The Villa Voice, Villa Maria Academy’s school newspaper, won third place for best newspaper at the Yale Daily News Journalism Symposium.

Entries were judged on quality of written content, grammar and consistency, design and layout, and photos and graphics.

Villa Maria was one of 13 schools that participated in the event, held at Yale University in late February. The symposium featured informative writing seminars, prominent speakers, and a high school newspaper competition.

Villa Voice participants included Raquel Lacusky, Hannah Rosenberger, Alivia Orvieto, Katie Scaggs, Julie Satterthwaite, Maddie Ladd, Carina Rose, Cecilia Oberkircher, Mrs. Jessica Mullen (Copy Adviser) and Mrs. Laurie Scaggs (Adviser).

Speakers at the conference included:

• Bob Woodward, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist renowned for breaking the Watergate scandal
• Rebecca Lieberman, Designer and Interactive Story Developer for The New York Times
• Adriane Quinlan, Show Writer and Supervising Writer for VICE News Tonight
• Erica Pandey, reporter for Axios
• Yuliya Parshina-Kottas, Graphics and Multimedia Editor for The New York Times
• Paul Steiger, ProPublica editor

Click here to read more about the Villa Maria Academy students’ experience at the Yale Daily News Journalism Symposium.

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