Monday, June 25, 2012 9:26 AM Winners_Socal_2012
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Bernstein Accepts President’s Award; Woodward, On Deadline, Participates Via Video
Monday, June 25, 2012 9:22 AM Winners_Socal_2012 At the June 24 LA Press Club Journalism Awards at the Biltmore, nearly 500 journalists and media executives heard Carl Bernstein address the importance of Watergate and the extensive criminal activity encouraged and authorized by President Nixon, as revealed by the hundreds of White House tapes that Nixon had failed to suppress. Bob Woodward watched and participated through a Skype video hookup that allowed the audience to watch and hear him while he watched the award ceremony back east. Woodward couldn’t make the…
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From Tragedy Comes Inspiration A Decade After Daniel Pearl’s Death, His Parents Continue to Promote the Projects That Reflected His Passions BY ANNA SCOTT Ten years ago, the world was shaken by the death of Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl. While Daniel’s story touched thousands, few have felt the loss more deeply than his parents, Judea and Ruth, and his then pregnant wife, Mariane. But they have not let the tragedy of Daniel’s death overshadow his extraordinary life. Through the Daniel Pearl Foundation, and individually, they continue to…
See MoreBringing Down the House
Bringing Down the House ‘SoCal Connected’ Team Earns Public Service Award for Exposing Staggering Expenditures at a City Agency BY JON REGARDIE When Karen Foshay, a producer with the KCET show “SoCal Connected,” started poking around the operations of the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA), she had no idea that she was about to dump a mountain of work on herself and a half-dozen co-workers. She couldn’t fathom the gross spending on luxury products and meals the team would expose. There was no way she…
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Investigative in an Inventive Way His Work Makes a Difference, Delighting Viewers with His Undercover Investigations BY BETH BARRETT It doesn’t matter if they’re CalTrans workers guzzling beer on the taxpayers’ dime, cab drivers stealing computers mislaid by customers or university officials charging up credit cards to feast on catered meals while the state’s deficit soars, they all insist they’ve done absolutely nothing wrong. That is until CBS2/KCAL9 award-winning, investigative reporter David Goldstein offers to show them the videotape taken with a hidden camera, or the documents he’s pried…
See MoreStars Come Out for Awards Gala
Friday, June 08, 2012 9:28 AM When Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward receive the Los Angeles Press Club’s President’s Award on the 40thanniversary of Watergate at the Biltmore, the trophy will be presented by the most popular actress on TV and the man who played the president for seven years on national television. Martin Sheen as President Bartlet on West Wing Pauley Perrette, star of NCIS, and Martin Sheen, actor and political activist, join a roster of noted actors and media personalities who will announce the winners of the 54th…
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