After two years of virtual conventions, the JEA/NSPA Spring Convention returned to in-person this past week in Los Angeles. For the first time since before most people had heard the word COVID-19, student journalists were able to gather in the same room as NSPA announced their Pacemaker winners on Saturday at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel. Congratulations to the 12 Walsworth-printed …
Congratulations to all the Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold and Silver Crown winners! We are proud of our 23 schools who were named a CSPA Gold or Silver Crown winner. The winners were announced on a livestream video and on Twitter on Friday, March 18. The 2021 Walsworth customer yearbooks named Gold Crowns are: Aerie, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Parkland, Florida Apollo, Colonial …
Marceline, Missouri – March 15, 2022 – Walsworth CEO Don O. Walsworth and President Don Walsworth announced today that their family-owned company would be spending the rest of this year celebrating its 85th anniversary. Walsworth, one of the top book, magazine and catalog printing companies in the U.S., unveiled plans for a series of events commemorating the company’s history, celebrating …
The 2021 yearbooks from 24 Walsworth Yearbooks schools were among the high school and middle school books announced as 2021 Pacemaker Finalists by the National Scholastic Press Association Thursday. The following 2021 yearbooks that are Walsworth schools were named as NSPA Pacemaker Finalists: Apollo, Colonial Forge High School, Stafford, Virginia El Corazón, El Camino Real Charter High School, Woodland Hills, …
The Columbia Scholastic Press Association announced the yearbook Crown Finalists for the 2022 CSPA Crown Awards on Wednesday, and they named 23 Walsworth customers as Finalists. The following 2021 Walsworth yearbooks were among the group of Crown Finalists: Aerie, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Parkland, Florida Apollo, Colonial Forge High School, Stafford, Virginia Ayrie, Liberty North High School, Liberty, Missouri …
When the Journalism Education Association (JEA) announced its 2021 Rising Stars and three Walsworth Yearbooks advisers were on the list, Jim Jordan knew he had to get them on his podcast. He sat down with Laurel Wicke, Joanna Chadwick and Carly Gates to discuss the honor and their burgeoning careers. You can listen to these episodes below, at walsworthyearbooks.com/podcasts, or …
The Journalism Education Association (JEA) announced on Monday that Michael Simons, MJE, the yearbook adviser at Corning-Painted Post High School in Corning, New York, had been named the 2021 Yearbook Adviser of the Year. Walsworth Special Consultant Jim Jordan interviewed Simons in the first season of the Yearbook Chat with Jim podcast. You can listen to that interview below. Two …
The yearbook staff of Shawnee Mission North High School in Overland Park, Kansas, won the overall Blue and Gold Award in Class A when Quill & Scroll announced the results of the 2021 Yearbook Excellence Contest this week. In addition, 17 students from Walsworth Yearbooks schools finished in 1st place in their individual category. Blue and Gold Awards Each year, …
Three Walsworth Yearbooks schools finished in first place in the Best of Show contest at the virtual Fall JEA/NSPA Spring National High School Journalism Convention held this past weekend. The convention was held virtually due to the lingering COVID-19 pandemic, but NSPA still allowed entries into the Best of Show and announced the winners on Saturday. The three Walsworth Yearbooks schools who placed first in …
This year, we tried something different – hosting a five-day photo contest during National Yearbook Week to crowdsource great photography, see student life through the staffers’ eyes and ultimately pick a photo to use on the cover of our Possibilities volume 9 book. Having never done so before, we didn’t know what to expect. Would people enter? Would they have …