Overall Newspaper and Website Critiques

Due to weather conditions throughout Ohio, the deadline for all annual contests (overall critiques and individual contest entries) has been postponed to 11:59pm on Friday, February 6.

 

2025-2026 Overall Publication Critiques are now accepting entries!  The deadline to submit your work is Friday, January 30 at 11:59 p.m.

 

2025-2026 Overall Newspaper and Newsmagazine Critiques

For the newspaper and newsmagazine overall critiques, please send us three issues of your student publication from the current school year. If you published fewer than three issues, please send whatever you have published for this year and include a note to explain.

Please submit your copies and this registration form and data sheet to the address listed below.  If your school publication qualifies as an Open Forum, get this Open Forum Statement signed by your principal, and then include it as part of your entry.

OSMA –  Julieanne McClain

7385 N State Route 3 #1046

Westerville, OH 43082

Interested in seeing what the judges are looking for? Click here for a PDF of our recently updated Overall Critique form.  (Please note that because we use an online system for judging, the downloadable PDF looks clunky).

 

2025-26 Overall News Website Critiques

For news website overall critiques, please complete this Google form to submit your entry. If your school publication qualifies as an Open Forum, get this Open Forum Statement signed by your principal, and then send it to [email protected].  

Interested in seeing what the judges are looking for? Click here for a PDF of our recently updated Overall Critique form.  (Please note that because we use an online system for judging, the downloadable PDF looks clunky).

 

Questions? Contact OSMA Executive Director Julieanne McClain at [email protected].