NSPA announces the finalists in two more categories of the Individual Awards: Story of the Year and Broadcast Story of the Year.
The Story of the Year contest is co-sponsored by the American Society of News Editors. Multimedia Package was offered as a new category this year, and other categories included: News, Feature, Editorial, Sports and Diversity.
Judges selected finalists based on the following criteria:
Multimedia Packages were judged on the criteria listed above, along with innovation in use of multimedia (audio, video, slide shows, graphics, etc.), technical quality of multimedia elements and adherence to copyright laws.
?View the list of finalists here:
http://nspa.studentpress.org/winners/story09.html
The first place winners in each category will compete for the $1,000 Brasler Prize, judged by Wayne Brasler of University High School in Chicago.
Places will be announced for the first time at the JEA/NSPA Fall National High School Journalism Convention in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 14.
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The Broadcast Story of the Year contest is co-sponsored by SchoolTube.com and the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation. This is the second year that NSPA has accepted entries online through SchoolTube.com. The categories offered were News, Sports and Feature and the contest yielded a total of 99 entries, an increase of about 23 percent from 2008.
Entries were judged based on the following criteria:
View the list of finalists here:
http://nspa.studentpress.org/winners/bcstory09.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, NPSA Contest and Critique Coordinator, with questions at kathy@studentpress.org.