The Midway editors for the 2026-27 school year have been announced. Lila Coyne, Ari Novak and Declan Smith will serve as editors-in-chief. Orlie Weitzman, Lucy Shirrell will serve as managing editors. Nadia Washington will be deputy managing editor, and new section editors include Karina Hans, arts and entertainment; Cecily Bensmaia, city life; Ellie Rosenberg, features; Maya Gauhar, health and wellness; Caroline Skelly, news; Sinziana Lazar, opinion; and Chloé Tyndall and Gabriel Wang, sports.
Ari said serving as features editor this year strengthened her interpersonal skills, which she hopes to use as editor-in-chief.
“It really fine-tuned my ability to go into the community, find the people who are doing interesting things that may be underrepresented,” Ari said. “I do think, for a community-oriented paper, it’s really important that we get to know the remarkable children that make up our community and make sure their voices and their experiences are told in our paper.”
Cecily, a sophomore who served as a multimedia and assistant editor this year, said that as city life editor, she wants to contribute more to the paper.
“I see a lot of the editors doing specific things that really contribute to the Midway, whether it’s designing a page or curating what stories are going to publish,” Cecily said. “I want to be one of those people who’s contributing to the final product and getting my own ideas into the final paper.”
One of Ari’s long-term goals for the Midway is to increase audience engagement through mediums like social media.
“We have existed in the social media-driven age, but I think, now more than ever, it’s really important to acknowledge that a lot of interaction with the Midway comes from our online sources,” Ari said. “Just to meet students where they’re at and meet them with the content they want to see so that our writers can actually get their work onto people’s screens.”
Cecily hopes that next year she will be more creative with the design and content of the paper.
“A lot of the stories and pages are really similar,” Cecily said, “so just adding more variety and adding more fun ideas into the Midway would make it more interesting and have more student interaction.”
