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NSPA announces the 2012 Online Pacemaker winners

NSPA announces the 2012 Online Pacemaker winners

Posted on 21. Apr, 2012 by .

One week ago in Seattle, the National Scholastic Press Association announced the winners in their 2012 Online Pacemaker contest. Fifteen schools were honored Pacemakers. You can check out the list of winners on the NSPA site.

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Why your publication should go online: a principal’s perspective

Why your publication should go online: a principal’s perspective

Posted on 05. Apr, 2012 by .

When I took over as the adviser of my high school’s newspaper two years ago, I approached my principal with the idea of “going online.” I came armed and ready with several reasons (which I won’t go into here) why I thought this move would be good for our school and our journalism program. My principal, [...]

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From Small to Big: The Challenges of Staff Size

From Small to Big: The Challenges of Staff Size

Posted on 12. Sep, 2011 by .

Five students. At the beginning of last year, that’s all I had in my newspaper production class. I wondered: How is anything going to get done?  Twenty-five: The current number of students in my newspaper class. I still wonder: How is anything going to get done? The circumstances maybe the different, but the challenge is [...]

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[Presentation] The NSPA Pacemaker – Spring 2010 by Logan Aimone

Posted on 25. Apr, 2010 by .

The NSPA Pacemaker Spring 2010 Ever wondered how the Pacemaker process works? NSPA Executive Director Logan Aimone shares some of the process and things judges look for in this presentation he did in Portland at the JEA/NSPA Spring Convention.

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NSPA announces 2010 digital media Pacemaker winners and Spring Convention Best of Show

Posted on 18. Apr, 2010 by .

NSPA announced their annual Online Pacemakers yesterday in Portland, Oregon at the 2010 JEA/NSPA Spring Convention. Online Pacemaker winners, Digital Yearbook Pacemaker winners and Online Best of Show winners have been released. Congratulations to all!

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NSPA announces 2010 Online Pacemaker Finalists

Posted on 17. Mar, 2010 by .

NSPA recently announced its 2010 Online Pacemaker Finalists. For the first time the split schools into two divisions based on enrollment in grades 10-12. The NSPA press release can be found here and the list of Pacemaker finalists can be found here. Pacemaker winners will be announced in April at the JEA/NSPA Spring Convention in [...]

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College Pacemaker Winners Talk to CICM About What Makes Effective Web News Outlets

Posted on 30. Nov, 2009 by .

The people at Innovation in College Media (which is a great site by the way), have talked with three of the five Online College Pacemaker winners from ACP’s Four-year Daily Newspaper Category. In their post, Lesson’s from Last Month’s Online Pacemakers, they interviewed the staffs to find out what makes an effective Web news outlet. [...]

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