• We are delighted to announce IJEA's new partnership with Northwestern University's Medill School! We are now headquartered at Medill, and our new executive director is Katie Fernandez, CJE, senior program coordinator of Medill's Teach for Chicago Journalism program. Thank you, Medill, for your support of high school journalism!
  • Journalism educators! Join IJEA today! Annual memberships for 2025-26 and lifetime memberships are available. Use our online form or fillable PDF to join!
  • Yearbook advisers! We are now accepting entries for the 2025 IJEA Yearbook Contest! The postmark deadline is Oct. 15, 2025, for books that cover 2024-25 school year.
  • Congratulations to IJEA member schools Huntley H.S. and Prospect H.S. on co-winning the IHSA journalism state title! The schools tied for 1st place at the IHSA finals April 25 in Normal.
  • Congratulations to IJEA Executive Director Linda Jones on receiving the national JEA's Lifetime Achievement Award! She was 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.
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Illinois Journalism Education Association, Medill School, Northwestern University, 1845 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208-2101

Illinois JEA
Illinois Journalism Education Association, Medill School, Northwestern University, 1845 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208-2101

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Newspaper Contest

The deadline for the 2014 IJEA Newspaper Contest is March 21. Both print and online papers are encouraged to submit their best work from March 2013 to March 2014. Download an entry form.

 

 

Congratulations to the 2013 winners!

Download the winner list from the 2013 IJEA Newspaper Contest. Congratulations at all staffs and their advisers!

Download the winners list by category from the 2012 IJEA Newspaper Contest. Congratulations at all staffs and their advisers!

Download the 2011 winners from the 2011 IJEA Newspaper Contest. Congratulations at all staffs and their advisers!

News and Notes from the contest

2013 contest adds five new categories; deadline set for March 23

The annual IJEA Newspaper Contest, with a March 23 deadline, has five new categories this year, three to answer the growing number of high school newspapers in Illinois that have gone online.

The new categories are headlines, centerspreads, blogging, multimedia packages and overall websites.

All IJEA members can enter their students’ work. All advisers can be IJEA members. Click here for a membership form. Membership is $10.

To download the contest entry form, click here.

For more information, contact Sally Renaud at (217) 581-6003 or at [email protected].

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