Unleashed has been nationally recognized with awards from the Youth Editorial Alliance and Newspaper Association of America Foundation. The Foundation represents 90 percent of U.S. newspapers.
The 2006 awards were presented during a banquet in St. Louis on July 24, 2006.
The 2006 Youth Editorial Alliance Youth Content Award winners are:
Teen Publications, Small Circulation (up to 60,000) 1st - Unleashed, Yakima Herald-Republic, Yakima, Wash., Adriana Janovich
First Person Feature 1st - Olivia Hernandez, " 'Oliva' Meets THE Chuck," Unleashed, Yakima Herald-Republic
Photograph 1st - Laura Harmon, "The Rush of Rodeo," Unleashed, Yakima Herald-Republic
Review 1st - Walter Schlect, "Spielberg Infuses Munich With Edge of Truth, Universality," Unleashed, Yakima Herald-Republic
Unleashed also received the third-place award for Program Excellence from the Newspaper Association of America Foundation.
The 2005 awards presented during a banquet in Nashville in October 2005 include:
Second-place for general Program Excellence for newspaper with a circulation under 100,000.
Third-place for youth content for newspapers with a circulation under 50,000 category.
Unleashed and the staff of the Herald-Republic shared third-place honors in the Special Projects category for "Kids Who Will Make a Difference," a 64-page special section that ran March 27, 2005.
Individual awards picked up by Unleashed's student staff are:
In the first-person feature category, a first-place award to Katie Greenberg, a Davis High School senior, for her personal account on traveling to Poland after the death of Pope John Paul II.
Davis junior and Unleashed Student Editor Diana Walsh earned third-place in the same category for her first-person account of participating in a summer sailing and marine biology camp on the East Coast.
Recent Eisenhower High School graduate Sara Marquis picked up an honorable mention in the photography category for her photo of Davis students rehearsing a play.
Olivia Hernandez, a sophomore at Davis, received second place in the Review category for her account of seeing her favorite band, The Strokes, perform in concert.
Unleashed coordinator Adriana Janovich and student editor Diana Walsh traveled to Nashville to participate in a weekend-long conference, ending with the awards banquet.
Teen Publications, Small Circulation (up to 60,000) 1st - Unleashed, Yakima Herald-Republic, Yakima, Wash., Adriana Janovich
