Category: SoCal

Bringing Down the House

Los Angeles Press Club

Bringing Down the House ‘SoCal Connected’ Team Earns Public Service Award for Exposing Staggering Expenditures at a City Agency   BY JON REGARDIE When Karen Foshay, a producer with the KCET show “SoCal Connected,” started poking around the operations of the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA), she had no idea that she was about to dump a mountain of work on herself and a half-dozen co-workers. She couldn’t fathom the gross spending on luxury products and meals the team would expose. There was no way she…

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Investigative in an Inventive Way

Los Angeles Press Club

Investigative in an Inventive Way His Work Makes a Difference, Delighting Viewers with His Undercover Investigations   BY BETH BARRETT It doesn’t matter if they’re CalTrans workers guzzling beer on the taxpayers’ dime, cab drivers stealing computers mislaid by customers or university officials charging up credit cards to feast on catered meals while the state’s deficit soars, they all insist they’ve done absolutely nothing wrong. That is until CBS2/KCAL9 award-winning, investigative reporter David Goldstein offers to show them the videotape taken with a hidden camera, or the documents he’s pried…

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The Quinn Award – Outlasting the Politicians

Los Angeles Press Club

The Quinn Award – Outlasting the Politicians As the Faces at City Hall Changed, Rick Orlov Kept Decades of Daily News Readers Informed   BY KERRY CAVANAUGH When Rick Orlov became a news reporter after graduating from Cal State Northridge in the 1970s, he expected to have fun in journalism for a couple of years before he got a real job. Nearly 40 years later, he’s one of the most respected and well-liked reporters in Los Angeles. He’s covered four mayors and five governors. He’s jetted around the world for…

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