Students edit Viewpoints, Riverside City College's award-winning student newspaper.
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I created a blog, News Must Read, to provide a site for my students to find stories that they should be reading. I will use some of the stories linked from my News Must Read blog to generate current events questions in the pop quizzes and tests in the Journalism 1 and Journalism 7 classes. Here is the link to my blog:
Location:
The Journalism program is located in the Assessment building, which is next to the MLK building. There are two areas in the building, one for Assessment and one for Journalism with separate entrances for each one.
Enrolling in Journalism classes at RCC: I will not add students after the second day of classes for my Journalism 1 and Journalism 7 classes. You would need to attend class on the first and second day of classes to have any chance of adding either class.
As stated in the schedule of classes, in WebAdvisor, and in Viewpoints in print and online, we hold twice-daily mandatory orientations for four days in the first week of the fall and spring semesters for Viewpoints students. If you do not attend one of these orientations, you will not be allowed to enroll in Journalism 20 or Journalism 52 or you will be dropped from the class.
JOIN THE VIEWPOINTS STAFF!
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 on computers with 21-inch monitors.
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 students won 20 awards from the Journalism Association of Community Colleges in the fall 2012 and spring 2013 semesters. All JACC award winners are recruited by universities.
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!
1) Earn three units of academic credit with Journalism 20 or Journalism 52.
2) Get desktop publishing or Internet design experience on computers with 21-inch monitors.
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 students won 20 awards from the Journalism Association of Community Colleges in the fall 2012 and spring 2013 semesters. All JACC award winners are recruited by universities.
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:
Mandatory orientations for Viewpoints students will be held in the Assessment and Journalism Building at Riverside City College on August 27, 28, 29, and 30 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 12:30-1:30 p.m. (attend any one of these meetings).
New and returning students may also attend an optional meeting August 13 at noon to plan Viewpoints' back-to-school issue.
Editing positions are available in news, features, opinion, sports, arts and entertainment, photography, advertising design, advertising management and Internet. Assistant editing positions are available in all sections. Viewpoints also has positions available for copy editors. To apply for an editing position, give to Mr. Lovelace, by the deadline of September 3 at 1 p.m., 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 by September 3 at 1 p.m.
For more information, contact the following Viewpoints advisers:
Allan Lovelace Jim Burns
Allan Lovelace Jim Burns
951-222-8487 951-222-8488
Visit the following websites for more information:
Journalism at Riverside City College
The Journalism program offers an Area of Emphasis in Communication, Media, and Languages. Students in the program take 18 units from a range of related courses, including nine units in Journalism.
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 win many national, state, and regional awards, including:
-More than 300 Journalism Association of Community Colleges individual awards from 1996-2013, twenty-nine JACC General Excellence awards from 1996-2012, JACC state Pacesetter Award, and JACC Best newspaper in Southern California
-California Newspaper Publishers Association Best Writing, 2012
-Associated Collegiate Press national Best of Show Newspaper in 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 national Sports Story of the Year in 2000, five ACP annual All-American awards
-Twenty-eight 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.
Textbooks
Here are the required textbooks for each Journalism class for the fall 2013 semester:
Journalism 1: Reporting for the Media. By Bender and Fedler. Ninth Edition.
ISBN-13: 9780195337433
Journalism 1: The Associated Press Stylebook. 2011 Edition.
ISBN-13: 9780465021871
Journalism 7: Mass Communication - Living in a Media World. By Ralph Hanson. Third edition.
ISBN-13: 9781604266009
Journalism 20: The Associated Press Stylebook. 2011 Edition.
ISBN-13: 9780465021871
Journalism 52: The Associated Press Stylebook. 2011 Edition. ISBN-13: 9780465021871
Consider the following information regarding your textbooks:
1) You must have the Journalism 1 textbook, Reporting for the Media, by the fourth day of classes for the fall and spring semesters.
2) The best way to purchase a textbook is from another RCC student. Put up a flier on the classroom door and the Viewpoints newsroom door on the first day of classes -- or earlier.
3) Do not wait several days after classes begin to attempt to purchase or rent the Journalism 1 textbook, Reporting for the Media, from RCC's bookstore.
4) There is a bookstore that sells textbooks in Riverside. I do not know whether it stocks any of the required Journalism textbooks.
5) Do NOT purchase an older edition. The assigned pages and the assignments will not match, and you will not be able to complete the assignments.
6) Students may NOT share textbooks in the Journalism 1 and Journalism 7 classes, so you must purchase or rent your own textbooks.
7) You may NOT use an e-book for the Journalism 1 or Journalism 7 classes.
8) You could attempt to purchase or rent the Journalism 1 textbook, Reporting for the Media, online, but you must use overnight or two-day delivery and you must order the textbook on the first day of classes -- or earlier. By ordering online, you would be taking the risk that your Reporting for the Media textbook may not arrive by the fourth day of classes and that you would get a zero grade for any missed assignments.
9) You can save a lot of money by buying used textbooks. For the Journalism 1 class, however, you must make sure that all of the pages with assignments are in the Reporting for the Media textbook. If any of the assignment pages are missing, you must return the textbook and get another one prior to the fourth day of classes.
Here are some websites that sell and/or rent textbooks (I have not checked any of them, however, for reliability or reputation):
www.bn.com
www.amazon.com
www.half.com
www.chegg.com
www.alibris.com
www.textbooksrus.com
www.abebooks.com
www.biblio.com
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