The Mansfield High School Uproar and Mansfield Legacy High School's The Rider were recently named as 2010 Online Pacemaker Finalists by the National Scholastic Press Association.

The newspapers were among 13 finalists from schools with populations over 1,500.

From the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) News & Notes:

“The 2010 NSPA Online Pacemaker contest saw a dramatic increase of 70 percent in entry totals from the 2009 contest. 132 high school Web sites entered the 2010 contest. The judging team included professionals and educators with extensive online media experience, and they made their selections based on excellence in the following areas: content and coverage, site design, ease of navigation, interactivity/multimedia and writing and editing. For the first time, entries were divided into two categories based on school enrollment.

The winners will be announced for the first time at the JEA/NSPA Spring National High School Journalism convention in Portland on Saturday, April 17.”

---

Congratulations to Mansfield and Legacy newspapers students on being finalists in what is considered the Pulitzer for high school publications. Mansfield ISD has the only two high school newspaper Pacemaker Finalists in the state of Texas.