The student-run news site of The Masters School

Tower

The student-run news site of The Masters School

Tower

The student-run news site of The Masters School

Tower

2023-2024 Staff

Matthias Jaylen Sandoval
Editor-in-Chief

Matthias Jaylen Sandoval

Senior, Matthias Jaylen from North Bergen, NJ is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Tower and has been involved in the publication since he was a Freshman. Matthias loved working for Tower the second he sta...

Lucas Seguinot
Editor-in-Chief

Lucas Seguinot

Meet Lucas Seguinot, a senior and the visionary editor-in-chief of Tower for the 2023-2024 academic year. Seguinot embarked on his journalistic journey in freshman year as a participant in the Introdu...

Xavier Rolston
Director of Multimedia

Xavier Rolston

Senior Xavier Rolston is Tower's Director of Multimedia for the 2023-2024 school year. Rolston joined Tower staff last year, where he served as the Web Editor and began to pursue web design. He is passionate...

Lily Zuckerman
Chief Design Editor

Lily Zuckerman

Zara Suvanto
TBN Executive Producer

Zara Suvanto

Zara Suvanto, a senior, and the Co-Executive Producer of Tower Broadcast for the 2023-2024 academic school year.  Suvanto’s interest for broadcast journalism began with watching Erin Andrew’s on TV dur...

Azariah Charles
TBN Executive Producer

Azariah Charles

Azariah Charles is an award winning journalist and is only just getting started as she is only a sophomore. She currently serves as the youngest Executive Producer. She started last year as a Freshman...

Staff profile photos: Alexa Murphy
Lead News Editor

Alexa Murphy

Twelfth-grader Alexa Murphy, lead news editor of Tower, first came to Masters in ninth grade. She said she joined the introductory journalism class her sophomore year with the hope of becoming a political...

Justine Pascutti
News Editor

Justine Pascutti

Justine Pascutti, a junior, currently serves as the news editor and primary page designer for Tower. Pascutti, who has had a passion for writing since middle school, joined journalism in her freshman year....

Oliver Kreeger
Lead Opinion Editor

Oliver Kreeger

Senior Oliver Kreeger has been at Masters since the 6 grade. He joined the intro to journalism class as a sophomore and joined the Tower production class as a junior. Kreeger has previously served as the...

Allie Faber
Opinion Editor

Allie Faber

Last year, Allie Faber began her freshman year as a student in Intro to Journalism. This year, she is an opinion editor and the primary page designer for Tower. She works on articles covering a range of...

Staff profile photo: Aviv Emery
Lead Features Editor

Aviv Emery

Senior Aviv Emery has been on 'Tower' since her junior year. Emery's journalistic pursuits began in her sophomore year when she took the Intro to Journalism course. From there, her experience in the class...

Staff profile photos: Lydia Ettinger
Lead Features Editor

Lydia Ettinger

Neena Atkins
Features Editor

Neena Atkins

Neena Atkins, a sophomore at Masters, is a primary page designer and features editor for Tower. Besides Tower, she participates in several extracurricular activities, including three seasons of varsity...

Adam Bello
Lead Sports Editor

Adam Bello

Adam Bello '24 is currently the lead sports editor of Tower and has been part of the Tower staff for two years. Bello is deeply passionate about basketball and is being recruited to play at a high division...

Ella Black
Sports Editor & Social Media Manager

Ella Black

Ella Black has been on the Tower staff for one year. Her position of sports editor was founded by her love of interviewing athletes and reporting on sports games.  Black is also a multi-talented indivi...

Rooke Wiser
Web Editor

Rooke Wiser

Rooke Wiser ‘25 first began his journalism journey during his freshman year with the course ‘Intro to Journalism’ and now serves as the web editor and primary page designer for Tower. Wiser’s i...

Ayanna Beckett
Photo & Illustration Editor

Ayanna Beckett

Sophomore Ayanna Beckett currently serves as Tower's photo and illustration editor. In this role, she decides who is going to be on her team and gives them assignments of events and stories to capture....

Ayalah Spratt
Ad Manager

Ayalah Spratt

Aurora Rose Horn
Lead Copy Editor

Aurora Rose Horn

Aurora Rose Horn, a senior, works for Tower as the lead copy editor. Horn has been at Masters since the eighth grade and says she has loved it so far and is grateful to be involved in Tower. One of the...

Ellie Hise
Copy Editor & Media Advancement Manager

Ellie Hise

Junior Ellie Hise has been finding her voice in journalism as a copy editor and media advancement editor. Hise said she is interested in hard news and investigative work. As a copy editor, she oversees...

Camilo Bitar Racedo
Distribution Manager

Camilo Bitar Racedo

Konstantin Miebach
Photographer; Winter Sports Coordinator

Konstantin Miebach

Senior Konstantin Miebach has been a photographer for Tower since the tenth grade. He is passionate about sports and action photography, and has stepped up as Tower's Winter Sports Photography Coordinator.

Gus Creech, a current sophomore at the Masters School, started the 23-24 school year in the new Intro to Broadcast Class offered at Masters, inspired to join by his interest in editing and filming. He is now part of the Tower Broadcast News program, working as co-director of news and chief audio engineer. Out of school, one can find Creech skiing, playing a little baseball, and dominating the court in squash. The accomplishment Creech is most proud to have achieved in his new role on TBN, was completing and editing his piece covering the squash tournament for TBN episode 5.
TBN News Director and Chief Audio Engineer

Gus Creech

Gus Creech, a current sophomore at the Masters School, started the 23-24 school year in the new Intro to Broadcast Class offered at Masters, inspired to join by his interest in editing and filming. He...

Mason Dwek
TBN News Director and Inventory Manager

Mason Dwek

Mason Dwek is an Inventory Manager with a strong passion for politics. As Chair of the 2024 Election Club and on his TBN segment Dwek Direct he helps introduce the election for those who do not kn...

Lucas Freedman
TBN Sports Director and Social Media Manager

Lucas Freedman

This year, Lucas Freedman joined the Masters Tower staff as a student in the Intro to Broadcast class in the first semester. In the second half of the year, Freedman earned the roles of sports director an...

Ceriah Clarke
TBN Lifestyle Features Director and Social Media Manager

Ceriah Clarke

Freshman Ceriah Clarke began broadcast journalism this year, in the Intro to Broadcasting class, and graduated to the Tower Broadcast News team where she is now the co-lifestyle director and co-...

Allat Yussupova
TBN Lifestyle Features Director and Script Coordinator

Allat Yussupova

Sophomore Allat Yussupova serves as co-lifestyle director and script overseer on TBN. She joined the Intro to Broadcast course in the beginning of the 23-24 school year, and decided to continue to the...

William Sun
TBN Arts & Leisure Director and Music Producer

William Sun

William Sun is a sophomore who currently holds the position of art and leisure director and music manager for Tower Broadcast News. His love for English and literature translates into the media he produces and ...

Juncheng (Bobby) Ding
TBN Rivertowns Correspondent and Animation Director

Juncheng (Bobby) Ding

Witness Juncheng (Bobby) Ding hailing from Hangzhou, China, who is the current Rivertown investigator and animation director for TBN. He has been an active member of TBN since the fall of 2023 before e...

Ellen Cowhey
Tower/TBN Advisor

Ellen Cowhey

Ellen Cowhey has advised and co-advised Tower since before the term “social media” was ever coined. She began in 2004, the same year local Dobbs Ferry resident Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook and...

Matthew Ives
Tower Advisor

Matthew Ives

Mr. Matthew Ives, the new chair of the History and Religion Department and a history teacher at The Masters School, is returning for his second year as a Tower advisor alongside Ellen Cowhey. Mr. Ives has been...

Adrian Sas
TBN Advisor

Adrian Sas

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