{"id":4634,"date":"2016-09-26T14:17:36","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T19:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/?p=4634"},"modified":"2016-09-26T14:17:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T19:17:36","slug":"2016-individual-award-finalists-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/2016-individual-award-finalists-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Individual Award finalists announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Judging has wrapped up, and scores are in. From more than 3,400 entries across the 26 individual award categories, approximately 7 percent \u2014 258 entries \u2014 were selected as finalists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The entire judging process spanned over two months and was completed by a judging staff of 15 experienced journalism professionals and collegiate media advisers. NSPA would like to extend a special thank you to the Chicago Headline Club and Universal UClick for organizing additional judging teams to help out with scoring several individual award categories. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All judges were very thankful to be a part of the process. Many stated it was a pleasure being able to see all of the amazing work done by students who will make outstanding professional journalists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overall, the quality of entries for this year&#8217;s competition were best summed up by one Story of the Year judge who noted, &#8220;Wow! I have no doubt that American journalism will be in good hands in the future. So many of the entries I read were of professional quality that it was extremely difficult to select the top 10. I have judged professional writing contests that didn&#8217;t have as many worthy entries as this group.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Judges also wrote comments explaining the strengths of each ranked piece, as well as constructive criticism for how to improve. These more detailed notes for entries will be released after official rankings are disclosed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As many judges recognized in their comments, every entry had evidence of hard work and talented staffs behind the pieces. NSPA would like to commend all publications for this and thank those schools that submitted for helping us to recognize top-notch student work. <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/awards\/soy16-f\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Story of the Year finalists<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/awards\/doy16-f\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Design of the Year finalists<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/awards\/msoy16-f\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Multimedia Story of the Year finalists<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/awards\/bsoy16-f\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Broadcast Story of the Year finalists<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/awards\/cartoon16-f\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cartooning Award finalists<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/awards\/poy16-f\/\">Picture of the Year finalists<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Congratulations again to all of the 2016 NSPA Individual Award finalists. Official winner rankings will be announced at the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/indy.journalismconvention.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JEA\/NSPA Fall National High School Journalism Convention in Indianapolis<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on Nov. 10-13. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judging has wrapped up, and scores are in. From more than 3,400 entries across the 26 individual award categories, approximately 7 percent \u2014 258 entries \u2014 were selected as finalists. The entire judging process spanned over two months and was completed by a judging staff of 15 experienced journalism professionals and collegiate media advisers. 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