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]

2024-25 Falcon Staff:

Editors-in-Chief: Saachi Jain, Anika Kapasi, Kathy Wang, Beverly Xu

News Editors: Emma Fung, Amy Luo, Isabelle Wang, Andy Zhu

Opinion Editors: Sunny Cao, Nicole Lee, William Norwood, Divya Vadlakonda

Sports Editors: Richard Fan, Bill Huang, Derek Liang, Grace Lin

School Scope Editors: Alec Guan, Skyler Mao, Nika Svizhenko, Emily Wu

Entertainment Editors: Annika Gho, Sasha Prasad, Florence Wei, Bryan Zhao

In-Depth Editors: Florence Hu, Jessica Li, Anthony Luo, Ruiyan Zhu

Lifestyles Editors: Shirina Cao, Jane Lee, Amy Miao, Angela Tan

Humor Editors: Caitlin Stoiber, Zack Zhang

Social Managers: Jane Lee, Jessica Li

Web Managers: Skyler Mao, Kevin Yang

Business Managers: Amelia Chang, Caleb Yu

Photography Managers: Sia Bharadhwaj (assistant), William Norwood, Evangelina Stepanchenko (assistant), Bryan Zhao

Graphics Managers: Amelia Chang, Amy Miao

Art Directors: Jex Popov, Amy Miao

Reporters/Artists:

Ariia Blanco, Sia Bharadhwaj, Clara Choi, Debesh Das Sharma, Linh Do, Andrew Gong, Dhatri Iyer, Preksha Jain, Ethan Lee, Sean Li, Renisha Mandal, Addison Ma, Alexander Mao, Seabert Mao, Madhura Natarajan, Kara Nikfar, Adarsh Peruvemba, Ashni Pillai, Mikul Rana, Sanyukta Ravishankar, Shyar Shah, Vedant Sinha, Evangelina Stepanchenko, Melinda Su, Medha Sunkara, Rohit Thomas, Tanvee Tirthapura, Agastya Vitaldevara, Minghui 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

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