Seth Zweifler of Conestoga High School

The two state runners up include:  Katelyn Frueh  and Emily Weber both from Souderton Area High School

Seth will receive a $500 scholarship and each runner up will receive a $100 scholarship.

Congratulations to these 3 journalists and all journalists who took time to put together and submit portfolios.  Encourage this year’s juniors to start looking ahead to next year and begin a portfolio now.

November 4th and 5th, 2010 / Holiday Inn Harrisburg East

Click here for more information

We posted our February 2010 issue, and we are open for comments, criticisms and suggestions.

http://paschoolpress.org/home/members/sbidleman/album

Thank you to all those school publications which have been sharing their print issues with us. If you want to exchange issues, drop us a line or send us yours and we will put you on our mailing list. Share and Enjoy:

]]> http://paschoolpress.org/home/2010/02/21/bloomsburgs-rw-posts-feb-issue/feed/ 0 http://paschoolpress.org/home/2010/02/20/call-for-session-proposals-convention-2010/ http://paschoolpress.org/home/2010/02/20/call-for-session-proposals-convention-2010/#comments Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:06:59 +0000 Jane Blystone http://paschoolpress.org/home/?p=917 PSPA is inviting advisers and staffers who have a great idea for a session to submit a proposal to present at our November 2010 convention in Harrisburg. We are looking for sessions for broadcast, literary magazine, newspaper websites, yearbook, advisers, junior high/middle school. This year, we are accepting proposals online only.

Go to this site an you can input information about the session you would like to present.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dFJoRnA0YkxvUDlmX0lQVzhWMnN4T3c6MA

We are excited to give you this opprtunity. More information about the November 2010 convention ill be posted at our website as it becomes available.

Earlier this year PSPA presented IE with a Keystone-Allstate – our highest award.

How did the other PA literary magazines do in the NCTE competition?  Here’s the list of awards: http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/About/Awards/PRESLM/2009PRESLM/PA.pdf

To view Sabo’s entry, visit: http://npd.snd.org/photo/photo/listFeatured?xg_source=msg_feat_photo. The R&W is listed among publications with circulations under 20,000.

Sabo also serves as Editor in Chief of Bloomsburg High School’s monthly magazine.

And as always, we are looking to fill the February pages with some good stories so we will take those suggestions too. This issue – focus on laptops, Warm Across America, the real guitar heroes, 1,000 point scorer, scheduling editorial and a kicking cover illustration.”

Paul Kandell is this year’s Dow Jones Newspaper Fund National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year. His students at Palo Alto High School have been doing cutting-edge multimedia for years. If you heard his terrific multimedia acceptance speech at the JEA Convention in Washington, D.C., you know what a passionate and creative teacher Paul is.

Now you can join a discussion of where journalism education is going. On Thursday, Jan. 28, at 2 p.m. ET, Paul will lead a free 50-minute Webinar – 2020 Vision: Teaching the New High School Media. This is for all media advisers, their student editors and producers – and their principals.

The Webinar is free, but space is limited. For more details and registration , go to http://hsbj.org/features/announcements.php?entity_id=54

This Webinar is produced through a partnership between the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund and the High School Broadcast Journalism Program of RTDNF. It is funded through a generous grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Entries must be received by the February 19, 2010deadline. To be eligible for the early bird prize of $100, students must submit their entries by February 2, 2010.  

For more information, visit the Five Freedoms Contest page.   http://hsbj.org/features/contests.php?entity_id=46