About The VOICE
The College VOICE is the award-winning student newspaper of Mercer County Community College in New Jersey. Founded in 1968 the paper shifted to a digital-first format starting in the spring of 2023. The VOICE is published online monthly with a print digest published at the end of each semester. The print run consists of 750 copies distributed at more than 40 locations on the college’s Trenton and West Windsor campuses. The online edition averages 200 individual page reads per day and more than 3,000 reads per month.
After lying dormant for more than four years, The VOICE was revived by faculty adviser and journalism professor Holly Johnson, in the spring of 2008. In the past 15 years, The VOICE has won numerous awards from the New Jersey Press Association, the Associated Collegiate Press, the College Media Association, and the Society of Professional Journalists. It is one of the highest-rated and most award-winning two-year college newspapers in the nation.
The VOICE has an Editorial Board consisting of 4-8 student editors. Although staff sizes fluctuate from semester to semester, each issue showcases the work of ten to twenty student journalists. Past editors-in-chief of The VOICE have transferred to many prestigious colleges including Princeton, Columbia, Rutgers, CUNY Baruch, Hampshire College, Rider, Emerson College, the University of Texas at Austin, Montclair, and The College of New Jersey.
VOICE alumni currently work for The New York Times, The Boston Globe, NBC News, Sports Illustrated, ESPN and numerous other national and local media outlets.
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Click here to visit the VOICE’s alumni homepage.
About MCCC
Mercer County Community College is located in central New Jersey, with two campuses, one in downtown Trenton and one in West Windsor. The college has a fluctuating enrollment of roughly 5,000 to 8,000 full and part-time students. More than 60 different degree programs are offered including Journalism & New Media.
About the Readership
The average age of an MCCC student is 25 with 52% of the student body being female. Minorities make up 40% of the student body. In a survey conducted by Alloy Media of 1,200 college students at 550 universities, college newspaper readership continues to be strong. Over three-quarters (76%) of college students and faculty (76%) have read their college newspaper in the last month, with 73% saying they look at the ads. Pass-along rates are also strong with an average of 3.2 students sharing an issue.