HS Journalist of the Year competition deadline approaching
By Claire McInerny, KSPA Staff
January 20, 2010
Kansas high school journalists have an opportunity to showcase their talents through the High School Journalist of the Year competition. Students who wish to enter the contest must submit an application form as well as a portfolio that will explain to the judges who he or she is as a student journalist. The... Read more »
Statehouse Reporter for a Day deadline extended
January 11, 2010
Because of last week’s snows across the state, many of you didn’t have an opportunity to complete your applications for the first Statehouse Reporter for a Day opportunity, scheduled for Jan. 28 in Topeka. (You can read more about it in this earlier story or in the registration packet.) The... Read more »
Maize South MS earns All-Kansas yearbook honors
January 6, 2010
Maize South Middle School students earned All-Kansas honors with their 2009 yearbook, joining 19 high school yearbook staffs honored last month. The middle school judge noted several highlights of the Maize South book, called “The Eagle,” which built around the theme “Color Coded”... Read more »
Visit KSPA member websites
December 18, 2009
Not on the list? If you’re a KSPA member, send us your school’s journalism website address and we’ll post it here! E-mail us at staff@kspaonline.org. Not a member? Join KSPA by completing a membership registration form. Area 1 Blue Valley High School – Newspaper Stilwell,... Read more »
Story on availability of drugs wins Story of Month November contest for SM East student
December 14, 2009
Logan Heley’s story about easy-to-access inexpensive prescription drugs — particularly OxyContin — has earned the Shawnee Mission East student first place in KSPA’s November Story of the Month contest. Heley built his story around a dramatic increase in the number of drug overdoses in... Read more »
Blue Valley photo wins November contest
December 11, 2009
[Show as slideshow] [View with PicLens] Meagan Kabel... Read more »
Former KSPA director John Hudnall wins national award
By Claire McInerny, KSPA Staff
December 1, 2009
Former KSPA Executive Director John Hudnall received the Carl Towley Award at the NSPA/JEA Fall Convention held Nov. 12-15, in Washington, D.C. According to the JEA website, this annual honor is given to one person whose work with scholastic journalism benefits student journalists across the nation. Hudnall... Read more »
Hays, SM East publications win Pacemakers
By Claire McInerny, KSPA Staff
November 23, 2009
Two Kansas high school newspapers, The Harbinger of Shawnee Mission East and the Guidon of Hays High School, earned the nation’s highest prize for scholastic journalists when the National Scholastic Press Association announced the 2009 Pacemaker recipients this past weekend at the JEA/NSPA Fall... Read more »
SM Northwest photographer wins October photo contest
November 9, 2009
[Show as slideshow] [View with PicLens] Kevin Buie’s... Read more »
SM East sophomore wins October story contest
November 5, 2009
Kat Buchanan, a sophomore from Shawnee Mission East High School, has won KSPA’s October Story of the Month contest with her feature “Paint the Town,” which was published in The Harbinger. Advised by C. Dow Tate, Buchanan told the story of East junior Whitney Kerr, a graffiti artist... Read more »
