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Saturday, November 03, 2012 6:52 PM Stars keep coming out for the NEJ awards gala Nov. 18 at the Biltmore. Robert Redford will be on hand to introduce Visionary Award honoree Jane Fonda. Jeff Daniels, star of The Newsroom, will make a special appearance. Ms. Fonda sits down for a candid, onstage interview with NBC4 and LAPC board member Robert Kovacik. Comedian, author and talk show star Kathy Griffin will do the introduction to The Hollywood Reporter’s Janice Min who receives a career achievement award from the Press Club. And…

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Sunday, October 28, 2012 6:55 PM For a full list of Finalists, click here

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Thursday, October 18, 2012 8:23 AM Janice Min introduced by Kathy Griffin. Los Angeles Press Club will honor Jane Fonda with its inaugural Visionary Award at the National Entertainment. Journalism Awards Gala on Sunday, November 18th at the Biltmore Hotel, downtown Los Angeles. The Visionary Award is being instituted to pay homage to “an individual within the Entertainment Industry who uses their high-profile status to make the world a better place and to spread information about issues of freedom and social importance.” Beside her successful careers as a two-time Academy…

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Thursday, October 18, 2012 8:23 AM Janice Min introduced by Kathy Griffin. Los Angeles Press Club will honor Jane Fonda with its inaugural Visionary Award at the National Entertainment. Journalism Awards Gala on Sunday, November 18th at the Biltmore Hotel, downtown Los Angeles. The Visionary Award is being instituted to pay homage to “an individual within the Entertainment Industry who uses their high-profile status to make the world a better place and to spread information about issues of freedom and social importance.” Beside her successful careers as a two-time Academy…

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Tuesday, October 16, 2012 8:38 AM “Are Page Views Killing Good Journalism Click by Click?” moderated by LA Weekly Managing Editor Jill Stewart, at the Los Angeles Press Club on Thursday, October 25, at 7:30 pm. Please come for wine and appetizers at 6:30 pm and mingle with others in the increasingly fascinating media industry. More & R.S.V.P. Is the intense pressure on reporters, producers and editors to increase page views and clicks turning journalism into a swamp of pointless news bites and Google-quickies? Or is the news getting smarter,…

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Friday, September 28, 2012 9:01 AM Los Angeles Press Club names editorial director of The Hollywood Reporter to receive its NEJ Luminary Award at its 5th Annual National Entertainment Awards Gala November 18 where winners of the best arts & entertainment journo awards will be feted Janice Min, Editorial Director at the Hollywood Reporter will receive the NEJ Luminary Award for Career Achievement from Los Angeles Press Club at the 5th Annual National Entertainment Journalism Awards presentation. The Gala will be held on Sunday, November 18 at the Biltmore Hotel,…

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Wednesday, September 19, 2012 9:06 AM Paid-up members of the Los Angeles Press Club may enter the National Entertainment Journalism Awards at the lower Early Bird rate through October 3.

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Wednesday, September 19, 2012 9:05 AM Each year, dozens of journalists are killed while reporting from the danger zones, sometimes targeted to prevent the flow of important information from reaching the international community. Yet these brave men and women return to these hot spots, sometimes risking their lives to witness some of the darkest elements of the world and report back to their communities. Please join the Los Angeles Press Club and KPFK’s The Scholars’ Circle for a live discussion and broadcast taping. What: Live discussion and broadcast on reporting…

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Saturday, August 25, 2012 9:07 AM Arts & Entertainment Journalists In All Media To Be Honored For Their Best Work in 2011-12 Los Angeles Press Club has expanded the National Entertainment Journalism Awards (NEJ) to include all arts reporters. Categories now include nonfiction books, podcasts and documentary film. “The NEJ is the only media contest to recognize the importance of arts and entertainment reporting, “ said LA Press Club President Will Lewis. “It remains one of the fastest growing sections of our profession and produces some of the best writing,…

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Friday, August 24, 2012 9:13 AM Los Angeles Press Club and Loyola Law School co-host session at the Downtown Campus, Thurs., Sept. 6 at 6 pm RSVP Los Angeles – Associate Professor Aaron Caplan, a former staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who teaches Constitutional Law and the First Amendment Seminar at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, will lecture on libel and slander (and how to avoid it) during a session to be held at Loyola’s downtown L.A. campus at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 6. The event,…

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