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For the last five years, The State Journal-Register has selected a handful of students for its Top Teen award that honor exceptional teens in the area. The section includes features of each student. The top student was given the doubletruck spread. The open pages are elegant and clean and showcase the beautiful photographs. The students' names, in big, sans-serif type, act as headlines, along with a descriptive noun displayed under each name.
Molly Beck, Voice editor at the paper who coordinated and edited the section, had to say:
In its fifth year, The State Journal-Register’s Top Teen Award honors area teenagers who give back to his or her communities in very significant ways.
The award is given by The Voice, The SJ-R’s teen feature section. The Voice is comprised of Voice editor Molly Beck, a part-time teen intern and around 40 teen correspondents who write for the section regularly.
In 2009, The SJ-R decided to pump up promotion for the award by introducing a special section featuring each finalist and past winners. This year, we decided to go even further by expanding the section to highlight the winner inside a double truck and were able to sell three full-page ads congratulating the five finalists.
The tab also includes a feature on the committee members, the award, last year’s winner and stories on the five finalists.
In addition, we used GateHouse's new microsite template on sj-r.com so that we could feature each finalist’s story that appears in the tab and a centerpiece story on the winner.
The finalists, five students from the Springfield, Ill., area, were chosen after receiving more than 20 nominations from community members who were asked to nominate a high school student who they believed made a genuine difference in their community — be it at home, school, in local organizations or elsewhere.
The Top Teen committee, which includes eleven Voice correspondents representing six area high schools, pored through the nomination forms, chatted with nominees on the phone and narrowed down the finalist pool to the top five.
After meeting with each finalist, the committee voted on whom they believed best defined the award to them. This year, the committee chose a young man dedicated to teaching underprivileged children. He, and the other finalists, were honored during Tuesday's award ceremony.
Outstanding job, Molly!
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In a recent edition of the Winchester Star, the front page centerpiece featured a story on an origami master. Editor Rory Schuler wanted to get readers to pick up a piece of paper and get involved. On the jump, a half-page how-to illustration helped do just that. Fantastic idea, Rory!
Joe Greco is corporate design director for GateHouse Media.
If you have a section or inside page you'd like to share, send pdfs and a description on how it came to together to jgreco@gatehousemedia.com.
For the last five years, The State Journal-Register has selected a handful of students for its Top Teen award that honor exceptional teens in the area. The section includes features of each student. The top student was given the doubletruck spread. The open pages are elegant and clean and showcase the beautiful photographs. The students' names, in big, sans-serif type, act as headlines, along with a descriptive noun displayed under each name.
Molly Beck, Voice editor at the paper who coordinated and edited the section, had to say:
In its fifth year, The State Journal-Register’s Top Teen Award honors area teenagers who give back to his or her communities in very significant ways.
The award is given by The Voice, The SJ-R’s teen feature section. The Voice is comprised of Voice editor Molly Beck, a part-time teen intern and around 40 teen correspondents who write for the section regularly.
In 2009, The SJ-R decided to pump up promotion for the award by introducing a special section featuring each finalist and past winners. This year, we decided to go even further by expanding the section to highlight the winner inside a double truck and were able to sell three full-page ads congratulating the five finalists.
The tab also includes a feature on the committee members, the award, last year’s winner and stories on the five finalists.
In addition, we used GateHouse's new microsite template on sj-r.com so that we could feature each finalist’s story that appears in the tab and a centerpiece story on the winner.
The finalists, five students from the Springfield, Ill., area, were chosen after receiving more than 20 nominations from community members who were asked to nominate a high school student who they believed made a genuine difference in their community — be it at home, school, in local organizations or elsewhere.
The Top Teen committee, which includes eleven Voice correspondents representing six area high schools, pored through the nomination forms, chatted with nominees on the phone and narrowed down the finalist pool to the top five.
After meeting with each finalist, the committee voted on whom they believed best defined the award to them. This year, the committee chose a young man dedicated to teaching underprivileged children. He, and the other finalists, were honored during Tuesday's award ceremony.
Outstanding job, Molly!
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In a recent edition of the Winchester Star, the front page centerpiece featured a story on an origami master. Editor Rory Schuler wanted to get readers to pick up a piece of paper and get involved. On the jump, a half-page how-to illustration helped do just that. Fantastic idea, Rory!
Joe Greco is corporate design director for GateHouse Media.
If you have a section or inside page you'd like to share, send pdfs and a description on how it came to together to jgreco@gatehousemedia.com.
