Wednesday, April 16, 2003 3:04 PM The ‘Alternative Press’ affair hosted by the club in March brought together friends and colleagues from numerous alt publications. Several pals from the L.A. Weekly were in the audience, including one of my favorites, Charles Rappleye. Charlie, now a distinguished staff writer who has ham- mered out some of the best reportage on the Rampart scandal and other disgraces plaguing Los Angeles, was my editor for umpteen articles — including the Weekly’s focus on pollution problems emanating from military industrial giant’s Rocketdyne’s Santa Susana…
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Historic Police Press Room Evokes Memories
Wednesday, April 16, 2003 3:03 PM A lone journalist from City News Service is the only member of the media who still reg- ularly staffs the Los Angeles Police Department’s Parker Center Press Room. But for one evening last month, journalists gath- ered at the aging police headquarters to recall the glory days of the fluorescent-lit quarters. “A Salute to the Parker Center Press Room,” co-sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists and the Press Club, featured a panel of reporters who recalled a time when they worked out of…
Read MoreProfile: Dave Ferrell: reporter, Los Angeles Times author, “Screwball”
Wednesday, April 16, 2003 3:01 PM Editors note: Do you know a Press Club mem- ber who has enjoyed a recent career boost, award, book publication or other interesting news? We’d like to hear about it. Please send us a note at info@lapressclub.org, no longer than 400 words, and your name and phone number, and we’ll con- sider adapting the information for use in Profile of the Month. Dave Ferrell is a veteran reporter for the Los Angeles Times, where he has distinguished himself as one of its finest writers…
Read MoreBacardi Pre-Oscar Cocktails
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Read MoreGreene Posthumously Honored
Wednesday, April 16, 2003 2:53 PM A special service was held March 11 at the Fallen Journalists Memorial at Cal State Northridge to install the late Larry Greene, a cameraman and producer for KCBS-TV in Los Angeles. Greene was killed in a tragic accident in the Persian Gulf last year when a helicopter in which he was riding struck the mast of Syrian ship. Greene was an award-winning videographer, remembered for many terrific local as well as national and international stories, who went home from Press Club galas with numerous…
Read MoreWelcome to the New 8 Ball
Wednesday, April 16, 2003 2:50 PM BY CO-EDITORS DIANA LJUNGAEUS AND JILL STEWART We hope you enjoy the new e-mailed version of the Los Angeles Press Club’s 8 Ball newsletter, designed for us by the patient and unflappable Eric Almendral, gifted former art director for New Times Los Angeles. The Board of Directors decided in January to move to an elec- tronic newsletter, as preferred by most club members. A few members who do not have e-mail or who have expressed a preference for a hard copy will continue to…
Read MorePacked Room Hears Riordan, LA Weekly, on Vol. 56, No. 4 Upcoming Paper Wars in City
Wednesday, April 16, 2003 2:42 PM BY MICHAEL COLLINS On the eve of war, more than 80 people attended the Club’s March 11 standing- room-only panel discussion, “Is the Alternative Press Still an Alternative?” an oft-times jovial event that belied the turbu- lent times in the weekly press. News that at least three weeklies will expand or launch in Los Angeles soon, and the loss nationwide of more than 70,000 media jobs since 2000, helped draw a crowd to hear former Mayor Richard Riordan, alternative newspaper expert Richard Karpel, L.A.…
Read MoreSUNSHINE COALITION GIVES THE COUNTY MIXED GRADES ON OPEN GOVERNMENT
Tuesday, April 08, 2003 2:32 PM IN SHORT: On April 8, 2003, one year after the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisor ordered numerous changes to their open government policies, the Los Angeles Sunshine Coalition released a six-page report attempting to fairly review implementation of those policies. The Sunshine Coalition also issued a report card giving the Board and County departments mixed grades for their policy compliance. On April 2, 2002, the Board of Supervisors held an extraordinary public hearing during which scores of reporters, nonprofit representatives and public citizens…
Read MoreRiordan’s New L.A. Weekly Set For June Launch
Sunday, March 16, 2003 2:39 PM It’s looking like a June launch for former Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan’s new weekly newspaper. The paper, a free politically-oriented tabloid aimed at upscale readers, will be called the Los Angeles Examiner. Work is currently underway on a prototype issue, which will be used to drum up support from advertisers and investors. The finished product will be available at high-end restaurants and supermarkets and in curbside boxes, and possibly mailed to households in affluent ZIP codes. Riordan, who lost in last year’s California…
Read MoreGala dinner and awards return to Universal City
Sunday, March 16, 2003 2:34 PM The 45th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards dinner will take place on Saturday evening, June 21, in the Grand Ballrooms of the Sheraton Universal Hotel, announced Ted Johnson, President of the Los Angeles Press Club. The club is returning to the venue where the highly successful 2001 awards dinner was held, which honored CBS anchor Dan Rather and others. Once again, the evening will begin with a gala cocktail reception, followed by an elegant dinner and awards program. Journalism Awards Deadline Extended Johnson also…
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