FSPA - contests

**Please contact Joe Humphrey at fspacontests@gmail.com for all contest and evaluations inquiries.

DIGITAL CONTESTS

Digital Contests allow Florida student journalists to showcase their work in a variety of categories such as writing, design, photography, art, broadcast and multimedia journalism. Judges assign a numeric score to each and provide written feedback.

See link at right for a list of All-Florida and Best of the Best winners.

SPRING 2024 CONVENTION CONTESTS

Invoices will be loaded into your account on the FSPA website ASAP. Feedback will be available sometime this week (we will let you know). Certificates not picked up at convention will be mailed. Please contact Joe Humphrey at fspacontests (at) gmail (dot) com if you need corrections to any certificate. Award winners are listed here.

SPRING 2024 DIGITAL CONTESTS

Publications/programs have been invoiced through their account on the FSPA website.

FEEDBACK IS NOW AVAILABLE

1. Go to BetterNewspaperContest.com.

2. Select Contestant Login

3. Under the Contestant Manager tab, select FSPA Spring 2024 Digital Contests and your school/publication. Use the same password you used to enter the contest.

4, Once you log in, click on the Judges Feedback button in the top left, and select PDF to generate a report of feedback from judges.

NOTES:

-- Journalist of the Year competitions were not scored on the 50-point scale so you can ignore numeric scores on those. Some judges used them for reference and others did not.

-- Best of the Best placements are not listed on the report, which only provides scores, written feedback and the rating. For your reference:

44-50 = All-Florida
38-43 = Excellent
25-37 = Honorable Mention

-- The All-Florida list does include a listing of Best of the Best winners, and hyperlinks to that winning work is being added ASAP.

-- Certificates were printed based on names provided. However, we will provide digital copies of replacement certificates in early May. Send corrections to Joe Humphrey at fspacontests (at) gmail (dot) com. Be specific.

-- If you were not at convention, we are still in the process of returning your certificates by mail. The names on those will match what is on your feedback forms.

-- Entries with broken links and/or missing attachments along with those submitted to the wrong category were not scored. If you would still like feedback for those entries, go to the Manage Entries screen in the BNC datebase, click Disable on the entry and resubmit no later than May 1.

-- One of the most important aspects of our Digital Contests is the feedback provided by the judges. We welcome your feedback on their feedback on this form.