The Columbia Scholastic Press Association’s annual presentation of awards to student editors and faculty advisers for excellence in journalism will take place on Friday, March 20th, during the 85th Convention.
Murphy, O’Malley and Paschal Award Presentations
The Association invites advisers to attend a special presentation on Friday, March 20th, honoring the recipients of the Joseph M. Murphy Award for Outstanding Service, the Charles R. O’Malley Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the James F. Paschal Award for Outstanding Service to a state scholastic press association.
Payment for the luncheon may be included with your convention registration. Presentations will take place at 12:30pm as part of the Friday Advisers Luncheon.
Gold Key Award
The Gold Key has become prized among publication advisers and journalism teachers as much as a Phi Beta Kappa key is respected in the realm of scholarship. Individual citations are read at the presentation of each Key to acknowledge the accomplishments of each new Gold Key holder.
The Association invites advisers to attend a special presentation on Friday, March 20th, honoring their selected colleagues for receiving the Association’s Gold Key. Presentations will take place at 12:30pm during the Friday Advisers Luncheon. Payment for the luncheon may be included with your convention registration
Gold & Silver Crown Awards for student publications
Gold and Silver Crown Awards will be publicly announced and presented to those winners who are present at the Convention on Friday, March 20th in the Roone Arledge Auditorium of the Alfred Lerner Hall Student Center, located on the Morningside campus of Columbia University. The Crown Awards are the highest awards bestowed by the Association upon publications as a whole.
These awards represent the CSPA’s highest level of accomplishment in its annual competitions. More than 1,800 CSPA member publications will enter the Crown Awards program for 2008, while it’s expected that about only 100 Crown Awards will be given. An awards list will also be distributed at the Convocation, scheduled for 2:30 pm.
Gold Circle Awards
Gold Circle Awards will also be announced and distributed during the Convention. Starting at 9:45am on Friday, March 20th, publication staffs can pick-up a full isting of winners as well as individual awards certificates from the registration center in Lerner Hall.
This competition involves consideration for excellence of entries into 75 categories for newspapers, magazines, yearbooks and video. An expected 500 awards will be available for distribution on Friday morning, along with the first copies of the consolidated list of awards.
