Journalism Newsroom
Welcome to the hub of journalistic excellence at Diablo Valley College! The Inquirer newsroom is a dynamic space where aspiring reporters, writers, editors, artists, and digital media storytellers converge. They explore, investigate, and produce compelling narratives that inform and inspire our diverse college community.
Check out the Journalism Newsroom in person!
Behind the Scenes
Develop your career skills while working in the Newsroom.
Tell stories that matter
As a news reporter and writer, your job is to shine a light on topics of importance and relevance to the greater campus community, elevating voices and exposing truths.
Publish your writing
This is the first step in building a portfolio that can burnish your skills as a writer and help you find opportunities for jobs, internships and 4-year universities.
Communicate and engage
Being a journalist means getting comfortable communicating with people from diverse backgrounds and building a network of reliable sources.
Develop your voice
As a reporter and writer of news and feature articles, you’ll gain terrific experience learning to write clearly and harness the power of your unique voice.
Investigate and explore
Interviewing people is a core role of the journalist, and so is independent online research and investigation — skills that are applicable in many industries.
Edit like a champ
Good writing requires good editing, and in your role at The Inquirer you’ll learn to grow from the editing process while also helping improve other people’s work.
Experiment in new genres
Whether you want to write news, features, opinion, sports or other journalism genres, you can try it all. You can also work across a variety of media, from illustration and podcasting to video, social media and other digital spaces.
Work on a great team
Every writer enjoys seeing their name in print, but the real excitement of working on a newspaper is the teamwork and camaraderie involved in producing the publication.
Did you know?
- The Inquirer is as old as DVC and is celebrating its 75th anniversary of print production.
- As more newspapers close and move to digital, The Inquirer has become a vibrant source of news covering the Contra Costa community in print and online.
- After every semester, reporters and writers from The Inquirer are honored with statewide awards from the Journalism Association of Community Colleges (JACC).
- Bay Area media outlets—from TV to radio, print and online—regularly seek to hire interns and employees from our campus newsroom.
Visit the Journalism Newsroom
The Journalism Newsroom is inside the Advanced Technology Center (ATC-103) on the southwest corner of the Pleasant Hill campus, between parking lots 4 and 5. The best place to park is lot 4, on the corner of Stubbs Road and Viking Drive.
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