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Legendary Sports Anchor Jim Hill to Receive the LA Press Club’s Lifetime Achievement Award

April 1, 2019May 21, 2019 Los Angeles Press Club

Jim Hill, sports anchor for CBS 2/KCAL, has been named the Los Angeles Press Club’s 2019 Joseph M. Quinn Awardee for Lifetime Achievement. “From his earliest days with the Packers and the Chargers to his long career at CBS 2, nobody knows sports like Jim Hill,” said club president Chris Palmeri. “His class, charitable work and devotion to this city make him the perfect honoree for our lifetime achievement award.” The Quinn Award will be presented to Hill at the 61st SoCal Journalism Awards Gala on Sunday, June 30th at the Biltmore Millennium Hotel, downtown…

Jim Hill

April 1, 2019April 1, 2019 Los Angeles Press Club

One of the nation’s most respected sports anchors, Jim Hill has been a fixture on CBS 2 in Los Angeles for more than 30 years. He appears on the station’s weekday 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts and hosts the weekend editions of “Sports Central” – Southern California’s most comprehensive sports newscast. Hill, who played defensive back in the National Football League, draws upon his experience as a player, his talents as a broadcaster and relationships with top athletes and coaches to deliver his award-winning sports reports. In May 2006, Hill…

CNN’s Nima Elbagir is the 2019 L.A. Press Club Daniel Pearl Awardee

March 22, 2019May 27, 2019 Los Angeles Press Club

CNN’s Senior International Correspondent Nima Elbagir is the recipient of the 2019 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism. “To be counted among the ranks of the extraordinary journalists honored by the LA Press Club is such a privilege, especially as the Pearl Family continues to be an inspiration to us all. The kind of stories I do involve almost every platform and team at CNN, so this is as much a recognition of them and all the extraordinary local journalists, sources and survivors who take these risks…

Henry Winkler to Receive the LA Press Club’s Public Service Award

March 21, 2019May 27, 2019 Los Angeles Press Club

American actor, comedian, director, producer and author, Henry Winkler, has been named the 2019 Los Angeles Press Club’s Bill Rosendahl Public Service Awardee for Contributions to Civic Life. “Now more than ever the country and world need you (the press) and I am beyond thrilled that you have invited me to be honored,” said Henry Winkler. “We all fell in love with Arthur Fonzarelli, the tough-guy character he played in Happy Days, but what we’ve come to learn since, is Henry’s incredibly warm heart. His work with children who have learning disabilities,…

LAPC Condemns State Department Decision

March 21, 2019March 21, 2019 Los Angeles Press Club

The Board of the Los Angeles Press Club strongly condemns the State Department’s decision to exclude most media outlets from covering a briefing on international press freedom. On Monday, the State Department held a briefing call to discuss international press freedom with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The call, bizarrely, was specifically only for faith-based media. In response to inquiries from excluded journalists, the Department declined to provide either a transcript of the call or a list of media outlets allowed to participate and would not explain the criteria used…

Henry Winkler

March 21, 2019April 1, 2019 Los Angeles Press Club

Henry Winkler co-stars as acting teacher Gene Cousineau on the hit HBO dark comedy, “Barry.” This past September, he was the recipient of the Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy for his role on the series which stars Emmy-award winning actor, Bill Hader. He also won the Television Critics Choice Awards for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and received nominations for a Golden Globe and SAG Award. The series returns for a second season on March 31, 2019. Winkler has enjoyed over four decades of…

Nima Elbair

March 19, 2019March 19, 2019 Los Angeles Press Club

Nima Elbagir is an award-winning senior international correspondent for CNN based in London. She joined CNN in February 2011 as a Johannesburg-based correspondent before moving to the network’s Nairobi bureau and later London. This year Elbagir received the prestigious 2019 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards in the Investigative category for her reporting on human rights abuses, with the jurors citing her “fearless reporting across Africa, from a modern-day slave market in Libya, to child labor in Congo, and a smuggler’s network in Nigeria, documented rarely seen exploitation and corruption.” Elbagir…

Veritas Award – Green Book (Photos)

February 22, 2019February 22, 2019 Los Angeles Press Club

Notorious RBG

February 5, 2019February 5, 2019 Los Angeles Press Club

A big thank you to the Skirball Center and Bloomberg Philanthropies for introducing us to The Notorious RBG. Our members shared a wonderful and enlightening evening. Check out the photos below! And join the L.A. Press Club for access to more events like these.

Make a Bid in Our Valentine’s Day Auction

February 1, 2019February 22, 2019 Los Angeles Press Club

Among the items and services being actioned off you’ll find a Three-Month Membership at Yoga Works, a Massage + Facial at Massage Envy, and an autographed photo of Los Angeles Angels and ex-Houston Astros player Nick Tropeano. Check them out here!