All-Colorado Critique & Rating — June 4, 2013 deadline

All mem­bers of CHSPA are eli­gi­ble to have their stu­dent medium cri­tiqued, and there is no addi­tional cost. All our con­tests are pro­vided when you become a mem­ber of CHSPA. Actu­ally, we cal­cu­late that All-Colorado cri­tiques and Best of Col­orado indi­vid­ual entries cost about $65 for each medium entered, so your entire mem­ber­ship fee cov­ers our major con­tests. All other CHSPA ini­tia­tives are funded by rev­enue from J-Day each October.

Last year, only about 60 per­cent of our mem­bers sub­mit­ted their media for cri­tiques, and these are cri­tiques equiv­a­lent to national cri­tiques which cost $100 or more. It’s quick and easy to enter. Check out the instruc­tions below for the 2012–13 critique.

The All-Colorado Awards are designed to pro­vide a cri­tique of each year­book, news­pa­per, video broad­cast, andweb­site sub­mit­ted, along with hon­or­ing those media that meet a high stan­dard of excel­lence. The CHSPA board has approved the judg­ing rubrics  for News­pa­per cri­tique book — All-Colorado 2013, Year­book cri­tique book — All-Colorado 2013 , Video Media cri­tique book — All-Colorado 2013 and Web­site cri­tique book — All-Colorado 2013 (our newest cri­tique), so all our mem­bers will know exactly how they will be judged. The first All-Colorado Awards were pre­sented at J-Day 2011, and replaced the Sweep­stakes awards (which were derived by adding up indi­vid­ual award points).

All the 2012 rat­ings of 2011-12 entries can be found by down­load­ing this spreadsheet.

The entry form and instruc­tions are a one-page doc­u­ment you may down­load here: All-Colorado entry and instruc­tions 2013. As always, be sure Acro­bat is not in Pre­view Mode to prop­erly view and fill in this inter­ac­tive PDF. Entry forms should be printed and mailed (to 9253 Sori Lane, High­lands Ranch CO 80126) along with your year­book or news­pa­pers. For video and web­site, sim­ply attach a copy of the entry form to an email to jpkjournalism@gmail.com

The post­mark dead­line for the 2012–13 All-Colorado Cri­tique and Rat­ing is Tues­day, June 4, 2013.

For­merly, only three media in each clas­si­fi­ca­tion were hon­ored with Sweep­stakes awards. In the All-Colorado model, any medium that meets the high­est stan­dards con­sis­tently will be hon­ored. We are pleased to be mod­el­ing our sys­tem on the one used by the Kansas Scholas­tic Press Asso­ci­a­tion. At J-Day 2012, we hon­ored 10 news­pa­pers, 11 year­books and 1 video broad­cast with our All-Colorado awards.

Enter­ing this assess­ment is easy: Year­books send their lat­est vol­ume; news­pa­pers send three com­plete issues, one from first semes­ter and two from sec­ond semes­ter; video media send three pro­grams, illus­trat­ing the range of pro­gram­ming pro­vided; and web­sites sim­ply sub­mit the url of the site.

We have not done away with indi­vid­ual con­tests. In fact, please check the “Best of Col­orado” page on this site for the con­test rules, first approved by the CHSPA board in Jan­u­ary, 2011.