Hurry! Deadline for AOE entries is Jan. 23

It's time for Kansas Press Association members to begin preparing entries for the Awards of Excellence Contest for calendar year 2014.

Emily Bradbury, director of member services at KPA, has posted the necessary information on the KPA website and the 2014 Call for Entries is available here. Paper copies of the entry forms are available by request.

Deadline for entries is Friday, Jan. 23, 2015.

"As always, we encourage all members to enter the contest and display the best work your staff members have produced during this past year," she said.

What's new for 2015?

"We've added three new categories, including Best Magazine Redesign and Best Newspaper Redesign and Best Online Sports Video," Bradbury said.

Another change is in the circulation categories for daily and nondaily newspapers. While there will still be six divisions — three for dailies and three for nondailies — the circulation breakdowns have changed:

Daily Division I, 3,800 or less; Daily Division II, 3,801 to 9,400; Daily Division III, circulation more than 9,401.

Nondaily Division I, 1,500 or less; Nondaily Division II, 1,501 to 2,800; Nondaily Division III, Circulation more than 2,801.

One other change will be that all photo categories will require a separate JPG/TIFF of the photo in addition to a PDF of the photo on the newspaper page.

As in the past, a newspaper may choose to compete in a higher circulation class, but not in a lower one.