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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, 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. GSPA officers are students from member schools.
The GSPA office produces 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. Awards are distributed at the GSPA Spring Awards Ceremony, held annually at the University of Georgia. A Fall Convention is also held each year that features a keynote speaker, workshop sessions and contests. In addition to the Spring and Fall conventions, traveling workshops may be held throughout the year and the GSPA director is available to visit individual classrooms.
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 $40 per staff and include membership for one adviser. Individual students participate in GSPA activities through their staff’s membership.
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