Tuesday, March 16, 2004 2:22 PM Last year, Australian Sue Smethurst was stopped by border guards at LAX, questioned, handcuffed, probed, held in a detention center for 15 hours, and then sent back on the long flight home. Was she plotting a terrorist attack? No, she was coming to interview Olivia Newton-John. Similar rude surprises have awaited at least 20 journalists from countries such as France, England, Germany, and the Netherlands since last May, when some L.A. border control personnel began enforcing the previously ignored Journalist Visa requirement for reporters…
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POLITICALLY SPEAKING: The Media and the 2004 Election
Tuesday, March 09, 2004 2:21 PM Iraq? Jobs? Vietnam Records? Gay Marriage? How well has the media covered the 2004 presidential campaign? Are some stories being overplayed while real issues get ignored? Political commentator and activist Bill Rosendahl moderates an all-star panel of journalists discussing what we’ve seen so far and what we can expect come November. When: Tuesday March 9th at 7:30 pm. Where: The Renberg Theatre @ The Village at Ed Gould Plaza, 1125 N. McCadden Place, Hollywood, CA 90038 (one block east of Highland, just north of…
See Morethe Collins Connection: February 2004
Monday, February 16, 2004 6:05 PM Judge not, lest ye be judged – Matthew 7:1 By Michael Collins This celebrated biblical adage is good advice. But what if you are being judged? Many of us have been critiqued in our journeys to garner prestigious Press Club awards, including yours truly. To flip Matthew’s proverb on its ear, it’s time to judge other press club’s submissions. We don’t judge any journalism entries sent to us for the Southern California Journalism Awards because of potential conflicts of interest. Instead, we put everything…
See MoreDaniel Pearl Award Goes to TIME’s Michael Weisskopf Club’s President Award Goes to CNN’s Jeff Greenfield
Monday, February 16, 2004 6:01 PM BY KAREN OCAMB The 46th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards gala set for June 12 at the five-star St. Regis Hotel in Century City will honor three extraordinary journalists and pay tribute to late Los Angeles Times columnist Frank del Olmo. The President’s Award, recognizing an individual’s impact on journalism and the media, will be awarded to CNN senior political analyst Jeff Greenfield, an especially pertinent honor during this political season. One of America’s most respected journalists, Greenfield has authored or co- authored ten…
See MoreLatino Icon Frank del Olmo Dies
Monday, February 16, 2004 5:56 PM BY BOB BAKER Frank del Olmo, a Los Angeles Times associate editor and columnist who became an icon to Latino journalists during nearly 34 years at the newspaper, died of an apparent heart attack at his desk on Feb. 19. He was 55. Del Olmo was a quiet, intellectual journal- ist who carried on the mantle of a more flamboyant crusader of an earlier era, Times columnist Ruben Salazar. But he had a greater impact because of the decades he served as a reporter,editor…
See MoreEvent: “Opening the Door: The California Primary” Feb. 5 at the L.A. Press Club
Thursday, February 05, 2004 6:04 PM
See MoreElection Results
Friday, January 16, 2004 2:24 PM Here are the winners in Los Angeles Press Club’s election for the 2004 Board of Directors: Patt Morrison, Bob Baker, Diana Ljungaeus, Jill Stewart, Jon Beaupre, Sandy Cohen and Rob Eshman. All seven are elected for two year terms. Norma Zager won the eighth seat (a one year term). For more complete coverage read the upcoming newsletter, the 8Ball.
See MoreOfficial Press I.D. Cards
Friday, January 16, 2004 2:23 PM The Los Angeles Press Club will begin issuing an official press identification card for working members of the media in January 2004 to fill a pressing need created when the Los Angeles Police Department sharply reduced its permitting of press I.D. cards in the wake of 9/11. Get information on the cards and download an application here.
See MoreMaking it Easier to Enter Journalism Awards Next Year
Tuesday, December 16, 2003 5:54 PM BY DIANA LJUNGAEUS It’s time to start thinking about for the Los Angeles Press Club’s Annual Southern Californian Journalism Awards competition and dinner! This year will see some overhauling and modernization of the rules, such as switching from paper copies to dig- ital archive copies for print entries, from audiotapes to CDs for radio sub- missions and from videotapes to DVDs for TV submissions. We have not final- ized all the changes, and are in consultation with journalists representing the various mediums to make…
See MoreBob Baker Pens New Book on Famed Deejay
Tuesday, December 16, 2003 5:52 PM Newly elected Press Club board member Bob Baker has a surprising answer when you ask him how long he worked on the newly published autobiography of legendary R&B deejay Magnificent Montague, “Burn, Baby! BURN!” “Thirty-eight years,” he says. That’s how long ago Baker first heard Montague on Los Angeles radio station KGFJ. It was just after the Watts Riots of 1965, in which rioters had begun using Montague’s trademark-”Burn, Baby! Burn!”-to the deejay’s shock. A year and a half later he left the station.…
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