Colorado Student Media Association

CSMA

Colorado Student Media Association

CSMA

Colorado Student Media Association

CSMA

J-Day location changes for 2024, 2025

J-Day location changes for 2024, 2025

December 14, 2023

Your Colorado Student Media Association board is proud to announce that we have accepted a proposal from Colorado University in Boulder to change the location of our annual CSMA Journalism Day in...

Rathbun delivers superhero speech as Yearbook Adviser of the Year

Rathbun delivers ‘superhero’ speech as Yearbook Adviser of the Year

April 23, 2023

Kristi Rathbun, MJE, of Rock Canyon High School, was recognized as the JEA 2022 Yearbook Adviser of the Year during the JEA/NSPA conference in San Francisco in April 2023. As part of her acceptance, she...

Colorado scholastic journalism wins numerous awards at NSPA 2020

Colorado scholastic journalism wins numerous awards at NSPA 2020

November 30, 2020

Even on a national stage, Colorado publications shine. Check out this amazing list of winners (and, of course, the work itself).   Adviser Pioneer Award: Kristi Rathbun Story: Honorable...

Capitol Hill Press Conference
began in 1982

June 22, 2019

This unique program began in 1982 as a result of a conversation between Sue O'Brien, who was Gov. Richard Lamm's press secretary, and CHSPA's Fran Henry at the Colorado Press Association convention. Henry...

Register for J-Day now - deadline is Friday night, Sept. 21

Register for J-Day now – deadline is Friday night, Sept. 21

September 7, 2018

You won't want to miss the chance to hear from Mary Beth Tinker, one of the students whose protest against the Vietnam war led to the 1969 landmark Supreme Court decision. Her keynote is titled "Speak...

Kick start the new year with SNO experts

Kick start the new year with SNO experts

April 5, 2016

CSMA is partnering with School Newspapers Online to bring a short series of hands-on workshops designed to make your SNO website more effective, more efficient, and more professional. Two SNO trainers...

Awards ceremony tops off J-Day

Awards ceremony tops off J-Day

October 9, 2015

IN A TRADITION that has run annually since 2001, with one exception in 2013 due to facility renovation, J-Day returned to the Lory Student Center in Fort Collins on Oct. 8. Nearly 1,300 descended on...

Best of Show awards will wrap up J-Day on Oct. 8

September 22, 2015

This year's Best of Show instructions and requirements can be downloaded to your computer here, or you will find them pasted below. J-Day 2015 / Colorado Student Media Association Best of Show Entry...

Colorado student media shine at national convention

Colorado student media shine at national convention

April 20, 2015

NSPA National Pacemakers The Pacemaker is often called the Pulitzer Prize of student media, and represents the very best student work in a particular publication year. The national finalists are announced...

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