Santa Monica College’s Corsair newspaper has won 20 awards, including top honors for general excellence and several first-place awards in the Journalism Association of Community Colleges’ Southern California competition.
The awards reflect achievements of the staff under spring semester editor Sina Araghi and current editor Stephen Hoffman. The faculty advisor is Barbara Baird.
In the mail-in category (from the spring semester staff), first-place awards went to the staff for general excellence and inside page design; Wayne Lawrence for feature photo; Marie King for photo essay; and Roxanne Roy for investigative news story. Second-and third-place awards and honorable mentions went to Lawrence, David Alex Leslie, Daniel Stone, Joan Cimino, Gail Seely and John Luskin.
In the on-the-spot competition (the current Corsair staff), Daniel Stone won a first-place award for editorial cartoon. Other awards went to Alex Quel, Angie Botoulas, Nehemiah Slaughter, Mark Sandstrom, David Alex Leslie, Ryan Cliver and Ellen Lokajaya.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on November 27, 2002. Read the original PDF.