The 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.…

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Writing 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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Quinn Award to Fred Roggin, NBC4

Friday, May 24, 2013 5:01 PM HOLLYWOOD, May 22, 2013: The Los Angeles Press Club proudly announces NBC4’s Fred Roggin will receive this year’s Joseph M. Quinn Award for Lifetime Achievement. The honor will be bestowed at the LAPC’s Centennial Awards Gala on Sunday, June 23rd at the Biltmore Hotel’s historic Crystal Ballroom, Downtown, Los Angeles. Fred Roggin is the weekday sports anchor at NBC4 Southern California, joining the station in 1980. He is the host of ‘Going Roggin,’ a new 30 minute sports commentary program that airs Sundays at…

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55th SoCal Journalism Awards and Centennial Dinner, Finalists Announced

Tuesday, May 21, 2013 5:16 PM Join us for the 55th SoCal Journalism Awards and LA Press Club’s Centennial Celebration Sunday, June 23rd 2013 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel Downtown Los Angeles. Carl Reiner, President’s Award for Impact on Media Sandra Rodríguez Nieto, SinEmbargo.mx, Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism Fred Roggin, KNBC – LA, Joseph M. Quinn Award for Journalistic Excellence and Distinction Sue Laris, Downtown News, Public Service Award for Journalistic Contributions to Civic Life In Loving Memory of Huell Howser Finalists

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President’s Award to Carl Reiner

Wednesday, May 01, 2013 6:00 PM The Los Angeles Press Club is thrilled to announce this year’s honoree for the President’s Award is a Hollywood legend. Carl Reiner is a director-actor- writer-producer-recording artist-comedian and tweeter who hasundefinedso farundefinedgarnered twelve Emmy Awards and one Grammy Award. The President’s Award ”for impact on media” will be presented at the press club’s upcoming 100th year celebration on June 23rd at the Biltmore Hotel, Downtown Los Angeles. The award recognizes those whose energy and effort had an impact on media and our society. “We…

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Courageous Mexican Journalist to Receive the Daniel Pearl Award

Courageous Mexican Journalist to Receive the Daniel Pearl Award   This year’s winner of the Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism is Mexico’s Sandra Rodríguez Nieto. She has worked for El Diario de Juárez from 2003 to 2012 where she has courageously written about local government corruption and the failures in the judicial system. She has also written about immigration issues as well as the military deployment that turned Juarez into one of the most dangerous cities on earth. She has focused on how a lack of…

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LAPC Public Service Award to Sue Laris

Tuesday, April 02, 2013 6:18 PM In 1972, Sue Laris founded what is now Los Angeles Downtown News after planning it on her kitchen table. Today, her independently owned multi-media company, with an avid readership of about 150,000 weekly, has soared from the original Civic Center News to a paper whose success is inseparable from the transformation of Downtown. Her firm also publishes three magazines and online content weekdays at http://downtownnews.com. Originally targeted at readers in the Los Angeles Civic Center, where City Hall, the Hall of Administration, Superior Court…

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