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Point out weaknesses, but don’t dwell on them.

Your critique should encourage staffs to do better next year. Even print or online media that don’t follow all of the guidelines in the Critique do some things well. Do acknowledge what each print or online media does well.For any point deductions ( marking a criterion as anything other than 'excellent'), give relevant page numbers, with issue date for newspapers, or other specific locators so staffs can look them up for themselves. This type of balanced reading is most important for those that are weakest, but it applies to all. But always make note of strong points and achievements of the print or online media as well as its weaknesses and failures. Do call attention to general weaknesses in a print or online media.Try to be aware of, and sensitive to, local conditions and limits faced by the staff. The self-analysis part of the form provides detailed responses from the publications' staff and adviser. Do read the membership profile (included for each publication) with care.NOTE: Please DO NOT WRITE in any of the physical media (newspapers, magazines and yearbooks). You should read the print or online media thoroughly and with a critical eye. Judging involves three basic steps: reading the print or online media, scoring the criteria on a four-choice scale and providing a combination of pre-written and your own explanatory comments. We also ask adviser-judges to refrain from judging any media they have already judged for another association in that same year. To avoid conflicts of interest with state or local loyalties, we don’t ask judges to evaluate print or online media from their home state. If it should not, we will return it to the school or college concerned. If, by some chance, you receive a print or online media for judging that you believe is not 100% student-edited and intended for a primarily student readership or audience, please contact the CSPA office immediately. We will help you determine whether the print or online media should be judged or not. The primary readership or audience must be students, although secondary audiences may include parents, siblings, prospective students and alumni.

Types of print or online media have included newspapers, newsmagazines, general-interest magazines, literary-art magazines, school pages in community newspapers or news websites, departmental print or online media, yearbooks or online media such as student-edited websites.Īlumni or public relations print or online media, even with some student editors or contributors, are not accepted as members of the Association. Membership is open to any student-edited print or online media from a public, private or parochial school or college.

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Print or online media may choose from either full membership (described above) or associate membership, which offers other benefits, including entry into the Gold and Silver Crown judging, but does not include a written Critique. To begin this membership, the issues or volume of the print or online media from the just-finished year are evaluated. What is Membership? Entering a student print or online media into the CSPA’s Annual Critique makes that print or online media a full member of the CSPA for the following academic year. The Critique judging counters the parochial outlook that often takes hold when only local standards are considered. CSPA Critiques compare and contrast student newspapers, magazines yearbooks and online media with others in similar circumstances. The critique is a formative evaluation and will be used to guide the print or online media’s efforts during the next year. It should be offered in a positive manner. Judging should be a sincere effort to help student editors and faculty advisers improve or advance their print or online media. Its purpose is to help judges provide constructive criticism and confer recognition for creative and superior work.

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This manual tries to answer many common questions that judges ask and it provides a common set of understandings and interpretations.

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