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First Posted: 8/14/2014 The editor in chief of the newly ranked number two college newspaper in the country is an Abington Heights High School graduate.
Lara Sorokanich, a rising senior at Syracuse University, was named to the position at &#8220;The Daily Orange&#8221; in April, and will lead the independent student-run newspaper for the duration of the 2014-2015 school year, which begins Aug. 25. &#8220;The Princeton Review&#8221; released the &#8220;Best College Newspapers&#8221; list Aug. 4, placing the Syracuse independent student run publication second only to &#8220;The Yale Daily News,&#8221; of Yale University.
Sorokanich has been a member of the honors college and a Dean&#8217;s List student since her freshman year. She is pursuing a dual degree in magazine journalism and Middle Eastern studies from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and College of Arts and Sciences.
She served as the school paper&#8217;s feature editor in Spring 2014 and features copy editor in Fall 2013. She wrote weekly articles as the newspaper&#8217;s abroad columnist in Spring 2013 while studying Arabic in Irbid, Jordan during her sophomore year of college. She also worked as an intern at &#8220;National Geographic Magazine&#8221; and as the Life and Style editor at TheNewsHouse.com.
&#8220;The Daily Orange&#8221; has been recipient of the Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award for both online and print journalism, as well as the Editor and Publisher EPPY award for best college website, among others. It boasts numerous successful alumni, including USA Today publisher Larry Kramer and 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner Eli Saslow.
The publication&#8217;s website can be accessed at www.dailyorange.com, and digital versions of the print newspaper are available at www.issuu.com/dailyorange.

AH grad named editor of top college newspaper