Category: News

Wednesday, May 01, 2013 6:00 PM The Los Angeles Press Club is thrilled to announce this year’s honoree for the President’s Award is a Hollywood legend. Carl Reiner is a director-actor- writer-producer-recording artist-comedian and tweeter who hasundefinedso farundefinedgarnered twelve Emmy Awards and one Grammy Award. The President’s Award ”for impact on media” will be presented at the press club’s upcoming 100th year celebration on June 23rd at the Biltmore Hotel, Downtown Los Angeles. The award recognizes those whose energy and effort had an impact on media and our society. “We…

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Tuesday, April 02, 2013 6:18 PM In 1972, Sue Laris founded what is now Los Angeles Downtown News after planning it on her kitchen table. Today, her independently owned multi-media company, with an avid readership of about 150,000 weekly, has soared from the original Civic Center News to a paper whose success is inseparable from the transformation of Downtown. Her firm also publishes three magazines and online content weekdays at http://downtownnews.com. Originally targeted at readers in the Los Angeles Civic Center, where City Hall, the Hall of Administration, Superior Court…

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Tuesday, April 02, 2013 6:05 PM This year’s winner of the Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism is Mexico’s Sandra Rodríguez Nieto. She has worked for El Diario de Juárez from 2003 to 2012 where she has courageously written about local government corruption and the failures in the judicial system. She has also written about immigration issues as well as the military deployment that turned Juarez into one of the most dangerous cities on earth. She has focused on how a lack of education and jobs drives…

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Monday, April 01, 2013 6:26 PM Los Angeles Press Club kicks off its 2013 Centennial Celebrations by honoring former LAPC President Bill Rosendahl with a “Roast and Toast” on May 16, 2013 at the club’s headquarters in East Hollywood. With Roasters and Toasters Mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel, Assemblyman Mike Feuer, Lila Garrett, Dan Schnur, Robert Kovacik, Ted Johnson, Jill Stewart, Patt Morrison, Maria Armoudian, Supervisor Don Knabe, Councilman Dennis Zine, Kevin James, Councilman Tom LaBonge and Congress Woman Diane E. Watson. Net proceeds from the event will go to “The…

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Monday, April 01, 2013 6:23 PM The Southern California Journalism Awards Centennial Gala on June 23, 2013 is being dedicated to Huell Howser, the widely loved KCET personality and unofficial ambassador of California, who died in January in Palm Springs at age 67. One of the many online tributes that ran the day he died, written by actor and stand-up comedian James Adomian, noted: “If you missed something, friends would swap stories of California’s Gold and Visiting and his other shows on KCET, always lapsing into impressions of his awe-struck…

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Tuesday, February 19, 2013 6:37 PM A panel of openly gay journalists will share their experiences and advice on being out in journalism today. What are the pros and cons of being out to your superiors, co-workers, sources? What is the responsibility of a gay journalist when it comes to a news organization’s LGBT coverage? Has sexuality become a non-issue, an advantage? A disadvantage? The event is moderated by Variety’s political editor Ted Johnson. The panel includes CNN’s Miguel Marquez, Pulitzer Prize winner Bettina Boxall of the Los Angeles Times,…

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Tuesday, February 19, 2013 6:30 PM In honor of the 100+ Year Anniversary of the founding of the Los Angeles Press Club, the growing organization was honored on January 22 by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors at a ceremony in the Hall of Administration. Press Club Executive Director Diana Ljungeaus and Board of Directors members Patt Morrison (Los Angeles Times) and Gloria Zuurveen (Pace News) accepted an engraved scroll that read, in part: “Whereas the Los Angeles Press Club was established in 1913 as a gathering spot and…

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Monday, January 28, 2013 6:41 PM Join us for a conversation about radio journalism with Thom Hartmann, radio host who presents “Renaissance thinking about the issues of our day.” Hartmann is a progressive political commentator and former psychotherapist and entrepreneur. This is event is a coproduction between KPFK an Los Angeles Press Club. Saturday, February 2 at 2pm Los Angeles Press Club, 4773 Hollywood Blvd., L.A. CA 90027. ! Plenty of parking in the back of the building.

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Monday, November 19, 2012 6:51 PM Pitzer College Announces First Ever Conservancy Devoted Entirely to Southern California Environmental Sustainability Issues New Conservancy Named in Honor of Southern California Native Robert Redford to Focus on National and Global Applications Published: Monday, 19 Nov 2012 | CLAREMONT, Calif., Nov 19, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) undefined Environmental issues unique to the Southern California region will get a lot more attention going forward as Pitzer College announces the launch of the Robert Redford Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability at Pitzer College. The announcement was made…

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Monday, November 19, 2012 6:47 PM More Pictures from 5thNEJ In an appropriately glamour-filled evening, the Los Angeles Press Club handed out first-place star trophies for best arts and entertainment reporting during its 5th Annual National Entertainment Journalism Awards (NEJ) Gala Sunday at the historic Millennium Biltmore in downtown L.A. The big winner was The Hollywood Reporter. THR garnered six first place awards, including Entertainment Journalist of the Year for editor and reporter Kim Masters, whom they share with KCRW 89.9, Santa Monica. The real story of the evening was…

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