Monday, May 17, 2004 5:42 PM BY KAREN OCAMB, AWARDS DINNER CO-PRODUCER We are producing our version of “music videos” as a new feature of this year ’s Southern California Journalism Awards, and we need your help. We will be matching pictures of Press Club members and event attendees to music from Pink, Outkast, and of course, Motown. Please email casual shots of yourself (especially at work with your colleagues), or attending Press Club cocktail parties, seminars or other events, to info@lapressclub.org for possible inclusion in our videos. Make sure…
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Club Honors Nachtwey, World’s Top War Photographer
Monday, May 17, 2004 5:35 PM BY JILL STEWART James Nachtwey, 2004 co-recipient of the Press Club’s Daniel Pearl Award for courage and integrity in journalism, has photographed many wars and other hor- rors since he launched his career in 1981, yet his personal message offers inspiration. On his website, www.jamesnachtwey.com, among all the terrible yet beautiful photo- graphs of AIDS, 9-11, African famine, Bosnia and Iraq, his message reads: “The strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke a sense of humanity. If war is an attempt to…
Read MoreWriter Marnye Oppenheim dies
Sunday, May 16, 2004 2:31 PM Columnist Marnye Oppenheim passed away Wednesday morning in Phoenix. Oppenheim, who wrote the ‘Bite Me’ column for New Times in Los Angeles before recently relocating, was an active Press Club member for several years. Please note corrected times: The funeral is scheduled for Monday May 19. A viewing will be held at 12pm, with the services to be held at 2. The location is Messinger Mortuary, 7601 East Indian School Rd., Scottsdale, AZ 85251, 480-945-9521. Plans are also being made for a wake and…
Read MorePRESSING THE ISSUE: The Superficial and the Scandalous: Are J-Schools to Blame?
Wednesday, May 05, 2004 2:19 PM In the wake of journalism scandals at the New York Times and USA Today, the focus is on journalism students and just what they are being taught these days. The Los Angeles Press Club and Cal State Los Angeles host a panel of high profile news executives and educators on Wednesday, May 5 to look at the state of J-school education. In addition to the ethical challenges, schools face a host of pressures, like the marketplace’s thirst for “infotainment” over serious journalism. Schools wrestle…
Read MoreMedia Thinks the Media Needs to Go Deeper
Saturday, April 17, 2004 5:19 PM BY KAREN OCAMB Iraq, gay marriage, Ralph Nader, the Latino vote in November and journalistic ethics were just some of the hot topics debated at a March 9 political panel sponsored by the Los Angeles chapter of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, in association with the Press Club. Public issues talk show host and former Press Club president Bill Rosendahl moderated the panel, with Press Club board member and political columnist Jill Stewart and Club member and commentator Tom Elias voicing strong…
Read MoreBlossom the Possum.
Saturday, April 17, 2004 5:16 PM Vice President Patt Morrison brought a guest with her to the March 2004 Press Club Board of Directors’ meeting: Blossom the Possum. Baby Blossom was rescued by a homeless man who brought it to a vet just as Patt happened to be there. So she took Blossom in, and did all that the possum-rescue people advise — feeding her kitten- replacement formula with an eyedropper, keeping her moist and warm [in Patt’s ‘’virtual marsupial’’ coat pocket] and, well, other intimate functions that baby possums…
Read MoreCovering Stars Facing Time Behind Bars
Saturday, April 17, 2004 5:09 PM BY MICHAEL COLLINS Over forty people attended the “Opening the Door – Covering Celebrity Trials” event at the Press Club March 4. “The nature of celebrity has changed, and in turn the nature of celebrity trials,” said moderator, Ted Johnson. “But what has this meant for the judicial system?” To answer were panelists Linda Deutsch, Harvey Levin and Judge Charles Rubin. Deutsch is a nationally renowned special correspondent for the Associated Press and has covered famous trials including those of Sirhan Sirhan, Charles Manson…
Read MoreEvent: Sandra Tsing Loh party, March 18 at Hotel Figueroa
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Read MorePress Club’s Norma Zager Makes News with Her Coverage of Brockovich Claims
Saturday, April 17, 2004 5:00 PM BY JILL STEWART Norma Zager is the editor of a quiet weekly in Beverly Hills with just two fulltime employees, so she’s accustomed to laying out the paper herself and writing about charity dinners and community news that doesn’t exactly hit the 11 o’clock news. All that changed last year as Zager, a board member of the Los Angeles Press Club, began reporting for her Beverly Hills Courier on a controversy over oil wells adjacent to Beverly Hills High School that environmental activist Erin…
Read MoreTIME’s Heroic Weisskopf Coming to L.A. to Receive Pearl Award
Saturday, April 17, 2004 4:41 PM BY BOB BAKER TIME Magazine investigative reporter/ senior correspondent Michael Weisskopf, who lost his right hand in Iraq last December when he threw a live grenade out of a Humvee in Baghdad, will be one of two recipients of the Press Club’s annual Daniel Pearl Award for courage and integrity in journalism. Weisskopf, who is back at work with TIME after seven operations, will be honored at the Press Club’s June 12 awards banquet at the St. Regis Hotel in Century City. “It’s a…
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