After a devastating terrorist attack, much of the world voiced their support for the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo with three words: “Je Suis Charlie” (I Am Charlie). Just days later, the survivors went to press with a cover that added three more words to the conversation: “Tout Est Pardonné” (All Is Forgiven). Even in their darkest hour, Charlie Hebdo provided a beacon of light for journalists everywhere. Their resilience demonstrated how violence cannot endure, while free speech must. They embodied the courage and integrity that the Daniel Pearl Award…
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An Unending Display of Courage
An Unending Display of Courage The Staff of Satirical Magazine Charlie Hebdo Accepts the Daniel Pearl Award BY PATT MORRISON To this very day, and throughout the world—and often in the farther reaches of the world, whether a firefight in Syria or a park in Guatemala—journalists are getting murdered just for being journalists and practicing their craft. But on Jan. 7, 2015, murder happened not one by one, not in places far from the international seats of power, but to nine journalists killed at once, all shot to death,…
Read MoreTelling the Story and Being Part of the Fight
Telling the Story and Being Part of the Fight Vice News, the Recipient of the Press Club’s Public Service Award, Does Things Its Own Way, and Gets Results BY LUCAS SHAW Shane Smith hosts a regular news show, but he has no illusions of being the next Walter Cronkite. Instead, he’s trying to create a new type of newscast, one that forgoes the longstanding tradition of dispassionate, objective reporting and replaces it with a more active style of service journalism. It’s a unique body of work that led the…
Read MoreBreaking Ground and Changing Industries
Breaking Ground and Changing Industries Quinn Award Winner Willow Bay’s Incredible Career Has Taken Her to Many Newsrooms, and Now to the Classroom BY GRETCHEN PARKER MCCARTNEY Willow Bay, the director of the USC Annenberg School of Journalism, took a few detours before winding up in her chosen career. After a modeling career and an MBA from New York University, she finally got around to doing what she really wanted to do: reporting. Bay got her break on the NBC show “NBA Inside Stuff,” and went on to work…
Read MoreDaniel Pearl Award to Charlie Hebdo
Sunday, June 28, 2015 11:08 PM After a devastating terrorist attack, much of the world voiced their support for the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo with three words: “Je Suis Charlie” (I Am Charlie). Just days later, the survivors went to press with a cover that added three more words to the conversation: “Tout Est Pardonné” (All Is Forgiven). Even in their darkest hour, Charlie Hebdo provided a beacon of light for journalists everywhere. Their resilience demonstrated how violence cannot endure, while free speech must. They embodied the courage and…
Read More57th Southern California Journalism Awards
When Sunday, June 28, 2015 4:30 PM Location Crystal Ball Room, Millennium Biltmore Hotel, 506 S. Grand Ave., DTLA Registration Best in Show Sponsorship – $8,000.00 Sponsor the cash award to “Best in Show” and get your name on the award. One table of ten included. Bronze Table – $2,100.00 Seats 12, non-preferred seating Bronze Table Package – $2,900.00 1 Bronze Table (seats 12) 1/2 black and white page in program book Center Spread – $5,500.00 Early-Bird Bronze Table – $1,800.00 Seats 12, non-preferred seating. Early-Bird Member Rate – $150.00…
Read More57th SoCal Journalism Awards (Photos)
We congratulate the winners of the Los Angeles Press Club’s 57th annual Southern California Journalism Awards. Browse through our collection of photos and feel free to share with your friends and colleagues.
Read MoreThe Los Angeles Press Club Announces Yearly Encouragement Scholarship
Monday, June 15, 2015 11:56 AM All student finalists in this year’s SoCal Journalism Awards Contest have a chance of winning a $1,000 scholarship from the Los Angeles Press Club. “We wanted to do something special for the students. They are the future of our profession,” said press club president Robert Kovacik. “Just to be nominated for an award is an achievement in itself, so we thought it would be fair to raffle off the student scholarship among the entire field of finalist entries,” said the club’s executive director Diana…
Read MoreTimes’ Mariel Garza Joins LAPC Board
Friday, June 05, 2015 3:30 PM The Los Angeles Press Club is pleased to announce that Mariel Garza has joined the LAPC Board of Directors. Garza is a longtime Los Angeles journalist who has written editorials and columns about state and L.A. politics for more than a decade. In March she joined the Los Angeles Times Editorial Board. Before that she was deputy editorial page editor of the Sacramento Bee and is a former editor of the editorial pages of the L.A. Daily News and Los Angeles News Group. As…
Read MoreAll finalists to the 57th Annual SoCal Journalism Awards are now posted
Saturday, May 30, 2015 11:02 AM This is proving to be the most competitive year in the Los Angeles Press Club’s recent memory with close to a thousand entries. So if there was ever a year when it is an honor just to be nominated, this is it. Some of the categories were so loaded we split them up.. Last year the Awards Gala sold out two weeks before the event, so make sure to get your tickets in time. Ordering your tickets early also saves money. We will accept…
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