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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Journalist Fellowship Application Deadline March 30
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…
Read MoreOnly One More Week to Apply for $2,000-$10,000 reporting grants, free training at USC Annenberg
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…
Read MorePace News: Tony Todd Packs L.A. Press Club in One-Man Play On the Life of Jack Johnson
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Read MoreLA Press Club board member Gloria Zuurveen featured at NBC4 during Black history month
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.
Read More57th Southern California Journalism Awards dedicated to Rick Orlov, Al Martinez and Stan Chambers
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…
Read MoreRick Orlov, veteran Daily News City Hall reporter, dies at 66
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
Read MoreKTLA’s Cher Calvin joins the LAPC board of directors
Friday, January 23, 2015 6:07 PM Cher Calvin anchor at KTLA’s award-winning 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. nightly newscasts. Before her current role, Cher co-anchored the weekend evening news, as well as KTLA’s morning show, where she won an Emmy in 2005. She has also picked up three Golden Mike Awards: two for best public affairs program, “Access L.A.,” and one for the “KTLA 5 Morning News.”
Read MorePurple party for Louise Monaco
Friday, January 23, 2015 4:56 PM On January 15 the world became a little bit less purple. On this day Louise Monaco, Los Angeles Press Club’s super volunteer, passed away after a short illness. Many of you knew her as the Purple Lady, for the way she “purplefied” everything she touched. If there were flowers on the table, they were purple; if she brought you a gift, it was wrapped in purple paper. She drove a purple car, wore purple clothes, purple shoes, jewelry and her signature round, purple glasses.…
Read MoreFree Speech After Charlie Hebdo and “The Interview”
Friday, January 23, 2015 4:50 PM Has anything changed on how we look at the first amendment after the attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris and the cyber attack on Sony? Join us for an interesting conversation at Los Angeles press club. Panelists: Patrick Chappatte — He is the famous Pakistan-born Lebanese-Swiss cartoonist, simply known as Chappatte. He draws a twice-weekly cartoon in the Opinion section of The International New York Times. Over the years, he has collaborated with editorial cartoonists in conflict-ridden countries with the goal of promoting dialogue…
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