This year's annual Mississippi Scholastic Press Association (MSPA) statewide competition and annual conference will be held on Friday, March 24, 2006 in Oxford.
The 2005-2006 competition categories are as follows:
Newspaper Categories
- Editor of the year
- Adviser of the year
- Staff member of the year
Individual Categories
- Cartoons
- News Writing
- Depth Reporting
- Feature Writing
- Editorials
- Sports Writing
- Sports Features
- Columns
- Ads
- Page Design
- Photos News/Feature, Sports
- Photo Pages
Team Categories
- News writing
- Feature writing
- Sports writing
- Layout & design
- Outstanding online newspaper
- Advertising design
- General excellence
- School service
Yearbook Categories
- Editor of The Year
- Adviser of The Year
- Staff Member of The Year
- Best Theme
- Best Copy
- Best Design
- Best Cover
- Advertising Design
- General Excellence
- 100 Or Fewer Pages
- 101-180 Pages
- 181 or More Pages
- Best Original Art
Magazines Categories
- Best Magazine, Literary
- Best Short Fiction
- Best Poem
- Best Magazine, Other
- Best Design
- Best Nonfiction Article
- Best Illustration
On-line Categories
- Best design
- General excellence
Broadcast Categories
- Best story
- General excellence
General category for all staffs
- Administrator of the Year
The competition deadline is February 15, 2006.
Completed entries must be postmarked by February 15, 2006; all entries after the deadline will not be considered. If your newspaper is online, you may submit entries from it via hard copy format in any of the newspaper categories. For example, a news article that only appeared online may be submitted in the "news writing" category by submitting a printout of that story. Again this year, we will a have a broadcast category.
The conference will begin with an 8:00AM registration and will end after the 2:00PM closing ceremonies. We will offer multiple workshops on various topics in all areas of journalism. Special hands-on workshops will be offered in broadcast and in computer design. Those workshops will be limited to two students from each school. Also, publication critique sessions will be offered; please sign up at registration.
The registration deadline is March 9, 2006.
At the 9:00AM opening session, each candidate running for a MSPA office will be allowed to speak; and voting will begin after the opening session. Only a student who attends a school that is currently a MSPA member may run for an office. At the closing ceremony, the new officers and the winners of the competitions will be announced.
The conference schedule will be available by February 15, 2006.
If you need additional information, please call Kathy at (662) 915-7147;
or email her at kathy@olemiss.edu.
links
Mississippi Scholastic Press Association
www.olemiss.edu/depts/journalism/mspa.htm
University of Mississippi Journalism Department High School Programs
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/journalism/hsprograms.html
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