Wednesday, September 19, 2012 9:06 AM Paid-up members of the Los Angeles Press Club may enter the National Entertainment Journalism Awards at the lower Early Bird rate through October 3.
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Reporting from the Danger Zone
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 9:05 AM Each year, dozens of journalists are killed while reporting from the danger zones, sometimes targeted to prevent the flow of important information from reaching the international community. Yet these brave men and women return to these hot spots, sometimes risking their lives to witness some of the darkest elements of the world and report back to their communities. Please join the Los Angeles Press Club and KPFK’s The Scholars’ Circle for a live discussion and broadcast taping. What: Live discussion and broadcast on reporting…
See MoreCall for Entries Now Underway for 5th Annual National Entertainment Journalism Awards
Saturday, August 25, 2012 9:07 AM Arts & Entertainment Journalists In All Media To Be Honored For Their Best Work in 2011-12 Los Angeles Press Club has expanded the National Entertainment Journalism Awards (NEJ) to include all arts reporters. Categories now include nonfiction books, podcasts and documentary film. “The NEJ is the only media contest to recognize the importance of arts and entertainment reporting, “ said LA Press Club President Will Lewis. “It remains one of the fastest growing sections of our profession and produces some of the best writing,…
See MoreLecture: Avoiding Libel/Slander for Journos
Friday, August 24, 2012 9:13 AM Los Angeles Press Club and Loyola Law School co-host session at the Downtown Campus, Thurs., Sept. 6 at 6 pm RSVP Los Angeles – Associate Professor Aaron Caplan, a former staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who teaches Constitutional Law and the First Amendment Seminar at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, will lecture on libel and slander (and how to avoid it) during a session to be held at Loyola’s downtown L.A. campus at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 6. The event,…
See MoreClub to Screen Award-Winning Doc; Director Q & A
Tuesday, July 17, 2012 9:15 AM LAPC member and volunteer Rouslan Ovtcharoff has produced a documentary that has been winning awards at film festivals. He has arranged for the Club to screen it on Thurs. July 26 at 7 pm at the Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood. rsvp “The Resort” is a documentary about one of the first concentration camps during World War II, Theresienstadt, used by the Nazis as propaganda tool in order to dispel rumors about extermination camps . This film gives individual faces and personalities to the…
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See MoreBernstein Accepts President’s Award; Woodward, On Deadline, Participates Via Video
Monday, June 25, 2012 9:22 AM Winners_Socal_2012 At the June 24 LA Press Club Journalism Awards at the Biltmore, nearly 500 journalists and media executives heard Carl Bernstein address the importance of Watergate and the extensive criminal activity encouraged and authorized by President Nixon, as revealed by the hundreds of White House tapes that Nixon had failed to suppress. Bob Woodward watched and participated through a Skype video hookup that allowed the audience to watch and hear him while he watched the award ceremony back east. Woodward couldn’t make the…
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From Tragedy Comes Inspiration A Decade After Daniel Pearl’s Death, His Parents Continue to Promote the Projects That Reflected His Passions BY ANNA SCOTT Ten years ago, the world was shaken by the death of Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl. While Daniel’s story touched thousands, few have felt the loss more deeply than his parents, Judea and Ruth, and his then pregnant wife, Mariane. But they have not let the tragedy of Daniel’s death overshadow his extraordinary life. Through the Daniel Pearl Foundation, and individually, they continue to…
See MoreBringing Down the House
Bringing Down the House ‘SoCal Connected’ Team Earns Public Service Award for Exposing Staggering Expenditures at a City Agency BY JON REGARDIE When Karen Foshay, a producer with the KCET show “SoCal Connected,” started poking around the operations of the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA), she had no idea that she was about to dump a mountain of work on herself and a half-dozen co-workers. She couldn’t fathom the gross spending on luxury products and meals the team would expose. There was no way she…
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Investigative in an Inventive Way His Work Makes a Difference, Delighting Viewers with His Undercover Investigations BY BETH BARRETT It doesn’t matter if they’re CalTrans workers guzzling beer on the taxpayers’ dime, cab drivers stealing computers mislaid by customers or university officials charging up credit cards to feast on catered meals while the state’s deficit soars, they all insist they’ve done absolutely nothing wrong. That is until CBS2/KCAL9 award-winning, investigative reporter David Goldstein offers to show them the videotape taken with a hidden camera, or the documents he’s pried…
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