The Florida Scholastic Press Association named five Bolles journalism students as All-Florida winners in its fall 2020 Digital Contest.
Isabel Bassin’24 (32217), Cameron Gratz ’23 (32256) and Grace Albaugh ’23 (32207) received contest honors in the commentary categories, while Gabriel Coleman ’24 (32082) and Ella Schellenberg ’21 (32257) received All-Florida designations in the deadline prose category.
The Bolles students, most staffers on The Bolles Bugle, were among 100 winners from across the state named in the annual contest. They were the only students from Jacksonville to be designated All-Florida award-winners.
Digital Contests allow Florida student journalists to showcase their work in a variety of categories such as writing, design, photography, art, broadcast and multimedia journalism. Students receive prompts and have between 24 and 72 hours to craft stories and layouts in response. Professional journalist and photographer judges, many of whom are certified journalism teachers, assign a numeric score to each and provide written feedback. FSPA recognizes All-Florida winners online and names a Best of the Best at convention for each category.
The All-Florida winners will be evaluated and one piece will receive the ranking Best of the Best so all of the Bolles students’ pieces are now eligible to compete in that contest.
