Click here to see a video of the winning photographs from the 2017 Photo Salon at Pierce College.

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Four Pierce College Media Arts students have qualified for the national SkillsUSA competition after winning their categories at the state conference in San Diego this weekend. Christian Cheock and DeShawn Cavanaugh won gold in television (video) production, and Mohammad Djauhari and Tanya Castaneda won gold for audio/radio production. Taylor Arthur won silver for photography. To advance to the state level, the students had to receive qualifying scores at a regional competition in Los Angeles. The Pierce College students arrived in San Diego at the conference on Thursday with the competition...

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Pierce College Media Arts students received recognition at the Journalism Association of Community Colleges state convention in Sacramento last weekend. Two Pierce students received honorable mention in "on-the-spot" contests held at the convention — Victor Rodriguez for opinion writing and Sebastian Cornejo for news photo. In the mail-in competition, The Roundup newspaper and The Bull Magazine won for general excellence. David Hawkins received third place for magazine photo, Calvin B. Alagot won third place for newspaper feature photo, and the Roundup staff received...

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Pierce College Media Arts students won a dozen awards this week for the student-run magazine and newspaper at the California College Media Awards contest. The Bull Magazine staff won second place for best magazine website and honorable mention for best magazine. The Roundup staff won third place for best editorial. There were also nine individual awards, including Alan Castro winning first place for magazine photo. These are the winners from Pierce College: 2nd place Best Magazine Website: The Bull Magazine staff Best Magazine Photo, 1st place: Alan Castro Best Magazine Page/Spread Design,...

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Five Pierce College Media Arts students advanced to the state round of the SkillsUSA competition. Pierce College competed in Region 3, which includes colleges in Los Angeles and Ventura counties. Taylor Arthur won gold for photography. Mohammad Djauhari and Tanya Castaneda won gold as a team for radio. The team of Christian Cheock and DeShawn Cavanaugh won silver for video production. The event was held Saturday at Los Angeles Trade Technical College in downtown Los Angeles. The state competition will take place April 20-23 in San Diego.

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The Pierce College Media Arts Department's two student publications won first-place awards in a national journalism competition. The Bull won for best school magazine and The Roundup won for best school newspaper in the 2016 American Scholastic Press Association competitions. A judge for the newspaper contest wrote about The Roundup: "You have an excellent school newspaper, which shows creativity and journalistic knowledge of your editors, reporters, writers, photographers, layout/graphics designers and advisor."

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  Pierce College students took home numerous awards from the Journalism Association of Community Colleges (JACC) Southern California regional conference Oct. 29, 2016 at Cerritos College. Congratulations to the 2016 winners from Pierce College: 1st place, news photo: Calvin Alagot 4th and 3rd place, editorial - Roundup staff Honorable mention, news: Max Sullivan Honorable mention, magazine profile: Ethan Roman Honorable mention, magazine profile: Skylar Lester 1st place, magazine news feature: Heni Abassi 4th place, video journalism: Mohammad Djuahari and Shir Nakash 4th...

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  Pierce College’s Roundup newspaper, The Bull Magazine, and KPCRadio.com --the publications of the Pierce Media Arts Department--earned 12 awards at the Journalism Association of Community Colleges’ 2015 State...

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  Triple crown honors went the Pierce College Media Arts Department at this year’s Journalism Association of Community Colleges SoCal conference, held at CSU Fullerton Oct. 17-18. The Roundup weekly print newspaper, the semi-annual BULL magazine and the college’s Online Journalism operations earned General Excellence recognition—the conference’s highest honor. The two-day event brought hundreds of community college students to compete and attend workshops. In addition to General Excellence honors, Pierce students won 22 individual awards. They represented work done...

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The Roundup newspaper, the student-run campus publication for Pierce College, has won a first place award from the American Scholastic Press Association. The American Scholastic Press Association (ASPA), which is open to campus newspapers across the country, wrote that the Roundup is an “excellent” school newspaper, “which shows the creativity and journalistic knowledge of your editors, reporters, writers, photographers, layout/graphics designers and advisor.” The ASPA’s recognition is for the Roundup’s fall 2013 semester, when Calvin Alagot was the editor in chief. Alagot served...

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