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• Join GSPA for the 2012-13 academic year. Submit your membership form today.
•GSPA is now taking 2011-12 yearbooks and literary magazines for critique and the general excellence competition. Submit your publication by June 30 with the following forms.
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•We are now taking registration forms for the 2012 Georgia Journalism Academy.
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About GSPA
The Georgia Scholastic Press Association assists Georgia high school media programs and students by encouraging their production of quality publications and broadcast programs through instruction and contests.
GSPA was organized in 1928 by the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at The University of Georgia, which has continued to direct its activities, providing information through the newsletter and instruction through convention sessions, critiques, speakers upon request and fall workshop sessions. Individual student-produced publications or broadcast programs join GSPA at the beginning of the school year.
Members receive The Bulletin, a newsletter circulated five times a year to its members with information and resources for publication advisers and students. GSPA sponsors an annual contest in which media professionals critique newspapers, yearbooks, literary magazines, and radio and television programs from schools across the state. A fall conference is held each year that features a keynote speaker, workshop sessions and contests. Awards are distributed at the a spring awards ceremony, held annually at the University of Georgia. In addition to the spring and fall conventions.
The GSPA director also coordinates the Georgia Journalism Academy, a weeklong residential learning academy held each year at the University of Georgia for high school journalists.
Membership is open to school-sponsored newspaper, yearbook, literary magazine, television/radio and online media staffs in schools across Georgia. Annual membership dues are $50 per staff and include membership for one adviser. Individual students participate in GSPA activities through their staff’s membership.