Nominate for Achievement Awards

The GSPA Achievement Awards recognize "behind-the-scenes" work of staffs or individuals.

Fill out the 2019 GSPA Achievement Awards Entry Form. The deadline for entries is March 4, 2019.

Achievement Award Descriptions:

Administrator of the Year recognizes an administrator who has demonstrated strong support for the journalism program.

Adviser of the Year recognizes a journalism adviser who goes beyond the “call of duty” in supporting his or her staff.

Community Service recognizes a staff that through its forum has initiated significant change within the community.

First-Year Adviser recognizes a new adviser who has demonstrated success and desire in strengthening the program.

Freedom of the Press recognizes a producer(s) of work that demonstrated solid reporting and/or insight, but was censored from student publication.

Perseverance recognizes a staff that has overcome significant adversity to put out a quality product.

Start-Up recognizes a first-year publication/program that has demonstrated significant quality.

Turnaround recognizes the staff that has significantly changed the quality of its product from the previous year.

All winners will be announced and celebrated at the Spring Awards and Workshop Tuesday, April 9, 2019, at the University of Georgia’s Georgia Center for Continuing Education.