State Student Journalists of the Year: Part 1

Host Jim Jordan recently discovered that six of the JEA State Journalists of the Year winners all have yearbook in their resumes AND their schools published their books with Walsworth Yearbooks. He believes strongly that yearbook students are also true scholastic journalists – just as much as newspaper, online and broadcast – and deserve this kind of recognition. 

On this episode, Jim chats with three of those State Journalists of the Year. 

Annie Brown, Homestead High School, Mequon, WisconsinAudrey Culver, Liberty North High School, Liberty, MissouriAsher Montgomery, Hillsboro High School, Hillsboro, Florida

Annie is a four-year staffer on The Highlander Online and the Tartan yearbook. She does social media for both publications and she recently finished her yearbook with just six staffers. In the future, she wants to be a health journalist and a global health advocate.

Audrey is a four-year yearbook staffer and a two-year editor-in-chief of the Ayrie yearbook. The 2021 book recently received a Silver Crown award from CSPA. She plans on majoring in journalism with a minor in religious studies at the University Of Arkansas.

Asher has been a member of the Red & Black school newspaper for three and a half years and and she's been on the yearbook staff for two years. She's been published in The New York Times and USA Today. So far she's been accepted into Harvard, Northwestern and Wellesley and will be making that decision soon.