The Valley Forge

12/19/2025

Great article about this year's awards!

Congratulations to the Valley Forge staff at RVC for earning multiple statewide awards at this year’s Illinois Community College Journalism Association competition for excellence in student journalism!

Among the top honors, the publication received second place overall in the General Excellence category and third place overall for Best Student Media.

Read more at https://rockvalleycollege.edu/news/RVC-Student-Journalists-Shine-Statewide

11/21/2025

Another big year for The Valley Forge staff at the Illinois Community College Journalism Awards!

Our whole staff took home 2nd place overall in the General Excellence category and 3rd place overall for Best Student Media!!

Kay Watson won a first place award for Best Headline and Isabella Lazansky won a second place in that category as well.

Our 25-26 Editor-in-Chief Maya Johnson won a 2nd place for Best News Story! Ryan McNeilly won a 2nd place for Best Sports Feature and Lauren Schaefer won a third in that category.

Congrats all!!!

11/18/2024

Congrats to The Valley Forge staff on winning a bunch of awards at this year's Illinois Community College Journalism Awards!

Our Editor-in-Chief Isabella Lazansky won the 1st place award for Sports Feature! Staff Writers Isaac Frazier and Nathaly Delgado-Enriquez both took home 3rd place awards as well.

Congrats all!!

10/31/2024

The Valley Forge students and staff are in NOLA for the 2024 National Student Media and Journalism Conference! This week they'll learn from professionals and peers on best practices for student media organizations.

Interesting in joining the ? Check out our info page on our main site. Link is in the bio!

College Media Association
Associated Collegiate Press

10/16/2024

Our staff writer Maya Johnson highlights what you should know before the election on Nov. 5th!

Photo By: Maya JohnsonPhoto By: Maya JohnsonPhoto By: Maya Johnson Election Day is coming up quickly. Rock Valley College community, are you registered to vote? The Rock Valley “Voting Geniuses” al…

09/09/2024

It's a flashback!

The year is 1970 here at Rock Valley College and The Valley Forge is celebrating their 5th year.

See anyone you know?

08/22/2024

Our very own Managing Editor Jazmyn!

04/19/2024

Stop by and chat all things !

12/29/2023

Nice work by one of our editors Brea Walters!

Don't throw your tree in the garbage. Recycle it!

12/12/2023

Congrats to our staff on winning a bunch of awards at this year's Illinois Community College Journalism Awards! The editorial staff took 3rd overall in the state out of all schools and won two 1st place awards and three 2nds!

11/21/2023

Oscar-nominated filmmaker and Mass Com at Rock Valley College alum Bing Liu is returning to Rockford on Dec.2nd for the 815HORTS event! (https://www.facebook.com/events/807414364405124). The Rockford native will screen his new film, “What the Hands Do.”

In addition to Bing Liu’s documentary, three short films worked on by 17 current and former RVC students are being screened at the festival. More info at the story below.

Credit-Photo: Provided by Nick Povalitis/Plus Seven Company 815HORTS: A 5HORT Film Festival returns to Rockford for its second annual screening.   Set for Saturday, December 2, 2023, at t…