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…...
Nineteen All-Kansas Yearbook winners announced
December 19, 2011 Top Stories
Nineteen 2011 yearbooks earned All-Kansas distinction in the annual critique service and contest. 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 class and click on the Google map to…...
Kansas reaps awards at JEA/NSPA convention
November 22, 2011 Top Stories
By Claire McInerny The National Scholastic Press Association and the Journalism Educators Association hosted their annual fall convention in Minneapolis this weekend. Kansas high school journalists accounted for many of the winners in both the NSPA carry-in contests and the JEA on-site competitions. Andrew Goble and Kat Buchanan of Shawnee…...
KSPA, Garden City CC host Constitution Day panels Sept. 16
August 26, 2011 Top Stories
Garden City Community College, the Kansas Scholastic Press Association, and the University of Kansas School of Journalism and Mass Communications have scheduled Sept. 16 as The Southwest Kansas Constitution/First Amendment Day, a stop on KSPA’s First Amendment Tour 2011, hosted by GCCC. Advisers, students and administrators from every Kansas school…...
JEA president’s visit highlights fall conferences
August 16, 2011 Top Stories
In a tradition that extends all the way back to 1919, the Kansas Scholastic Press Association again this year will host fall conferences for student-journalists and their advisers across this great state. For the 13th consecutive year, advisers will have the choice to attend a conference at a university of…...
Six schools win sweepstakes titles at KSPA state contest
May 7, 2011 DO NOT USE, Top Stories
Shawnee Mission East, Andover, Piper, Caney Valley, Humboldt and Western Plains high schools won sweepstakes titles at Saturday’s KSPA state contest at the Kansas Union at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. More than 1,000 students from 95 schools competed in carry-in and on-site contests. More than 50 judges pored…...
Video news programs join KSPA’s All-Kansas lineup in 2011
November 18, 2010 DO NOT USE, Top Stories
KSPA in spring 2011 will provide its first video news program All-Kansas critique and ratings service, and in advance of that, the online standards and ratings book is ready and linked here. The standards are based on current practices of professional and student broadcast journalism sites, as well as those…...
KSPA unveils news website standards in advance of spring All-Kansas deadline
November 9, 2010 Top Stories
KSPA in spring 2011 will provide its first online news All-Kansas critique and ratings service, and in advance of that, the online standards and ratings book is ready and linked here. The standards are based on current practices of professional and student online journalism sites, as well as those standards…...