Author: Los Angeles Press Club

Wednesday, December 14, 2011 4:27 PM CONTRIBUTE TO OUR NEW MATCHING SCHOLARSHIP FUND Dear LA Press Club member or friend: At the Club’s Monday, Dec. 19 Board meeting, the directors voted unanimously to establish and seed a matching fund for college scholarships. The cost of a college education at our state universities is out of sight. Fees go up every year. Serious students need all the help they can get. We hope to encourage them to stay with journalism as a major. We will be seeking donation from individuals, corporations…

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Monday, December 12, 2011 4:32 PM Now you can keep all your membership information up-to-date with a couple of strokes of your keyboard–all password protected. Join, renew, contribute, order a press card and charge it to PayPal or your Visa or Mastercard. Sign-up for automatic renewal and never worry about your membership expiring!

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Friday, December 02, 2011 4:33 PM Book Party – Alive Inside the Wreck: A Biography of Nathanael West, by Joe Woodward Thursday, December 8, at 7:00 pm. Event over. About the Book: From his name to his college transcript to his literary style, Nathanael West was self-invented. Born Nathan Weinstein, the author of the classics Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and The Day of the Locust (1939) was an uncompromising artist obsessed with writing the perfect novel. He pursued his passion from New York to California, flirting dangerously with the bleak, faux-glamour…

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Sunday, November 27, 2011 4:39 PM Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein to Accept 2012 Los Angeles Press Club’s President’s Award WATERGATE REPORTERS WHO REDEFINED INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM WILL ACCEPT PRIZE 40 YEARS AFTER THE EVENT Bernstein, Woodward in The Washington Post newsroom, circa 1972 Next year marks a major milestone in American journalism: the 40th anniversary of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s pioneering reporting on the Watergate scandal. Woodward and Bernstein’s series of articles for The Washington Post unraveled the biggest American political scandal to date, culminating in President Richard Nixon’s…

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Friday, November 18, 2011 5:10 PM The full list of Winners from National Entertainment Journalism Awards: A – ENTERTAINMENT JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR, ALL PLATFORMS Tie: Tara Wallis-Finestone, NBC-LA Dylan Howard, RadarOnline.com Judge’s comments: As a Senior Producer for NBC4, Tara Wallis-Finestone organizes and writes unique and compelling stories for NBC4 in a fast-moving and highly visual manner. She is a gifted story-teller who writes for the eye. She also writes enterprising stories for NBCLA’s website. Judge’s comments: In the world of celebrity and entertainment news, even mainstream media couldn’t…

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Friday, November 18, 2011 4:48 PM At Thursday’s LA Press Club’s 4th Annual National Entertainment Journalism Awards, The Hollywood Reporter walked off with four first place trophies, including best entertainment publication. There was a tie for Entertainment Journalist of the Year. Tara Wallis-Finestone, senior producer for NBC4-LA, and Dylan Howard, senior executive editor of RadarOnline, each took home a $500 check. The award was sponsored by Alexandra and Sidney Sheldon. Alexandra is the widow of the late best-selling novelist, screen and TV writer. Media outlets that had first place winners…

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Tuesday, November 08, 2011 5:13 PM The tables will be turned when the legendary editor-in-chief of Playboy Magazine, Hugh M. Hefner, is interviewed onstage by NBC4 news anchor Robert Kovacik in the incisive and entertaining style pioneered by the popular men’s magazine over 50 years ago. The legendary comic and civil rights icon Dick Gregory is flying in from Washington D.C. to pay a special tribute the man who gave him his first break, Mr. Hefner. It takes place Thursday, Nov. 17 at the Biltmore Bowl in Los Angeles as…

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Monday, October 31, 2011 5:17 PM The Press Club has been able to recruit a number of strong candidates either to run for open seats, or to be appointed to vacant seats for the 14-member board of directors for the coming year. Ballots will be in the mail this week to LAPC members in good standing. Running for the first time are: Barbara Gasser, international journalist, Martin Kasindorf, USA Today Emeritus; Robert Kovacik, NBC4 LA; and Gloria Zuurveen, PACE News. Gloria Zuurveen is founder/publisher/editor of PACE NEWS, a Los Angeles…

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Saturday, October 29, 2011 5:18 PM ONLINE AUCTION PREVIEW’S WED. NOV. 3, LAUNCHES, NOV. 10. Hugh M. Hefner, the legendary editor-in-chief and founder of Playboy Magazine, will receive a lifetime achievement award from the Los Angeles Press Club at its 4th Annual National Entertainment Journalism Awards Gala on November 17 at the historic Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. “Hefner’s footprint on American popular culture is huge,” says LA Press Club President Will Lewis. “For almost 60 years, Playboy has been on the leading edge in shaping positive attitudes on civil…

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