TOWAMENCIN – Pardon a little journalistic self-promotion, please. But, hey, it’s the digital era and sometimes we all have to be a little shameless to make an online splash in the cybersphere.

The Knight Crier is proud to shamelessly self promote its 2018-2019 staff for publishing more content this school year than ever before. In the fall of 2011, The Knight Crier went fully digital for the first time, with the exception of the commemorative end of year print edition each June. While going digital was a big leap, and reluctant one for those of us who still like a newspaper in hand at The West Main Diner counter on Saturday mornings, what that leap did ensure was that students would be writing and publishing everyday. New, updated content daily, timely next day or next hour publishing of events, and a more far-reaching, potentially global audience were all part of the goals of going digital over these last 8 years.

This school year, however, the students who comprise the staff of the KC took things to new publishing heights, with the publication of 735 pieces of content. Most of that 735 is original, long form journalism. Throw in a few press releases, some photo stories, and some events bulletins, and you get a collection of work in which the staff broke our monthly publication record each month from September through June- including the months of October and January during which the KC topped 100 items of published content.

Joining Rachakonda as graduating members of the KC staff are editors Allison Lacianca, Allie Valovage Jillian Phillips , and Marissa Werner , as well as staff writers Giana Iannuzzi, Elijah May, Andrew Gimpel, Sammi Stec, Rachel Rosenblatt. Devan Baldwin, Gabby Corrado, Logan Dubil, and Jurni Jackson 

Editor-in-Chief Sameera Rachakonda lead the staff this year, rounding out her third and final year as a member of The Knight Crier, as she will head off to Temple University in the fall.

In addition to a tremendous year in quantity, The Knight Crier also garnered a First Place award in the Keystone Press Awards with the top high school news website in Pennsylvania. For the KC, this is the 3rd time receiving this award since 2011.

2019 also marked the beginning of a new venture for the KC. After many brainstorming sessions and some great and… well… questionable the KC debuted The Crier on the Can, a new weekly installment of the Knight Crier placed inside the restroom stalls around NPHS.

The Knight Crier is also excited to return a strong core of writers for the 2019-2020 school year, and the process of selecting editors and beat writers will begin over the summer, so the KC is ready to publish when school begins again in September.

The 2019 end of the year print edition of the KC is available in the K-Pod reception office at North Penn High School.