Phillipian Wins National Recognition
Gil Talbot
The National Scholastic Press Association has presented a national 2012 Newspaper Pacemaker award for general excellence to the Phillipian. The venerable student paper, founded in 1857, was selected in the 9- to 16-page broadsheet category and was judged on the basis of its coverage and content, quality of writing and in-depth reporting, opinion page leadership, layout and design, and photography and art. Editor in Chief Sam Green ’13 leads the independent student-run paper with his senior staff, including Connie Cheng ’13, executive editor; and managing editors Greg Cameron ’13 and Nicole Ng ’13. Green was pleased with the recognition. “All the information that we print every week, from a news article in the inside pages to our weekly Editorial, relies on a high standard of journalistic ethics. I think quality journalism flows from that idea. If you adhere to a high ethical standard, good writing and good reporting will come naturally, because anything less just isn’t good enough,” he wrote in an e-mail. Faculty coadvisors are Nina Scott and Susan Greenberg, both instructors in English. Just last spring, the Phillipian won the top award for its online version from the New England Scholastic Press Association.
Charting the Chilean Wild With support from the team behind the Patagonia National Park Project, Marty Schnure ’06 and colleague Ross Donihue departed in December on a 12-week cartographic expedition in southern Chile. Their project—funded by a National Geographic Young Explorers grant and contributions via Kickstarter—will create an interactive visual manifestation of the spectacular 650,000-acre “park in progress” and its long-term conservation mission. “We want to tell the story of one of the last wild places on Earth through compelling cartography combined with rich multimedia visual content and spoonfuls of educational information,” explains Schnure. “Using the images and information we collect, combined with open-source data and crowd-sourced content, we will create a print map and guide to the park as well as an interactive Web map to educate, inspire, and engage people worldwide.”
Phillipian staffers, December 2012. Standing, from left: Sarah (Sohyun) Lee ’13, Kristin Mendez ’13, Stephen Moreland ’14, Jing Qu ’13, Connor Fraser ’13, Patrick Naughter ’13, Walter Chacón ’13, Maia Hirschler ’13, Kevin Fung ’13, and Pearson Goodman ’13. Seated: Alexi Bell ’13, Connie Cheng ’13, Greg Cameron ’13, Nicole Ng ’13, and Sam Green ’13
“I’m excited not only to take my visual storytelling skills to a new level, but also to do it in a way that matters for conservation and education,” says Schnure. She and her colleague hope that their work will help create a truly sustainable future for a region threatened by overgrazing, mining and gas development, and a proposed hydroelectric project. A 2010 graduate of Middlebury College, Schnure has worked as a cartographer at National Geographic Maps and National Geographic magazine. In 2012, she and Donihue cofounded Maps for Good. The company’s “place-based visual storytelling team” produces maps and visualizations for organizations and individuals whose work is good for communities and good for the planet. Follow Schnure’s expedition via her blog at www.mapsforgood.org.
Andover | Winter 2013
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