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Apache Junction student Hutcheson given Aspiring Young Journalist Award
Served on Oro yearbook staff for two years at Cactus Canyon Junior High School
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Her vision for storytelling and self-expression will carry her on to continued excellence in scholastic journalism. It was a pleasure to review her portfolio and to see the passion she brings to this critically important work.”
Judge David Ragsbale
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The Journalism Education Association has named Tiffany Hutcheson of Apache Junction the 2020 Aspiring Young Journalist Award honoree.
JEA presents this award to junior high/middle school students to acknowledge and reward their work, and to encourage them to continue their journalistic studies in high school, according to a release at jea.org.
Tiffany served on the Oro yearbook staff for two years, first as an assistant editor and then as editor-in-chief at Cactus Canyon Junior High School, the release states.
Her adviser, Jason Davis, CJE, wrote, “She has all the skills: photography, interviewing, writing and design. Being the best on our team has never been good enough for Tiffany; she takes it upon herself to learn more and improve her skills on her own. She looks for inspiration, examples and tips anywhere she can find them.”
She was recruited out of Mr. Davis’s Journalism I class after the first quarter of her seventh-grade year.
“She was scheduled to go on a school trip and volunteered to take a camera,” Mr. Davis said said in the release. “After just a five-minute photography tutorial, we ended up filling an entire module with her images. She continued to improve and take on more assignments and was one of the biggest contributors to our 2019 book that was named a (CSPA) Crown and (NSPA) Pacemaker finalist.”
“As a junior high school student, Ms. Hutcheson is a journalist with an impressive portfolio already," Judge David Ragsbale, CJE, of Clarke Central High School, Athens, Georgia, said in the release. "Her vision for storytelling and self-expression will carry her on to continued excellence in scholastic journalism. It was a pleasure to review her portfolio and to see the passion she brings to this critically important work.”
Due to the cancellation of the JEA/NSPA Spring National High School Journalism Convention, the award winners were recognized April 18 on JEA’s Facebook Live platform, the release states.
Founded in 1924, JEA supports free and responsible scholastic journalism by providing resources and educational opportunities, by promoting professionalism, by encouraging and rewarding student excellence and teacher achievement, and by fostering an atmosphere which encompasses diversity yet builds unity. It is headquartered at Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas.
