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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THR’s Janice Min Honored by L.A. Press Club
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,…
Read MoreEarly Bird Savings Extended to Oct. 3 for Club Members
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.
Read MoreReporting from the Danger Zone
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…
Read MoreCall for Entries Now Underway for 5th Annual National Entertainment Journalism Awards
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,…
Read MoreLecture: Avoiding Libel/Slander for Journos
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,…
Read MoreClub to Screen Award-Winning Doc; Director Q & A
Tuesday, July 17, 2012 9:15 AM LAPC member and volunteer Rouslan Ovtcharoff has produced a documentary that has been winning awards at film festivals. He has arranged for the Club to screen it on Thurs. July 26 at 7 pm at the Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood. rsvp “The Resort” is a documentary about one of the first concentration camps during World War II, Theresienstadt, used by the Nazis as propaganda tool in order to dispel rumors about extermination camps . This film gives individual faces and personalities to the…
Read MoreWinners 54th SoCal 2012
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Read MoreBernstein Accepts President’s Award; Woodward, On Deadline, Participates Via Video
Monday, June 25, 2012 9:22 AM Winners_Socal_2012 At the June 24 LA Press Club Journalism Awards at the Biltmore, nearly 500 journalists and media executives heard Carl Bernstein address the importance of Watergate and the extensive criminal activity encouraged and authorized by President Nixon, as revealed by the hundreds of White House tapes that Nixon had failed to suppress. Bob Woodward watched and participated through a Skype video hookup that allowed the audience to watch and hear him while he watched the award ceremony back east. Woodward couldn’t make the…
Read MoreStars Come Out for Awards Gala
Friday, June 08, 2012 9:28 AM When Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward receive the Los Angeles Press Club’s President’s Award on the 40thanniversary of Watergate at the Biltmore, the trophy will be presented by the most popular actress on TV and the man who played the president for seven years on national television. Martin Sheen as President Bartlet on West Wing Pauley Perrette, star of NCIS, and Martin Sheen, actor and political activist, join a roster of noted actors and media personalities who will announce the winners of the 54th…
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