Winter Storm Q has caused the fifth of six KSPA journalism regional contests to be moved from a college campus back to individual high schools. The latest victim is the regional scheduled Friday for Wichita State University. Contest coordinator Amy DeVault and KSPA Executive Director Jeff Browne made the decision…...
Blizzard of ’13 blows KU regional off-site
Winter Storm Q — which may be remembered as the Blizzard of ’13 — has forced KSPA to move its Lawrence regional scheduled for Friday from the University of Kansas to individual schools. Each of the schools scheduled to participate in the KU regional will now mail its carry-in contests ASAP to KSPA…...
KSU, ESU and FHSU regionals are now off-site contests
The 2013 regional contests scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 21 at Kansas State University, Emporia State University and Fort Hays State University have been changed to off-site contests because of heavy snow that is already plaguing much of Kansas. Students registered for contests in Manhattan, Emporia and Hays will now compete…...
2013 All-Kansas Write-Off now available
The KSPA and Kansas Professional Communicators (KPC) present the All-Kansas Write Off contest. This contest is an opportunity for students journalists to submit published work from the last year for critique and the chance to be qualified as an All-Kansas winner. Some submissions will also be forwarded to the national…...
23 yearbooks earn All-Kansas honors for 2012
Twenty-three 2012 yearbooks earned All-Kansas distinction in the annual critique service and contest. This year, 55 schools participated in All-Kansas Yearbooks. Judges from around the country judged the books and are thrilled with the improvements on the books from last year to this year. The winners are listed below in order of…...
JEA announces new guidelines for High School Journalist of the Year
The Journalism Education Association released its new guidelines and rubric for its Journalist of the Year contest. KSPA administers the JOY contest for Kansas, then forwards the state winner to JEA to compete in the national competition. The 2013 JOY contest allows for students to present a digital portfolio —…...
Kansas students win 58 JEA Write-Off awards
Kansas students won 58 of 679 national awards in the Journalism Education Association’s Write-Off Contests at the NSPA/JEA national convention last weekend in San Antonio. Of those 58 winners, 11 were rated “Superior,” 15 earned “Excellent” and 32 earned “Honorable Mention.” Andover High School had 10 winners, Pittsburg 9, Derby…...
SM East graduate wins national Story of the Year contest
Chris Heady, a 2012 graduate of Shawnee Mission East High School, was awarded first place in the Sports Story category of the National Scholastic Press Association’s 2012 Story of the Year contest. Heady, now a freshman at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, won the award for his story chronicling SME head…...
Two Kansas news publications win NSPA Pacemakers; 14 more publications earn Best of Show awards
The Pirates’ Log from Piper High School and The Tiger Print from Blue Valley High School on Nov. 17 earned Newspaper Pacemaker awards from the National Scholastic Press Association at the semi-annual NSPA/JEA national convention in San Antonio, Texas. The Pirates’ Log won its Pacemaker — considered the Pulitzer of…...
