About Us

The Digital Journalism & Public Relations Program at Moorpark College boasts fully online courses offered in 4, 8, and 12-14 week semesters. Our courses offer training in the top industry fields, with semester offered guest speakers and high networking with the surrounding digital media community.

The Moorpark Reporter is a fully online student news publication, based out of Moorpark College.

As student journalists, we are the voice for college students in the Ventura County Community College District and the surrounding area. We take enormous pride in our award-winning unbiased journalism and photography.

The Moorpark Reporter staff works primarily online through virtual platforms like Slack to coordinate stories. Every Friday at 12 p.m. we meet in our newsroom on campus to plan out our week and gather research on upcoming stories. For those that work fully virtually we run a virtual room for our Friday staff meetings as well!

The Moorpark Reporter is entirely staffed, edited and produced by student journalists enrolled in the Student News Media classes at Moorpark College and guided by faculty adviser Kelsey Stuart.

First year staff writers are recommended to complete the fully online Journalism M02: Digital Media Reporting & Writing course before enrolling in Journalism M10A: Student Staff Writing, it helps to prepare you for field work and reporting skills!

The staff at the Moorpark Reporter attends a professional development conference every semester. These conferences help to enhance our skill sets and pave the way for our future in the digital media career industry.

All digital journalism courses are offered fully online at Moorpark College. Along with our Journalism M10A, B, C, and D courses for the Moorpark Reporter, there is Journalism M01: Intro to Mass Communications, Journalism M05: Visual Communications, Journalism M02: Digital Media Reporting & Writing, Journalism M03: Advanced Reporting, Journalism M14: Digital Public Relations, Journalism M15: Digital Storytelling, and Journalism M16: Social Media. The Digital Media Industry offers a variety of skill set developments, join our team and take your career to the next level!