About The Saratoga Falcon

The Saratoga Falcon print and online editions are published by the two Advanced Journalism newspaper classes of Saratoga High School, 20300 Herriman Ave., Saratoga, CA 95070. Reporters and editors can be reached by sending an email to [email protected]

2025-26 Falcon Staff:

Editors-in-Chief: Florence Hu, Anthony Luo, Emily Wu, Ruiyan Zhu

News Editors: Shirina Cao, Jane Lee, Grace Lin, Amy Miao

Opinion Editors: Annika Gho, Alec Guan, Jessica Li, Bryan Zhao

Sports Editors: Debesh Das Sharma, Linh Do, Bill Huang, Dhatri Iyer

School Scope Editors: Sia Bharadwaj, Ariia Blanco, Kara Nikfar, Melinda Su

Entertainment Editors: Amelia Chang, Renisha Mandal , Sasha Prasad, Evangelina Stepanchenko

In-Depth Editors: Sanyukta Ravishankar, Vedant Sinha, Medha Sunkara, Tanvee Tirthapura

Lifestyles Editors: Clara Choi, Ethan Lee, Addison Ma, Madhura Natarajan

Humor Editors: Richard Fan, Nika Svizhenko

Profile Editors: Preksha Jain, Seabert Mao

Social Managers: Preksha Jain, Madhura Natarajan

Web Managers: Andrew Gong, Mikul Rana

Business Managers: Renisha Mandal, Sanyukta Ravishankar

Photography Managers: Sia Bharadwaj, Evangelina Stepanchenko

Graphics Managers: Clara Choi, Addison Ma

Video Journalism Manager: Dhatri Iyer

App Development Manager: Vedant Sinha

Reporters/Artists:

Michelle Bessonov, Elaine Che, Claire Chen, Mona Chen, Akarsh Ekollu, Sasha Gupta, Anika Halakatti, Bryan Han, Isaac Ho, Claire Hou, Ryan Hsueh, Cece Jia, Ananyasri Kannan, Michelle Lai, Jen Li, Katherine Liu, Rose Liu, Anya Mallik, Alexander Mao, Ainsley Nguyen, Adarsh Peruvemba, Soham Pradhan, Ila Rao, Vihaan Reddi, Elsa Ren, Kayley Ren, Shyar Shah, Zitong Sun, Terence Wang, Max Wong, Enzo Zhao

Adviser: Michael Tyler

Policies:

Takedowns and Content Changes

Once a story is published, the Saratoga Falcon’s general policy is to not change or remove any content (including quotes, names and information) due to requests from outside sources. Before publication, editors and other staff members have worked to ensure the validity, newsworthiness and ethics of publishing each piece. For these reasons, the Editors will not take down past articles except in extraordinary circumstances. The Editors will respond to each request and determine action. Content will only change if it is found to be false, libelous, dangerous or insensitive. If a story is altered, we will make it clear to the readers what edits were made.

Corrections

The Falcon is committed to providing accurate and reliable news and information to our readers. We understand that mistakes can happen, and we take any error seriously. If we become aware of a factual error, we will correct it as soon as possible by updating the online story and will prominently display and label the correction in the story itself. The Falcon believes transparency and accountability are essential to the building and maintaining trust with our readers, and encourages readers to report any corrections to the Editors-in-Chief.

Letters to the Editor

The Falcon encourages readers to submit Letters to the Editor on any topic of their interest, including in response to Falcon stories. All readers are permitted to send Letters to the Editor by emailing a draft version of the story to the Editors-in-Chief. The Falcon reserves the right to decline letters and edit letters for length, clarity and grammar. Letters cannot be returned and become the sole property of The Falcon upon submission.

Advertising

The Falcon is a great place to reach the school and local community. 1,300 copies of each print edition are printed and distributed to Saratoga High students and faculty, and over 600 community members are subscribed to the weekly newsletter. Please contact the Business Managers about advertising in either the print edition or online weekly newsletter.