Back row: Gabe Dresbach, Dylan Lu, Joe Gunn, Cara Andres, Jillian Plummer, Hunter Redfield, Jacob Umstead; Front Row: Hannah Niederriter, Amber Holt, Ava Fischer, Jenna Seigworth (By Trisha Dixon on March 10, 2020)
Ava Fischer won a first place award and two second place awards at the Keystone Press Awards in 2020. (By Gabe Dresbach/Student contributor)
Dylan Lu, Hannah Niederriter, Natalie Sandrock, and Amber Holt accept Cranberry Chronicles’ first place award for “Ongoing News Coverage” at Keystone Press Awards in 2020. This award was won by the entire class for a week’s coverage of one event which included writing, photography, and videography. (By Kara Daugherty/Student teacher)
Gabe Dresbach wins Honorable Mention at the Keystone Press Awards in 2020. (By Ava Fischer/Student contributor)
By HANNAH NIEDERRITER
Student contributor
In the world before COVID-19, Cranberry students swept several categories at the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association’s Keystone Press Awards.
In the Ongoing News Coverage category, the entire journalism class was awarded first place for their diligent and in-depth reporting on current events. The Ongoing News Coverage category acted as an umbrella for any series of articles, videos, or other produced works that covered the same topic, but were created at varying points in time over the course of the school year.
The prior year’s directors of journalism accepted this award, and these students included Joe Gunn, Jenna Seigworth, Dylan Lu, Amber Holt, and Hannah Niederriter.
Taking third place in the Video Story category were former Cranberry students Jillian Plummer, Hunter Redfield, and Jacob Umstead.
Two students earned awards in the News Photo category; former senior Cara Andres won second place, and Gabe Dresbach, a current member of the journalism class, was awarded third place.
As a junior, Ava Fischer achieved three awards for her photography. She received first place in the Feature Photo category, second place in the Sports Photo category, and second place in the category of Photo Story.
Although the winners were announced in the previous year, every students’ awards were sent to the high school. Following the ribbons’ arrival at Cranberry, students received their awards via mail due to the pandemic.
Hannah Niederriter, Gabe Dresbach, and Ava Fischer are students at Cranberry High School and members of Cranberry Chronicles, the school’s journalism/publications class. Trisha Dixon is their teacher and Kara Daugherty is the class’s student teacher.
