Alyssa Freyman, Editor-in-Chief of The Bird Feed at South Forsyth High School in Cumming, Georgia, has been named the 2019 Georgia Champion Journalist. The award recognizes the top high school senior journalist in the state. Valeria Garcia-Pozo, Senior Copy Editor at Clarke Central High School’s Odyssey Media Group, was the runner-up in the competition.
Read MoreWe hope you are planning to join us for the 2019 Spring Workshop and Awards on Tuesday, April 9, at the UGA Georgia Center. The registration deadline of April 1 is quickly approaching. If you have not done so already, please fill out the registration form here: https://forms.gle/nhjCzTrBRAB26pwaA. This is important because no changes to registration will be allowed after Tuesday, April 2.
Read MoreCongratulations to the 2019 First Amendment Essay Contest winners!
First place- Natalie Schliekelman, Clarke Central High School; Second place- Isabelle Manders, Marietta High School; Third place- Katherine Haas, South Forsyth High School
Read MoreThe deadline for General Excellence and Individual Awards contest entries for broadcasts, newspapers, newsmagazines and news websites is 11:59 p.m. on March 4.
Nominations for Achievement Awards, which are open to all publications types, must also be received by 11:59 p.m. on March 4.
Read MoreDominic Brown, chief meteorologist at WIS-TV in Columbia, South Carolina, will give an inspiring keynote address at the GSPA Spring Awards April 9 at the University of Georgia Georgia Center for Continuing Education.
Read MoreFifty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court mades its landmark decision regarding student free speech. In honor of that 1969 decision, Iowa Public Television on Friday streamed a Q&A with Mary Beth and John Ticker, the two siblings behind the court battle.
Read MoreWhen GSPA Student Advisory Board member Azariah Chester's cousin died of cancer, she found a way to give back to the organization that brought her cousin so much happiness.
Read MoreThe GSPA Achievement Awards recognize "behind-the-scenes" work of staffs or individuals. Nominations are currently being accepted for the following awards: Administrator of the Year, Adviser of the Year, Community Service, First-year Adviser, Freedom of the Press, Perseverance, Start-up and Turnaround. Fill out the 2019 GSPA Achievement Awards Entry Form. Deadline for entries is March 4, 2019.
Read MoreAdvisers and staffs are encouraged to recognize outstanding members by submitting entries to the Spring Individual Awards Contest. Any work published in newspapers, newsmagazines, news websites, or appearing in broadcasts between Feb. 1, 2018, and March 4, 2019, is eligible. (Yearbook and literary magazine individual entries are accepted in the Summer Contest.) NOTE: 2019 Category descriptions have been updated. Please review each category before submitting your entries. Deadline for entries is March 4, 2019.
Read MoreThank you to all who filled out the Advisers’ Workshop interest survey.
The free workshop, which will be hosted at Mercer University, has tentatively been scheduled for Monday, June 3, through Wednesday, June 5, 2019.
This will be a great opportunity to hone skills and network with advisers from around the state. We will share more details in the coming months.
Read More#StudentPressFreedom day is coming next week, and there are different ways you can engage your staffs in the movement.
The Student Press Law Center suggests publishing an editorial to creating a social media campaign centered around student press freedoms and their importance. See more of ideas here.
Tag GSPA in your tweets and instagram posts, and we will share them.
Read MoreEach year, GSPA recognizes the top senior student journalist in the state with the Georgia Champion Journalist Award. The winner receives a $100 prize and represents the state in the Journalism Education Association's National Journalist of the Year competition.
GSPA also awards the Georgia Junior Champion Journalist Award, a contest open to juniors only.
Completed entries for both contests are due by 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 3. There is no fee to enter.
For a list of requirements and how to enter, please visit www.ugagspa.org/spring-competitions.
Read MoreDick Yarbrough recalls giving his first-ever career speech at the thirty-fifth GSPA Annual Convention held on May 4, 1962. Share your GSPA reflection in celebration of the organization’s 90th anniversary by emailing gspa@uga.edu.
Read MoreGSPA is now accepting entries for the 2019 First Amendment Essay Competition. The deadline for entries is Jan. 25, 2019.
Read MoreMark your calendars with the deadlines for this year’s spring contests!
Read MoreA video recap of the 2018 Fall Conference by Azariah Chester, GSPA Student Advisory Board member from Lake Oconee Academy.
Read MoreWe’re excited to announce that GSPA will collaborate with Mercer University’s Center for Collaborative Journalism to host a FREE camp for high school media advisers in 2019 in Macon! We need your input by Monday, Nov. 19.
Read MoreA feature by Cassidy Hettesheimer, GSPA Student Advisory Board member.
Ninety years ago—nearly a century. Nearly a century since Charles Kingsford Smith completed the first flight over the Pacific Ocean, since Frederick Griffith supported the existence of DNA, since the Roaring ‘20s peaked before the stock market crashed a year later. Ten years shy of a centennial has passed since Mickey and Minnie Mouse first appeared on film and, in Athens, Georgia, the Georgia Scholastic Press Association was founded.
Read MoreThe 2017-18 Literary Magazine and Yearbook summer competition winners were announced at the GSPA Fall Conference Oct. 22 at UGA Tate Student Center.
Read MoreCheck out the winners of the First Edition, On-the-spot Photography and Social Media/Graphics competitions from the Fall Conference.
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