As announced last week, we anticipate that next school year’s KHSJA contest will be online — meaning that newspaper and broadcast entries will be submitted via online instead of physically sending us newspaper tear sheets and broadcast entries on DVD. Be sure to save all your newspaper pages and broadcast work on computer hard drive in anticipation of entering them digitally next school year. For now, we think yearbooks will continue to be entered the traditional way by sending us your school’s most recently published yearbook. A major benefit of an online contest will be our ability to provide you with the winning newspaper stories and broadcast entries — something many teachers have wanted for years but until now was not practical for us to do. An online contest changes that. More details later on changing over to an online contest. Our parent organization, Kentucky Press Association, has converted its contests over to online and with that experience in-house, we now feel KHSJA is on target to do the same.

Without further delay, below is the link to the winners of the 2012-2013 KHSJA Contest. (Reminder: there are no results in Class 2A broadcast because a small number of entries forced us to combine Class A and Class 2A broadcast entries into Class A.)

Click this link to see this year’s contest results.

www.khsja.com/site/?page_id=282

Congratulations to all the winners!

David Greer

KHSJA

A number of professional journalists made presentations to students on topics ranging from yearbook design to photography for high school newspapers and yearbooks, newspaper design, ways to improve your videography, production techniques as well as on-camera TV work and more. Several schools attended the KHSJA convention for the first time.

In addition, seven exhibitors filled the KHSJA trade show. Exhibitors included a yearbook company, colleges and universities from around the state and the national Journalism Education Association.

Next year’s KHSJA convention will be on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014, at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Lexington. It will mark the first time in its 16 years that the annual KHSJA convention will be held outside of the Louisville area. As it was last month, the 2014 KHSJA convention will be part of the annual Kentucky Press Association convention. KPA is KHSJA’s parent organizer and founder.

Here’s a link to the contest packet

www.khsja.com/site/?page_id=227

We appreciate everyone’s patience in waiting for the results. The mild winter and lack of snow days meant the end of school is earlier this year in many districts than most anyone had planned on. That pushed everyone involved in the judging process to work harder and faster to bring you the results. We appreciate all the schools that entered and all of the hard work of the judges and the staff here in our office.

To see the 2011-2012 contest results CLICK HERE

Congrats to everyone. And by the way, just two schools entered the newspaper category in class A. Since it takes a minimum of 3 schools in a class for a contest, the A schools were combined with 2A schools for judging in the newspaper category.

For some 15 years prior to 1997, Kentucky high schools had no statewide association for students interested in the communications industry — high school newspapers, yearbooks, Internet, radio and TV.

The Kentucky High School Journalism Association brings together students and advisers from high schools across Kentucky with news media professionals and university personnel.

The information on this KHSJA website explains more about the organization and the services it offers member high schools throughout the Commonwealth. KHSJA is administrated by the KPA staff in Frankfort.

For more information about the Kentucky Press Association and its other subsidiaries, please go to www.kypress.com.