Friday, January 16, 2004 2:23 PM The Los Angeles Press Club will begin issuing an official press identification card for working members of the media in January 2004 to fill a pressing need created when the Los Angeles Police Department sharply reduced its permitting of press I.D. cards in the wake of 9/11. Get information on the cards and download an application here.
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Making it Easier to Enter Journalism Awards Next Year
Tuesday, December 16, 2003 5:54 PM BY DIANA LJUNGAEUS It’s time to start thinking about for the Los Angeles Press Club’s Annual Southern Californian Journalism Awards competition and dinner! This year will see some overhauling and modernization of the rules, such as switching from paper copies to dig- ital archive copies for print entries, from audiotapes to CDs for radio sub- missions and from videotapes to DVDs for TV submissions. We have not final- ized all the changes, and are in consultation with journalists representing the various mediums to make…
Read MoreBob Baker Pens New Book on Famed Deejay
Tuesday, December 16, 2003 5:52 PM Newly elected Press Club board member Bob Baker has a surprising answer when you ask him how long he worked on the newly published autobiography of legendary R&B deejay Magnificent Montague, “Burn, Baby! BURN!” “Thirty-eight years,” he says. That’s how long ago Baker first heard Montague on Los Angeles radio station KGFJ. It was just after the Watts Riots of 1965, in which rioters had begun using Montague’s trademark-”Burn, Baby! Burn!”-to the deejay’s shock. A year and a half later he left the station.…
Read Moreprofile: Bill Rosendahl: “The moment is all we have”
Tuesday, December 16, 2003 5:50 PM BY JORDI ORTEGA At this moment, probably one of his last taped shows is re-run- ning. During 16 years hosting 3,000 public affairs shows, Bill Rosendahl, 58, rose to become one of the most respected and qualified voices in journalism in Los Angeles. Just when I was starting to be a loyal watcher of his debates on Adelphia, he retired. I’m afraid many people of my generation have just missed a great intellectual train. But the “teacher of the waves” still has plenty of…
Read MoreEvent: Holiday Bash at Universal City
Tuesday, December 16, 2003 5:48 PM
Read MoreKathleen Sharp Has Hit with Wasserman Book
Tuesday, December 16, 2003 5:47 PM Press Club member Kathleen Sharp recently published “Mr. and Mrs. Hollywood: Edie and Lew Wasserman and Their Entertainment Empire” and is getting a lot of great buzz for her efforts. The biography is the latest recent look at Wasserman influence (others have been penned by Connie Bruck and Dennis McDougal), but Sharp’s work focuses on the couple’s relationship, how Edie was a major player in her husband’s career. “The book deliciously melds the gossip, scandal, knife-sharp corporate maneuver- ing and mob-fueled machinations that marked…
Read MoreRegionwide Press I.D. to be Issued by Club
Tuesday, December 16, 2003 5:44 PM The Los Angeles Press Club will begin issuing an official press identification card for working members of the media in January 2004 to fill a pressing need created when the Los Angeles Police Department sharply reduced its permitting of press I.D. cards in the wake of 9/11. “Los Angeles’ journalists deserve their own press card,” says Press Club president Ted Johnson, who notes that it was always difficult to qualify for I.D. from the LAPD but is far more problematic now for those not…
Read MoreJournalists Vote Big in Club Elections
Tuesday, December 16, 2003 5:40 PM BY KAREN OCAMB There were no dimpled or hanging chads, but L.A. Press Club volunteers who showed up Nov. 17 to count the Board of Director’s election took the task very seri- ously. Each scrawled mark was checked and rechecked under the watchful eye of former board member and Election Committee Chair Chris Woodyard (reporter, USA Today). Among the 130 votes cast by secret ballot—the largest turnout in years—were personal flairs, such as two deeply pressed “X’s” next to the name of Diana Ljungaeus,…
Read MoreEvent: Halloween Celebration and Benefit at the Magic Castle, Hollywood
Sunday, November 16, 2003 5:28 PM
Read MoreLos Angeles Press Club Candidates’ Statements for 2004 And 2005 Board of Directors
Sunday, November 16, 2003 5:27 PM *Denotes an incumbent board member Bob Baker Reporter, Los Angeles Times I’ve been a newspaperman for 33 years, the last 25 with the Los Angeles Times. At the Times I’ve been a general-assignment reporter, labor writer, deputy metropolitan editor and writing coach. I currently am a “pop culture” reporter in the Calendar section. I’ve given scores of lectures and seminars on writing and editing. I’ve authored a book on mental organization for journalists (“Newsthinking”) and am the co-author of a new autobiography by an…
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