Author: Los Angeles Press Club

Saturday, July 17, 2004 7:58 PM BY DIANA LJUNGAEUS A few months ago Donna Barstow and Yael Swerdlow met at a Press Club book party and posed for a photo together. Now, these two Press Club club members have both achieved new milestones. Donna has a cartoon book of her own out, and Yael has launched a new career as director of media rela- tions for the Consulate General of Israel in Los Angeles. The 8 Ball took a moment to catch up with these two busy women. Yael Swerdlow…

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Saturday, July 17, 2004 7:44 PM BY BOB BAKER You may make more money than Lance Orozco, but he knows what counts: He runs a one-reporter opera- tion, wears blue jeans to work, doesn’t put on a tie, covers the stories he wants to—and is the newly crowned Los Angeles Press Club Radio Journalist of the Year. “We’ve all worked for big news entities and we’ve all said, ‘Boy, if I were covering the news, I know what I’d do,’” says Orozco, 46, the reporter/news director of KCLU-FM, the public-radio…

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Saturday, July 17, 2004 7:38 PM BY JON BEAUPRE It’s a fact: nothing has shaken up the world of journalism so much since Mr. Guttenberg invented moveable type. Not Jayson Blair, not Stephen Glass, not Jack Kelley. Those guys were one-offs who will (hopefully) be object lessons for journos the world over. Blogging, however, could change the meaning of news and journalism forever. (At this point, every contemporary article on the subject explains that ‘blog’ is short for ‘web-log’, a form of online interactive journal, but then you already knew…

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Tuesday, July 13, 2004 2:08 PM WHAT: Los Angeles Press Club invites to a Q & A with David Brock, Founder of MediaMatters.org. Co-sponsored by PR Newswire. WHO: David Brock originally gained notoriety as the closeted gay conservative who wrote the “Troopergate” story about Bill Clinton and a scathing book about Anita Hill. Since then, Brock authored Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative, a New York Times best-seller about his training as a political conservative. His next book, The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It…

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Wednesday, July 07, 2004 2:09 PM Last year, Australian Sue Smethurst was stopped by border guards at LAX, questioned, handcuffed, probed, held in a detention center for 15 hours, and then sent back on the long flight home. Was she plotting a terrorist attack? No, she was coming to interview Olivia Newton-John. Similar rude surprises have awaited at least 20 journalists from countries such as France, England, Germany, and the Netherlands since last May, when some L.A. border control personnel began enforcing the previously ignored Journalist Visa requirement for reporters…

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Wednesday, June 30, 2004 2:11 PM 46TH SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA JOURNALISM AWARDS FOR WORK DURING 2003 JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR Print Over 100,000 Circulation JOHN DANISZEWSKI – Los Angeles Times Comments: Reporter’s perspective ran the Gamut from “Commander A” to “Mulhallah 665” to “Zionism”. Truly a stunning serves of pieces that captured the venture falorie of Iraq. Every American should be required to read his work before deciding how they feel about Iraq and the Iraqi people. 2nd Place: N/A Honorable Mention: N/A JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR Print Under 100,000 Circulation…

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