A Great Actor, An Even Better Person For Press Club Visionary Award Recipient Forrest Whitaker, the Humanitarian Work is as Important as the Acting Accolades BY TED JOHNSON Last August, dressed in a blue suit and blue tie, Forest Whitaker stood in the spot at the Lincoln Memorial where Martin Luther King, Jr. stood 50 years earlier to deliver his “I Have a Dream Speech.” Like King, Whitaker spoke to a crowd that had gathered at the base of the memorial. “Today I want to celebrate those nameless individuals…
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Vanity Fair Editor Graydon Carter to Receive Special Centennial Award
Friday, November 15, 2013 12:44 PM Krista Smith, West Coast editor of Vanity Fair, will accept the Special Centennial Award on behalf of Graydon Carter and the magazine at the NEJ gala Nov. 24. Vanity Fair and the Los Angeles Press Club are both celebrating their 100-year anniversaries this year.
Read MoreLGBTs in the News: There’s more to our story than discrimination and marriage
Monday, November 11, 2013 12:45 PM A discussion panel featuring some of the foremost LGBT voices in news and entertainment today. Among them Jason Stuart and Alexis Arquette.
Read MoreNat’l Entertainment Journalism Awards Gala, Nov. 24
Tuesday, October 29, 2013 12:53 PM Forest Whitaker undefined Visionary Award, introduced by Scott Cooper; Kenneth Turan undefined Luminary Award, introduced by David Ansen; Graydon Carter undefined Special Centennial Award Buy Tickets – Finalists – Invite Don’t miss out on National Entertainment Journalism Awards Party and Dinner. Your ticket gives you a chance to rub elbows with top journalists in entertainment media – and some of Hollywood’s royalty. Rising star writer/director Scott Cooper, the creative force behind Crazy Heart and the upcoming Out of the Furnace will present the Visionary…
Read MoreLAPC Luminary Award to Film Critic Kenneth Turan
Monday, October 28, 2013 4:20 PM Los Angeles Times film critic and book editor Kenneth Turan will receive the Los Angeles Press Club’s highly coveted Luminary Award for Career Achievement at the 6th Annual National Entertainment Journalism Awards Gala on Sunday, November 24th at the Millennium Biltmore hotel, downtown Los Angeles. Turan’s Luminary Award recognizes and praises his insightful and influential movie reviews as well as honoring his outstanding work for NPR and KUSC, Los Angeles. He is currently the senior film critic for the Los Angeles Times and NPR’s…
Read MoreOscar Winner and Humanitarian Forest Whitaker to Receive The Visionary Award
Wednesday, October 23, 2013 4:25 PM HOLLYWOOD, CA: The Los Angeles Press Club is proud to announce that Academy Award winner and humanitarian activist Forest Whitaker will accept the Visionary Award at a gala celebration on November 24 at the Biltmore Hotel, downtown Los Angeles. The Visionary Award was instituted last year to honor an individual within the Entertainment Industry who uses their high-profile status to make the world a better place and to spread information about issues of freedom and importance. “Mr. Whitaker represents the best, most generous and…
Read MoreAnnual Meeting Thursday, October 24, Followed by a Book Party for Timothy Spangler
Tuesday, September 17, 2013 4:36 PM The Los Angeles Press Club is fielding candidates for the 2014 Board of Directors. For print, broadcast and Internet journalists, this is an opportunity to serve in a non-profit organization. This year represents a unique opportunity for a new generation of board members to help shape the future direction of the Press Club with for fresh ideas. Board members serve two-year terms. Among the duties are to oversee the policies, finances, events and other activities of the Press Club, attend regular monthly board meetings,…
Read MoreThe 6th Annual National Entertainment Journalism Awards — November 24, 2013
Thursday, August 15, 2013 4:44 PM HOLLYWOOD, CA. Entertainment journalists working in print, online, radio, television and photo journalism in the United States are invited to submit their best works of 2012-13 for the Los Angeles Press Club’s sixth annual National Entertainment Journalism Awards. To celebrate the Club’s 100-year history we have created a Special Centennial Awards category in which journalists are invited to submit their “best career work” regardless of year of publication or broadcast, in any of four areas: celebrity photo, celebrity interview, entertainment investigation and entertainment feature.…
Read MoreThe 2013 Daniel Pearl Fellows: Views on America
Monday, August 05, 2013 4:46 PM Join us for an evening with the 2013 Daniel Pearl Fellows, moderated by Rob Eshman, editor of Jewish Journal.
Read MoreWriting the Stories Cartels Don’t Want Told
Writing the Stories Cartels Don’t Want Told In a Country Where Journalists Are Sometimes Killed, Daniel Pearl Award Winner Sandra Rodríguez Nieto Refuses to Back Down BY PATT MORRISON The hacked-up body of a young newspaper photographer, just hired to cover social events, turned up in a street in a town in Northern Mexico. Another newspaper photographer, this one working for the major daily El Diario, was murdered in 2010. And a reporter for El Diario was killed in 2008. Following the latter’s funeral cortege, one of his colleagues…
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