The 2010 KHTV staff is a finalist in the NSPA Broadcast Story of the Year contest, co-sponsored by SchoolTube.com and the Radio Television Digital News Foundation. The categories offered were News, Sports and Feature, and the contest yielded a total of 99 entries. The first part of KHTV’s Alton, Illinois series is part of the Broadcast Feature category.
Entries were judged based on content/criteria, writing and script editing, recording and editing, interviewing skills, technical quality, and journalistic integrity, courage and ambition.
Places (First, Second, Third and Honorable Mentions) will be announced for the first time at the JEA/NSPA Fall National High School Journalism Convention on Nov. 13 in Kansas City. Comments from all judging teams will be published on the NSPA website after the winners have been announced.
View the list of finalists here:
http://nspa.studentpress.org/winners/bcstory10.html
