IHSPA seeks to identify and acknowledge emerging talent in newspaper, yearbook, and digital media students in member high schools. The opportunity is open to students in 9th, 10th, or 11th grade. These students will be the backbone of their respective schools’ publications for the upcoming year.
Each adviser may nominate up to nine students total from any combination of publications (newspaper, online, and yearbook).
Requirements:
- Prepare a website that includes student work samples.
- Submit 3 examples of work. You’ll need to submit three items to qualify. The work can be any combination of Newspaper, Yearbook, and/or Digital Media.
- If any item submitted has multiple people listed on the byline, the student must include an explanation of their contribution to the work and how they collaborated with other student journalist/s. (What was your role, what parts did you complete, and how did you support the other students’ work?)
- Design work that is intended to be a double-page spread must be submitted to appear as a spread (enabling the judges to evaluate the spread as intended). Do not submit spreads as single pages or partial spreads connected to unrelated pages.
- Work must be embedded in the website pages or downloadable as PDFs.
- All work must have been published or posted March 10, 2024 and March 20, 2025 by current students at IHSPA member schools.
All nominees will be acknowledged by a certificate.
Ten Emerging Journalists will be selected in two classes, which will be adjusted to accommodate the schools entering the contest and the size of their student populations. Winning entries will be determined by the overall quality of the work submitted, its impact on the school and community, the students’ understanding of the fundamentals of journalism, and the level of experimentation.
Ten Emerging Journalists will be offered a $100 scholarship toward the cost of attending the University of Iowa Summer Journalism Workshops for High School students or the Drake Media Now summer journalism camp.
Deadline is April 1, 2023
Fill out the form below with submissions. When your entry is complete and submitted, you will be redirected to a page confirming your submission and also receive a confirmation email. If you are not redirected to the confirmation page and do not receive the confirmation email, please email [email protected] or [email protected].
