The Advocate (Contra Costa College)

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The Advocate
Type	Weekly student newspaper
Format	Broadsheet

Owner	Contra Costa College
Editor	Justin Morrison
Founded	1950
Price	Free
Headquarters	San Pablo, California United States

Website: www.accentadvocate.com

The Advocate is a student newspaper published at Contra Costa College, a community college in San Pablo, California. The paper is published weekly during the school year and has a circulation of approximately 2,500. An online edition, "AccentAdvocate," is also published. The current editor in chief is Justin Morrison.

1 Tradition of excellence
2 Awards
3 Historical editors in chief
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Tradition of excellence

The Advocate is one of the most honored two-year college newspapers in the United States, having won 11 Associated Collegiate Press National Pacemaker Awards since 1990, nine of those in the last 10 years. The newspaper was inducted into the ACP Hall of Fame in 1996, and has been cited by ACP officials as being one of the best examples of small-college journalism.^[1]

Advocate reporters and photographers cover the campus, which rests halfway in San Pablo and halfway in Richmond in the East Bay Area. The students cover topics ranging from crime on campus, to student profiles, sports and local entertainment. The tradition of The Advocate has always been to chase news stories and focus on the hard news.

[edit] Awards

Associated Collegiate Press National Newspaper Pacemaker Award - 1990, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006
Associated Collegiate Press Best of Show