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Gold Circle Award Announcement 2025
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CSPA Awards Programs

CSPA Announces 2025 Gold Circle Award Winners

Gold Circle Awards recognize superior work by student journalists usually as individuals but sometimes as an entire staff. There were 5,625 entries and 1,125 winners this year.

Announcements

A Letter From CSPA Director Jennifer Ha

2025 National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year

CSPA Important Dates and Deadlines

CSPA 101st Annual Spring Convention and Centennial: Confirmed Speakers

The event will offer 240 sessions, which will include panels and presentations with media professionals and scholastic journalism educators.

CSPA Awards Programs: Recognizing Excellence

CSPA offers two major awards programs to honor excellence in student publications: the Crown Awards and the Gold Circle Awards.

Student journalists discuss the 2024 CSPA Spring Convention. Play

The CSPA 101st Annual Spring Convention and Centennial celebration will take place March 19-21, 2025 on the Columbia University campus. It is a three-day event that will offer 240 sessions. Here, 2024 conference goers discuss the experience.

The CSPA Student Experience Play

In this video, Summer Journalism Workshop students discuss the importance of journalism and storytelling, and how CSPA helped them hone their craft.

The Student Experience

CSPA History

Upcoming CSPA Events

All Columbia Pre-College Events
Jun 22–Jun 27

CSPA 2025 Summer Journalism Workshop

All Columbia Pre-College Events