All-Kansas

The All-Kansas critique service provides advisers and their students with insightful commentary on what you do well and how you could improve your news publication, yearbook, video news program and/or your news website. It also ranks each medium to determine and reward the very best in Kansas.

Some of the nation’s top high school journalism advisers read and evaluate each publication, program or site that comes to them, and they create a thorough report for adviser and students. One judge will evaluate each classification, so that judge will see all entries from a class. The best of the publications achieve All-Kansas status for that year.

Deadlines for entries for 2011-2012 are as follows (click on the links for copies of the guidebooks that judges will use; the yearbook deadline has passed):

• All-Kansas News Publications: March 9, 2012 (2011 winners below)
• All-Kansas Websites: March 9, 2012 (2011 winners below)
• All-Kansas Video News Programs: March 9, 2012 (2011 winner below)

2011 All-Kansas Yearbooks

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 see the location of all the winning schools.

Middle School

Maize South Middle School

2A

Chase County

St. Francis

3A

Phillipsburg

Rock Creek

Sterling

4A

Buhler

Chapman

Ottawa

Russell

Paola

5A

Kapaun Mt. Carmel

Mill Valley High School

Newton High School

6A

Shawnee Mission Northwest

Blue Valley Northwest

Shawnee Mission East

Shawnee Mission West

Shawnee Mission North

For a map of the distribution of winners across the state, click here.

All-Kansas News Publication Service

Twenty high school news publications — at least one from every classification in the state — earned All-Kansas distinction from the KSPA All-Kansas judging and critique service for 2010.

The winners will receive All-Kansas plaques at the State Contest, scheduled for Saturday at the Kansas Union in Lawrence.

Schools with newspapers or news magazine sent three issues of their publication to KSPA headquarters at KU. Those papers and magazines were sent to judges across the U.S. (from California to New York), who used KSPA guidebook to provide positive feedback and criticisms, and to award the publications All-Kansas (the top rating), Awards of Commendation and Awards of Merit.

The All-Kansas media from spring 2011:

News Publications

1A

• The Western Plains Cat Tracks from Western Plains High School

2A

• The Eagle Insider of Canton-Galva High School

3A

• The Oracle of Hillsboro High School

4A

• The Pow Wow of Bonner Springs High School
• The Reporter of Paola High School
• The Pirates’ Log of Piper High School
• The Comet of Chanute High School
• The Dickinsonian of Chapman High School

5A

• The Flyer of Bishop Carroll High School
• The Tiger Print of Blue Valley High School
• The Newtonian of Newton High School
• The Trojan Bluestreak of Andover High School
• The JagWire of Mill Valley High School

6A

• The Harbinger of Shawnee Mission East High School
• The Express of Blue Valley Northwest High School
• The Northwest Passage of Shawnee Mission Northwest High School

Video News

5A

• MVTV of Mill Valley High School

Website

6A

• Shawnee Mission East High School (smeharbinger.net)