The Student Voice and media students put in their best effort to create the StudentVoiceonAir, a radio podcast that collaborates between the college’s radio station and student publication.

The discussions from these podcasts vary and cover the new events happening on-campus, whether in student life, sports or news. The StudentVoiceonAir was first released on April 17, 2016 by the collaboration of Jason Beaton and Joanna Miller.

Beaton, radio and audio faculty, has been involved with the radio industry for over 25 years and intended for these podcasts to show and exhibit his students’ work.

“The reaction from the students so far have all been positive,” said Beaton. “They’re really excited about the radio, audio, and being able to showcase their talents.”

Beaton’s cooperation with the Student Voice was easy, as expected.

“I’ve always been a strong supporter of journalism because broadcasters need journalism experience so they know how to write properly for the media,” said Beaton.

Joanna Miller, professor in the journalism program, agreed with the idea of collaborating the Student Voice staff with the radio department.

“When you listen to StudentVoiceonAir, you’ll hear that it’s a radio show,” Miller said. “It’s one of the many shows that they’re now featuring on air and they’re still building.”

According to Miller, Beaton wanted something comparable to TMZ, a celebrity news and gossip show.

“Beaton wanted real news from Student Voice students who knew how to do news on the radio doing a news show,” said Miller. “But he wanted it more casual than just broadcast style, not standing and reading it.”

Jessica Frantzides, broadcast editor for the Student Voice, said the podcast differs from the newspaper by offering the same information in a more dynamic format.

Since the start of the podcasts, Frantzides has taken two to three journalism students to the Communications Building to record the weekly StudentVoiceonAir.

“The podcast is set up as a round-table discussion layout, giving the ‘talent,’ as we call them, the opportunity to discuss the stories as opposed to just writing out the facts,” said Frantzides. “It also offers live interviews with people of interest and opinion based discussion on current/ popular topics.”

Steven Suarez, a 21-year-old communications major, is a former writer for the Student Voice and moderates for the StudentVoiceonAir.

His interest for the radio station gave him an opportunity to experiment a medium that most students do not have the means of doing themselves, said Suarez.

“It’s a foot in the door to the world of radio and allows us to really see if this is something we might be interested without spending thousands of dollars on equipment,” said Suarez. “It’s both fun and educational.”

Suarez is positive that the collaboration between the radio station and the Student Voice will succeed in informing and entertaining the campus.

“This collaboration podcast is very new and has a few kinks that still need to be worked out, but every week it gets better and better and it’s the start of a lasting and educational piece of 101.5 KMCJ Moorpark College Jams,” said Suarez.