Category: Awards

Marcelino Benito, Jr. named 2006 Student Journalist of the Year

High school journalist of the year competition was begun by JEA to award outstanding high school journalists from all over the country. The competition this year attracted hundreds of entries in some states and none in others. When the 32 state JOY portfolios were perused by the 19 members of the scholarship committee in San…
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Teacher Inspiration Award 2006

Recognizing a journalism teacher who through excellent instruction inspired others to pursue scholastic journalism teaching and/or advising. Linda Drake given 2006 Teacher Inspiration Award RELEASED APRIL 2006 Linda Drake, Certified Journalism Educator and publications adviser at Chase County (Kan.) High School, will receive Journalism Education Association’s Teacher Inspiration Award during the organization’s national convention at…
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Martha Akers named Yearbook Adviser of the Year

In a special ceremony at Loudon Valley High School in Purcellville, Va., on Nov. 28, H. L. Hall, JEA’s past president praised Akers for her work at Loudoun Valley High School and for her work nationally with yearbook staffs. JEA will recognize Akers again at its spring convention in April in San Francisco and will…
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Ann Akers given JEA’s highest award

RELEASED NOVEMBER 2005 The Journalism Education Association (JEA) honored Ann Gramlich Akers, associate director of the National Scholastic Press Association in Minneapolis, with the Carl Towley Award during the organization’s national convention at the Hyatt Regency Chicago, Nov. 12, 2005. The Towley Award is JEA’s highest honor. It is given annually to a JEA member…
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Write-off contest results, spring 2005 (Seattle)

1,808 entrants 577 winners (32%) in 48 contests 85 superiors (15%) 193 excellents (33%) 299 honorable mentions (52%) Newswriting Superior Elise Mullen (Johnston High School, IA) Superior Emma Drew (Casa Grande High School, CA) Superior Jordan Drost (Ferndale High School, WA) Superior Angela Nguyen (Willow Glen High School, CA) Superior Anne Kleinsasser (Bakersfield High School,…
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