Santa Clara University High School Journalism Competition
The competition honors exceptional work by high school journalists covering news, features and sports.
Competition Rules
- Deadline: May 22, 2009
- For stories completed August 1, 2008 — May 22, 2009
- LATE ENTRIES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED
Entry Requirements
- Applicants must be full-time high school students during the 2008-2009 academic year.
- One entry per person.
- Stories should be written by one author; multiple bylines are not accepted.
- Print entries must include the original tear sheets of the story, packaged as neatly as possible, plus two photocopies.
- Online stories must include three copies of the story printed from the web and include the URL for the story on each copy.
- A copy of the official entry form must be attached to all copies of the entry; the form may be photocopied.
- Email entries with attachments are not accepted.
Awards
- A 1st Place Award will be presented in each of the three categories: News, Features, and Sports.
- At the discretion of the Review Committee, an honorable mention may be awarded.
- The Review Committee reserves the right not to present an award.
Prizes
$50 will be awarded to each 1st Place Award winner.
High School Journalism Competition Review Committee
- Stephen Buel is the owner and editor of the East Bay Express.
- Chris Colin, a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle website, freelances for The New York Times, Mother Jones, and Smithsonian. He's the author of What Really Happened to the Class of '93.
- Will Harper is the managing editor of SF Weekly.
- Barbara Kelley is a senior lecturer and director of the journalism emphasis in the Communication Department at Santa Clara University. She is also a freelance journalist who has written for the Christian Science Monitor, Health Magazine, salon.com and other publications.
- Katie Powers is the editor-in-chief of The Santa Clara, the weekly student newspaper at Santa Clara University.
- Stephen Rodrick is a contributing editor for New York Magazine. He also writes for the New York Times Magazine.
- Amy Standen is a reporter for KQED's weekly science and environment radio program QUEST.
- Traci Vogel is a freelance journalist who writes the visual arts column for SF Weekly. She is the former editor of Oakland’s Urban View and the former associate editor at Seattle’s The Stranger newspaper.
- Gordon Young is a lecturer in the Communication Department at Santa Clara University and a freelance journalist. He is a former staff writer at SF Weekly, Metro Silicon Valley, and Spectrum Weekly.
Download the entry form.