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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Call 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…
Read MoreFinalists SoCal 2012
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Read More54th SoCal Journalism Awards: Gala at Biltmore to honor Woodward & Bernstein, David Goldstein, Pearl Family
Saturday, May 19, 2012 3:29 PM 54th Annual LA Press Club Awards to name finalists for best work in 2011 by journalists filing on all media platforms. Woodward & Bernstein applauded at Wash. Post Watergate event 6/11 in DC The commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the biggest political scandal in American history moves from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles on Sunday, June 24. Direct from the Washington Post reunion at the Watergate apartments, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein will receive the Los Angeles Press Club President’s Award for Impact…
Read MoreWATERGATE: The Press, Politics and the Presidency
Sunday, April 22, 2012 3:37 PM John Dean, President Nixon’s former special council, promised new revelations on the Watergate cover-up in his new book that will be published in August. “What did the president know and when did he know it.” Dean told a capacity crowd at a KPCC/LA Press Club panel on Watergate Wednesday(16) that his book Is based on hours of listening and reading transcripts of unpublished Nixon White House tapes archived at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda. Raw audio: http://bit.ly/KjDoyQ Panel, moderated by KPCC’s Frank Stoltze,…
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