Arkansas Scholastic Press Association

04/27/2026

Congratulations to our All-Arkansas winners for 2026!

04/23/2026

Congratulations to Labyrinth from Little Rock Central for their NSPA Pacemaker!

Labyrinth
Little Rock Central High School
Little Rock, Arkansas
Editor-in-chief: Robert Fullen
Adviser: Shawna Shannon

03/23/2026

Congratulations Kaylee!

Congratulations to the 2026 Arkansas Journalist of the Year: Kaylee Anderson of Bryant High School. Her adviser is Justin Turner.

Anderson advances to the national JEA Journalist of the Year competition. The national finalists and winner will be announced at the Spring 2026 JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention in Minneapolis April 16-18.

03/05/2026

Congratulations to Labyrinth, the Literary Magazine from Little Rock Central High School, on being named a Pacemaker finalist!

12/18/2025

Congratulations Woodland!

The Round Up
Woodland Junior High School
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Editor in chief: Parker Sisney
Adviser: Andrew Young

12/18/2025

Congratulations Bryant!

Hornet
Bryant High School
Bryant, Arkansas
Editors in chief: Kaylee Anderson, Hannah Heston, Siya Rohant, Caroline Sanders
Advisers: Colton Croy, Justin Turner

08/20/2025

Congratulations Taylor Bowers, CJE for being named a Rising Star by JEA!

JEA names 12 teachers as 2025 Rising Stars to recognize their dedication to scholastic journalism and media advising. They will be recognized at the JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention in Nashville this November.

Rising Star awards are presented to advisers who are in their first five years of advising and have had success advising at least one media program. The 2025 Rising Stars are:

- Taylor Bowers, CJE, Bentonville West High School, Centerton, Arkansas
- Stacy Dawson, CJE, Saint Francis High School, Mountain View, California
- Nicole Goodman, CJE, Waterloo (Iowa) West High School
- Darcy Hassing, CJE, Lakeview High School, Battle Creek, Michigan
- Christopher Heady, Shawnee (Kansas) Mission Northwest High School
- Jodi Hwang, CJE, Los Altos (California) High School
- Yary Lira, McKinney (Texas) High School
- Jeanette Lockwood, Desert Ridge Junior High School and Desert Ridge High School, Mesa, Arizona
- Marie McCulloch, Rocky Mountain High School, Meridian, Idaho
- Ethan Pender, CJE, Darlington School, Rome, Georgia
- Jamie Reynolds, Melbourne (Florida) High School
- Katheryn White, Gulfport (Mississippi) High School

Read more: https://jea.org/news/jea-honors-12-rising-stars-in-2025/

07/25/2025

ASPA hosted 18 media advisers from around the state for a two-day professional development intensive to broaden their knowledge, learn new skills and build professional relationships through a partnership with the Journalism Educators Association. ASPA applauds the hard work of these educators as they go home and continue building stellar programs for their district.

05/13/2025

Congratulations to all of our winners at the Seattle National High School Journalism Convention! Arkansas is lucky to have some of the best student journalists in the country.

04/10/2025

Today, we celebrate 30 years since the Arkansas governor signed the Student Publications Act into law, protecting . First passed in 1995 and updated in 2019, the law was one of the first “anti-Hazelwood laws” in the country. Learn more about the rights of student journalists in Arkansas: https://splc.org/know-your-rights-arkansas/

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