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Thursday, June 17, 2004 6:42 PM Awards Presenters Announced Journalists who win big at the June 12th Southern California Journalism Awards gala in Century City will be presented their first-place plaques by a big range of talent and political heft, including baseball legend Jose Canseco, CNN Executive Vice President Eason Jordan, NYPD Blue’s Gordon Clapp, Mo’nique, Sean Kanan of The Bold and the Beautiful, impersonator John Roarke, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, California State Senator Majority Leader Don Perata, syndicated radio host and MTV-Asia personality Kerri Kasem and Hollywood…

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Thursday, June 17, 2004 6:40 PM BY JORDI ORTEGA What a great journalism class. No one who paid $10 to attend the May 5 event at Press Club headquarters in Hollywood left unhappy. Panelists tackling the topic, “The superficial and the scandalous: Are jour- nalism schools to blame?” organized by the club and Cal State Los Angeles, agreed that journalism schools are not to blame for the shameful problems emerging in journalism—-but newsrooms probably are. Sitting at the experts‚ table were Judy Muller, ABC News correspondent and USC professor; Paul…

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Thursday, June 17, 2004 6:31 PM For the first time this year, the Press Club is holding a silent auction featuring everything from an important oil paint- ing to desert or Maui getaways to “Lunch with Patt Morrison” to a huge basket stuffed with famous cosmetics— -all to raise money for the club’s scholarships in journalism and other new charity efforts. Bids will be accepted at the June 12 annual journalism awards gala at the St. Regis Hotel. Detailed descriptions and some photos can be viewed at www.lapressclub.org. (But, so…

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Thursday, June 17, 2004 6:21 PM BY CHRIS WOODYARD AND JILL STEWART The Los Angeles Press Club is greatly honored to welcome two members of the late Daniel Pearl’s family to the 2004 Southern California Journalism Awards on June 12, at which Mariane Pearl will present the award named in her husband’s honor to two courageous journalists work- ing for TIME in Iraq, and Daniel’s father Judea Pearl will offer thoughts on the meaning of his son’s death as global conflicts rage. Mariane Pearl will present the Los Angeles Press…

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Thursday, June 17, 2004 2:14 PM WHO: Los Angeles Press Club, Amy Alkon, Cathy Seipp and Emmanuelle Richard invite you to… WHAT: A party featuring guest-of-honor Edna Buchanan, Pulitzer Prize-winning former Miami Herald police reporter and current mystery novelist. WHEN: Thursday, June 17, 7-10pm. Edna will speak around 8:30 p.m. for a short Q&A session about her work. WHERE: The poolside bar at the fabulous and historic Figueroa Hotel downtown (across from the Staples Center), 939 S. Figueroa St. (near 9th St.) Phone: 213-627-8971. WHY: From Library Journal’s review of…

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Tuesday, June 01, 2004 2:15 PM Silent Auction For the first time this year, the Press Club is holding a silent auction featuring everything from an important oil painting to desert or Maui getaways to “Lunch with Patt Morrison” to a huge basket stuffed with famous cosmetics — all to raise money for the club’s scholarships in journalism and other new charity efforts. Bids will be accepted at the June 12 annual journalism awards gala at the St. Regis Hotel. For journalists who love wonderful things but are on a…

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Monday, May 17, 2004 6:05 PM For this year’s award banquet, the Press Club is going upscale. The setting will be the St. Regis hotel in Century City, a 261-room tower with sweeping views from downtown to the Pacific. Beyond its stunning luxury and glittering chandeliers, the St. Regis is known as one of the most secure hotels in the world. Most notably, it’s one of the few hotels specially outfitted for presidential stays. The penthouse, with about the same space as four or five homes, was specially approved by…

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Monday, May 17, 2004 6:04 PM BY PATT MORRISON A memorial plaque honoring longtime Los Angeles Times foreign correspon- dent Mark Fineman was unveiled at Cal State Northridge on April 23, exactly seven months after he died of a heart attack on assignment in Baghdad. The plaque joins others in the Fallen Journalists Memorial at Manzanita Hall The memorial honors California journal- ists who have died in the course of their duties since 1920. The memorial was created by the Los Angeles Press Club, and moved to the university, its…

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Monday, May 17, 2004 6:03 PM BY CHRIS WOODYARD Will Fowler, a longtime Press Club member and one of the city’s more col- orful newsmen, has died at 81. As a Herald Examiner reporter, Fowler covered the seamy side of Los Angeles — the high-profile crimes in the growing post-war metropolis. He claimed to have been the first journalist to get to the scene of what would become known as the “Black Dahlia murder,” according to his Los Angeles Times obituary. He said he closed the blue, half-shuttered eyes of…

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