When 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 MoreVeteran journalists Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Deborah Roberts, Deborah Norville, Lisa Ryan Howard and Will Carr recently shared advice for student journalists and professional journalists alike. Read their tips here.
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 MoreGSPA is accepting General Excellence contest entries for broadcasts, newspapers, newsmagazines and news websites published between Feb. 1, 2018 and March 4, 2019. Fill out the online entry form. 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 MoreA lot has transpired in the wake of The Har-Ber Herald’s publication of an investigation into football players’ transfers. Read about the story’s censorship, the district’s implementation of prior review, the threat to the adviser’s job and the national journalism organizations and First Amendment advocates pushing back.
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.
Read MoreHere’s a look at how the 2018 GSPA Fall Conference was celebrated on social media!
Read MoreDESIGN BY CAMI SCHIAPPA, A ROSWELL HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR AND STAFF MEMBER OF THE STING.
Read MoreCindy Carter Slaughter shares how attending GSPA conferences every year helped solidify her decision to work in the media industry. Share your GSPA reflection in celebration of the organization’s 90th anniversary by emailing gspa@uga.edu.
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