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# Santa Monica College's Corsair wins 18 awards at statewide journalism competition
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/042706-story-20060427/
- Published: 2006-04-27T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T17:40:04.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Education, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

Santa Monica College’s Corsair newspaper won 18 awards, including six first-place honors, in the Journalism Association of Community Colleges’ statewide competition, held in Los Angeles.

The awards reflect achievements of the staff under fall semester editor Aaron Howell and current editor Jeremy Meyer, who also won an editor recognition award. The faculty advisor is Barbara Baird.

Capturing first-place awards in the mail-in category, reflecting the work of the fall 2005 Corsair staff, were Peter Switzer for photo story/essay; Theo Encarnado, news photo; Chad K. Uyeno, sports action photo; and Ajmal Noorzayee, sports profile story.

First-place honors in the live competition, in which the current staff participated, went to Lauren Ciancimino for front-page design and Kyosti Kauppinen for news photo.

Also in the mail-in portion of the competition second-, third-and fourth-place awards and honorable mentions went to Michael Hernandez, Kauppinen, Geoffrey Dunn, Morgan Genser, Uyeno, Nouri Abou Rass, Jacqui Grennan and Jessica Haroonian.

Capturing a second-place honor in the live competition was Sam Tenney. In addition, Gerard Burkhart, photojournalism professor, won the Faculty Volunteer Award. Buerge to host YMCA golf charity

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 27, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/042706.pdf?ref=smdp.com)