Community college newspaper wins big at journalism conference

NEWS HOUND—Student Voice editor-in-chief David Lopez accepts a second-place award for news judgement/layout during the Journalism Association of Community Colleges’ Southern California conference last weekend at Cal-State Fullerton. The Student Voice took home 10 awards at the Journalism Association of Community Colleges’ Southern California conference last weekend at Cal State Fullerton.

The Student Voice is the news organization for the three colleges which comprise the Ventura County Community College District: Moorpark, Oxnard and Ventura.

The regional conference takes place every fall with about 250 students and 50 staff and advisers attending.

The association is a nonprofit organization of member schools and advisers.

The Student Voice team of 20 students earned the general excellence designation that denotes consistent high standards for quality in reporting, photography, editing and design, in addition to other awards.

Following are the primary winners and those from Moorpark College:

On-the-Spot awards : Second-place news judgment/layout, David Lopez; fourth-place critical review, Brennan Whitmore; third-place editorial cartoon, Brett Arve; Twitter, Zach Poisal.

Bring-in awards : Secondplace bring-in photo, Hannah Davey.

Mail-in awards : Third-place editorial cartoon, Robbie Eich; honorable mention photo illustration, Randy Phenning; honorable mention inside page layout, Eric Lee; second-place inside page layout, Jeremy Zeller.

Team list, VCCCD : David Lopez, VCCCD editor; Hannah Coyle, opinion editor;  Michael Galasso, online editor; Serena Swanger, student life editor; Tim Weisberg, sports editor.

Moorpark College team list : Brennan Whitmore, MC editor; Jake Henderson, MC staff photographer.

Moorpark College staff

writers : Shoaib Najmuddin, Michael Prieto, Tawni Staples, Dan Lovi, Pia  Dizon.