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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:

Orientations for Viewpoints students are held during the first week of classes in the fall and spring semesters. Visit Viewpoints' new newsroom in the Digital Library's Room 106 for more information.

Viewpoints needs writers, editors, photographers, cartoonists, and combinations thereof. Students may sign up for Journalism 20 for writing and photography.

Editing positions are available in news, features, opinion, sports, arts and entertainment, photography, internet, advertising design and advertising management. Assistant editing positions are available in all sections. Viewpoints also has positions available for copy editors. To apply for an editing position, give to Matt Schoenmann a signed and dated letter that identifies the editing position sought, an alternative position (optional), your experience and your goals for Viewpoints and your career. Optional materials may include a resume, published clips or writing samples, transcripts and letters of recommendation. Student editors must enroll in Journalism 52.

www.viewpointsonline.org

Staff:

Viewpoints adviser
4800 Magnolia Avenue
Riverside City College
Riverside, CA 92506  
Office telephone: 951-222-8487

Matt Schoenmann, Viewpoints part-time adviser
Office telephone: 951-222-8488
 
Viewpoints editor-in-chief
Telephone: 951-222-8495

Viewpoints advertising manager
Telephone: 951-222-8488

Viewpoints newsroom
Telephone: 951-222-8488

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






Journalism at RCC