About

Nordic News is a nationally award-winning student publication that has been reporting on Inglemoor High School in Kenmore, Washington for over 50 years.

As a staff, our mission is to provide our readers with interesting stories that are relevant to the Inglemoor community. We are dedicated to improving our craft, promoting journalistic values and exploring change through our online and print publication. We hope you can join us anytime, anywhere. You will see that there’s a story here for you.

Our print newspaper is published several times per year and our website features exclusive written and multimedia content. Our work is entirely created by a journalism class of around 30 students and strives to inform and entertain the student body and local community.

Our website publishes digital versions of the articles from all of our print issues.

Awards won by Nordic News (not including countless awards won by individual writers):

2024 American Scholastic Press Association 1st Place Award

2024 National Scholastic Press Association 5th Place Best of Show Award

2023 Washington Journalism Education Association Superior Award for Web

2022 National Scholastic Press Association 2nd Place Award for Web

2022 National Scholastic Press Association 7th Place Best of Show Award (Newspaper w/1500+ Enrollment)

2021 American Scholastic Press Association 1st Place w/ Merit Award

2021 American Scholastic Press Association Most Outstanding High School Newspaper Award

2021 American Scholastic Press Association Outstanding Editorial Award

2018 American Scholastic Press Association 1st Place Award

2018 Washington Journalism Education Association 1st-Runner Up

2017 National Scholastic Press Association 8th Place Best of Show Award (Newspaper 17 or More Pages)

2016 National Scholastic Press Association 2nd Place Best of Show Award (Newspaper 17 or More Pages)

2016 National Scholastic Press Association 10th Place Best of Show Award (Newspaper 17 or More Pages)

2015-2016 Washington Journalism Education Association All-Washington Award

2015 American Scholastic Press Association 1st Place Award

2014 National Scholastic Press Association 9th Place Best of Show Award (Newspaper 17 or More Pages)

2013 National Scholastic Press Association 10th Place Best of Show Award (Newsmagazine)

2012 American Scholastic Press Association Outstanding Special Award Section: “Alumni Feature”

2012 National Scholastic Press Association 10th Place Best of Show Award (Newsmagazine)

2011 American Scholastic Press Association 1st Place Award

2010 American Scholastic Press Association 1st Place Award

2008 American Scholastic Press Association 1st Place Award

2006 American Scholastic Press Association 1st Place Award

2002 American Scholastic Press Association 2nd Place Award

2001 American Scholastic Press Association 1st Place Award

2001 Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold Medalist

1992 American Scholastic Press Association 1st Place Award

1974 Sigma Delta Chi 2nd Place Award for High School Newspapers (Over 1,000)

1973 Sigma Delta Chi 3rd Place Award for High School Newspapers (Over 1,000)