2019 J-Day winners announced

March 25, 2019

Thank you to the nearly 1,300 students and advisers who traveled to the University of Missouri-Columbia on Monday, March 25 for the 50th annual J Day celebration of student journalism! And congratulations to the State winners honored in Overall and Individual contests.

MIPA recognizes All-Missouri, Superior, Excellent and Honorable Mention work with certificates. MIPA judges chose roughly the top 10% of the entries to recognize as All-Missouri award winners.

A complete list of individual and overall contest winners is available at: https://mipajournalism.com/j-day-awards-lists
and at: 2019 Individual and Overall Results

We would like to thank our 50+ judges who reviewed the 1,400+ entries this year. Judges range from journalism teachers and professors to professional journalists from across the country. Without their time, commitment and feedback, scholastic journalists across the state would not have the opportunity to learn and improve.

2019 Judges:

Jeanne	Abbott	associate professor, Missouri School of Journalism
Shari	Adwers	adviser, Loudoun Valley High School
Kathy	Allen	adviser for newspaper and co-adviser for yearbook
Alicia	Archuleta	journalism adviser/teacher
Louisa	Avery	journalism and digital design teacher, adviser of Pep O’ Plant newsmagazine and PHSnews.com news site
Molly	Baker	yearbook consultant
Jane	Banester	adviser
Karen	Black	former newsmagazine and yearbook adviser at Hickman Mills H.S. – MIPA Taft Award 2006, Longview Community College “Current,” newspaper adviser, one semester for sabbatical professor.
MIPA	Board of Directors	advisers
Cherié	Burgett	adviser
Cal	Butcher	Director of Media Crossroads & Full-time Faculty at University of Kansas
Erin	Coggins	adviser
Julia	Copeland	education specialist, Balfour Publishing
Diane	Davis	freelance proofreader, NNA
Adam	Dawkins	adviser, RJ Media, Coordinator, National JEA Scholastic J Week, Past President, CSMA
Bethany	Drobeck	yearbook adviser
Alis	Dunaway	writer
Brian	Eriksen	teacher, adviser, JEA State Director
Taylor	Ernst
Sara	Gonzales
Annie	Gorenstein-Falkenberg	yearbook adviser
Homer	Hall	former JEA President
Trevor	Hayes	freelance sports TV Producer (studio and remote)
Minerva	Howard	retired journalism teacher at Hickman High School, taught writing at Sylvan Learning Center, volunteer at after-school program for Spanish speaking students, judge for newspapers for MU and Iowa University.
Joe	Humphrey	teacher and adviser; experience as a reporter and editor
Jessica	Hunziker, MJE	adviser
Trevor	Ivan	adviser, researcher
Christy	Jung	Media Communication Professor at Hannibal-LaGrange
Tanya	Katnic	yearbook and journalism adviser
Jack	Kennedy	Executive Director, Colorado Student Media Association
Paige	Kesler	supervisor of yearbook department
Rachel	Kidder	adviser
Suzan “Kim”	Lynch	adviser
Jonah	McKeown	Staff Writer, Catholic News Agency
Jackie	Mink	adviser
Jennifer	Nelson	Senior Information Specialist at Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute/Editor at Osceola Sentinel-Tribune from 2010-2012
Kristy	Nyp	secondary journalism teacher
Megan	Palmer	adviser
Mary	Patrick	yearbook adviser and JEA mentor
Wayna C.	Polk	publications adviser – Abilene High School, Abilene, TX
Randy	Raley	Operations Manager KPOW FM Sedalia
Terri	Real	yearbook/ newspaper teacher
Michael	Reeves	adviser of The Dispatch newspaper at James Bowie High School
Shannon	Rennaker	journalism teacher
Brooke	Rhoads	editor in chief
Kimberlee	Ried	Public Affairs Specialist
Hannah	Shapiro	journalism & filmmaking teacher
Rebecca	Suchy	Coginchaug High School adviser
Michelle	Turner	adviser
Lizabeth	Walsh	adviser
Maggie	Walter	professor, retired, Missouri School of Journalism
Tom	Winski	Assistant Professor of Journalism
Amanda	Wood	Director of Marketing
Sergio	Yanes	teacher/adviser
Clay	Zigler	adviser
Stan	Zoller, MJE	Lecturer of Journalism