JDay Celebration
Scholastic Journalism Day – JDay – on Wednesday, March 29, is back in-person this year! You can register for JDay on this page for this upcoming 2023 event.
It is a full day of speakers, workshops, awards and fun! And it’s FREE for all MIJA member advisers and their students. In a normal year, dozens of schools from across the state bring their entire staff on a bus to Columbia, arriving between 8 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. to Jesse Hall to gather for the kickoff! Come early and enjoy a staff photo slideshow, visit vendors, and wake up with games to play and prizes to win.
Students wear their own staff shirts or can purchase JDay T-shirts in advance using an online order form and spread the JDay spirit. After you use the Google Form to purchase your shirts, please click on this link to pay for your shirts.
Following the Kick Off, students can choose from four sessions featuring dozens of journalism-related workshops and learn hands-on from a variety of professionals. Multiple class blocks offering nearly three dozen sessions ranging from yearbook to newspaper/magazine to broadcast, photography, current events, trending topics and more are scheduled.
Journalism students from all MIJA member schools are eligible to win awards by submitting their work in February to the MIJA JDay Contests.
Schools wishing to attend this FREE event still need to register in advance for Wednesday, March 29, 2023 JDay. Registration closes at midnight a week before JDay.
Student registration for particular sessions is not needed. Just complete teacher and school information, the total number of students and teacher lunch request, if needed. You can also have your students register themselves!
Don’t miss out on this valuable educational and celebratory day for your journalism students!
Please send any questions to [email protected].
- Member schools are complimentary
- Non-member schools pay $50/school.
- NEW! Zoom online critique sessions are available. Schools may register for up to three critique sessions per school at $60/session. Speak with a judge live during one of your sessions.
- These critique sessions will be held during JDay in MU classrooms with the judge zooming in.
- The school will need to send their work before the JDay session.
- Exhibitors pay $350
- Exhibitors who present will receive a discounted rate. Please email [email protected] for more information
The tentative schedule for JDay is:
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REGISTRANTS:
- 2019 – 1,340 students and teachers in attendance
- 2020 – 1,525 students and teachers registered, cancelled due to Covid-19
- 2021 – Held virtually
- 2022 – 1,074 students and teachers in attendance
- 2023 – 1,193 students and teachers in attendance
