Month: April 2013

Tuesday, April 02, 2013 6:18 PM In 1972, Sue Laris founded what is now Los Angeles Downtown News after planning it on her kitchen table. Today, her independently owned multi-media company, with an avid readership of about 150,000 weekly, has soared from the original Civic Center News to a paper whose success is inseparable from the transformation of Downtown. Her firm also publishes three magazines and online content weekdays at http://downtownnews.com. Originally targeted at readers in the Los Angeles Civic Center, where City Hall, the Hall of Administration, Superior Court…

Tuesday, April 02, 2013 6:05 PM This year’s winner of the Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism is Mexico’s Sandra Rodríguez Nieto. She has worked for El Diario de Juárez from 2003 to 2012 where she has courageously written about local government corruption and the failures in the judicial system. She has also written about immigration issues as well as the military deployment that turned Juarez into one of the most dangerous cities on earth. She has focused on how a lack of education and jobs drives…

Monday, April 01, 2013 6:26 PM Los Angeles Press Club kicks off its 2013 Centennial Celebrations by honoring former LAPC President Bill Rosendahl with a “Roast and Toast” on May 16, 2013 at the club’s headquarters in East Hollywood. With Roasters and Toasters Mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel, Assemblyman Mike Feuer, Lila Garrett, Dan Schnur, Robert Kovacik, Ted Johnson, Jill Stewart, Patt Morrison, Maria Armoudian, Supervisor Don Knabe, Councilman Dennis Zine, Kevin James, Councilman Tom LaBonge and Congress Woman Diane E. Watson. Net proceeds from the event will go to “The…

Monday, April 01, 2013 6:23 PM The Southern California Journalism Awards Centennial Gala on June 23, 2013 is being dedicated to Huell Howser, the widely loved KCET personality and unofficial ambassador of California, who died in January in Palm Springs at age 67. One of the many online tributes that ran the day he died, written by actor and stand-up comedian James Adomian, noted: “If you missed something, friends would swap stories of California’s Gold and Visiting and his other shows on KCET, always lapsing into impressions of his awe-struck…