City on a Hill Press

City on a Hill Press

Type	Weekly newspaper
Format	Tabloid
Owner	City on a Hill Press
Founded	1966
Headquarters	Press Center 1156 High Street Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Official website	cityonahillpress.com

City on a Hill Press, originally launched in 1966 as The Fulcrum, is the weekly student newspaper of the University of California, Santa Cruz. Designed as a magazine, the weekly tabloid-sized paper releases new issues every Thursday of the academic quarter, for a total of 30 issues per school year.

The paper reports not only on UCSC campus news, but also on news in the city of Santa Cruz.

Awards

The paper was named the 1986 College Gold Crown Newspaper by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association,^[1] as well as Best All-Around Student Newspaper in 1983 from the Society of Professional Journalists^{[citation needed]}. Editorials and illustrations have also received CSPA awards in the past two decades. Most recently in 2007, the paper received CSPA honors for cover design and page layout.^{[citation needed]}

Alia Wilson (spring 2007 Health/Science editor) and Daniel Zarchy (2008-09 Co-Editor in Chief), were awarded the Katharine M. MacDonald Award for excellence in student journalism by the California State University, Sacramento Center for California Studies and the Sacramento Press Club for their 2006 story^[2] about immigration legislation in California.^[3]

Sam Laird (fall 2006 City reporter, winter 2007 City editor) was awarded The Chronicle of Higher Education's fifth annual David W. Miller Award for Student Journalists for writing and reporting that he did while at City on a Hill Press, as well as a Columbia Scholastic Press Association Certificate of Merit for News Feature Writing for his 2007 story^[4] "The Colorblind Society: Are We There Yet?"^[5][6]

Alumni

Notable alumni include Pulitzer Prize winning journalists Dana Priest^[7] and Martha Mendoza.^[8]

See also

• Fish Rap Live!

References

1. ^ "1986 Collegiate Crown Recipients". Columbia Scholastic Press Association. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cspa/docs/contests-and-critiques/crown-awards/recipients/1986-collegiate-crown.html. Retrieved 2009-01-25. 
2. ^ "Toeing the Line". City on a Hill Press. 2006. http://cityonahillpress.com/toeing_the_line.html. 
3. ^ "California Journalism Awards honor the best in the business". Sacramento State Bulletin. 2007-10-01. http://www.csus.edu/bulletin/bulletin100107/bulletin100107journalism.stm. Retrieved 2009-01-25. 
4. ^ Laird, Sam (2007-01-18). "The Colorblind Society: Are We There Yet?". City on a Hill Press. http://cityonahillpress.com/article.php?id=271. Retrieved 2009-01-25. 
5. ^ Rappaport, Scott (2008-05-08). "Santa Cruz Graduate Wins Student-Journalism Award From The Chronicle". The Chronicle of Higher Education. http://chronicle.com/free/2008/04/2673n.htm. Retrieved 2009-01-25. ^{[dead link]}
6. ^ "UCSC alumnus wins annual student-journalism award from Chronicle of Higher Education". UCSC News/Events. http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=2188. 
7. ^ Zarchy, Daniel (2008-11-13). "Dana Priest: Cleaning Up the Government, One Story at a Time". City on a Hill Press. http://cityonahillpress.com/article.php?id=1437. Retrieved 2009-01-25. 
8. ^ "Writing at UC Santa Cruz". UC Santa Cruz Admissions. http://admissions.ucsc.edu/discover/majors/Writing.cfm. Retrieved 2009-01-25. 

External links

• Official website