• Our 2025 Newspaper & Digital News Media Contest is now open for entries! Advisers, we want to recognize your students' great work! Deadline is March 15.
  • Congratulations to IJEA Executive Director Linda Jones on receiving the national JEA's Lifetime Achievement Award! She will be honored at the 2025 Spring JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention in Seattle.
  • Congratulations to IJEA member Leslie Fireman, journalism adviser at West Chicago High School, on winning the national JEA's Rising Star Award! She was honored at the 2024 Fall JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention in Philadelphia.
  • Congratulations to IJEA Hall of Fame member Stan Zoller, MJE, on being the inaugural winner of the National JEA's Candace and John Bowen Adviser First Amendment Leadership Award! He was honored at the 2024 Fall JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention in Philadelphia.
  • It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Sarah Doerner, IJEA’s longest-serving president. Sarah died Nov. 29 in Du Quoin at the age of 86. Services were held Dec. 7. See below for our tribute to this great journalism educator.
  • Advisers! Join IJEA today! Annual memberships and lifetime memberships are available. Use our online form or fillable PDF to join!
Illinois Journalism Education Association, 2501 Chatham Road, Suite 200, Springfield, IL 62704

Illinois JEA
Illinois Journalism Education Association, 2501 Chatham Road, Suite 200, Springfield, IL 62704

Illinois JEA
Illinois Journalism Education Association, 2501 Chatham Road, Suite 200, Springfield, IL 62704

Illinois JEA

Best Blogger

BEST BLOGGER


OVERVIEW: Use this form to enter the Best Blogger category, IJEA Newspaper & Digital News Media Contest. Asterisks indicate fields in which a response is required.

DIGITAL CATEGORY: Best Blogger is a digital-only category. Digital media (including the online versions of hybrid publications) may each submit two entries in this category. If you want to submit a second entry, use this form to send both entries.

IF YOU ADVISE A HYBRID PUBLICATION: Please note that if your publication has both a print and digital version, the digital version may submit two entries in this category.

NOTE: A single entry in this category consists of three blog posts by the same student.

DESCRIPTION: For a description of this and other digital categories, click here.

DEADLINE: All entries in this contest must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. on March 15 of the current school year.

REMINDER: Please make sure you have completed our Adviser Information Form before submitting your students' contest entries. Only one submission of the Adviser Information Form is required, regardless of how many categories your students compete in.


  • NOTE: You must submit three blog posts for this to count as an entry for Best Blogger. You do not have to write the entire headline of each blog post. Simply provide enough information so our judges can easily identify each post.

  • NOTE: You must submit three blog posts for this to count as an entry.

  • NOTE: You must submit three blog posts for this to count as an entry.

  • NOTE: The blog posts that make up this entry must have been written by the same student. This student is not eligible to submit a second entry in this category.

  • NOTE: Entry by a second student for consideration as Best Blogger is optional. If a second student does enter this category, the student must submit three blog posts for this to count as an entry.

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  • NOTE: The author of this entry's blog posts must not be the same student who wrote the first entry's posts.

  • NOTE: You are responsible for making sure this URL is correct. If it does not work, the entry will not be judged.

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  • NOTE: You are responsible for making sure this URL is correct. If it does not work, the entry will not be judged.

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  • NOTE: You are responsible for making sure this URL is correct. If it does not work, the entry will not be judged.

    REMINDER TO ADVISERS OF HYBRID PUBLICATIONS: The online version of your publication may submit two entries in this category. An entry consists of three blog posts by the same student.

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