Pinnacle Newspaper 2024
The student newspaper has become a district newspaper, that has a partnership with two campuses-Fort Steilacoom and Puyallup.
The student newspaper has become a district newspaper, that has a partnership with two campuses-Fort Steilacoom and Puyallup.
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WELCOME<br />
THE PINNACLE EST. <strong>2024</strong><br />
Carpe Diem!<br />
Letter from the Manager<br />
As we move forward with this first publication in almost<br />
four years for the student newspaper, I look back on the<br />
experiences that have happened to make this a reality and<br />
cannot believe how far we have come on this road to relaunching.<br />
The student newspaper began on The Fort Steilacoom<br />
campus seven years after the college was founded<br />
in 1967. The college was only 7 years running, when it<br />
decided they needed a newspaper-The Pioneer. In 1994<br />
the Post newspaper was launch at the Puyallup Campus.<br />
The founding members of the college realized how critical<br />
it was for students voices to be heard on campus.<br />
Student voice runs deep in the threads of student life on<br />
both campuses. As soon as I was hired, I had no idea the<br />
huge task that was set before me. I knew I would be in<br />
charge of relaunching the student newspaper, but what I<br />
didn’t know was how different the path would be for the<br />
new paper. That instead of two papers, we were going to<br />
launch a district paper. To add to this, we had new structures<br />
for student jobs, newspaper content and the fact that<br />
the paper was going into a new direction-an online interactive<br />
platform. During COVID many college newspapers<br />
survived by no longer publishing printed papers, but by<br />
going 100% digital.<br />
The student newspaper at Pierce College had many new<br />
challenges that it faced, as we tried to rise from the ashes<br />
from the previous structure. I faced an unknown new<br />
student team, that if this team didn’t work well with each<br />
other, the relaunch could be short lived. A new joy to this<br />
job was how amazing, artistic and wonderful the new team<br />
turned out to be, which without this, the paper would not<br />
have made it to the relaunch.<br />
On top of all of this, the student newspaper moved to<br />
a different team structure on campus as well, The Office<br />
of Student Life, now we work as a team with two new<br />
directors-Joey Adams at Fort Steilacoom and Aki Smith at<br />
Puyallup, whose support was critical to our success.<br />
The wealth of knowledge and support the student paper<br />
has received from the OSL was vital in the papers come<br />
back. I would also like to thank all of the faculty, staff and<br />
students that have helped us work on and create this inaugural<br />
publication. -by Laura Taylor<br />
STAFF<br />
Puyallup-POST<br />
Editor-In-Chief<br />
Treva Adkins<br />
Graphic Designer<br />
Grace Corrales<br />
Student Media Coordinator<br />
Kyla Reese<br />
Writer/Photographer<br />
Jackson Park<br />
Fort Steilacoom-Pioneer<br />
Editor-In-Chief<br />
Dennis Freire<br />
Graphic Designer<br />
Le Pham<br />
Writer/Photographer<br />
Ruby Garcia<br />
Writer/Photographer<br />
Sean Pule<br />
Letters to The Editor-<br />
Have an opinion on our<br />
publication<br />
events, or policy?<br />
email-<br />
TAdkins@pierce.ctc.edu<br />
DFreire@pierce.ctc.edu<br />
Cover Art-<br />
Hand drawn by our amazing on<br />
staff artist Grace Corrales<br />
Thank you to everyone that<br />
contributed to making this<br />
publication a success!<br />
Mission Statement<br />
To accurately publish news<br />
that focuses on student voice<br />
that informs Pierce College on<br />
events of interest, relevance<br />
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