Evaluations

SIPA members can participate in evaluative services to receive feedback on their media.

 

Evaluation Fees:

$80 – critique of your program (broadcast, literary-arts magazine, newsprint, online or yearbook)

$40 – annotations (available for literary-arts magazine, newsprint and yearbook)

 

Evaluation deadlines:

Literary-arts magazine and yearbook: June 15

Broadcast, newsprint, and online: December 15

 

Guide to SIPA ratings:

All-Southern

This is SIPA’s highest evaluation rating. These publications demonstrate excellence in all areas of scholastic journalism production. These publications effectively integrate writing, design, photography, and graphics and cover a wide range of content to give readers an excellent record of the school year.

Superior

These publications demonstrate excellence in most areas of scholastic journalism production. While they consistently integrate writing, design, photography, and graphics into the publications and cover a variety of content, they lack in at least one area of overall execution.

Excellent

These publications demonstrate a basic understanding of general scholastic journalism standards. These publications consistently integrate writing, design, photography, and graphics into their publication and cover a variety of content, but they lack in at least two areas overall execution that makes for a Superior publication.

Merit

These publications demonstrate some general journalistic standards.