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…
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Bringing 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…
Read MoreStars Come Out for Awards Gala
Friday, June 08, 2012 9:28 AM When Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward receive the Los Angeles Press Club’s President’s Award on the 40thanniversary of Watergate at the Biltmore, the trophy will be presented by the most popular actress on TV and the man who played the president for seven years on national television. Martin Sheen as President Bartlet on West Wing Pauley Perrette, star of NCIS, and Martin Sheen, actor and political activist, join a roster of noted actors and media personalities who will announce the winners of the 54th…
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Read More54th SoCal Journalism Awards: Gala at Biltmore to honor Woodward & Bernstein, David Goldstein, Pearl Family
Saturday, May 19, 2012 3:29 PM 54th Annual LA Press Club Awards to name finalists for best work in 2011 by journalists filing on all media platforms. Woodward & Bernstein applauded at Wash. Post Watergate event 6/11 in DC The commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the biggest political scandal in American history moves from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles on Sunday, June 24. Direct from the Washington Post reunion at the Watergate apartments, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein will receive the Los Angeles Press Club President’s Award for Impact…
Read MoreWATERGATE: The Press, Politics and the Presidency
Sunday, April 22, 2012 3:37 PM John Dean, President Nixon’s former special council, promised new revelations on the Watergate cover-up in his new book that will be published in August. “What did the president know and when did he know it.” Dean told a capacity crowd at a KPCC/LA Press Club panel on Watergate Wednesday(16) that his book Is based on hours of listening and reading transcripts of unpublished Nixon White House tapes archived at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda. Raw audio: http://bit.ly/KjDoyQ Panel, moderated by KPCC’s Frank Stoltze,…
Read MoreEntries Set Record for 54th Journo Awards
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 3:39 PM Record Number Enter 54th LA Press Club Journalism Awards; Finalists to Attend Awards Banquet Honoring Woodward & Bernstein on 40th Anniversary of Watergate Southern California news powerhouses support one of the oldest and largest competitions for journalists in the country. Entries climb to a record number–over 700. Award banquet attendees to witness dramatic presentation to Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward on Watergate break-in’s 40th anniversary “Contest has attracted entries from news powerhouses in newspapers, magazines, radio & TV and online–as well as the solitary…
Read MoreNew Officers Elected at LA Press Club
Sunday, February 19, 2012 3:41 PM Los Angeles Press Club board has elected its officers for 2012. Will Lewis, KCRW emeritus, was re-elected president; Martha Sarabia, LA Opinion, is vice president; Beth Barrett, investigative reporter and formerly vice president, is treasurer; Jane Engle, former LA Times travel editor, was re-elected secretary. Diana Ljungaeus continues as executive director.
Read MoreLeap Day Ends SoCal Journo Awards Early Bird
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 3:53 PM 1 WEEK LEFT TO ENTER & SAVE. EARLY BIRD ENDS FEB. 29 Dear Journalist: You have one extra dayundefinedLeap Day Feb. 29undefinedto enter and win a Los Angeles Press Club SoCal Journalism Award and save on every entry with our Early Bird rates. We’re looking for the best work of 2011 in print, broadcast and the Internet, including the social networks. If there were ever a year to become a finalist in the LA Press Club’s SoCal Journalism Awards, 2012 is the year. You’ll…
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