Tuesday, December 16, 2003 5:54 PM
BY DIANA LJUNGAEUS
It’s time to start thinking about for the Los Angeles Press Club’s Annual Southern Californian Journalism Awards competition and dinner!
This year will see some overhauling and modernization of the rules, such as switching from paper copies to dig- ital archive copies for print entries, from audiotapes to CDs for radio sub- missions and from videotapes to DVDs for TV submissions. We have not final- ized all the changes, and are in consultation with journalists representing the various mediums to make sure the new rules are best customized to their industries.
“We hope this will make life easier for the entrants and the judges as well
as increase the number of entries, says Press Club President Ted Johnson.
This year we will also open the competition to the many international journalists working in California and writing or broadcasting in a foreign language. These entries must be accompanied by an English translation, and they will compete in a category of their own.
We also hope to introduce a journalism student grant.
The 2004 Journalism Awards Dinner is scheduled to take place June 12th at the St. Regis Hotel in Beverly Hills. Calls for entries to the competition will be sent out in January. Honorees and other news will be posted on our website www.lapressclub.org. Keep posted!
