The Corsair is a weekly newspaper produced by and for the students of Santa Monica College

Santa Monica College

Santa Monica College is a two-year, public, junior college located in Santa Monica, California.Santa Monica College was first opened in 1929 as Santa Monica Junior College. Current enrollment is over 30,000 students in more than 90 fields of study...

, a two-year community college located in Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, US. Situated on Santa Monica Bay, it is surrounded on three sides by the city of Los Angeles — Pacific Palisades on the northwest, Brentwood on the north, West Los Angeles on the northeast, Mar Vista on the east, and...

. The newspaper began publication in the fall semester of 1929 to provide a media source that focuses on issues concerning the Santa Monica College campus, as well as the surrounding community. As part of the college's academic curriculum, publication of The Corsair also provides experience as a hands-on training vehicle for Southern California journalism

Journalism

Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...

 students.

Operation

The Corsair is currently produced under the guidance of Professor Saul Rubin, but the rest of the newspaper's writing staff consists entirely of students. Its creative and journalistic content is directed by a ten-position editing staff, which assigns stories, edits content, and designs page layouts for both the print and online editions of The Corsair. The majority of the content for the publication is provided by students enrolled in Santa Monica College's Journalism and/or Photography Associate of Arts Degree programs. Furthermore, The Corsair includes written, artistic, and photographic contributions from other sources including students who are not enrolled in these programs, as well as community members and international correspondents.

Publication and production of The Corsair is funded in part through its own advertising revenue. However, since its inception it has relied on generous faculty and alumni contributions and donations for its equipment, facilities, and 4,000-unit weekly distribution.

Photography

The Corsair photography department is headed by Professor Gerard Burkhart. The department provides visual and multimedia

Multimedia

Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...

 content for the newspaper, both in print and online. The photography department is also capable of contributing written content when necessary. Students majoring in Photography and Photojournalism are given assignments in the same way that writers are, and assignments may or may not include an accompanying writer.

Awards

The Corsairs most recent achievements were awarded at the 2010 Journalism Association of Community Colleges Conference, held in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

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External links

• http://www.thecorsaironline.com
• http://www.smc.edu
• http://www.smmirror.com/#mode=single&view=25788
• http://issuu.com/corsairnews