Announcement - Special Summer Election Coverage
The 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 Griffins' Nest Editorial Boards have teamed up to cover the 2022 Vancouver School Board Election.
As The Griffins’ Nest is a student club, we are generally confined to the school calendar when it comes to our journalism. However, as a publication focused on public-interest reporting that has frequently taken on stories that extend beyond the hallways of our high school, editors decided that a special summer reporting project was incumbent upon us given our duty to our community as journalists. To that end, we strongly encourage readers to fill out our Public Input Collection Form to help shape our coverage.
Our volunteer team will consist of 12 student journalists, who all have been or are incoming members of the Editorial Board, working to fulfil our three-pillared election coverage plan:
(1) Weekly Issue Questionnaires issued to candidates. Candidates will receive a question or prompt and be asked to submit a written response, which will subsequently be published on our website. Responses will be sorted by political party, in a randomized order, and a further randomized order of candidates under each party. This is to ensure we are providing equal opportunity and a platform to all candidates.
(2) Weekly Feature Stories as a background to the issues of the Vancouver School District.
(3) 'Exit Interviews' with incumbent trustees who are not seeking reelection.
The Nest is excited to continue its journalism through the summer and welcomes feedback and input from readers, as always. Candidates will be sent letters in the next few days informing them further of this project.
The 2021-2022 Editorial Board includes Executive Editors Hannah Azad, Erika Chug, Stephen Kosar, Managing Editor Jessica Kim, and Editor-in-Chief Spencer Izen. The 2022-2023 Editorial Board includes incoming Executive Editors Max von Dehn, Adelaide Guan, Ellis Jackson, Katja Radovic-Jonson, and Alanna Rudolph, Managing Editor Simone Hamilton, Design and Layout Editor Teresa Chen, and Editor-in-Chief Stephen Kosar.
The Griffins' Nest adheres to the Canadian Association of Journalists' and Society of Professional Journalists ethics guidelines.