Neha Patil (Editor)

The Lawrence

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Type
  
Weekly newspaper

Founded
  
1881

Format
  
Broadsheet

Website
  
www.thelawrence.org

Owner(s)
  
The Lawrenceville School

Headquarters
  
Lawrenceville, New Jersey

The Lawrence, founded 1881, is the third oldest high school newspaper in America and the newspaper of The Lawrenceville School. Published weekly, The Lawrence acts as a forum for the school community, both on and off-campus. It consists of 5 sections: news, opinions, arts, features, and sports. The Lawrence is printed by Princeton Packet Inc. of Princeton, New Jersey.

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Honors and awards

The Lawrence has won numerous awards over the years, including the Columbia Journalism Award. In 2014, the Lawrence also won an editorial award from Youth Journalism International for an editorial responding to social media abuse by students.

Notable alumni

  • Peter Elkind '76, editor-at-large at Fortune Magazine, author of The Smartest Guys in the Room
  • Bob Ryan '64, sportswriter for the Boston Globe and ESPN contributor
  • Marcus Mabry '85, International business editor for The New York Times
  • Scott Wilson, deputy national editor for the Washington Post, former Chief White House Correspondent.

    • References

    The Lawrence Wikipedia
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