5/5/09 – WSPN wins the Webby People’s Voice Award
4/22/09 – 2009 & WSPN: Preparing for the Web Generation
3/20/09 – Wayland Student Press wins the Gold Crown Award
2/27/09 – Another landmark achievement for WSPN: the Crown Award
4/19/08 – Wayland Student Press wins the Pacemaker Award
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Media Attention
(In order of approximate readership / viewership)
September 2009 – Feature article: Best High Schools 2009
“Never mind the school newspaper—the new Wayland Student Press is a campus media concept for the 21st century.”
4/2/09 – Front page: Columbia presents Gold Crown to Wayland High
1/1/09 – The Top Ten News Stories for 2008
5/1/08 – Feature section: Setting the pace (Nat’l Pacemaker Award related)
3/13/08 – Student Web site earns national honors (Nat’l Pacemaker nomination)
5/16/08 – Q & A with Sang Byum (Robin) Kim
“I don’t know whether to say, ‘this is your competition,’ or ‘it’s a good sign for our industry that a high school news site would so closely mimic a lot of newspaper.com conventions.’” – Howard Owens, Director of Digital Publishing at GateHouse Media
“A bunch of 16-year-olds, and they are out-producing many larger newspapers put out by a giant staff. Pretty powerful stuff.” – Mathew Ingram, The Globe and Mail
“…The best part is how [WSPN] all got started. Although Wayland High School lacks a journalism course, freshman Robin Kim…” – The Poynter Institute
