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El Paisano Shines at SoCal JACC Conference
Tuesday October 17, 2017
Volume 55 Issue 7
The majority of the El Paisano staff that went to JACC are in their first semester of newspaper production. Advisor Wendy Carrera is hoping they AARON MARTINEZ/EL PAISANO NEWS learned from the experience.
RAMON ALVARADO Editor-in-Chief
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The El Paisano staff attended the Journalism Association of Community Colleges’ (JACC) Southern California Conference on Oct. 14 at Cal State Fullerton. Placing in on-the-spot and
mail-in contests, El Paisano came away with a total of nine awards that Saturday evening. Journalism students from all around southern California flooded into Cal State Fullerton’s student union building to attend workshops, listen to keynote speakers and compete in on-the-spot
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competitions. The JACC event kicked off with keynote speaker Walter Baranger. Baranger had spent more than 40 years with the New York Times. His speech was the topic of the event’s News Writing and Opinion El Paisano’s Editor-in-Chief, Ramon Alvarado was awarded third place
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in the News Writing competition while News Editor Noah Garcia’s Opinion piece won first place. Alvarado also picked up an honorable mention in the JACC Critical Review competition. Former editor-in-chief Diego Crespo received a fourth place award in Illustration for one of his pieces of
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work from last semester. Photographer Aaron Martinez picked up third place in Magazine Cover Design and first place in Student Designed Ad. La Cima, El Paisano’s magazine, was awarded second place in Magazine Design/Layout for their work Continued on page 4
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