Journalism
Every student in CCC’s journalism program gets hands-on experience at our student-run weekly newspaper, The Advocate, and its web companion, cccadvocate.com. So when you’re a journalism student at CCC, you work in a real newsroom, where students cover events, take photos, write and edit stories, manage social media, create audio and video content for the website and do everything else that other news outlets do.
Back in the classroom, you’ll be taught by a Pulitzer-finalist adviser, who will help you learn how to manage the legal, creative, editorial and ethical challenges that journalists face every day.
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CCC journalism alum have gone on to do Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage; work for major newspapers like The Washington Post, Richmond (Virginia) Times-Dispatch and Las Vegas Review-Journal; serve as President of the USA Today Sports Media Group; become press secretary for the Governor of Oregon; some have even become Editors-in-Chief of PCWorld and MacWorld magazines.
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CCC’s student paper, The Advocate— recognized as the most-awarded two-year media outlet in Associated Collegiate Press history.
In celebration of its 100th anniversary, the ACP calculated the 100 most-winning competitors for its top honors, the Pacemaker awards—recognizing the finest in American college newspapers, magazines, broadcasts, websites and yearbooks. Over the organization’s 100-year history, there have been 1,450 finalists in competition.
Two CCC grads were integral to a recent Pulitzer Prize win for Breaking News by the East Bay Times for their outstanding coverage of the Ghost Ship fire tragedy.
Craig Lazzeretti, the East Bay Times metro editor, lead the coverage. Craig is a Pinole Valley High School grad (1988) who was an Advocate associate editor from 1988-90. He graduated from SF State in 1993.
David DeBolt, an East Bay Times reporter had at least five by-lines among the articles entered for the Prize. David is a Will C. Wood grad (2003) who was Advocate Editor-in-Chief from 2005-06.
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