By Daily Press staff
Santa Monica College’s Corsair newspaper won 22 awards, including first-place honors for photo story/essay, in the Journalism Association of Community Colleges’ statewide competition held in Sacramento.
The awards reflect achievements of the staff under fall semester editor Komfort Akyempon — who also won a $100 scholarship from JACC — and current editor Maliha Jafri. The faculty advisor is Barbara Baird.
Capturing a first place award was Randal Nachenberg for his photo story/essay on the “Body Worlds” exhibit at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles.
Also in the mail-in portion of the competition (from the fall semester Corsair staff), second-, third-and fourth-place awards and honorable mentions went to Andi Liu, Morgan Genser, Akyempon, Nehemiah Slaughter, Chad K. Uyeno, Jonpaul Balak, Margaret Molloy, Ryan Duncan, Alejandro Arpiza, Fernando Aguirre, Jesus “Z” Aguirre, Josef A. Hern and Brandie Harris.
Capturing second-and third-place honors and honorable mentions in the on-the-spot competition were Jafri, Gathering Marbet, Marcia Brito, Uyeno, Balak, Geoffrey Dunn, Genser, Alex Distefano and Cam Sanders.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 24, 2005. Read the original PDF.