Managing editor Sara Leon and staff writer Damonya Jones debut Hornet News, The Hornet’s new weekly newscast featuring one of our top stories. In this episode, Leon and Jones report on the newly proposed anti-racist mission statement and how the NOCCCD Board of Trustees declined to vote on it.
Hornet News: Mission Statement Revision
April 17, 2023
About the Contributor
Sara Leon, Managing Editor
Sara Leon is the Managing Editor for The Hornet and has been on the newspaper for four semesters. She is a four-time award winning journalist. Sara has won second place in ACP Best of Show- Broadcast Feature Story and fourth place in Critical Review from JACC for her review and corresponding video of the indie film "Nowhere." She also has earned honorable mention awards from JACC for Profile Feature Story covering a 12-year old student at Fullerton College and Audio Podcast as the producer of Around the Hornet. While Managing Editor in Spring 2023, The Hornet finished seventh place in ACP Best of Show for Website, 2-year campus and received recognition for General Excellence: Online News Site from JACC. From 2023-2024, Sara was also the JACC Student Representative for all community college journalism students in Southern California that are memebers of JACC. Sara enjoys exploring, watching scary movies, and learning about new things. Her end goal in the journalism field is to become a news anchor for ABC Eyewitness News.