The National Scholastic Press Association is pleased to announce the first individual contest finalists in the 2009 NSPA “Roll-Out Week.” Each day this week, NSPA will announce finalists for one or more of the 2009 Individual Awards and Pacemaker contests.
In the past, NSPA has published the places of the winners in the initial contest announcements but this year, the places will not be announced until the JEA/NSPA Fall National High School Journalism Convention in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 14.
The Picture of the Year contest is co-sponsored by the National Press Photographers Association and honors student photographers in six categories: News, Feature, Sports Action, Sports Reaction, Environmental Portrait and Jr. High/Middle School. This is the second year that NSPA has accepted Picture of the Year entries online, and the contest yielded a total of 886 entries, which represents an increase of about two percent from last year. Entries were judged based on technical quality, artistic value and journalistic content.
View the list of finalists here:
http://nspa.studentpress.org/winners/photo09.html
Comments from all judging teams will be published on the NSPA website after winners have been announced in Washington, D.C.
Please contact Kathy Huting, NSPA Contest and Critique Coordinator, with questions at kathy@studentpress.org.