Will Lewis, KCRW, President
Martha Sarabia, La Opinion, Vice President
Beth Barrett, Investigative Reporter, Treasurer
Jane Engle, Writer/Editor/Online Content Manager, Secretary
Diana Ljungaeus, Writer/Producer, Executive Director
John Amato, CrooksandLiars.com, Director
Robert Kovacik, Anchor/Reporter, NBC4LA, Director
Anna Scott, KCRW, Director
Jon Regardie, Executive Editor of Los Angeles Downtown News, Director
Jill Stewart, Deputy Editor at LA Weekly, Director
Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, Director
Barbara Gasser, International Journalist, Director
Gloria Zuurveen, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher, PACE News, Director
Beth Barrett: In recent years she was an investigative reporter for the LA Daily News. In addition to getting to cover many big stories, she has gotten to know and appreciate most of the city’s media institutions as well as many editors and reporters, and more recently as a freelancer, a number of independent writers and bloggers. She believes the Press Club continues to be an important organization connecting journalists in an increasingly fragmented industry. Her interest in joining the board stems from her commitment to journalism as well as to volunteerism on behalf of nonprofits.
Jane Engle: Assistant Travel Editor, Los Angeles Times.
Will Lewis, KCRW: has a unique blend of experience in radio/TV news and public affairs, as well as in print media. Recently, he was part of the KCRW management team that helped shape the station as a powerful voice in news, cultural affairs and music, as well as an online leader. He will continue to use his years in building membership in public radio to expanding membership in the Press Club.
In his first term on the board, he helped secure candidates and presenters for the club’s major awards, represented the board at a number of events, helped plan for a new website and successfully urged the board to speak out on freedom of the press issues. He believes Southern California needs a strong Press Club, especially in this critical period where the media landscape is rapidly changing.
Diana Ljungaeus, Writer/Produceris also a foreign correspondent for Swedish media. She runs the day to day business of the press club, produces most club events and has produced or co-produced the annual awards gala for six years running. She has been involved with the club since 1999.
Ljungaeus is an award-winning journalist with a broad background as a reporter, editor, researcher and producer. She has lived and worked in Sweden, England and the USA.
“I want to continue to improve and grow the stature of the press club and make it the most vibrant, exciting organization for journalists in California.”
John Amato, Crooks and Liars.Blogger and creator of the successful blog Crooks and Liars.
Robert Kovacik, Anchor and Reporter at NBC4LARobert Kovacik is co-anchor of NBC4’s weekend newscasts at 6PM and 11PM. He also serves as a general assignment reporter. Kovacik joined the station in July, 2004. Kovacik is an award-winning journalist, known for in-depth and comprehensive reporting. For the past six years he was the lead morning reporter on “Today in LA.”
Anna Scott, KCRWProducer of To the Point and Which Way, LA?; former staff writer, the Los Angeles Downtown News and criminal justice reporter for the Daily Journal.
Jon Regardie, has been working as a journalist in Los Angeles since 1993, and has served as executive editor of Los Angeles Downtown Newsfor the past four years, overseeing the day-to-day operations of the editorial department of the newspaper that serves the heart of the city. A current member of the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Press Club, he also is the editor of The 8-Ball, the Club’s recently revived newsletter. He has won four California Newspaper Publishers Association awards, including two first place prizes in the Columns, Commentary and Criticism category, and was the recipient of an L.A. Press Club first place award for business reporting. He has contributed to numerous local and national publications including Entertainment Weekly, Los Angeles Magazine, Blender, Spin, Budget Living and Maxim.
Jill Stewart is the deputy editor of the Los Angeles Weekly, the largest alternative weekly newspaper in the Western U.S. Before making the switch to editing, she was a political columnist who regularly appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Orange County Register and Los Angeles Daily News. Previous to that, she was a columnist for the now-defunct Buzz magazine and New Times L.A., and for seven years worked as a metro reporter for the Los Angeles Times covering urban affairs, government, poverty and politics. Her work in recent years has been published by L.A. Weekly, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Wired. As a board member of Los Angeles Press Club she has been instrumental in reviving the club and has produced and moderated several of the most well-attended workshops and panel discussions.
Martha Sarabia, Entertainment Reporter at La Opinion, the largest Spanish-language newspaper in the country and based in L.A. During her four years working in Los Angeles, she has covered the red carpet for events such as the Oscars, Grammys and Golden Globes. Her emphasis on television and music in both Spanish and English has given her the opportunity to interview many celebrities from Alejandro Fernandez to Los Tigres del Norte as well as mainstream personalities such as Selena Gomez and Morgan Freeman. She was also one of a very few and the only Spanish-speaking reporter represent in the conference where Michael Jackson’s tragic death was confirmed; story that she covered from beginning to end. Sarabia also worked for LA Prensa/The Press Enterprise in Riverside and San Bernadino counties, the North County Times, the bilingual newspaper LA Prensa San Diego as well as in the affiliate stations of Univision and ABC affiliate in San Diego.
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Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times
Barbara Gasser, International Journalist
Gloria Zuurveen, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher at Pace News
