State association names West Henderson High senior Journalist of the Year
West Henderson High senior Sarah Monoson has been named the 2021 Rachel Rivers-Coffey North Carolina High School Journalist of the Year by the N.C. Scholastic Media Association.
This is the second consecutive year a student on the school s Wingspan newspaper staff has been named Journalist of the Year by the association, which is a scholarship contest.
The North Carolina Press Foundation has funded the annual scholarship award since 2001 in memory of former N.C. Press Association president Rachel Rivers-Coffey.
Monoson, 17, will receive a $3,000 scholarship and the West Henderson journalism program will get $500. The scholarship and awards will be presented during the N.C. Scholastic Media Institute.
Monoson is the co-editor-in-chief of the West Henderson school newspaper, Wingspan. Judges noted her clarity and expressiveness in writing and design, as well as the quality and variety of sourcing.
Alternates for Journalist of the Year were Cassie Honeycutt of First Flight High School in Kill Devil Hills, Ella Sullivan of Northwood High School in Pittsboro and Tierney Reardon of J.H. Rose High School in Greenville.
Honeycutt is the co-editor-in-chief of her school’s newspaper, Nighthawk News Magazine; Sullivan is the co-editor-in-chief of her school newspaper, The Northwood Omniscient; and Reardon is the co-editor-in-chief of her school newspaper, Rampant Lines.