Tuesday, March 24, 2015 9:37 AM The application deadline for NPF’s no-cost-to-journalists Precision Medicine fellowship at Mayo Clinic is one week away. Please share this information with your journalist members: The National Press Foundation’s Precision Medicine: Health Care Tailored for You program will bring 20 journalists to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, May 17 – 20, 2015. Like all NPF’s programs, this fellowship is no cost to journalists. We will cover issues such as the Human Genome Project, Biomarkers, Epigenetics & Bioethics. The application deadline is March 30. Here is…
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Only One More Week to Apply for $2,000-$10,000 reporting grants, free training at USC Annenberg
Monday, March 23, 2015 12:17 PM USC Annenberg/National Health Journalism Fellowship When: July 12-16, 2015 Where: Los Angeles Deadline to Apply: April 1, 2015 Only one week remains to apply for the all-expenses-paid National Health Journalism Fellowship — five days of stimulating discussions, workshops and field trips in Los Angeles that focus on vulnerable children and families and the community conditions that contribute to their well-being. The Fellowship comes with reporting grants of $2,000-$10,000 to underwrite reporting on health issues in underserved communities, vulnerable children or health care reform. In…
Read MorePublic memorial and tribute to Stan Chambers
When Thursday, March 12, 2015 6:30 PM Location Los Angeles Press Club @ Steve Allen Theater 4773 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90027 Registration RSVP Free event, but you need to RSVP. Registration is closed Join the Los Angeles Press Club, SPJ/LA and KTLA in a public memorial for and tribute to Stan Chambers on Thursday, March 12. Few newsmen were so admired by their colleagues and the public. Chambers worked at the same job and at the same station, KTLA, Channel 5, for 63 years. During that time he…
Read MorePace News: Tony Todd Packs L.A. Press Club in One-Man Play On the Life of Jack Johnson
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Read MoreLA 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.
Read MoreBlack History Month Celebration
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”–…
Read 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…
Read 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
Read 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…
Read 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…
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