About
Tower is the award-winning newspaper of The Masters School. Tower is a member of the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA), Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA), Journalism Education Association (JEA) and Quill and Scroll.
Tower has won several Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA) and National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) awards for excellence in print and for digital packages. For the 2019-2020 school year, Tower has won 21 Best of SNO awards, with 13 of them being related to coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Tower won ninth place in the NSPA Best of Show Broadsheet category. For the 2017-2018 school year, Tower published a special edition issue about the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in April 2018 and won two awards from Columbia Scholastic Press Association for their work. For the 2013-2014 school year, Tower won the NSPA Newspaper Pacemaker award for the broadsheet 8 or fewer pages category. Tower has also been awarded the gold medal by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA) in 2012 and 2013.
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View our print issues at http://www.issuu.com/MastersTower
Contact us at TowerEditors@MastersNY.org
Tower Staff 2019-2020
Editors-in-Chief: Michelle Wei ’20, Logan Schiciano ’21
Tower Staff 2018-2019
Editors-in-Chief: Emma Luis ’19, Alexandra Bentzien ’19
Tower Staff 2017-2018
Editors-in-Chief: George Weed ’18, Michael Fitzgerald ’18
Tower Staff 2016-2017
Editors-in-Chief: Courtney DeLong ’17, Allie Berdon ’17, Leo Psaros’17
Tower Staff 2015-2016
Editors-in-Chief: Mia(Yiyi) Ouyang ’16,Rajan Cutting ’16, Ariel Censor ’16
Tower Staff 2014-2015
Editors-in-Chief: Abigail Costigan ’15, Sofia Linden ’15, Wen-Xuan Ni ’15
Tower Staff 2013-2014
Editor-in-Chief: Teerin Julsawad ’14
Tower Staff 2012-2013
Editors-in-Chief: Johanna M. Costigan ’13, Tyler Pager ’13, Noah Buyon ’13