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LA Press Club board member Gloria Zuurveen featured at NBC4 during Black history month
Friday, February 27, 2015 10:27 AM Pace News gives voice to LA’s black community, led by LAPC board member Gloria Zuurveen. Local Newspaper Gives Black Community a Voice Pace News, a small publication in LA, has given the black community a voice for two decades. The publisher of the independent weekly, Gloria Zuurveen, seeks to give readers the stories that create conversations and change one page at a time. Robert Kovacik reports for NBC4’s Black History.
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When Thursday, February 26, 2015 7:00 PM Location Los Angeles Press Club @ Steve Allen Theater 4773 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 9002 Registration Member Ticket – $5.00 Non-Member Tickets – $20.00 Volunteer [Registration code required] Registration is closed The New, Multimedia One-Man Show, Ghost in the House, starring Tony Todd (Candyman) to be followed by a conversation about race in America, moderator: Brian Watt. Before Barack Obama and MLK, before Jackie Robinson, Paul Robeson and Medgar Evers, before Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, before Ferguson and “I can’t breathe”–…
See More57th Southern California Journalism Awards dedicated to Rick Orlov, Al Martinez and Stan Chambers
Thursday, February 26, 2015 3:55 PM Only into the second month of the new year Los Angeles has lost three of its most prominent journalists – Al Martinez, Rick Orlov and Stan Chambers – three old school storytellers. Rick was a veteran reporter who covered City Hall for the Los Angeles Daily News for nearly 30 years, Al a Pulitzer prize winning columnist with a knack of telling the stories of everyday people while making us laugh at ourselves and Stan a pioneer broadcaster. All three writers were honored by…
See MoreRick Orlov, veteran Daily News City Hall reporter, dies at 66
Tuesday, February 03, 2015 11:52 AM Rick Orlov received Los Angeles Press Club’s Quinn Award in 2009, here is a piece from the tribute book : https://lapressclub.org/Quinn/3216989 And Daily News own story: http://www.dailynews.com/obituaries/20150202/rick-orlov-veteran-daily-news-city-hall-reporter-dies-at-66
See MoreFree Speech After Charlie Hebdo and “The Interview”
When Thursday, January 29, 2015 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Location Los Angeles Press Club @ Steve Allen Theater 4773 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90027 Registration Free Tickets Free to LA Press Club Members Free Event for Members Non-Member Tickets Registration is closed Has anything changed on how we look at the first amendment after the attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris and the cyber attack on Sony? Join us for an interesting conversation at Los Angeles press club. Panelists: Patrick Chappatte — He is the famous Pakistan-born Lebanese-Swiss…
See MorePurple Party! Remembering Louise Monaco
When Wednesday, January 28, 2015 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM Location Los Angeles Press Club @ Steve Allen Theater 4773 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90027 Registration RSVP Registration is closed On January 15 the world became a little bit less purple. On this day Louise Monaco, Los Angeles Press Club’s super volunteer, passed away after a short illness. Many of you knew her as the Purple Lady, for the way she “purplefied” everything she touched. If there were flowers on the table, they were purple; if she brought you…
See MoreKTLA’s Cher Calvin joins the LAPC board of directors
Friday, January 23, 2015 6:07 PM Cher Calvin anchor at KTLA’s award-winning 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. nightly newscasts. Before her current role, Cher co-anchored the weekend evening news, as well as KTLA’s morning show, where she won an Emmy in 2005. She has also picked up three Golden Mike Awards: two for best public affairs program, “Access L.A.,” and one for the “KTLA 5 Morning News.”
See MorePurple party for Louise Monaco
Friday, January 23, 2015 4:56 PM On January 15 the world became a little bit less purple. On this day Louise Monaco, Los Angeles Press Club’s super volunteer, passed away after a short illness. Many of you knew her as the Purple Lady, for the way she “purplefied” everything she touched. If there were flowers on the table, they were purple; if she brought you a gift, it was wrapped in purple paper. She drove a purple car, wore purple clothes, purple shoes, jewelry and her signature round, purple glasses.…
See MoreFree Speech After Charlie Hebdo and “The Interview”
Friday, January 23, 2015 4:50 PM Has anything changed on how we look at the first amendment after the attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris and the cyber attack on Sony? Join us for an interesting conversation at Los Angeles press club. Panelists: Patrick Chappatte — He is the famous Pakistan-born Lebanese-Swiss cartoonist, simply known as Chappatte. He draws a twice-weekly cartoon in the Opinion section of The International New York Times. Over the years, he has collaborated with editorial cartoonists in conflict-ridden countries with the goal of promoting dialogue…
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