The Official Site of the Missouri Interscholastic Journalism Association

MIJA

The Official Site of the Missouri Interscholastic Journalism Association

MIJA

The Official Site of the Missouri Interscholastic Journalism Association

MIJA

Awards

MIJA offers our member schools several ways to have student work recognized:

 

MIJA also recognizes teachers and staff:

 

MIJA also hosts the Contributing Medium, Knight and Taft awards.

 

  • The Contributing Medium Award is given to a deserving media organization, business, individual or group who have provided outstanding support to scholastic journalism either to an individual school, a school district or MIJA, in some form.

 

  • The Knight Award is given to a person, or group of people, who have provided outstanding service to scholastic or minority journalism and/or who have furthered student freedom of expression in Missouri.

 

  • The Taft Award honors our tradition of recognizing excellence and dedication by awarding any person or group giving outstanding service to scholastic journalism and/or to MIJA.