  ___________________________________________________________ Members of THSPA will receive: • A membership directory. • Invitations to enter the annual Student Media Awards competition. • A $5 discount per delegate who attends the organization's
(Membership packets will also be mailed out to all high schools in mid-September.) Membership details
THSPA Membership information: $25 per medium (through Oct. 15) Membership is per medium, not per school. The membership fee will increase to $45 per medium after Oct. 15, so be sure to postmark by that date. Join by Oct. 15 and bring at least five delegates to the Fall Workshop, and you recoup your membership fee!
$55 Annual JEA Teacher/Adviser Membership If you join the Journalism Education Association through the Tennessee High School Press Association, JEA will allow THSPA to retain $5 to help our state association. If you are already a JEA member, you may renew through THSPA. Two memberships, one payment!
$40 Medium Evaluation THSPA is offering evaluations for newspapers, yearbooks, literary magazines, broadcast stations, websites and online publications. A critique booklet will be filled out by a judge and returned to you. If you want your publication evaluated, add $40 to your membership check. Yearbooks and literary magazines from last year should be postmarked by Nov. 15 to THSPA; to save money, you may bring your publication to the Nov. 21 Fall Workshop. Send two issues of this year’s newspapers and/or send one copy of a news broadcast program by Jan. 12. You must be a member of THSPA to have an evaluation. Schools will receive certificates at the March 2012 Awards Ceremony.
Payment:
Payment may be made by check (payable to THSPA), cash or purchase order. If postmarked by Oct. 15, the membership fee is $25; if postmarked later than the 15th, the fee is $45.
Return the membership form with payment to: Tennessee High School Press Association One University Park Drive Nashville, TN 37204-3951 Dr. Jimmy McCollum, Director, THSPA@Lipscomb.edu
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