52nd Annual SoCal Journalism Awards to be Presented in Biltmore Hotel’s Crystal Ballroom

Sunday, April 25, 2010 1:49 PM Crystal Ballroom, Biltmore Hotel When CNNs Anderson Cooper is presented the Los Angeles Press Clubs Presidents Award for impact on the media, he will be in the legendary Crystal Ballroom at the Millennium Biltmore, where the Oscars were born. An expected 400 journalists and their invited guests will gather on the evening of June 27th to find out who among them have won in the 52nd Annual Southern California Journalism Awards competition. More than 500 entries from print, online, broadcasting and college media are…

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KTLA’s Sam Rubin Roasted and Honored as Reporters and Bloggers Recognized @ 3rd Annual National Entertainment Journalism Awards

Friday, April 23, 2010 1:47 PM See KTLAs Sam Rubin get roasted@LAPressClub Natl Entertainment Journalism Awards where he wins for career achievement: http://ow.ly/1CIzF NEJ Winner-Best of Show goes to the Detroit Free Press and Freep.com for Motown at 50 multi-media website. $500 check. HOLLYWOOD, CA. The Detroit Free Press and Freep.coms Motown at 50 online entertainment project won Best of Show and a $500 check at the Los Angeles Press Clubs 3rd Annual National Entertainment Journalism Awards Thursday night inHollywood. The best entertainment website beat out first place winners in…

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CNN’s Anderson Cooper to be honored by L.A. Press Club

Monday, March 08, 2010 3:37 PM LOS ANGELES – CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, NPR Senior Foreign Correspondent Anne Garrels and CBS2/KCAL9 reporter Dave Bryan will receive the Los Angeles Press Club’s highest honors at the 52nd Annual Southern California Journalism Awards on Sunday, June 27. They will be among hundreds of media professionals taking part in the Southland’s oldest and most distinguished journalism gala. Cooper will receive the President’s Award, for his impact on the media. He was the first American TV reporter on the scene in Haiti, following the…

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Covering the Prop. 8 Trial: Can the Gay Press Maintain Objectivity (and Should It?)

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 3:45 PM The Proposition 8 trial underway in San Francisco presents a special problem for gay and lesbian reporters. How do they cover the trial objectively? And frankly, given that many write for the gay community which has strong feelings on the issue, should they? We’re assembled some of the top reporters in town to discuss this and other aspects of one of the nation’s most significant trials in the new century. Panelists include: * Andrew Harmon, senior editor for The Advocate, advocate.com * Ted Johnson,…

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Life After Journalism: A Workshop at the Club March 11

Thursday, January 28, 2010 3:57 PM As radio, TV and newspaper staffs shrink, many journalists are having to face a career away from the news. Some of you are wondering: What skills do I really have? And who else could use my skills? What do hiring managers in other businesses see when they look at a journalist’s resume? Are there options beyond PR? These are some of the questions Joe Ames has run into in the five years since he left the Orange County Register to launch a new career…

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Book party for Amy Alkon’s I SEE RUDE PEOPLE

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 4:07 PM After throwing LA Press Club book parties for everybody else’s books, Amy Alkon finally published her own — I SEE RUDE PEOPLE: One woman’s battle to beat some manners into impolite society. To help Amy celebrate, please join her for a party at World Café, Santa Monica. TIME/DATE: 6:30 to 9:30 pm, Wednesday, January 27. Brief reading at 7:30. (Short and funny – she promises!) Complimentary wine from 6:30 to 7:30, and open bar after that. Hors d’oeuvres (tomato, tapenade and goat cheese bruschetta…

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Alex Ben Block on how the Hollywood hype machine manipulates the media to create blockbusters

Thursday, January 07, 2010 4:10 PM Come hear The Hollywood Reporter’s Alex Ben Block, lead editor of the new book George Lucas’s Blockbusting: A Decade-By-Decade Survey of Timeless Movies talk about how studio publicity campaigns help create blockbusters using techniques that range from sophisticated advertising to misleading hype. Block will take you behind the scenes to reveal how Hollywood’s marketing machine manipulates the global entertainment media. An award-winning journalist and show business historian, Block has studied the process and written about it for decades for The Hollywood Reporter, Television Week,…

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