The Citrus College Clarion newspaper and Logos Magazine recently won several awards for work published during the 2019–2020 academic year at the Journalism Association of Community Colleges (JACC) regional conference.
The college team competed well against about 20 other community colleges from across Southern California. The Clarion newspaper and the Clarion website both won "General Excellence" recognition; this is the highest overall recognition a publication can receive at the JACC level and encompasses design, photography, writing and more.
Additionally, the college finished with 11 individual awards; nine from work published during the school year and two from on-the-spot contests at the virtual convention.
Publication contest winners:
- Front page layout: Staff, first place
- Photo story essay: Debli Chaves, second place; Andrea Cisneros and Vicman Thome, honorable mention
- Magazine opinion: Liandra Thibodeaux, third place
- Magazine illustration: Liandra Thibodeaux, third place
- Informational graphic: Stephanie Nicosia, third place
- Editorial cartoon: Meg Travis, fourth place
- Photo illustration: Felise Alaichamy, fourth place
- Illustration: Meg Travis, honorable mention
On-the-spot contest winners:
- Copy editing: Alana Daly O'Brien, first place
- Opinion writing: Lucy Argaez, honorable mention
Congrats to the entire Citrus College communication program, including instructors Amber Durfield and Patrick Schmiedt, adjunct adviser Stacy Long, Clarion editor-in-chief Ethan Landa, Logos editor-in-chief Stephanie Nicosia, and all of the students involved with the Clarion and Logos!
This article was originally shared on the official Citrus College Facebook account on Tuesday, November 10, 2020.