Journalism students win 22 awards at state convention

April 15, 2015February 25, 2020 The Guardsman

City College’s Journalism Department received 22 awards from Journalism Association of Community Colleges at the 2015 JACC State Convention in Sacramento on Saturday, April 11

By Alex Lamp

Editor-n-Chief

Journalism students representing 39 California community colleges participated in the 2015 Statewide Convention of the Journalism Association of Community Colleges.

The convention took place from April 9-11 at the DoubleTree Hotel in Sacramento.

The students participated in 40 journalism-training workshops, 17 On-The-Spot journalism contests and three critique sessions of their published work.

Convention goers all celebrated the 60th anniversary of JACC.

The City College of San Francisco Journalism Department won 22 awards, including the coveted Pacesetter Award that recognizes the best of the best at the convention and General Excellence honors for Etc. Magazine and Guardsman Online.

“Our students once again excelled in competition and proved they are among the best in the state,” Guardsman Faculty Adviser Juan Gonzales said. “Their success is our success as an institution of learning. We should all be proud of them.”

Three of our editors, Michaela Payne, editor-in-chief of Etc. Magazine, Alex Lamp, editor-in-chief of The Guardsman in Spring 2015, and Santiago Mejia, editor-in-chief of The Guardsman in Fall 2014, were picked for Editor Recognition Awards.

The Guardsman’s Advertising Director, Calindra Revier won a JACC Scholarship.

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