- The Paly Voice
Started in Fall 2002, The Paly Voice is a student-run journalism Web site published continuously by the students in Palo Alto High School's Web Journalism class.
At the Voice, staff members present their own reporting, writing, and photography along with work from the school's magazine, newspaper and broadcast journalism programs. The site also serves as a searchable archive of the content of these publications.
As of Aug. 7, 2008, the Voice staff has written 1728 stories as well as posted 2991 Campanile articles, 747 Verde stories, 410 In Focus broadcasts, 7510 images, and 5055 pieces of feedback from readers. Altogether, they have received a total of 7461759 hits. [ [http://voice.paly.net/about.php The Paly Voice | 2008 Release: Paly Voice: About] ]
During June, 2008 the site had 57464 unique visitors from over 80 countries, according to traffic-tracking software. Overseas visitors primarily consisted of people from Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia.
The Voice has also been referred by 6,500 external pages. The primary referrer is paly.net, the school's official website, which has been featuring the Voice spotlight boxes on its front page since 2003. In 2007, many professional on-line journalism Web sites, including the one belonging to
National Public Radio , referred to the Voice for the only readily available image of Mary Tillman, mother of American football player and US Army RangerPat Tillman , on the Internet. [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9153630]Awards
Overall Staff Awards, 2005-2008
"Online Pacemaker"
The Paly Voice was one of six scholastic journalism Web sites nationwide to be awarded with the Online Pacemaker award. The Pacemaker, given for overall staff achievement, is the NSPA’s most prestigious all-staff award.
Overall Staff Awards, 2004-2005
"Webby"
The Paly Voice received a Webby Award in the "Student" category of the 9th Annual Webby Awards. Presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, the award honors excellence in content, web design, functionality and creativity.
"Webby - People's Voice"
The Paly Voice received the greatest number of popular votes among five nominees in the "Student" category of the 9th Annual Webby Awards.
"Online Pacemaker"
The Paly Voice was one of three scholastic journalism Web sites among 42 nationwide to be awarded with the Online Pacemaker award. The Pacemaker, given for overall staff achievement, is the NSPA’s most prestigious all-staff award.
Overall Staff Awards, 2003-2004
"Online Pacemaker"
The Paly Voice was one of three scholastic journalism Web sites nationwide to be awarded with the Online Pacemaker award – and the only one to incorporate broadcast journalism along with print publications. The Pacemaker, given for overall staff achievement, is the NSPA’s most prestigious all-staff award.
Overall Staff Awards, 2002-2003
"Online Pacemaker" - finalist.
The Paly Voice was one of six scholastic journalism Web sites nationwide to achieve finalist status – and the only one to incorporate broadcast journalism along with print publications. The Pacemaker, given for overall staff achievement, is the NSPA’s most prestigious all-staff award.
External links
* [http://voice.paly.net The Paly Voice]
* [http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=1325 Palo Alto Weekly]
* [http://www.berkeleyhigh.org/archives/week_2004_11_14.html Berkely High School Web Journalism]
* [https://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=73964&sid=26%20 Poynter.org]
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