Print news and yearbook
  • Objective news/feature story — Reporting that includes breaking news or an issue of importance to the student audience that demonstrates strong news-gathering skills and delivers concise information. Includes personality profiles or human-interest general features. (Submit PDF.)
  • Objective sports story — Reporting that includes coverage of past or present games or a seasonal summary, may also include profiles of sports personalities or human-interest sports features. (Submit PDF.)
  • Subjective story — A statement of the publication’s opinion supported by fact, a personal column or a humorous column or first person experience published in print. (Submit PDF.)
  • Climate change reporting — With a focus on one of the most important stories of this generation,  climate change, stories in this category can be submitted in any platforms (print, broadcast, online). A statement explaining why this coverage was included in the publication is required. (Submit PDF.)
  • Social justice coverage — With a focus on social justice and opportunities, stories in this category can be submitted in any platforms (print, broadcast, online). A statement explaining why this coverage was included in the publication is required. (Submit PDF.)
 
Design
  • Yearbook spread — Facing pages submitted as a spread that together display a single verbal/visual story or a collection of related content. (Submit PDF as a spread, not individual pages.)
  • Literary magazine spread — Facing pages submitted as a spread that together display a single verbal/visual story or a collection of related content. (Submit PDF as a spread, not individual pages.)
  • Newspaper or newsmagazine front page — The front page of a print news publication. (Submit a single page PDF.)
  • Newspaper or newsmagazine inside page — An inside page of a print news publication that displays a single verbal/visual story or a collection of related content. (Submit a single page PDF.)
  • Infographic — Student-created artwork designed to accompany a story or stand alone while conveying additional information on a single topic; not just a visual. (Submit PDF.)
  • Cartoon — Student-created artwork including editorial cartoons or comic strips.  (Submit PDF.)
 
Online
  • Use of social media — Coverage using social media platforms for reporting, updating and engaging with the school community. (Submit URL open to the public.)
  • Website: coverage — Scholastic coverage published online including reporting on breaking news or an issue of importance to your audience that demonstrates strong news-gathering skills and delivers concise information, personality profiles, trend stories or human interest stories and sports. (Submit URL open to the public.)
  • Multimedia — Scholastic coverage published online including reporting on breaking news or an issue of importance to your audience that demonstrates strong news-gathering skills and delivers concise information, personality profiles, trend stories or human interest stories and sports. In addition to text and images, entry must include hyperlinks, audio, video, slideshows, interactive content (maps, timelines, etc.) and/or animation. (Submit URL open to the public.)
 
Broadcast
  • Objective story — Reporting on breaking news or an issue of importance to your audience that demonstrates strong news-gathering skills while delivering concise information. Personality profiles or human-interest general features. Coverage of past or present games or a seasonal summary, may also include profiles of sports personalities or human-interest sports features. (Submit URL open to the public.)
  • Subjective story — An editorial segment designed to inform and to persuade an audience. (Submit URL open to the public.)
 
Photojournalism
  • News/feature photo — A single image with caption (in the image metadata) that captures a timely visual story and displays news value and evidence of on-the-spot coverage or delivers a human-interest story with the emphasis on people in their environment. Includes caption. (Submit high-res file as RGB/JPEG.)
  • Sports photo — A single image with caption (in the image metadata) that captures the competitive action and emotion of athletes on school teams competing in games, matches and meets or in personal, non-team sports. Also includes human interest images and profiles that communicate a story other than direct action on the playing field. Reaction photos of fans should be entered as news/feature photos. Includes caption. (Submit high-res file as RGB/JPEG.)