Honoring an academic year’s top individual work in seven categories — broadcast, literary magazine, newspaper/newsmagazine, online, photojournalism, social media and yearbook — the Gold Medallion Awards represent the best work published by Minnesota high school media.
ELIGIBILITY: Entries must have been published between June 24, 2023 and June 21, 2024. The contest is open only to Minnesota student media with a current NSPA membership as of the contest deadline. All Minnesota high school media belonging to NSPA are automatically members of MHSPA. Any student on the staff of an MHSPA member media outlet is eligible to enter. The entry must be published in the MHSPA-member student media.
DEADLINE: The website for award submission will be closed at 5 p.m. CT on June 21, 2024. The deadline will not be reopened.
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T. Spread Design
Facing pages that together display a single verbal/visual story or a package of related content. In the case of chronological coverage, the content is from a clearly labeled period of time. Spreads such as opening, closing and dividers must be entered in Category X Yearbook Theme Package.
Number of Entries: Two entries per MHSPA-member yearbook.
Submission: PDF file of printed page(s).
U. Academics/Club Story
A human-interest feature story reporting on academics/clubs.
V. Sports Story
Coverage of games or a seasonal summary, may also include profiles of sports personalities or human-interest sports features.
W. Student Life Story
A human-interest feature story on all aspects of teen and school life (except academics/clubs and sports) including trends, fashion, entertainment, contemporary issues, news, community, faith, families and events.
X. Theme Package
This package includes cover, endsheets, title page, opening, closing, divider and final/parting page presented together as a portfolio.
REQUIRED
Number of Entries: One entry per MHSPA-member yearbook.
Submission: PDF file of the theme portfolio. If the PDF file is too large to upload, submit a URL link to the PDF file on a shared drive taking care that permissions allow judge access.