Category: News

Saturday, November 07, 2015 5:10 PM Tony Award winning actor/director Joe Mantegna will accept the Los Angeles Press Club’s Visionary Award at the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards Gala on December 6 at the Biltmore Hotel, downtown Los Angeles. At the same event, Tavis Smiley will receive the Luminary Award for Career Achievement. “Joe Mantegna is known as an actor’s actor. He is also one of Hollywood’s most authentic and caring people quietly donating his time and support to Veteran’s causes as well as numerous charities. The LAPC is…

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Saturday, November 07, 2015 5:06 PM The Los Angeles Press Club is proud to announce that TAVIS SMILEY will accept the Luminary Award for Career Achievement at the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards Gala on December 6 at the Biltmore Hotel, downtown Los Angeles. “Tavis Smiley’s unique and prolific journey makes him truly deserving of this career achievement award,” says Press Club President Robert Kovacik of NBC4 Southern California. Mr. Smiley is a broadcaster, author, publisher, advocate, and philanthropist —and the host of his long running late-night television talk…

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Sunday, August 30, 2015 1:38 PM ARE WE SAFE? In light of the tragic events in Roanoke, the Los Angeles Press Club wants your input as we seek to make our journalists our safe. The event will be held at the Press Club Thursday, September 10. Join us for a panel discussion on how to keep safe in the pursuit of stories. Moderated by Press Club President Robert Kovacik of NBC4 Southern California, who once was confronted by a murder suspect while live on-air. Please, let us know if you…

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Sunday, August 30, 2015 1:35 PM Join us for a thought-provoking discussion with Jewish Journal Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Rob Eshman and the 2015 Daniel Pearl Fellows: Arooj Zahara and Saher Baloch. Come meet Arooj and Saher, extraordinary young Pakistani journalists who have spent the past five months working at respected American publications such as The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times and this week at the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. Hear their stories, their experiences, and what they plan to bring back to their home country from this…

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Sunday, August 30, 2015 12:50 PM By Devra Maza It’s the prize no one should have to win. When The Daniel Pearl Award was presented to the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo, everyone who rose to applaud knew it came at a terrible cost. The Los Angeles Press Club created the award to honor “courage and integrity in journalism” after Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl’s brutal slaughter by Islamic terrorists in Pakistan in 2002. Now, Daniel’s eponymous prize, bestowed every year since by his parents, Judea and Ruth Pearl,…

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Sunday, June 28, 2015 11:08 PM After a devastating terrorist attack, much of the world voiced their support for the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo with three words: “Je Suis Charlie” (I Am Charlie). Just days later, the survivors went to press with a cover that added three more words to the conversation: “Tout Est Pardonné” (All Is Forgiven). Even in their darkest hour, Charlie Hebdo provided a beacon of light for journalists everywhere. Their resilience demonstrated how violence cannot endure, while free speech must. They embodied the courage and…

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Monday, June 15, 2015 11:56 AM All student finalists in this year’s SoCal Journalism Awards Contest have a chance of winning a $1,000 scholarship from the Los Angeles Press Club. “We wanted to do something special for the students. They are the future of our profession,” said press club president Robert Kovacik. “Just to be nominated for an award is an achievement in itself, so we thought it would be fair to raffle off the student scholarship among the entire field of finalist entries,” said the club’s executive director Diana…

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Friday, June 05, 2015 3:30 PM The Los Angeles Press Club is pleased to announce that Mariel Garza has joined the LAPC Board of Directors. Garza is a longtime Los Angeles journalist who has written editorials and columns about state and L.A. politics for more than a decade. In March she joined the Los Angeles Times Editorial Board. Before that she was deputy editorial page editor of the Sacramento Bee and is a former editor of the editorial pages of the L.A. Daily News and Los Angeles News Group. As…

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Saturday, May 30, 2015 11:02 AM This is proving to be the most competitive year in the Los Angeles Press Club’s recent memory with close to a thousand entries. So if there was ever a year when it is an honor just to be nominated, this is it. Some of the categories were so loaded we split them up.. Last year the Awards Gala sold out two weeks before the event, so make sure to get your tickets in time. Ordering your tickets early also saves money. We will accept…

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Tuesday, April 28, 2015 3:08 PM The Los Angeles Press Club is proud to announce that Willow Bay, the Director of USC Annenberg School of Journalism, will receive The Joseph M Quinn Award for Lifetime Achievement. Bay is veteran television journalist, digital news editor and author. She was the first woman to co-anchor CNN’s financial news program “Moneyline News Hour “ and has anchored or co-anchored numerous shows on CNN, NBC, MSNBC, ABC and Lifetime Television. In addition she serves as Senior Strategic Adviser for the Huffington Post and is…

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