Summer Adviser Workshop expands to 5 days

May 17, 2012

May 17, 2012 — Three days just isn’t enough any­more. At least not enough for new advis­ers to feel com­fort­able with the tough­est job in sec­ondary education. So the CHSPA Sum­mer Adviser Work­shop has grown to five days on the cam­pus of CSU in Fort Collins. You can down­load infor­ma­tion... Read more »

Find all the 2012 Best of Colorado winners

May 3, 2012

May 3, 2012 — All Best of Col­orado award cer­tifi­cates (nearly 1,500 this year!) went in the mail on May 1. You should have yours deliv­ered to your school address quite soon. Please check your cer­tifi­cates for accu­racy, miss­ing items, items from other schools (apolo­gies in advance),... Read more »

Students, publications honored at national convention

April 19, 2012

April 20, 2012 – Col­orado jour­nal­ism stu­dents and their pub­li­ca­tions earned a vari­ety of hon­ors dur­ing the April 12–15 JEA/NSPA Spring National High School Jour­nal­ism Con­ven­tion, in Seattle. NSPA National Pace­maker Award Eques year­book – Pon­derosa HS, Anas­ta­sia... Read more »

Start prepping your Best of Colorado entries

March 1, 2012

March 23 — Due to a large num­ber of dis­tricts with a late spring break this year, the dead­line has been extended to Tues­day, April 3, midnight. March 1 - All entries for our sec­ond spring indi­vid­ual award com­pe­ti­tion, the Best of Col­orado Awards, must be uploaded prior to April... Read more »

Shaffer, Gutierrez honored for defending student press rights

February 28, 2012

Feb. 28, 2012 - The Col­orado Press Asso­ci­a­tion pre­sented seniors Lori Shaf­fer and Jack­lyn Gutier­rez, edi­tors of the Over­land High School “Scout,” with its Ser­vice to the First Award on Feb. 24. They were hon­ored, along with their moth­ers, adviser Laura Sudik, and sev­eral... Read more »

Winners named in Capitol Hill Press Conference writing, video contests

February 26, 2012

Feb. 26, 2012 - The cul­mi­nat­ing activ­ity of our annual Capi­tol Hill Press Con­fer­ence in an on-the-spot writ­ing con­test, with par­tic­i­pants usu­ally work­ing in teams of two for 90 min­utes to pro­duce a news story on the event. This year, due to one of the sched­uled speak­ers... Read more »

Denver Art Museum offers different media experience

February 16, 2012

Yves Saint Lau­rent: The Ret­ro­spec­tive Media Pre­view: March 22, 10 a.m.–12 p.m.                  The Den­ver Art Museum is the only U.S. venue for the sweep­ing ret­ro­spec­tive that chron­i­cles the fash­ion icon’s 40 years of cre­ativ­ity through 200 haute cou­ture... Read more »

Shaffer, McNulty highlight Capitol Hill Friday

February 7, 2012

Feb. 7, 2012 — Reg­is­tra­tion is requested for our annual Capi­tol Hill Press Con­fer­ence by end of the day Feb. 8. Please down­load the reg­is­tra­tion PDF here, save it to your com­puter, fill it out and then email it back to jpkjournalism@gmail.com with the PDF attached. We are hon­ored... Read more »

SPJ essay contest explores an independent media

January 20, 2012

Jan. 20, 2012 — Leti­cia Stef­fen, from CSU-Pueblo and a friend of CHSPA, is coor­di­nat­ing the SPJ High School Essay Con­test for the Col­orado Pro SPJ chap­ter. The topic is “Why is it impor­tant that we have new media that is inde­pen­dent of the government?” You can down­load the... Read more »

Registration now open for annual Capitol Hill Press Conference

January 19, 2012

Jan. 19, 2012 — How cool would it be for your top stu­dents to have an oppor­tu­nity to grill some of Colorado’s state lead­ers about edu­ca­tion issues, or any­thing else that was on their minds? The Capi­tol Hill Press Con­fer­ence, Fri­day, Feb. 10, in the Old Supreme Court Cham­bers,... Read more »