The Bugle, Bolles’ student newspaper, has been recognized as earning Best of School Newspapers Online for its staff’s work in opinion-editorial and podcast.

Bolles journalism teacher Anna Jacobson said Sarah Scherkenbach ’22 wrote an op-ed piece on House Bill 233. The bill prohibits the state Board of Education from shielding students, staff and faculty from certain speech, requires the board to conduct annual assessment on intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity, creates a cause of action for recording or publication of certain video or audio and revises provisions related to protected expressive activity, university student governments and codes of contact. The house bill effective date was July 1.

Scherkenbach and Bugle staffers Ian Peiris ’22, Aisha Hasan ’23 and Su Ertekin-Taner ’22 also received accolades for a podcast they made together. The podcast featured an in-depth interview with Bolles Chorus Director Meredith Mormann who talked about the concept of adulthood.

School Newspapers Online hosts The Bugle website. When the company chooses a site or piece as a “best of,” they are ranking each out of its 3,000 sites. The recognized piece gets published on the company site so it can be seen nationally, Jacobson explained. She said she often uses the site’s “best of” winners to teach journalism students in her class.