Category: News

Thursday, April 09, 2015 6:00 PM The Public Service Award for Journalistic Contributions to Civic Life is bestowed annually by the Los Angeles Press Club. Under CEO & Founder Shane Smith’s guidance, VICE in recent years has expanded into international and domestic news both through its own VICE News channel as well as an HBO partnership. Since its inception last March, VICE News has shifted the current news landscape with its award winning coverage of world events, from the crisis in Ukraine to the outbreak of Ebola in Western Africa…

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Monday, March 30, 2015 5:36 PM USC ANNENBERG SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM SELDEN RING AWARD FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING Invites you to a luncheon honoring the 2015 Selden Ring Award Recipients Audra Burch and Carol Marbin The Miami Herald, “Innocents Lost” Miami Herald reporters Carol Marbin Miller and Audra D.S. Burch won USC Annenberg’s 2015 Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, for their examination of six years of child deaths in Florida – a project that immediately resulted in the most sweeping overhaul of child welfare laws in the state’s history. “Innocents…

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Wednesday, March 25, 2015 2:23 PM HOLLYWOOD, CA, March 23: Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell, hosts of “CBS This Morning”, will be honored with the Los Angeles Press Club’s 2015 President’s Award for Impact on Media. Since the launch of the program in 2012, the charismatic anchor trio and their production team have brought serious news and original storytelling back to the morning television landscape, while increasing viewership and providing the day’s need-to-know headlines. “The CBS This Morning team proves that there is a craving for serious morning…

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Tuesday, March 24, 2015 9:39 AM Alonzo Bodden is the LA Press Club’s go-to comedian. His quicksilver wit and hilarious insight into the news has forced us to laugh at ourselves and our profession. At previous SoCal Journalism Awards and National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards shows he has rocked the house and been praised by the likes of Quincy Jones and comedy legend Carl Reiner. America knows Alonzo as the winner of season three of “Last Comic Standing.” Since then his career as both comedian and actor continues to…

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Tuesday, March 24, 2015 9:37 AM The application deadline for NPF’s no-cost-to-journalists Precision Medicine fellowship at Mayo Clinic is one week away. Please share this information with your journalist members: The National Press Foundation’s Precision Medicine: Health Care Tailored for You program will bring 20 journalists to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, May 17 – 20, 2015. Like all NPF’s programs, this fellowship is no cost to journalists. We will cover issues such as the Human Genome Project, Biomarkers, Epigenetics & Bioethics. The application deadline is March 30. Here is…

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Monday, March 23, 2015 12:17 PM USC Annenberg/National Health Journalism Fellowship When: July 12-16, 2015 Where: Los Angeles Deadline to Apply: April 1, 2015 Only one week remains to apply for the all-expenses-paid National Health Journalism Fellowship — five days of stimulating discussions, workshops and field trips in Los Angeles that focus on vulnerable children and families and the community conditions that contribute to their well-being. The Fellowship comes with reporting grants of $2,000-$10,000 to underwrite reporting on health issues in underserved communities, vulnerable children or health care reform. In…

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Friday, February 27, 2015 12:17 PM

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Friday, February 27, 2015 10:27 AM Pace News gives voice to LA’s black community, led by LAPC board member Gloria Zuurveen. Local Newspaper Gives Black Community a Voice Pace News, a small publication in LA, has given the black community a voice for two decades. The publisher of the independent weekly, Gloria Zuurveen, seeks to give readers the stories that create conversations and change one page at a time. Robert Kovacik reports for NBC4’s Black History.

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Thursday, February 26, 2015 3:55 PM Only into the second month of the new year Los Angeles has lost three of its most prominent journalists – Al Martinez, Rick Orlov and Stan Chambers – three old school storytellers. Rick was a veteran reporter who covered City Hall for the Los Angeles Daily News for nearly 30 years, Al a Pulitzer prize winning columnist with a knack of telling the stories of everyday people while making us laugh at ourselves and Stan a pioneer broadcaster. All three writers were honored by…

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Tuesday, February 03, 2015 11:52 AM Rick Orlov received Los Angeles Press Club’s Quinn Award in 2009, here is a piece from the tribute book : https://lapressclub.org/Quinn/3216989 And Daily News own story: http://www.dailynews.com/obituaries/20150202/rick-orlov-veteran-daily-news-city-hall-reporter-dies-at-66

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