Santa Clara University

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.