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 »

Colorado heats up chilly Minneapolis

November 21, 2011

Min­neapo­lis / Nov. 21, 2011 —  Col­orado pub­li­ca­tions and indi­vid­ual stu­dents held their own in var­i­ous com­pe­ti­tions dur­ing the Nov. 17–20 JEA/NSPA National High School Jour­nal­ism Con­ven­tion in Minneapolis. Best of Show The Best of Show com­pe­ti­tion is open... Read more »

Three students honored for on-the-spot op/eds on the First

November 2, 2011

After sev­eral ses­sions on the First Amend­ment, stu­dents attend­ing our first Con­sti­tu­tion Day work­shop at CU-Boulder wrote on-the-sport op/ed pieces. After the judg­ing by mem­bers of the CU School of Jour­nal­ism and Mass Com­mu­ni­ca­tion, the top three were announced. You... Read more »

J-Day concludes with All-Colorado Awards, Best of Show

October 23, 2011

J-Day con­cluded with our first All-Colorado plaques and cer­tifi­cates, part of our new sum­mer cri­tique ser­vice. Check out all our All-Colorado rat­ings here. The Best of Show awards com­pleted the day, and fea­tured our first Web­site Best of Show award. Check out the results here.        

J-Day program up — start planning your day

October 9, 2011

Due to file size, the J-Day pro­gram (the final pro­gram will be an 11x17 tab) can be accessed in two parts, pages 1–4 and pages 5–8. A cou­ple ads have been dropped from this version. As of Oct. 8, we have nearly 90 advis­ers and over 1,380 stu­dents reg­is­tered. If you have reg­is­tered,... Read more »

Music critic will enliven ‘Night Before’

September 18, 2011

Steve Knop­per, a con­tribut­ing edi­tor for Rolling Stone mag­a­zine, will be our fea­tured speaker on Wednes­day, Oct. 12. The Night Before is offered at no cost to those stay­ing the night in Fort Collins prior to J-Day, as well as to any stu­dents and advis­ers from CHSPA members. You... Read more »

Learning opportunity for southern Colorado returns

September 1, 2011

We are delighted to invite advis­ers and staffs to the CSU-Pueblo cam­pus on Thurs­day, Sept. 29, for our sec­ond SoCo Media Day. Orig­i­nally planned to pro­vide a work­shop expe­ri­ence for those who find Fort Collins too long a jour­ney, this con­fer­ence is open to any Col­orado high... Read more »

J-Day registration now open

September 1, 2011

It just seemed nat­ural to go with “BE EPIC” as the theme. Would Col­orado scholas­tic jour­nal­ism set­tle for any­thing less? The CHSPA state jour­nal­ism con­fer­ence, bet­ter known as J-Day, returns to the Lory Stu­dent Cen­ter at CSU on Thurs­day, Oct. 13. And reg­is­tra­tion... Read more »