Echo, journalism and yearbook students earned recognition from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, Quill and Scroll, National Scholastic Press Association and the Missouri Interscholastic Journalism Association.
CSPA announced its 2025 Gold Circle Awards winners. This is the 42nd year of the program and the entries were published during the 2023-2024 academic year.
Junior Arianna Peper won First Place in the Digital Media Single Sports Photograph for “Senior Calum Shank swims the 200 IM in the State championship finals” and a Certificate of Merit in the News Single Sports Photograph for “Senior Dylan Hulszier swims in the meet against Clayton High School.”
Also, Peper won Third Place for “Phone policy should not be changed”and senior Ali Schulz earned a Certificate of Merit for “Webster Confessions encourages masked bullying” in Editorial Writing.
Quill and Scroll announced the finalists in the 2025 Writing, Visual, Multimedia competition. More than 120 schools submitted entries to this year’s contest, for a total of more than 2,200 entries.
Junior Jasper Winterton is a finalist is both the DEI – Social Justice Writing and the Feature Writing categories.
The winners will be announced April 26 at the JEA/NSPA Spring National High School Journalism Convention in Seattle.
Also junior Sam Enlund was inducted earlier in the year into Quill and Scroll.
Schulz is one of 1,400 recipients of the National Scholastic Press Association’s Leadership Award in Student Journalism.
According to NSPA’s website, “‘NSPA is pleased to honor such a distinguished group of student journalists,’ associate director Gary Lundgren said. ‘The leadership demonstrated by these students during their two years working on student media will serve them well for careers in journalism or any future endeavors.’”
MIJA’s 2025 spring contests had over 1,900 entries in categories related to print, audio, video, social media and online news coverage.
MIJA gave Superior ratings to the Echo News Roundup for Overall Video: Announcements Only and Voices of Webster for Overall Radio/Podcast and Excellent ratings for Overall Print and Overall Yearbook.
Junior Margaret Korte earned an All Missouri rating in Review Writing for “‘Wicked’ presents talented cast” and Excellent ratings in Radio/Podcast News Feature for “WGHS graduate returns as drama substitute” and “Principal retires from Webster after 6 years.”
Peper earned a Superior rating in Sports Reporting for “Men’s swim goes nearly undefeated in regular season” and an Honorable Mention in Sports Reporting for “Football team wins 1st game on Moss Field after renovations.”
Enlund earned an Excellent rating in Student Life/Organization Photo for “Junior performs with dance team” and an Honorable Mention for Social Media Reporting.
MIJA awarded Excellent ratings in Radio/Podcast News Feature to sophomore Opal Hays for “Saying ‘Hola’ to Webster Groves: Spanish teacher joins World Languages staff,” to freshman Isaac Choi for “New English teacher brings fresh take” and to senior Leo Bloomer for “Toenjes joins staff as assistant athletic director.”
Also, Schulz and yearbook seniors Raegan McCoy and Elise Leon made the MIJA Honor Roll.
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