The City College Press Club serves as a resource for journalism students by providing them opportunities to participate in club sponsored media career days, guest lectures by media professionals, field trips to journalism conferences, and social events. This is a student run organization with a faculty adviser. Membership is open to all students in the Department of Journalism, most of whom come from the staff of the campus newspaper The Guardsman and the campus magazine etc. Since 1955, the Journalism Association of Community Colleges has linked community college journalism programs by serving as a clearinghouse of ideas, a student and faculty conference provider, and a standards setter. JACC is dedicated to the improvement of journalism education.
Membership is by the college program.
California and Arizona community college journalism programs can join by paying dues each year. Four year journalism programs and other journalism associations with legitimate interests can also join as associate members. Not all community colleges have journalism programs. Membership in JACC represents most of those who do. Membership runs between 60 and 70 schools each year.