*UPDATE* – The original story omitted Matthew Elliott’s honorable mention for mail-in opinion writing.
The Fresno City College Rampage staff attended the Journalism Association of Community Colleges (JACC) Northern California conference on Saturday at CSU Sacramento.
JACC is a non-profit educational corporation that works with journalism students in California. It holds regional conventions every fall semester and state conferences every spring. That way, community colleges’ newspaper staff get a chance to see what other publications are doing as well as share their production experiences with each other.
This time the conference included on-the-spot, mail-in and bring-in competitions in writing, copyediting, photography, layout and illustrations as well as journalism workshops presented by media experts and editorial round tables.
The Rampage received 17 awards this semester.
Jesse Franz, editor-in-chief:
– Bring-in ad, first place
– On-the-spot copy editing, honorable mention
– Mail-in front page layout – tabloid, honorable mention
– Mail-in inside page layout – tabloid, honorable mention
Troy Pope, Opinion and online editor, production co-manager:
– Bring-in ad, first place
– On-the-spot opinion writing, second place
– Mail-in opinion writing, honorable mention
– Mail-in column writing, honorable mention
Ramiro Gudino, production co-manager
– Mail-in student designed advertisement, honorable mention
– Mail-in Information graphic, honorable mention
Austing Verburg, former Rampage art director and online editor
– Mail-in illustration, honorable mention
– Mail-in editorial cartoon, honorable mention
Olga Verkhotina, social media director and copy editor
– On-the-spot news writing, second place
Kaitlin Regan, news editor
– Mail-in editorial writing, second place
Matthew Elliott, Arts and Entertainment editor
– On-the-spot opinion writing, third place
– Mail-in opinion writing, honorable mention
Tomas Kassahun, sports editor and copy chief
– On-the-spot copyediting, honorable mention
