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Evan Gershkovich Named the 2024 Daniel Pearl Awardee

May 16, 2024 Los Angeles Press Club

The Los Angeles Press Club is proud to announce that the 2024 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism will go to Evan Gershkovich of the Wall Street Journal, the same outlet Daniel Pearl worked for. “We are extremely pleased to see the Daniel Pearl Award being awarded to Evan Gershkovich who, like Danny before him, has come to symbolize Press Freedom and the importance of truthful reporting,” said Judea Pearl, speaking for both himself and his family. “We hope this award brings hope and encouragement to Evan…

Bernard-Henri Lévy is the 2023 LA Press Club Daniel Pearl Awardee

May 26, 2023May 26, 2023 Los Angeles Press Club

Bernard-Henri Lévy is the recipient of the 2023 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism. He is an internationally renowned philosopher, writer, filmmaker,and playwright who has written more than 40 books. His latest documentary “Slava Ukraini” is currently screening around the world. “I take great honor in presenting the 2023 LA Press Club Daniel Pearl Award to Bernard-Henri Lévy, a true champion of humanity, whose life, writings and journeys so closely personify the meaning of the words: ‘Courage and Integrity in Journalism,’” said Judea Pearl on behalf of The Daniel Pearl Foundation,…

Marcus Yam

May 26, 2022May 26, 2022 Los Angeles Press Club

Marcus Yam is a roving Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent and staff photographer. Born and raised in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, he left a career in aerospace engineering to become a photographer. His goal: to take viewers to the frontlines of conflict, struggle and intimacy. His approach is deeply rooted in curiosity and persistence. In 2022, Yam won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for images documenting the U.S. departure from Afghanistan that captured the human cost of the historic change in the country. In 2019, Yam was awarded the Robert F.…

Bari Weiss is the 2021 LA Press Club Daniel Pearl Awardee

August 25, 2021August 25, 2021 Los Angeles Press Club

Bari Weiss is the recipient of the 2021 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism. “‘My father is Jewish, my mother is Jewish, I am Jewish. Daniel Pearl’s moving last words are true for me, too. I could not be prouder to be a Jew, and it’s impossible to express how honored I am to be receiving this prize,” said Bari Weiss when she got the news. Weiss is a journalist and the author of “How to Fight Anti-Semitism,” which won a 2019 National Jewish Book Award. From 2017 to 2020, Weiss…

CNN’s Nima Elbagir is the 2019 L.A. Press Club Daniel Pearl Awardee

March 22, 2019May 27, 2019 Los Angeles Press Club

CNN’s Senior International Correspondent Nima Elbagir is the recipient of the 2019 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism. “To be counted among the ranks of the extraordinary journalists honored by the LA Press Club is such a privilege, especially as the Pearl Family continues to be an inspiration to us all. The kind of stories I do involve almost every platform and team at CNN, so this is as much a recognition of them and all the extraordinary local journalists, sources and survivors who take these risks…

Nima Elbair

March 19, 2019March 19, 2019 Los Angeles Press Club

Nima Elbagir is an award-winning senior international correspondent for CNN based in London. She joined CNN in February 2011 as a Johannesburg-based correspondent before moving to the network’s Nairobi bureau and later London. This year Elbagir received the prestigious 2019 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards in the Investigative category for her reporting on human rights abuses, with the jurors citing her “fearless reporting across Africa, from a modern-day slave market in Libya, to child labor in Congo, and a smuggler’s network in Nigeria, documented rarely seen exploitation and corruption.” Elbagir…

Raif Badawi is the 2018 LA Press Club Daniel Pearl Awardee

March 26, 2018March 19, 2019 Los Angeles Press Club

Saudi Arabian writer and blogger Raif Badawi is the winner of the 2018 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism. Raif Badawi is currently serving a 10 year prison sentence plus 1,000 lashes for “insulting Islam” by promoting human rights and equal rights for women in Saudi Arabia on his blog. His sentence, if fully carried out, will most likely result in his death. Raif Badawi’s wife Ensaf Haidar and his three children will travel to Los Angeles from their new home in Canada to accept the award…

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographer Daniel Berehulak is the 2017 Press Club Daniel Pearl Awardee

March 9, 2017June 2, 2017 Los Angeles Press Club

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographer Daniel Berehulak is the 2017 Press Club Daniel Pearl Awardee Australian photojournalist Daniel Berehulak is the winner of the 2017 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism. He has covered history-shaping events in over 60 countries and won a Pulitzer for his coverage of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. His recent gut wrenching and courageous reports for the New York Times from the Philippines makes him an obvious choice for this award. “Daniel Berehulak’s photojournalism brings together the visual impact of a newsworthy…

Powerful Speeches Honor Charlie Hebdo, Legacy Of Daniel Pearl (VIDEO)

July 1, 2015May 20, 2017 Los Angeles Press Club

After a devastating terrorist attack, much of the world voiced their support for the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo with three words: “Je Suis Charlie” (I Am Charlie). Just days later, the survivors went to press with a cover that added three more words to the conversation: “Tout Est Pardonné” (All Is Forgiven). Even in their darkest hour, Charlie Hebdo provided a beacon of light for journalists everywhere. Their resilience demonstrated how violence cannot endure, while free speech must. They embodied the courage and integrity that the Daniel Pearl Award…

An Unending Display of Courage

July 1, 2015May 20, 2017 Los Angeles Press Club

An Unending Display of Courage The Staff of Satirical Magazine Charlie Hebdo Accepts the Daniel Pearl Award BY PATT MORRISON To this very day, and throughout the world—and often in the farther reaches of the world, whether a firefight in Syria or a park in Guatemala—journalists are getting murdered just for being journalists and practicing their craft. But on Jan. 7, 2015, murder happened not one by one, not in places far from the international seats of power, but to nine journalists killed at once, all shot to death,…