Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Judges needed

I'm looking for a few journalists or former journalists to help judge the IHSA Sectional journalism contest, Saturday, April 19, at NIU-DeKalb. High school journalists come here for the day and compete in various categories. Winners move on to the state competition the following week.
Each judge does two categories and gets paid $100 -- $50 per category. If your round trip is more than 100 miles, IHSA also will pay 25 cents per mile for the excess. You're here from roughly 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The event includes 15 categories: Photography, News Writing, Feature Writing, Review Writing, Headline Writing, Editorial Writing, Advertising, Newspaper Sports Writing, Yearbook Layout/Double Page Spread, Computer-Generated Graphics, Copy Editing, Newspaper Design, Yearbook Theme Development, Editorial Cartoon, and Yearbook Copy Writing.
If you or other members of your staff are interested in helping as a judge, please e-mail me and I'll put you on a tentative list. More information to come soon, but I wanted to give you an early chance to save that date.
If you're closer to Lake County, a similar sectional event is being held there that day, at the College of Lake County, and judges are needed there as well. I can direct you to that organizer.
Thanks.

UPDATE: Thanks for the great response on this! We appear to have enough judges. If you'd like to be put on a list as a backup in case someone has to cancel, let me know.

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