Students edit Viewpoints, Riverside City College's award-winning student newspaper.
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Join Viewpoints:
It’s a combination hard to beat:
1) Earn three units of academic credit with Journalism 20 or Journalism 52.
2) Get desktop publishing or Internet design experience.
3) Build a portfolio of your work published with your byline. A portfolio of published work is essential to get a summer internship or full-time media job.
4) Get writing and editing experience covering interesting and exciting events.
5) Win awards. Viewpoints has won hundreds of national, state and regional awards.
6) Make money selling ads.
7) Learn how a newspaper works in print and online.
8) Become part of a team dedicated to public service and make a difference.
9) Have fun!
How to join:
It’s a combination hard to beat:
1) Earn three units of academic credit with Journalism 20 or Journalism 52.
2) Get desktop publishing or Internet design experience.
3) Build a portfolio of your work published with your byline. A portfolio of published work is essential to get a summer internship or full-time media job.
4) Get writing and editing experience covering interesting and exciting events.
5) Win awards. Viewpoints has won hundreds of national, state and regional awards.
6) Make money selling ads.
7) Learn how a newspaper works in print and online.
8) Become part of a team dedicated to public service and make a difference.
9) Have fun!
How to join:
Visit Viewpoints' newsroom in the Digital Library's Room 106 for more information.
www.viewpointsonline.org
Staff:
Viewpoints adviser
4800 Magnolia Avenue
Riverside City College
Riverside, CA 92506
Office telephone: 951-222-8487
Viewpoints editor-in-chief
Telephone: 951-222-8495
Viewpoints advertising manager
Telephone: 951-222-8488
Viewpoints newsroom
Telephone: 951-222-8488
Journalism at RCC loses Viewpoints adviser
The Journalism program was hit with the sad news that faculty adviser and specialist Matt Schoenmann died March 13, 2025.
We've lost a great one in Matt Schoenmann. He was a trusted colleague, an inspiring mentor for Viewpoints students, and a highly valued faculty and staff member in the Journalism program.
Matt worked very hard on behalf of the students and the newspaper. He was always on call for students who needed help with a story or technology such as a camera or audio gear.
Whenever faculty members or administrators complimented me for Viewpoints' awards, I would always let them know that a lot of the newspaper's success was due to Matt's hard work. And Viewpoints students counted on Matt's help, which he always readily provided.
Matt and I shared almost exactly the same musical interests. While my concert-going days are long in the past, Matt attended so many awesome concerts that I called him the "god of concerts." He saw Neil Young and the Grateful Dead live in concert. So cool!
And we shared the same political leanings. I'll never forget when, after my retirement, Matt described a rude extremist, and he said, "You can't make this stuff up."
But of course the one thing we shared the most in common was our passionate belief in the importance of journalism, especially for students. Matt often pointed out, however, that he did not like the words "student journalists" used together. We agreed that students are journalists just like any others in the news media, as they often make a difference with their important reporting.
I looked forward to going to work every day, in part, because I knew that Matt would be in the newsroom. I missed that after I retired in 2020, but we still communicated regularly.
We'll never be able to work with or hang out with Matt again, or laugh when he would share his easygoing sense of humor, but what we have are the memories and the knowledge that we are better people for having known him. He enriched our lives in many ways and the world is a better place because of his impact.
What we can do now is honor Matt's life by trying to live up to the example he set in being a good journalist, colleague, leader, friend, and person.
Journalism at Riverside City College:
The Journalism program offers an Associate Degree in Journalism as well as an Area of Emphasis in Communication, Media, and Languages.
Students in the Journalism program at Riverside City College employ ethical principles and practical skills when they present their work to the public in print and online. Students are encouraged to serve the public in their journalism work, and they excel in storytelling with text, digital photos and online videos in their newspaper and website.
The Journalism program has a strong track record of success. Students in the program receive many national, state, and regional awards, including:
-More than 300 Journalism Association of Community Colleges individual awards from 1996-2021, 39 JACC General Excellence awards from 1996-2021, JACC state Pacesetter Award, and JACC Best newspaper in Southern California.
-Associated Collegiate Press national Best of Show Newspaper in 2021, 2019, 2015, 2011 and 2004; ACP national Multimedia Story of the Year in 2009; ACP national Pacemaker awards in 2005 and 2004; ACP national Opinions Story of the Year in 2003; ACP first place national Sports Story of the Year in 2000; five ACP annual All-American awards.
-Four awards from the California College Media Association.
-California Newspaper Publishers Association Best Writing.
-Fifty-two Society of Professional Journalists awards.
-Three Los Angeles Times College Newspaper Overall Excellence awards.
The Journalism program, which has served students and the college community with a newspaper since 1922, has kept pace with the changes in media occurring nationwide. While the program continues to offer a print newspaper, it has added a website, Viewpoints Online, and other sites such as a special national and state elections website that won a prestigious national multimedia award in 2009 in competition with university student media. For more information, visit the following website:
Viewpoints online edition: http://www.viewpointsonline.org
Graduates of the program are prepared to transfer to universities and to work in a variety of media and affiliated fields. They can write text stories and video scripts, work as part of a multimedia team, design print and online media, and put their critical thinking skills to use in their media work.
RCC Library hosts reception for student news media exhibit:
The exhibit, “RCC Student Journalism: A Century of Excellence,” was displayed in the Library at Riverside City College.
Attending the reception in April were student journalists and faculty advisers from the 1970s to 2016.
The reception’s guest speaker was Jim Alexander, who was a student editor with the newspaper in the 1970s and is now a sports columnist with The Press-Enterprise.
Jane Edelman, whose father, Robert Patton, was the newspaper’s faculty adviser in the 1930s through the 1950s, created the exhibit with Allan Lovelace, Viewpoints’ faculty adviser (now retired).
The reception was a wonderful opportunity to meet former students and faculty advisers and to hear their stories about what it was like to work with the student newspaper when they were here at RCC.
The first RCC student newspaper was published in 1922. Before then, RCC students wrote news stories about the college in 1917 and published them in the Poly high school newspaper.
Photos of the reception:
https://www.facebook.com/RiversideCityCollege/photos/a.203521233754.163898.113469188754/10154238985108755/?type=3&theater
More photos:
https://twitter.com/RCCViewpoints/status/723665608345165824
The Journalism program offers an Associate Degree in Journalism as well as an Area of Emphasis in Communication, Media, and Languages.
Students in the Journalism program at Riverside City College employ ethical principles and practical skills when they present their work to the public in print and online. Students are encouraged to serve the public in their journalism work, and they excel in storytelling with text, digital photos and online videos in their newspaper and website.
The Journalism program has a strong track record of success. Students in the program receive many national, state, and regional awards, including:
-More than 300 Journalism Association of Community Colleges individual awards from 1996-2021, 39 JACC General Excellence awards from 1996-2021, JACC state Pacesetter Award, and JACC Best newspaper in Southern California.
-Associated Collegiate Press national Best of Show Newspaper in 2021, 2019, 2015, 2011 and 2004; ACP national Multimedia Story of the Year in 2009; ACP national Pacemaker awards in 2005 and 2004; ACP national Opinions Story of the Year in 2003; ACP first place national Sports Story of the Year in 2000; five ACP annual All-American awards.
-Four awards from the California College Media Association.
-California Newspaper Publishers Association Best Writing.
-Fifty-two Society of Professional Journalists awards.
-Three Los Angeles Times College Newspaper Overall Excellence awards.
The Journalism program, which has served students and the college community with a newspaper since 1922, has kept pace with the changes in media occurring nationwide. While the program continues to offer a print newspaper, it has added a website, Viewpoints Online, and other sites such as a special national and state elections website that won a prestigious national multimedia award in 2009 in competition with university student media. For more information, visit the following website:
Viewpoints online edition: http://www.viewpointsonline.org
Graduates of the program are prepared to transfer to universities and to work in a variety of media and affiliated fields. They can write text stories and video scripts, work as part of a multimedia team, design print and online media, and put their critical thinking skills to use in their media work.
RCC Library hosts reception for student news media exhibit:
The exhibit, “RCC Student Journalism: A Century of Excellence,” was displayed in the Library at Riverside City College.
Attending the reception in April were student journalists and faculty advisers from the 1970s to 2016.
The reception’s guest speaker was Jim Alexander, who was a student editor with the newspaper in the 1970s and is now a sports columnist with The Press-Enterprise.
Jane Edelman, whose father, Robert Patton, was the newspaper’s faculty adviser in the 1930s through the 1950s, created the exhibit with Allan Lovelace, Viewpoints’ faculty adviser (now retired).
The reception was a wonderful opportunity to meet former students and faculty advisers and to hear their stories about what it was like to work with the student newspaper when they were here at RCC.
The first RCC student newspaper was published in 1922. Before then, RCC students wrote news stories about the college in 1917 and published them in the Poly high school newspaper.
Photos of the reception:
https://www.facebook.com/RiversideCityCollege/photos/a.203521233754.163898.113469188754/10154238985108755/?type=3&theater
More photos:
https://twitter.com/RCCViewpoints/status/723665608345165824
Viewpoints faculty, staff and students at their annual Journalism Wall of Fame awards ceremony. From left: Faculty advisers and staff Allan Lovelace, Matt Schoenmann and Jim Burns with student award winners.
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