adrienne von Schulthess, for “Balancing Life”

Honorable mention, breaking news story, JEANC, to Jonathan Baer, Annakai Geshilder, Marney Kline, Jessie King Fredel, Jamie Friedman and Cody Siler, for ” ‘Soloist’ author urges student journalists to explore ‘the human condition’ “

Honorable mention, overall website, JEANC, to Hannah Gorman and Emily Wen

Honorable mention, review writing, JEANC, to Cassiel Chadwick, for “God is dead — don’t sweat it”

Second place, news photo, JEANC, to Sonja Bartlett, for photo of pro-democracy demonstration at UN Plaza in San Francisco

Second place, news video, JEANC, to Isabel Moore and Sara Brooks, for “Proposition 8 demonstration”

Second place, review writing, JEANC, to Isabel Moore, for “Deceivingly beautiful: photographer documents the lives of farmworkers in California”

Second place, centerspread design, JEANC, to Cassiel Chadwick, for “An exchange with China”

Second place, breaking news, JEANC, to Megan Madden and Hannah Gorman, for “Haight Street shooting tests Urban School’s procedures”

1^stclass newspaper, National Scholastic Press Association

2011 Wikoff Scholarship for Editorial Leadership, to Adrienne von Schulthess

Finalist, 2011 Story of the Year/Multimedia Package, for “Proposition 8: Battling Over Same-Sex Marriage”