Grace Lovejoy, Class of 2026

galovejoy05@gmail.com

(770)-238-8940

 

High School Journalism Experience

McIntosh Trail, McIntosh High School

 

Editor-in-Chief                                                                                            Aug. 2024 - Present

• Edit and publish stories, photos, and multimedia projects for the site.

• Lead pitch meetings.

• Design a new site for the 2025-2026 school year on SNO platform.

• Supervise 30 staff members including keeping them on work cycle and provide feedback on stories.

 

Features Editor                                                                        Aug. 2023 - May 2024

• Help Editor maintain and update work cycle daily.

• Edit feature stories for each cycle using AP style. 

• Design feature stories in SNO platform. 

• References News Values to determine if a feature story should be assigned or dumped 

 

Conferences Attended

• GSPA Fall and Spring conferences (2023, 2024, 2025)

• NSPA Fall Convention (2024)

 

Achievements 

• 1 of 4 Trail Staffers to attend the FUN SPOT Arieforce One Roller Coaster opening ceremony as part of the media team. 

• New Voices Student Leader 23-24 (Student Press Law Center)

• First McIntosh Trail staffer to receive a Excellence in Writing Best of SNO Story Badge (2023)

• Quill and Scroll Honors Society (2025)

 

Select Journalism Awards

 

National Scholastic Press Association

• NSPA Leadership Award in Student Journalism (2024)

 

Georgia Scholastic Press Association 

• GSPA Superior In-Depth News Story “The Saga of Taylor Swift Tickets: “The Great War“ between fans and Ticketmaster” (2023)

• GSPA All-Georgia House Editorial “The possibility is never zero” (2025)

 

Student News Online

• Best of SNO “Collision course: teens and golf cart accidents in Peachtree City” (2023) 

• Best of SNO “The five freedoms in the First” (2023) 

• Best of SNO “Mother of Poison” (2024)