2024 AWARDS

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Ladue Publications National Awards 2023-2024

For the first time ever, the Panorama won Best of Show in the nation for newsmagazine at the Journalism Education Association’s national convention in fall 2023 in Boston. And then again, at the spring 2024 convention in Kansas City, Panorama won Best of Show in the nation. The 2023 Panorama was named All-American with five marks of distinction by the National Scholastic Press Association.Panorama was also named a Silver Crown winner by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. 

The Rambler yearbook placed seventh in the nation at the Journalism Education Association’s national convention in fall 2023 in Boston, and then came back to win Best of Show in the nation at the spring 2024 convention in Kansas City. The 2023 Rambler was named All-American with five marks of distinction by the National Scholastic Press Association. Rambler was named a Pacemaker Finalist by the National Scholastic Press Association for the second time in Ladue history. Rambler was also named a Silver Crown winner by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. 

The ID Feature Magazine made its national debut this spring at the 2024 National Journalism Convention in Kansas City, taking home Best of Show its first time competing. The editors in chief of ID (Mac Huffman, Rory Lustberg and Annie Zhou) also won an Innovation Pacemaker for creating this publication for the Ladue community.

The Melodrama Literary Magazine placed fifth in the nation at the Journalism Education Association’s national convention in fall 2023 in Boston, and then placed second in the nation at the JEA spring 2024 national convention in Kansas City. Melodrama also took home a Pacemaker Award for Literary Magazine from the spring 2024 National Journalism Convention.

Laduepublications.com placed eighth in the nation at the Journalism Education Associations national convention in spring 2024 in KC. This was web’s first time competing at nationals.

National Scholastic Press Association Individual Awards Presented in Boston in Fall 2023

  • Olivia Chen earned 5th place in the National Artist of the Year competition. 
  • Vincent Hsiao earned an Honorable Mention in the National Photographer of the Year competition. 
  • Rory Lustberg earned an Honorable Mention in the National Writer of the Year competition. 
  • Annie Zhao placed 3rd in Literary Magazine Design with “Weather Like Feelings.”
  • Arti Jain and Rory Lustberg placed 4th in News Story of the Year with “Under Fire.”
  • Allen You placed 4th in Feature Story of the Year with “Torn from Home.”
  • Olivia Hu and Erica Shi earned an Honorable Mention in Newsmagazine Cover Design with “The Teen Issue.”

Clips and Clicks Spring 2023 (awarded in August 2023)

Clips and Clicks Fall 2023 (awarded spring 2024)

  • Panorama placed second overall. 
  • Emily Liu placed 1st in Infographic Design with “By the Slice.”
  • Vincent Hsiao placed 1st in Sports Photography with the “Out of Water.” 
  • Vincent Hsiao placed 2nd in Cover Design with the “Food Issue.” 
  • Vincent Hsiao, Madeline Awad and Mason Eastman placed 2nd in Spread Design with “Living through Lulu’s.”
  • Emily Liu placed 4th in Spread Design with “The Digital Demand.”
  • Vincent Hsiao earned an Honorable Mention in Sports Photography with the “All Smiles.” 
  • Ella Briag earned an Honorable Mention in Feature Story with the “From Stage to School.”

Quill and Scroll National Honor Society

  • Ladue Publications placed 3rd overall in Q&S Photography and Design competition.
  • Celina Zhou won first place in Beginning Designer and Artist. 
  • Vincent Hsiao won first place in Breaking News Photography with Surf-King. 
  • Vincent Hsiao won first place in Sports Reaction Photography with That’s a record. 
  • Mason Eastman, Madeline Awad, Vincent Hsiao won first place in Feature Spread Design with Living Through Lulu’s.
  • Luke Ye won first place in Photo Essay with “Oh my.“
  • Kelly Zhang placed second in Beginning Designer and Artist. 
  • Katie Myckatyn, Cindy Liu, Ella Bender, Arti Jain, Ira Rodrigues, Vincent Hsiao, Mac Huffman placed second in Climate and Environmental writing with Starving the planet. 
  • MJ Bezzant, Jax Bespalko, & Claire Malone placed third in Theme Development with “So, tell us all about it.“
  • Luke Ye placed third in clubs/activities spread design with “What’s all that jazz?“
  • Rory Lustberg earned an Honorable Mention in Profile Writing with Mapping Maritza. 
  • Maya Mathew earned an Honorable Mention in Profile Writing with Beyond the Boulder. 
  • Annie Zhao earned an Honorable Mention in Profile Writing with Fearless. 
  • Emily Liu earned an Honorable Mention in Column Writing with It’s not that simple. 
  • Grace Huewe earned an Honorable Mention in Sports Feature Writing with On the Run. 
  • Nitya Nara earned an Honorable Mention in Feature Page Design with A taste of home.

Columbia Scholastic Press Association (work from 2022-23 school year)

  • Allen You placed first in News writing with “Torn from Home.” 
  • Tarek Al Husseini placed first in Infographic Design with “Horticulture.”
  • Tarek Al Husseini and Mac Huffman received a Certificate of Merit for “Behind a Meal.”
  • Sydney Collinger received a Certificate of Merit in Photo Story for “He’s Got the Meats.”
  • Mimi Zhou received a Certificate of Merit in Infographic Design with “All in a Day’s Work.”
  • Mimi Zhou and Mahith Samarathunga received a Certificate of Merit in Infographic Design with “Taking care of business.”

Missouri Awards

  • Mimi Zhou was named to the Missouri All State team. 
  • Rory Lustberg was named to the Missouri All State team. 
  • Celina Zhou and Vincent Hsiao earned Best of Show in Double Truck/Centerspread Page Design with Best Bites. 
  • Mac Huffman earned Best of Show in News Feature Writing with More than a recipe. 
  • Mimi Zhou earned Best of Show in Infographic Design with Food Wars. 
  • Arti Jain and Vincent Hsiao earned Best of Show in Photo Illustration with Bursting the Bubble.
  • Emily Rosen earned Best of Show in Non-Traditional Yearbook Design with Winter Break.
  • Mariana Copeland and Devin Freeman earned Best of Show in Yearbook Sports Design with Football. 
  • Emily Liu earned an All Missouri in Double Truck/Centerspread Page Design with The Digital Demand. 
  • Panorama earned an All Missouri in In Depth Feature with A closer look at affirmative action.
  • Panorama earned an All Missouri in Newsmagazine Cover Page Design with Artificial Intelligence. 
  • Grace Huewe earned an All Missouri in Sports Reporting with On the Run.
  • Vincent Hsiao earned an All Missouri in Portrait Photography with Murphy’s Music.
  • Vincent Hsiao earned an All Missouri in Portrait Photography with Lulus. 
  • Vincent Hsiao earned an All Missouri in Sports Feature/Reaction Photo with Team Huddle.
  • Rambler earned an All Missouri in Overall Theme/Concept with So… Tell us all about it. 
  • Sydney Proper and Matt Loiterstein earned an All Missouri in Yearbook Specialty Design with Table of Contents.
  • Arti Jain and Panorama earned a Superior in Web with Laduepublications.com. 
  • Madeline Awad earned a Superior in News Feature with Pageant Princess.
  • Emily Liu earned a Superior in Infographic Design with By the Slice. 
  • Sydney Proper and Matt Loiterstein earned a Superior in Yearbook Specialty Design with the Student Life Divider. 
  • Mason Eastman and Madeline Awad earned an Excellent in Double Truck/Centerspread Page Design with Living through Lulu’s. 
  • Emily Liu earned an Excellent in Editorial/Op-Ed with It’s not that simple.
  • Alzhraa Mahmoud and Sara Rohatgi earned an Excellent in News Feature with The Dish on Davidson.
  • Luke Ye earned an Excellent in Non-Traditional Yearbook Design with What’s all this jazz?
  • Mariana Copeland and Lucy Demsey earned an Excellent in Yearbook Sports Design with Girls Tennis.
  • Rory Lustberg earned an Honorable Mention in In Depth Feature Writing with Mapping Maritza. 
  • Emily Liu earned an Honorable Mention in Infographic with Brick by brick.

National Scholastic Press Association Individual Awards presented in KC Spring 2024

JEA National Student Media Contests Fall 2023

  • Emily Liu earned the highest ranking of Superior for Infographic Design. 
  • Vincent Hsiao earned the second highest ranking of Excellent for Portrait Photography. 
  • Josh Devine earned the second highest ranking of Excellent for News Writing. 
  • Katie Myckatyn earned an Honorable Mention in Feature Writing. 
  • Madeline Award earned an Honorable Mention in Yearbook Story and Caption Writing.

JEA National Student Media Contests Spring 2024

  • Kelly Zhang earned a Superior in Graphic Design: Infographics.
  • Marie Demkovitch earned a Superior in Newswriting.
  • Emily Liu earned a Superior in Newsmagazine Layout.
  • Kayla Chan earned a Superior in Yearbook Copy/ Captions: Sports.
  • Isabella Soyfer earned a Superior in Yearbook Copy/ Captions: Clubs.
  • Lila Goldstein earned a Superior in Graphic Design: Logo.
  • Katie Myckatyn earned an Excellent in Editorial Writing.
  • Sylvia Hanes earned an Excellent in Sports Writing.
  • Rory Lustberg earned an Excellent in Press Law and Ethics.
  • Frank Chen earned an Excellent in Commentary Writing.
  • Grace Agnew earned an Excellent in Literary Magazine: Poetry.
  • Celina Zhou earned an Excellent in Literary Magazine: Illustration.
  • Arti Jain earned an Honorable Mention in Feature Writing.
  • Elena Bollman earned an Honorable Mention in Yearbook Copy/Captions: Academics.
  • Jax Bespalko earned an Honorable Mention in Yearbook Copy/Captions: Student Life.
  • Grace Kweon earned an Honorable Mention in Editorial Cartooning.
  • Sydney Proper earned an Honorable Mention in Yearbook Layout: Inside Pages.
  • Lucy Dempsey earned an Honorable Mention in Literary Magazine: Photography.

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