El Paisano and La Cima staff writers won seven awards, including one General Excellence, at the annual Journalism Association of Community Colleges SoCal Conference held at Cal-State Fullerton last week.
La Cima magazine won a Gernal Excellence award, the highest honor a publication can receive, at the conference. La Cima is printed once annually and is a class offered by the journalism department in the spring and summer months.
In addition to La Cima’s honor, artist Robert Flores won a third place in mail-in illustration, Mauricio Chavez took a third place in on-the-spot sports writing and Krystyn Bristol took a fourth place in on-the-spot tabloid layout.
Taking honorable mention awards in on-the-spot competition were Lalig Tarbinian for bring-in photo, Jazmin Lucero for feature writing and Bristol for sports photo.
There were 30 community colleges and nearly 300 students participating in the two day conference that was highlighted by workshops taught by professional journalists, photographers and broadcasters.
Students interested in the journalism/media department here should contact Adviser John Francis at extension 3453 or visit room B112 on campus.
Adviser of El Paisano, John Francis, is surrounded by several of his students at the Journalism Association of Community Colleges event. El Paisano won seven awards, including an award for General Excellence for Rio’s magazine, La Cima.
