Monday, March 14, 2011 7:17 PM Please join us on March 24 at the Los Angeles Press Club to hear Los Angeles Times reporters Jason Felch, Jason Song and Doug Smith discuss “How We Got the Story” about 6,000 Los Angeles teacher test scores that created a nationwide media sensation. Moderated by press club board member Jill Stewart from LA Weekly. R.S.V.P. The Times has been variously praised and slammed for its series “Grading the Teachers,” in which it became the first newspaper ever to publish the names of highly…
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Lesley Stahl to be Honored with LA Press Club’s President’s Award
Monday, March 14, 2011 7:13 PM Lesley Stahl, veteran correspondent for America ’s number-one news program, 60 MINUTES, will be honored by the Los Angeles Press Club with the 2011 President’s Award for Impact on the Media. She will accept the award at the 53rd Annual Southern California Journalism Awards in the legendary Crystal Ballroom at the Millennium Biltmore on Sunday, June 26. “She is a pioneering woman in television news whose career spans the era of Watergate to the digital age,” said LA Press Club President Will Lewis. Stahl’s…
Read More53rd SoCal Journalism Awards: New Categories and Cash Prize
Monday, March 14, 2011 7:12 PM The Los Angeles Press Club has issued a call for entries for one of the oldest and largest news competitions in the Southlandundefinedthe 53rd Annual Southern California Journalism Awards. DEADLINE: April 7th at 5 pm The contest will judge the year’s best work by journalists in all media platforms–radio and television news, newspapers and magazines, news bureaus, foreign journalists and online reporting, bloggers and student media. Sister press clubs across the nation will do the judging. New this year best tweet or tweets, best…
Read MoreLoyola Law Offers 35 Law Journo Fellowships. LA Press Club Co-Sponsors.
Thursday, March 03, 2011 7:17 PM Loyola Law School, Los Angeles is accepting applications until Monday, March 21 for its sixth-annual Journalist Law School fellowship, a four-day crash course on constitutional, civil and criminal law taught by law professors, jurists and attorneys. Fellowships will be competitively awarded to 35 journalists and will cover instruction, lodging, meals and one-half of travel expenses for the June 15-18 workshop. More than 175 reporters, editors and producers have completed the program since 2006. Your LA Press Club is proud to be a Co-Sponsor of…
Read MoreNeil Strauss on “Everybody Loves You When You’re Dead”
Tuesday, March 01, 2011 7:18 PM For anyone intrigued by what makes top musicians and celebrities tick, read about and watch video from this event. Press Club to meet prolific Rolling Stone and New York Times reporter and bestselling author Neil Strauss as he gives us an early glimpse at his provocative new book, “Everybody Loves You When You’re Dead.” Neil, a denizen of Laurel Canyon, and author of previous New York Times bestsellers “The Game” and “Rules of the Game” and co-author of Motley Crue’s “The Dirt” and Marilyn…
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