# @macjournalism on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CpGmO7PLESb
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11215987-macjournalism-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-02-25T23:02:10.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** McCallum Journalism (@macjournalism) — https://gondola.cc/macjournalism

## Caption

Wearing black armbands to signify their participation in #StudentPressFreedom Week, Shield online co-managing editors Francie Wilhelm and Ingrid Smith and adviser Dave Winter share a victory hug moments after National Scholastic Press Association associate director Gary Lundgren announced at lunchtime Friday that the Shield was one of 24 Online Pacemaker Award finalists.

The 24 finalists have a chance to win an NSPA Online Pacemaker Award on April 24 during the awards ceremony at the JEA/NSPA Spring National High School Journalism Convention in San Francisco.

Wilhelm said she was proud and happy at the news because it was an indication that the daily hard work of co-editors Eliza Jensen, Smith and Wilhelm was paying off. 

“The website is very much a labor of love, and I’d like to think that love is what gave the Shield the edge against some of those other publications,” Wilhelm said. “I honestly think that if we keep doing what we’re doing, then there’s a good chance of us winning a Pacemaker this year.”

While she is proud of the work the web team has done, she confessed to being on edge heading into the announcement. 

“I was definitely nervous when they started listing out the schools,” she said. “There’s so many great news websites out there, and the competition is definitely tough.”

Winter shared that sentiment, joking before the announcement ceremony started that he was going to need a hug no matter what the news was.

Luckily for the Shield staff, it was good news. The Shield has earned Online Pacemaker Awards in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2022.

Lundgren, who coordinates the Pacemaker competition, reminded all 24 finalists that the competition for the Online Pacemaker Award was entering a new phase.

“The judging teams will now continue to study the sites named as Pacemaker finalists on a frequent basis,” Lundgren said. “The Pacemaker winners will be selected shortly before they are named in April, so for the 24 schools we are naming as finalists today, the competition is still happening in real time.”

Photos by Julia Copas.

#SJW2023 #MoreToTheStory #dayinthelifeatmac

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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| McCallum Journalism | @macjournalism | https://gondola.cc/macjournalism | Newspaper |
| Julia Copas | @julia_copas | https://gondola.cc/julia_copas | Photographer |

## Tags

studentpressfreedom, moretothestory, dayinthelifeatmac, sjw2023

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