A three-way tie for first in sports photography set the tone for a month of ties in the April KSPA Photo of the Month contest. Joseph Anderson of Lawrence, Marisa Walton of Shawnee Mission East and Jordan Reinhardt of Blue Valley Northwest shared first place by scoring 47 of 50…...
Blue Valley Northwest adviser wins Jackie Engel Award
Jim McCrossen, journalism teacher and adviser at Blue Valley Northwest High School in Overland Park, has won a prestigious journalism teaching award for 2013. McCrossen is this year’s recipient of the Jackie Engel Award, sponsored by the Kansas Collegiate Media, and named in honor of Jackie Engel, a former journalism…...
Amy DeVault wins first Friend of KSPA Award
Amy DeVault from Wichita State University has been named the first winner of the Friend of KSPA Award, which was established this year as a way to honor professionals and others who have contributed so much to the organization. DeVault, an assistant professor in the Elliott School of Communication at…...
Jessica Bowman, Barbara Tholen win KSPA adviser awards
Jessica Bowman of Canton-Galva High School has won the 2013 Ad Astra Award and Barbara Tholen of Lawrence High School has won the 2013 Sunflower Award, the two annual awards given by KSPA. A third award, the Jackie Engel Award, is determined by Kansas Collegiate Media and will be announced later…...
Andover’s Chad Phillips named 2013 Kansas HS Journalist of the Year
Chad Phillips, a senior at Andover High School, has been named the 2013 Kansas High School Journalist of the Year, and Sophia Templin from De Soto High School has been named the Class 3A/4A Kansas High School Journalist of the Year. Phillips, editor-in-chief of the award-winning Trojan Bluestreak yearbook, will receive…...
Three Kansas student websites earn Pacemaker finalist distinction
Student news websites from Lawrence Free State, Mill Valley and Shawnee Mission East were named Pacemaker finalists Tuesday by the National Scholastic Press Association. NSPA Online Pacemaker contest judges waded through 252 student news websites from across the country and winnowed that list down to 50 finalists, three from Kansas.…...
ESU and KSU report regional contest winners
KSPA wrapped up its most hectic regional contest season Tuesday with the release of results for both the Emporia State (ESU) and Kansas State (KSU) regionals. Because of Winter Storm “Q” and the blizzard that it spawned, both regionals had to be canceled on Thursday, Feb. 21, their scheduled dates,…...