The 2025-26 Minnesota North Star Awards (Nomination Form) is now open. For NSPA members, it appears under “Contests” in their membership portal.

Bring your students to the national convention in their back yard April 16-18, 2026. Full information about the convention can be found at the SPRING CONVENTION WEBSITE. Registration is open NOW.

The MN Journalist of the Year competition is sponsored by the Journalism Education Association and recognizes the best student journalists from each state. The Minnesota winner receives a $600 scholarship from Journalism Educators of Minnesota (JEM), with runners up receiving $100-300 each. The website gives directions and tips, including many videos to help build your portfolio. State winners…

Posted Oct. 8, 2025 Daniel Amborn of Edina HS named Journalism Educator of the Year Executive director Laura Widmer and associate director Gary Lundgren made a surprise visit to the pubs room at Edina High School to announce that Daniel Amborn is the 2025 Minnesota Journalism Educator of the Year. “As a veteran student media…

The fall convention is a time to celebrate the opportunities that our great state offers to student journalists and their advisers. Connect. Learn. Explore. Celebrate! JEM All State, MHSPA Gold Medallion, and Best of Show awards will be announced. Costs: $23 per person registration fee (earlybird) // $28 after Sept. 25. $15 Best of Show…

In a May 20 announcement from the Minnesota High School Press Association, 150 students from seven schools have been selected for the MN North Star Honor Roll: 48 North Star Editors, 44 North Star Journalists, and 58 Distinguished Journalists. This is the first year after a several-year hiatus that MHSPA has published an honor roll.…

DEADLINE: JUNE 20, 2025, 5 p.m. CT TO ENTER: Visit the NSPA membership portal under the Contests tab or use the links at the following links: > Submit Broadcast Entries > Submit Literary Arts Magazine Entries > Submit Newspaper/Newsmagazine Entries > Submit Online Entries  > Submit Photojournalism Entries > Submit Social Media Entries > Submit…

The results are in! Sports reporters and photographers who attended Journalism Day at the Wild on Apr. 15 filed stories and submitted their best photos. Congratulations to our winners: SPORTS REPORTING: ARTICLE First Place: Yoni Zacks, The Blake School Second Place: Sophia Blew, Minnehaha Acdemy Honorable Mention: Dylan Lennick, Minnehaha Academy SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY: IMAGE First Place: Kendal Picka, Orono High School Second…

A group of student journalists from across Minnesota toured The Guthrie, talked with columnist and arts critic Sheila Regan, and wrote reviews of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” The honorees are: WINNER – Anavie Bernick, Minnehaha Academy The judge said, “The lead engages the reader with alliterative word play, and then weaves that alliteration throughout the review. Sentence…

Journalists around the state submitted a number of inspiring portfolios in this year’s Journalist of the Year scholarship competition.  Congratulations to our 2025 Minnesota Journalist of the Year, Yoni Zacks, Editor-in-Chief of The Spectrum (Anna Reid adviser) at the Blake School. This year’s judge said, “As Yoni said, ‘I have been involved in journalism since…