October 2009 Issue
Second Series of 2009 Gold Circles Announced
NEW YORK, NY — The Columbia Scholastic Press Association has announced the winners from the newspaper and magazine categories of its 27th Gold Circle Awards program. This first portion of the Gold Circle Awards attracted 8,091 entries from colleges, universities and secondary schools throughout the United States. Begun in 1984, these awards celebrate individual achievement by student writers, editors, designers and photographers.
Previously, all categories of the Gold Circle Awards were collected annually in November for winter judging. All awards were announced the following March. This year, the existing categories are being collected in two separate batches. Newspaper and magazine categories were collected in June 2009 and judged during the summer. These are the awards being announced at this time.
Yearbook, online and broadcast categories are due to be postmarked to the CSPA by October 30th. They will be judged as in the past in winter and announced by March 2010.
Since the CSPA dates its awards by the year in which they are given, these awards represent the second series of 2009 Gold Circle Awards. The 2009 Gold Circle Awards already given last March represent winners from entries published from November 2, 2007 through November 1, 2008. Today’s awards represent entries published in newspapers or magazines from November 2, 2008 through June 15, 2009. The June 15th deadline will remain in place for the foreseeable future for newspaper and magazine categories.
Student journalists submitting entries into the awards chose from as many as 155 available categories for individual or staff entries in newspaper and magazine. All awards will be mailed to the publications during November.
The complete listing of awards can be found on this Gold Circle recipients page. Please look for either “Scholastic” or “Collegiate” for appropriate results. Archive files of prior years’ awards are also available at that website.
High school news and magazines winners
College and university news and magazine winners
View examples of winners
2009 Summer Journalism Workshop Event Review
Students who attended the 2009 CSPA Summer Journalism Workshop attended a screening of the CBS tv show ‘The Good Wife’ and were able to question executive producer Brooke Kennedy about her career as well as her work on the show. Student also attended the Broadway show ‘In the Heights’ and also met with cast members to ask questions immediate after the show.
Participants report on press conference and Broadway show ‘In the Heights’
President Dwight D. Eisenhower addresses high school journalism students at CSPA
Listen to a recording of President Eisenhower presenting the concluding CSPA luncheon speech form 1949.