The Clarion wants to acknowledge the feedback we’ve received toward our recent editions. We appreciate our readers’ concerns and comments. As Managing Editor, I want to first and foremost inform our readers of our purpose. Our handbook states that the Clarion “provides a community forum for students, faculty and staff; chronicles campus life; provides real-life training for students pursuing a career in journalism, graphic design, marketing/sales, computer technology, and photography; and serves as a watchdog preserving the high integrity of Sinclair.”
Keep in mind that the Clarion is essentially a learning lab. The Clarion staff are all students producing a weekly campus newspaper, while learning how to work in a newsroom, along with taking Sinclair courses. However, we all are ultimately focused on producing a campus newspaper that shows ethical and unbiased reporting.
The Clarion’s Mission Statement:
•The Clarion is dedicated to the cause of communication and is designed to be a designated public forum for Sinclair Community College.
•The Clarion strives to remain a high quality newspaper that communicates news of interest and significance to the students, faculty and staff at Sinclair Community College and serves as an open forum for the exchange of opinions within the college.
•The Clarion provides practical experience for students interested in journalism (reporting, editing, online, copy editor, photography), business (advertising, accounting, marketing), graphic design (layout, cartoons, print), and web support/design.
•The Clarion fosters student leadership skills through promotion to editorial and managerial positions and opportunities to attend seminars and workshops.
•The Clarion follows the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics and the ACP Code of Ethics.
The Clarion’s opinion page provides an outlet for students to discuss their opinions through its Letters to the Editor. We make every effort to publish all Letters to the Editor. With that said, we acknowledge that a lot of readers have been displeased with some of the recent Letters to the Editor we have published. I can say this was an editorial decision, however, we want to let you know we have listened to your feedback, and we will use this to inform future editorial decisions. We want to express the Letters to the Editor are not the reflections and opinions of the Clarion staff.
We encourage all of our readers to write us at clarion@sinclair.edu so that we can better perform our function as our public forum for the Sinclair community. We also encourage you to fill out our readership surveys so that we can cover events and give you the information you want and need. We greatly appreciate all of your support for the Clarion, and we ask that you continue to send Letters to the Editor so we can continue to grow and learn from our reader’s feedback.
Thank you.
Gabrielle Sharp
Managing Editor