Corinne Asturias

Alum 2000

Corinne Asturias is an award-winning journalist and content strategist whose career has spanned print, broadcast, and online media. Having worked throughout her career as a reporter, news anchor, news editor, managing editor, executive advisor, and columnist, she brings a wide range of experience to her role as advisor for the Sonoma State STAR, the student-run newspaper published on campus each week.

She graduated with a B.A. in Journalism from San Jose State University, where she received a William Randolph Hearst award for writing and served as news editor on the student-run daily.

Other career credits include winning awards for content, columns, and design from the California Newspaper Publisher’s Association, the National Newspaper Association, and the Association of Alternative Newsmedia. She currently works as Features Editor for The Press Democrat, where she manages six sections and is part of the newsroom that received the Pulitzer Prize in 2018.