Georgia Scholastic Press Association

GSPA is happy to showcase the amazing work of another one of our GSPA Ambassadors, Lea D’Angelo, a junior at Clarke Central High School. Click the link in our bio to see her featured work!

GSPA is happy to showcase the amazing work of another one of our GSPA Ambassadors, Siddarth Suresh, a senior at Innovation Academy. Click the link in our bio to see his featured work!

GSPA is so excited to showcase the amazing work of one of our GSPA Ambassadors, Naina Agrawal, a senior at Lambert High School. Click the link in our bio to see her showcase!

Looking back at last month’s GSPA Spring Workshop and Awards 🎉 highlighting scholastic journalism and celebrating amazing achievements!

Congratulations to our 2026 GSPA Award
Winners! 🎉
We are proud to recognize their outstanding and incredible achievement in scholastic journalism.
🏆Advisor of the Year: Adam Throne
🏆Behavioral Health Journalism Award: Siddarth Suresh
🏆Community Service Award: The Pitchfork
🏆Turnaround Award: Nicole Motahari
🏆First Year Adviser Award: John Wilkerson
🏆Georgia Champion Journalist of the Year: Peter Atchley
🏆Runner-Up Georgia Champion of the Year: Brennan
Fritts
🏆Georgia Junior Champion of the Year: Liya Taylor
🏆Runner-Up Georgia Junior Champion of the Year: Lea
D’Angelo

Congratulations to our 2026 GSPA Award Winners! 🎉
We are proud to recognize their outstanding and incredible achievement in scholastic journalism.
🏆 Advisor of the Year: Adam Throne
🏆 Behavioral Health Journalism Award: Siddarth Suresh 🏆Community Service Award: The Pitchfork
🏆Turnaround Award: Nicole Motahari
🏆First Year Adviser Award: John Wilkerson
🏆Georgia Champion Journalist of the Year: Peter Atchley
🏆Runner-Up Georgia Champion of the Year: Brennan Fritts
🏆Georgia Junior Champion of the Year: Liya Taylor
🏆 Runner-Up Georgia Junior Champion of the Year: Lea D’Angelo

Peter Atchley, managing editor for ODYSSEY Media Group at Clarke Central High School in Athens, Georgia, is the 2026 Georgia Champion Journalist of the Year. The award recognizes the top high school senior journalist in the state.

“As a journalist, I am all about uplifting others’ voices and pushing myself farther so I can continue to grow,” Atchley wrote in his personal narrative statement.

Atchley was the 2025 Georgia Junior Champion Journalist. He served as a GSPA Student Ambassador in 2024-25.

Atchley will receive a plaque and a $1,000 monetary award, supported by the Carolyn McKenzie and Don E. Carter Chair for Excellence in Journalism at UGA’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

He also advances to represent the state in the Journalism Education Association’s National Journalist of the Year Competition.

GSPA is so excited to showcase the amazing work of one of our GSPA Ambassadors, Allen Liu, a junior at Northview High School. Click the link in our bio to read more on Allen Liu’s work!

🎉 As we continue to celebrate Journalism Education Association’s annual Scholastic Journalism Week. GSPA is proud to highlight Georgia’s own Theo Slade, a student at North Springs High School, whose poster design was selected to represent Scholastic Journalism Week!

Click the Link in our bio to read more on Slade’s poster design and creative process on JEA’s website!

As we enter JEA’s () annual celebration of Scholastic Journalism Week (Feb. 23–27), GSPA is proud to highlight the amazing work of one of our GSPA Ambassadors, Kirsten Jolly a Junior at New Manchester High School, Douglasville, GA.

Click the link in our bio to see Kirsten’s showcase!