By Daily Press staff
Santa Monica College’s Corsair newspaper won 26 awards, including one for general excellence, for its online edition and several first-place awards in the Journalism Association of Community Colleges’ Southern California competition.
The awards reflect the achievements of the staff under both spring semester editor David Alex Leslie and current editor Nehemiah Slaughter. The faculty advisor is Barbara Baird. The online general excellence award reflected the work of the staff in the spring semester under online editor Jesus “Z” Aguirre.
In the on-the-spot competition (with the current Corsair staff being eligible), first-place awards went to Leopold Geans for sports story; Margaret Molloy for news photo; Nehemiah Slaughter for page design; and Slaughter, Aguirre, Mark Sandstrom and Joshua Hill for team design. Second-, third-and fourth-place awards and honorable mentions went to Hill, Christine del Castillo, Matthew Wilken, Marie Claude Hamel, Deb Holt, Danilo Bukvic and Katie Von Tellrop.
In the mail-in category (spring semester staff), Raul Vasquez won a first-place award for news photo and honorable mention for photo story/essay. Other awards went to Leslie, Hill, del Castillo, Bukvic, Molloy, Ryan Norton, Daniel Harju, Danielle Golfieri, Bruno Marti, Morgan Genser and Maura Lanahan.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on October 31, 2003. Read the original PDF.