American River College wins four awards at JACC

The Current receives awards remotely

Brandon Zamora, Sports Editor|April 28, 2020

The American River College Current takes a group photo with their awards during the Northern California Journalism Association of Community Colleges (JACC) at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, Calif. on Nov. 3, 2018. Due to the coronavirus, the conference was cancelled, but JACC released the write-in winners on their website. The Current won three awards including general excellence. (Photo Courtesy of Jennah Booth)

The American River College Current takes a group photo with their awards during the Northern California Journalism Association of Community Colleges (JACC) at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, Calif. on Nov. 3, 2018. Due to the coronavirus, the conference was cancelled, but JACC released the write-in winners on their website. The Current won three awards including general excellence. (Photo Courtesy of Jennah Booth)

The Journalism Association of Community Colleges (JACC) awarded American River College’s newspaper publication, the Current, with three awards and one honorable mention. Even though the organization’s annual state conference was cancelled this year due to COVID-19, the awards were given out virtually on April 8. Usually, community colleges in California submit photos and articles from the previous year and the winners are announced at an award ceremony following the conference. JACC also hosts on-the-spot contests during the conference.

The editorial staff won General Excellence for the print edition. The Current also won for Online Photo Story/Essay in Multimedia, which was received by Ashley Hayes-Stone, the publication’s former photo and multimedia editor and current student worker.

The Current also took first place in newspaper writing and Patrick Hyun Wilson, former arts and culture editor for the Current, received an honorable mention for a feature story.