Journalism Students Do Well at State Conference
There was a first for Fullerton College this weekend as students placed in two on-the-spot multimedia journalism categories at the Journalism Association of Community College’s annual conference in Sacramento. Justine Bernal and Andrea Ramos took fourth place in the Team Feature category. The team was dropped off at Sac State with teams from 40 other colleges and tasked to “find a story” and create an audio slideshow. Stephanie Lara and Nur Sattar teamed up for the conference’s inaugural on-the-spot video journalism competition. They also joined 40 teams at Sac State and were tasked to find a story for video. The team joined five other schools to earn the un-ranked meritorious award as the top teams of the category. The Torch magazine one again received General Excellence in the Publications Awards. Desmond Zamarripa won second and fourth place for magazine photo. Aaron Brown took third in photo essay and Xia Workman took third for magazine opinion article. Alex Juarez of La Antorcha took honorable mention for a profile feature in The Hornet.
