We congratulate the winners of the Los Angeles Press Club’s 55th annual Southern California Journalism Awards. Browse through our collection of photos and feel free to share with your friends and colleagues.
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Courageous Mexican Journalist to Receive the Daniel Pearl Award
Courageous Mexican Journalist to Receive the Daniel Pearl Award This year’s winner of the Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism is Mexico’s Sandra Rodríguez Nieto. She has worked for El Diario de Juárez from 2003 to 2012 where she has courageously written about local government corruption and the failures in the judicial system. She has also written about immigration issues as well as the military deployment that turned Juarez into one of the most dangerous cities on earth. She has focused on how a lack of…
Read MoreFrom Tragedy Comes Inspiration
From Tragedy Comes Inspiration A Decade After Daniel Pearl’s Death, His Parents Continue to Promote the Projects That Reflected His Passions BY ANNA SCOTT Ten years ago, the world was shaken by the death of Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl. While Daniel’s story touched thousands, few have felt the loss more deeply than his parents, Judea and Ruth, and his then pregnant wife, Mariane. But they have not let the tragedy of Daniel’s death overshadow his extraordinary life. Through the Daniel Pearl Foundation, and individually, they continue to…
Read MoreBringing Down the House
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…
Read MoreInvestigative in an Inventive Way
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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52nd SoCal Journalism Awards (Photos)
We congratulate the winners of the Los Angeles Press Club’s 52nd annual Southern California Journalism Awards. Browse through our collection of photos and feel free to share with your friends and colleagues.
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We congratulate the winners of the Los Angeles Press Club’s 51st annual Southern California Journalism Awards. Browse through our collection of photos and feel free to share with your friends and colleagues.
Read MoreThe Quinn Award – Outlasting the Politicians
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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We congratulate the winners of the Los Angeles Press Club’s 5oth annual Southern California Journalism Awards. Browse through our collection of photos and feel free to share with your friends and colleagues.
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