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PRESS CLUB OFFICERS PRESIDENT: Robert Kovacik THE DANIEL PEARL AWARD NBC4 Southern California For Courage and Integrity in Journalism VICE PRESIDENT: Patt Morrison Khaled Abu Toameh Los Angeles Times/KPCC Jerusalem Post TREASURER: Anthony Palazzo Bloomberg News THE JOSEPH M. QUINN AWARD SECRETARY: Christina Villacorte For Journalistic Excellence and Distinction LA Daily News Ann Curry Gloria Zuurveen NBC Pace News EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: THE PRESIDENT’S AWARD Diana Ljungaeus International Journalist For Impact on Media PRESIDENT EMERITUS: Jill Stewart Michael Bloomberg and Matthew Winkler LA Weekly THE PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD BOARD MEMBERS For Journalistic Contributions to Civic Life Barbara Gasser Maria Shriver Hollywood Foreign Press Association The Shriver Report Jahan Hassan, Ekush News Gabriel Kahn, USC Innovation Lab Fernando Mexia Spanish EFE News Service Sunday, June 29, 2014 Tony Pierce, Academy of Motion Picture The Crystal Ballroom, Millennium Biltmore Hotel Arts and Sciences 506 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA Carolina Sarassa, MundoFox Ben Sullivan, ScienceBlog.com In Loving Memory of Mark Lacter

ADVISORY BOARD

Eli Broad Sherry Lansing Ramona Ripston Gary L. Toebben Founder, The Eli and Edythe CEO, The Sherry Lansing Former Executive Director, ACLU President & CEO, Los Angeles Broad Foundation Foundation of Southern California Area Chamber of Commerce Rick J. Caruso George E. Moss Hon. Bill Rosendahl Matt Toledo Founder & Chief Executive Ofcer, Chairman, Moss Group Former Councilmember, City of Publisher, Los Angeles Business Caruso Afliated Los Angeles Journal Constance L. Rice Madeline Di Nonno Co-Director, Advancement Angelica Salas Stuart Waldman Chief Executive Ofcer, Geena Project Director, Coalition for Humane President, Valley Industry & Davis Institute on Gender in Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles Commerce Association Hon. Richard J. Riordan Media Former Mayor of Los Angeles Carol Schatz David W. Fleming President & CEO, the Central City Counsel, Latham & Watkins LLP Assn. of Los Angeles

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4:30 p.m. RED CARPET SCHEDULE 5:00 p.m. COCKTAILS AND SILENT AUCTION OF EVENTS 6:00 p.m. DINNER For all fnalists see 6:30 p.m. PROGRAM pages 33-40 7: 00 p.m. SILENT AUCTION CLOSES Presenters Charles Shaughnessy and Patt Morrison STUDENT CATEGORIES FEATURE Presenters Charles Shaughnessy and Jill Stewart DESIGN/LAYOUT COMEDIAN CHRISTINA PAZSITZKY Presenters Charlie Shaughnessy and Colleen Williams SPORTS PUBLIC AFFAIRS THE DANIEL PEARL AWARD: Khaled Abu Toameh, Jerusalem Post, introduced by Judea Pearl COMMENTARY THE JOSEPH M. QUINN AWARD: Ann Curry, NBC, introduced by Colleen Williams Presenters Robert Kovacik and Carolina Sarassa ENTERTAINMENT INVESTIGATIVE PRESIDENT’S AWARD: Michael Bloomberg and Matthew Winkler, introduced by Eli Broad Presenters Charles Shaughnessy and Pat Harvey HARD NEWS JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR THE PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD: Maria Shriver, The Shriver Report, introduced by Lisa Ling

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Dear Friends of LA Press Club,

When we break news on NBC4 Southern California we will often use the charged phrase, “For the first time.” Allow me then to apply that expression to Los Angeles Press Club’s progress in just the past few months.

For the first time we can report the 56th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards has been sold out weeks in advance. For the first time, we staged a debate for LA County Supervisor during the campaign season. And, for the first time, we have assembled an Advisory Board of distinguished civic leaders who will offer their expertise in our continuous mission to support, promote and defend quality journalism in Southern California.

Our members represent every platform—from print to podcast. Robert Kovacik We are growing, not just in the number of journalists joining our ranks but also in the opportunities we provide for them. I invite you to sign-up (or renew) your membership and be part of what’s happening for the first time in our Club’s storied history.

In this beautiful Crystal Ballroom, we congratulate our colleagues who tonight are the well-deserved nominees. And we proudly honor the achievements of Mayor Bloomberg, Matthew Winkler and “Bloomberg News”, Arab-Israeli journalist Khaled Abu Toameh, Maria Shriver and “The Shriver Report”—along with NBC Anchor and Correspondent, Ann Curry.

On behalf of my fellow journalists who comprise the Board of the Los Angeles Press Club, we thank you for attending tonight’s award ceremony.

Robert Kovacik President Los Angeles Press Club

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Los Angeles Press Club Introduces Advisory Board PROMINENT POLITICIANS, BUSINESS PEOPLE, LABOR LEADERS AND MORE SIGN ON TO HELP ENSURE THE FUTURE OF QUALITY JOURNALISM IN LOS ANGELES

t’s easy to be enthused by the makeup of the Los s*ERRY'IESLER ANATTORNEYFOR(OLLYWOODSTARS INCLUDING Angeles Press Club’s new Advisory Board. Why not? Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin and Errol Flynn. It’s a battery of prominent, intelligent and influential s33(AHN WHODEFENDEDEVANGELIST!IMEE3EMPLE Los Angeles leaders, with members including Eli McPherson. Hahn was found dead in his swimming pool, IBroad, Rick Caruso, Sherry Lansing, Connie Rice and weighed down by concrete blocks tied around his neck. former Mayor Richard Riordan, among others. s'EORGE3TAHLMAN CALLEDTHEKINGOFBAILBONDSMEN However, they are not the first high-profile Angelenos to s#LYDE$UBER WHOPIONEEREDACELEBRITYBODYGUARD help guide the Press Club. Back in 1947, the Club gathered service. its first advisory board, then called charter associate sAND#ECIL"$E-ILLE %DDIE#ANTOR "ING#ROSBYAND members. The original plaque with those names is now Red Skelton. back in the possession of the Club. The Hollywood and gangster connections of that Not to detract from the distinguished members of the first board reflect that era of movies that featured many new Advisory Board, but the first board included some of gangster and film noir pictures. the most colorful characters in Los Angeles history. Here The makeup masks an important question: Where are are just a few: all the women? There were none at that time. The first s"OB(OPE THELEGENDARYENTERTAINER advisory board was, indeed, a “boys club.” That was typical s-AX3OLOMON ALAWYERFORTWOFAMOUSGANGSTERS of the era, and we’re all glad now that that time has passed. Mickey Cohen and Bugsy Siegel. Solomon kept his office As we honor extraordinary journalists tonight, we recall next door to the Redwood bar, a journalists’ favorite near a quote from Hope, often a host of both the Oscars and the the L.A. Times building. L.A. Press Club awards galas: “At the Academy Awards

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ELI BROAD Founder, The Broad Foundations Eli Broad is a renowned business leader who built two Fortune 500 companies from the ground up over a fve-decade career in business. He is the founder of both SunAmerica Inc. and KB Home (formerly Kaufman and Broad Home Corporation). Today, Broad and his wife, Edythe, are devoted to philanthropy as founders of The Broad Foundations, which they established to advance entrepreneurship for the public good in education, science and the arts. The Thank You for your Donation towards the Buy-Back of LA Press Club Memorabilia Broad Foundations, which include The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and The Broad Art Foundation, have assets of $2.7 Marybeth Miceli billion. Theo Kingma and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association RICK J. CARUSO James Desborough Founder and Chief Executive Ofcer, Caruso Afliated $1,400 more to go... A business innovator, civic leader and philanthropist, Rick J. Caruso is Dinner all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather founder and CEO of Caruso Afliated, one of the largest, privately held real around to see what someone else thinks about their acting estate companies in the U.S., with local besides their press agents.” projects including The Grove and The The jump from the first advisory board to the current Americana at Brand. Caruso has been lineup is a big one. Yet, in 2014, having these influential an active civic leader for nearly three leaders involved is even more important than it was nearly decades. In 1985, Mayor Tom Bradley 70 years ago. These Advisory Board members will lend appointed him Commissioner for the L.A. Department of Water their expertise and time to the Club’s continuous effort to and Power. In 2001, Mayor James Hahn appointed him to the support, promote and defend quality journalism in Southern L.A. Board of Police Commissioners. Caruso was soon elected California. the commission’s president. In 1991, he founded the Caruso “The LA Press Club does an excellent job of connecting Family Foundation, dedicated to supporting organizations members with each other and sponsoring public events, that improve the lives of at-risk children in Los Angeles, with a so it made perfect sense to enhance our program with special focus on healthcare and education. an Advisory Board of non-journalists,” said Press Club President Robert Kovacik of NBC4. “I am thrilled that so MADELINE DI NONNO many respected men and women with such a wide range of Chief Executive Ofcer, Geena Davis Institute on expertise and experience have agreed to share their wisdom Gender in Media with us. We are fortunate to have these new partners to help Madeline Di Nonno is the CEO of us in pursuit of our mission and we deeply appreciate their the Geena Davis Institute on Gender willingness to participate.” in Media, which works with the entertainment and media community to improve gender diversity in children’s entertainment through cutting-edge research, education and advocacy programs. She previously served as President and CEO of On The Scene Productions, and drove the company’s new business development and content distribution platforms. She also worked as Senior Vice President, Marketing Alliances and Digital Media at the Hallmark Channel, and spent nearly eight years at Universal Studios Home Video as Vice President, Strategic Marketing. Di Nonno serves on the Board of Directors for the Television Academy Foundation.

LA 9 PC Above, Bob Hope Above, Frank Sinatra gave the “cats and friends. at the club” one of the best shows of the year. Left, Bob Hope and Mayor Sam Left, Marilyn Monroe, Walter Yorty Winchell and Ira Walsh.

DAVID W. FLEMING to head a major flm studio when she was engineers systemic Counsel, Latham & Watkins LLP appointed President of 20th Century Fox. fxes to entrenched David W. Fleming In 1992, she was named Chairman and inequality and has been a California CEO of Paramount Pictures and began injustice. California lawyer for 55 years. He an unprecedented tenure that lasted Law Business Journal is counsel to Latham more than 12 years. The Sherry Lansing twice designated her & Watkins, LLP, one Foundation is a nonproft organization one of the 10 most of the largest law dedicated to cancer research, health, public infuential attorneys frms in the world. He education, and encore career opportunities. in California. was the instigator of It was formed in 2005. Through impact litigation, campaigns the charter reform and inside bureaucratic maneuvering, she movement for Los Angeles 15 years ago GEORGE E. MOSS has led coalitions and clients to win more and founded the L.A. County Business Chairman, Moss Group than $30 billion in damages, bonds and Federation in 2007. Over the past 35 years, George Moss is the policy changes. She helped launch The he either chaired or served on 14 federal, chairman of the Moss Advancement Project, a policy action and State of California, L.A. County and L.A. City Group, a commercial technology organization, in 1998, and in commissions, and chaired and/or directed real estate prop- the words of Los Angeles Magazine, “picked 28 civic and charitable organizations erty management up where Clarence Darrow left of.” Rice including the LA Area Chamber of and development serves on the board of public radio station Commerce, LAEDC and VICA. He is a past company. In addition, KPCC and as chief of staf to Sinbad, her jet recipient of many civic and governmental he has been active black cat. awards including the L.A. Chamber’s Civic in banking, venture Medal of Honor. capital fnancing and real estate lending. HON. RICHARD J. RIORDAN Moss is a benefactor and former Board Former Mayor of Los Angeles SHERRY LANSING member of the Museum of Contemporary A highly respected CEO, The Sherry Lansing Foundation Art, a Founder Member of the Music Center, attorney, During almost 30 a Member of UCLA Chancellors Associates, entrepreneur and years in the motion a Board Member of Boys and Girls Club, and philanthropist before picture business, National Treasurer of the Anti-Defamation entering public Sherry Lansing League Foundation. He is Immediate Past service, Richard J. was involved in President of the City of Los Angeles Depart- Riordan served two the production, ment of Transportation Commission, having terms as Mayor of Los marketing and worked under former Mayor Antonio Vil- Angeles from 1993 distribution of more laraigosa and current Mayor Eric Garcetti. to 2001. In 2003, Gov. Schwarzenegger than 200 flms, appointed him California Secretary for including Academy Award winners Forrest CONSTANCE L. RICE Education. A strong believer in the need for Gump (1994), Braveheart (1995) and Titanic Co-Director, Advancement Project meaningful education reform, he created (1997). In 1980, she became the frst woman Connie Rice is a civil rights lawyer who legislation that demanded accountability

LA 10 PC and ensured that every California student ANGELICA SALAS Angeles, and its 1,650 member companies benefted from a quality education. Director, Coalition for Humane Immi- employ 650,000 people in L.A. County. In 1981, Riordan created The Riordan grant Rights of Los Angeles Toebben is past chairman of Mobility 21, a Foundation with the mission to provide Angelica Salas is seven-county coalition for transportation students, especially those in low-income widely regarded as funding in Southern California. He served communities, with access to a high-quality one of the most gifted on blue ribbon committees for L.A. Mayor education. He also co-founded The Riordan activist/organizers Antonio Villaraigosa, the California Endow- Programs at The Anderson School at UCLA, in the country. Since ment, the Metropolitan Water District and which serves high school and recent college becoming CHIRLA’s the Los Angeles Unifed School District. students through the use of mentors, director in 1999, Salas Prior to moving to Los Angeles, Toebben led educational workshops and community has spearheaded chambers of commerce in Kentucky, Kansas service. several ambitious and Nebraska. campaigns. She helped win in-state tuition RAMONA RIPSTON for undocumented immigrant students and MATT TOLEDO Former Executive Director, ACLU of established day laborer job centers that President & Publisher, Los Angeles Southern California have served as a model for the rest of the Business Journal Ramona Ripston nation. Under Salas’ leadership, CHIRLA and Matthew Toledo has was the Executive its partners across the country have built been the President Director of the the foundation for the recent upsurge in im- and Publisher of the ACLU of Southern migrant rights activism. Salas comes by her Los Angeles Business California and the understanding of the immigrant experience Journal (LABJ) since ACLU Foundation of frsthand. As a fve year old, she came to the 1999. He oversees all Southern California U.S. from Mexico to rejoin her parents, who editorial, advertising, for 38 years, until her had come to the U.S. to fnd work and bet- circulation and stra- retirement in early ter provide for their family. tegic planning for the 2011. She was the frst woman to direct publication. Under Toledo’s leadership, the the activities of a major afliate and led her CAROL E. SCHATZ LABJ has become the go-to source for those organization to national prominence. In President and CEO, Downtown Center interested in what drives the economy 2005, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa appointed Business Improvement District and job creation in our city. In 2004 he was Ripston to the Los Angeles Homeless Carol E. Schatz is appointed Group Publisher of California Services Authority Commission. In 2006, President and CEO Business Journals LLP, which also owns and the Los Angeles Times named her one of of the Downtown operates the Orange County Business Journal the 100 Most Powerful People in Southern Center Business and San Diego Business Journal. He is on the California. She has written and spoken Improvement District Boards of Directors of organizations includ- extensively on the rights of women, as well (DCBID), a coalition ing the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Com- as the Voting Rights Act, the rights of the of 1,600 property merce, the Los Angeles Economic Devel- accused and more. owners in the center opment Corporation and the Los Angeles of Downtown Los Sports and Entertainment Commission. HON. BILL ROSENDAHL Angeles. With a budget of almost $6 million, Former Councilmember, City of the DCBID has made Downtown L.A. safe STUART WALDMAN Los Angeles and clean, and helped bring millions of dol- President, Valley Industry & Commerce Former President, Los Angeles Press Club lars in new investment into the City Center. Association Bill Rosendahl was a Schatz also is the frst female to serve as Stuart Waldman is the member of the Los President and CEO of the Central City Asso- President of the Valley Angeles City Council ciation (CCA), Los Angeles’ premier business Industry & Commerce from 2005 to 2013, advocacy organization representing major Association, which chairing or serv- corporations, businesses and non-profts. is recognized as the ing on numerous Schatz’s dynamic and determined leader- most active and infu- infuential commit- ship have turned CCA into an advocacy ential business group tees. He focused on powerhouse for business in Los Angeles in the San Fernando promoting mass and revitalization eforts in Downtown. Valley. Prior to joining VICA, Waldman spent transit, enhancing public safety, curbing 11 years working for the California State overdevelopment, standing up for tenants’ GARY L. TOEBBEN Assembly, including seven years as Chief of rights and afordable housing, and seeking President & CEO, Los Angeles Area Staf to two Assembly members, including solutions to homelessness. He chaired both Chamber of Commerce Assembly Speaker Bob Hertzberg. From the California Commission on Tax Policy Gary L. Toebben has 2001 to 2008, Waldman was a board mem- in the New Economy and the Cable and been President and ber to the California Board of Accountancy, Telecommunication Association. Rosend- CEO of the Los An- the body that governs California’s 68,000 ahl’s public service won him the Cable Ace geles Area Chamber CPAs. In 2004, he was elected Secretary- Award, the Diamond Award, the Freedom of of Commerce since Treasurer of the board, overseeing a $7 Information Award, the Los Angeles League 2006. The Chamber is million dollar annual budget. He became of Women Voters Public Service Award and the largest business the frst non-CPA to hold that position since other honors. organization in Los the board‘s creation in 1901.

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BY KEVIN RODERICK

Remembering an Important and Original Voice Southern California Journalism Awards Dedicated to Mark Lacter

os Angeles journalism lost was enjoying every bit of it when an important voice and a stroke took him at age 59. Lfriend when Mark Lacter Mark had a funny way of first died last November. The 56th showing his interest in joining annual Southern California the digital news revolution. He Journalism Awards are dedicated sent a Business Journal reporter to him. to do a hit piece about LA Mark came out of Observed accepting political newspapers—the LA Daily News, ads. I remember the writer being Orange County Register, San apologetic, but the traditional Francisco Chronicle—and had newsman in Mark thought there been the editor of the Los Angeles must be something wrong if a Business Journal for two separate blog could cover a campaign and stints. But he was not easily take ads—even if the ad space categorized as just a print guy. was open to all sides and any Mark had created a journalist’s contact would be disclosed on the life that suited these times. an insatiable reader and blogger. site. Several months passed before His work still appeared He wrote more than 10,000 posts Mark asked to meet over regularly on the printed page, for LA Biz Observed after joining lunch at Kate Mantilini. He wanted as the business columnist in Los me in 2006. He enjoyed the to blog about L.A. business. No Angeles Magazine for eight years. freedom to critique and analyze— one else was doing it. Many also came to know his and sometimes to rant a little— The freedom to dash off short pleasantly authoritative voice on without answering to editors, items of observation between the radio. His Tuesday morning advertisers or CEOs. Just to his his other assignments appealed. conversations about business readers. But Mark never actually did it with Steve Julian on KPCC were Mark was deep into the that way. He reported his LA a must-listen and a highlight research and writing of a book Observed posts, and he backed of Mark’s week. When Mark about the airline business when up his analysis with substance. He embraced the web, he became he died. He had given himself the thought carefully about what he opportunity and the independence wrote, and bristled at the direction to pursue journalism in a variety business coverage took elsewhere of forms—a model that many on the web. news people would envy. Mark Mark’s friendship and guidance is missed every day around LA Observed. His voice is missed in the media.

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Southern California Gas Company celebrates the Los Angeles Press Club for its commitment to improving quality of life in the region. We congratulate: Ann Curry, The Joseph M. Quinn Award Khaled Abu Toameh, The Daniel Pearl Award Michael Bloomberg and Matthew Winkler, The President’s Award Maria Shriver, The Public Service Award For more than 140 years. Southern California Gas Company has been proud to partner with the communities we serve and support those who give back such positive energy to Southern California. Affordable, domestic and abundant, natural gas is part of the clean-energy solution.

© 2014 Southern California Gas Company. All copyright and trademark rights reserved. N14F0044A Adding Arts to the Entertainment Journalism Awards Scene Los Angeles Press Club Expands Name and Scope of Annual Honors With the National Arts and Entertainment Awards

or six years the Los Angeles Press Club has celebrated the best in entertainment reporting Fthrough the National Entertainment Journalism Awards. The national contest and awards banquet will continue this November, though with a bigger and better twist: The Club is adopting a new moniker, the National Arts and Entertainment Awards, to reflect the journalism industry’s natural marriage of entertainment and arts coverage. The Club’s Board of Directors unanimously approved the name change this year. “We are doing this to better reflect what this awards contest is all about,” said Press Club President Robert Kovacik of NBC4. The competition has grown to attract 400 competing journalists from across all platforms who create works Robert Redford in categories such as criticism, investigative reporting introduces Jane Fonda to a cheering audience and personality profile. The winners are chosen by a at the awards in 2012. panel of judges with deep expertise in the field of arts and entertainment journalism. The prizes are handed In 2013, Los Angeles out during a gala dinner at the Millennium Biltmore Times flm critic Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles. Kenneth Turan and Oscar-winning actor Two years ago, the Press Club board launched and humanitarian two special awards: The Visionary Award is given to Forest Whitaker a respected figure from the arts and entertainment celebrate onstage. industry who uses his or her high profile to improve Hollywood Reporter the world for others. Last year’s recipient was Forest Editor Janice Min and Whitaker, and in 2012 it went to Jane Fonda. comedian Kathy Grifn The Luminary Award goes to an arts or enjoy a moment with entertainment journalist most deserving of lifetime Jane Fonda at the achievement recognition. The 2013 honor was given 2102 NEJ gala. to film critic Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times. The 2012 prize was presented to Janice Min of The Hollywood Reporter. Some of the many journalists who have taken top HONORSINTHECOMPETITIONINCLUDEAUTHOR-',ORD for her book on Elizabeth Taylor, Stephen Rebello of Playboy for his feature “The Birth of Redneck Cinema,” and David Perel of RadarOnline for best use of social media. Recipients of the prestigious Journalist of the Year PRIZEINCLUDE+IM-ASTERSAND3TEPHEN'ALLOWAY The 2014 National Arts and Entertainment Awards gala will take place Nov. 23 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel’s Crystal Ballroom.

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DANIEL PEARL AWARD for Courage and Integrity in Journalism

Standing on the Side of Truth Veteran Middle East Journalist Khaled Abu Toameh Receives the Daniel Pearl Award for Courage in Journalism

t’s safe to say that Khaled Abu Toameh, an Israeli- to “more threats from Arab journalist and documentary filmmaker, pro-Palestine students has had a career unlike anyone in the room at and academics in the tonight’s Southern California Journalism Awards. U.S. than… from local IWhile many journalists have garnered enemies for Palestinians.” their hard-hitting reporting, few have had to live and Toameh has felt many repercussions from his work amid the unpredictable atmosphere of a heated reporting. Last year, Facebook removed his profile in Middle East. reaction to complaints about posts in which he issued That work has earned Toameh the Daniel Pearl strong criticisms of the Palestinian Authority and Jor- Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism from dan. A backlash forced Facebook to restore his page. the Los Angeles Press Club. The award is named for In an op-ed following the incident, Toameh noted the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped that, “During the past year alone, a number of Pales- and then executed by Islamic radicalists in Pakistan tinian journalists and bloggers were arrested by West- in 2002. ern-funded Palestinian Authority security services in Currently a senior reporter for The Jerusalem Report, the West Bank for criticizing the P.A. leadership on Toameh has produced documentaries on Palestine for their Facebook pages…. It is the duty of Facebook and the BBC and Australian and European television. He is Western societies to side with those seeking freedom known in part for his hard-hitting coverage unveiling and not to be complicit in suppressing their voices.” Yassar Arafat’s connection to payments made to the Although attacked by critics as siding with Israel, armed wing of Fatah and financial corruption within Toameh insisted in his recent interview with Hadassah the Palestinian Authority. Magazine that he was operating impartially. Toameh, who lives in Jerusalem with his wife and “I am only reporting what many Arab journalists children, is also the longtime Palestinian affairs pro- want to report,” he said. “If I resided in Ramallah, I DUCERFOR."#.EWSANDTHE7EST"ANKAND'AZACOR- would not be reporting many things. There are P.A. respondent for the Jerusalem Post and U.S. News and journalists who post critical things on Facebook and World Report!DDITIONALLY HEWRITESFORTHE'ATESTONE risk prison. Those who ask the wrong questions at Institute, a non-profit international policy council and press conferences are sometimes detained or even think tank in New York, where he is a senior adviser. tortured.” An outspoken and controversial figure in the Mid- Judea Pearl, the father of Daniel Pearl, and a noted dle East, Toameh recently told Hadassah Magazine artificial intelligence theorist and computer scientist, that the situation for journalists covering the West credited Toameh with revealing stories and situations "ANKAND'AZA hHASBECOMEMUCHMORECHALLENGING many would otherwise never hear about. and dangerous. The [Palestinian Authority] expects “Khaled Abu Toameh has been telling us, with you to serve as an official spokesperson and avoid courage and objectivity, what life is like in the West criticism of its leaders.” "ANKAND'AZA v0EARLSAIDh2ARELYHASAREPORTER Yet, at the same time, he says his unusual role cov- been so successful in penetrating a conflict so com- ering the conflict there—as an Arab Muslim living in plex and remaining consistently and definitively on Israel and representing the Israeli press—opens him the side of truth.”

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JOSEPH M. QUINN AWARD for Journalistic Excellence and Distinction Giving a Voice to Those Who Have None

nn Curry’s recent NBC News proj- LIFETIME ect, the digital documentary “Twit- ter Diplomacy,” was notable not ACHIEVEMENT only for the way it explored social media’sA role in easing tensions between the AWARD WINNER U.S. and Iran, but in the behind-the-scenes ANN CURRY HAS access she and her team were granted on both sides of the negotiations. MADE A CAREER Curry, the recipient of this year’s Joseph M. Quinn Award for Lifetime Achievement, has OUT OF BEING had a distinguished career trekking to places FAIR AND GIVING such as Sudan, Serbia, Haiti and Congo, cap- turing the stories of people swept up in conflict THE WORLD A and disaster. At the same time, as in “Twit- ter Diplomacy,” she has secured challenging CHANCE interviews with such figures as then-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2011; TO CARE Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, in his first interview with an American news organiza- BY TED JOHNSON tion in 2011; and Sudanese President Omar PHOTOS NBC NEWS al-Bashir in 2007. The latter interview—which lasted two hours—came just as international attention and pressure was increasing on Sudan over Ann interviewed the Dalai Lama three times. the ethnic cleansing in the Darfur region. “There is no failsafe way to secure tough interviews, but it does help a great deal if extraordinary and life-changing,” Curry says. you are seen as fair,” says Curry, NBC News’ “Her wish was simply to illuminate. You felt national and international correspondent and she had no other agenda. It was a rare thing a “Today” anchor-at-large, via e-mail. “People to sit with such hard-won wisdom.” are generally willing and sometimes, even Curry was born to an enlisted Navy man, eager to face hard questions. But they will only Bob Curry, and Hiroe Nagase, the daughter of talk to you if they feel they can trust you not to a Japanese rice farmer. They met when Bob misrepresent their answers.” was stationed in Japan during the Allied occu- Curry interviewed the Dalai Lama three pation after World War II. Ann was the first times, and interviewed Pakistan Prime Minis- of five children, and the family moved often, ter Benazir Bhutto just two months before her FROM'UAMTOVARIOUSSTATESBEFOREHERFATHER assassination in 2007. Her favorite interview, retired in Ashland, Ore. she says, was with Maya Angelou in 2002, As Curry recounted, her parents faced big in which the author and poet, who recently challenges in their lives: Her mother survived passed away, said, “It takes courage to be bombing raids and starvation, and endured kind.” racism when she was in the U.S. Her father “What she said in our interview was raised the family on a modest salary, but

LA 18 PC Being considered a fair journalist, Ann has managed to secure hard-to-get interviews with top world leaders, including former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (above) in 2011 and former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007, just two months before she was assassinated.

would tell Ann, “Trials and tribulations make pipeline in San Bernardino. you stronger.” She joined NBC News in 1990, first as Chi- Curry attended high school in Ashland and cago correspondent and later as anchor of graduated from the University of Oregon with “NBC News at Sunrise.” She became news a degree in journalism in 1978. She got an anchor on “Today” in 1997, serving in that post internship at KTVL-TV, and later became that for 14 years. station’s first female reporter. She moved on to During that period she earned a reputa- Portland before landing in Los Angeles in 1984. tion for reporting from some of the world’s Working for KCBS-TV, she won Emmys for her hotspots, including Baghdad in the weeks lead- coverage of the 1987 Whittier earthquake and ing up to the war in Iraq. She has written that another for covering the explosion of a gas she was “drawn to telling stories of people who

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the conflict. She won an Emmy for her cover- age, but her reports also were recognized for elevating attention to the crisis. “Our Darfur reporting resonated because it gave voice to people, particularly women, who had none,” she says. “There was a kind of preciousness in listening to their deeply personal experiences. You felt glued to the TV, because it was hard not to realize how rare and unlikely it was to hear from people who had survived genocide. Perhaps our attention was drawn to the crisis because of the outrage we felt. In Darfur, we saw ourselves.” She travelled to the region several more TIMES INCLUDINGAWEEKLONGTRIPWITH'EORGE Clooney in 2010 through the southern region of Sudan. In Guideposts magazine, Curry wrote, “Your knowing about what’s happening in the rest of the world gives you a chance to care, and it is that empathy that offers the greatest hope.” Ann won an Emmy for her Darfur otherwise might not be heard.” That is a different outlook in a business genocide reporting and traveled She travelled to Sudan three times from often seen as a profession of cynics, but it also there with actor George Clooney 2006 to 2007 to report on the crisis in Darfur highlights the power of the media to make an in 2010. and Chad, focusing on the victims caught up in impact.

Los Angeles City Firefghters Local 112 Te UFLAC Executive Board would like to congratulate all of the Finalists who were selected for the prestigious LA Press Club Awards. We are proud to have nominated the following individuals:

- Patrick Healy, NBCLA - Brian Humphrey, LAFD - Erik Scott, LAFD - Katherine Main, LAFD - Adam VanGerpen, LAFD - Jessica Nassour, Blackman & Associates

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One Career Just Isn’t Enough NEW YORK MAYOR AND BLOOMBERG NEWS FOUNDER MICHAEL BLOOMBERG RECEIVES THE PRESS CLUB’S PRESIDENT’S AWARD

BY PAT T here isn’t a Mr. Associated Press, nor in 1942. His escape velocity from his mid- MORRISON is there a Mr. UPI. dle-class home in his hometown of Medford, But there is a Mr. Bloomberg, Mass., took him to Johns Hopkins University Michael Bloomberg, and the news and then to Harvard for his MBA. He worked Tservice that bears his name is only one of the his way through school by parking cars and incarnations of a life that has rounded the with student loans, which presumably he has bases of success in virtually every field that paid off by now. matters in the big stadium of American life. He was a partner at Salomon Brothers by Bloomberg and Matthew Winkler, the editor the age of 30, the founder of his own startup in chief of Bloomberg News, are receiving the in a one-room office by age 40, a billionaire Los Angeles Press Club’s President’s Award by age 50, mayor of New York by age 60, and for Impact on Media. a billion-dollar philanthropist by age 70. Bloomberg was born on Valentine’s Day Still, for our purposes here, his most important career pivot was birthing Bloom- berg News. It began as an information service for financial news sent to computer terminals of Bloomberg subscribers, but soon the medium also embraced the message. By 1990, Bloom- berg News had agreed to the terms set forth by the Washington, D.C. journalists’ news accreditation committee to become a creden- tialed and fully fledged news service. Since then, Bloomberg News has gone from strength to strength, bucking the lam- entable jobs trend in journalism by hanging out the “help wanted” sign for hundreds of journalists. Today, several hundred newspapers carry its content; tens of millions of TV sets and computers carry its television news content. Its duet with the Washington Post resulted in a joint news service meant to create a synergy of political and economic news. From there, Bloomberg News acquired television and radio stations, produced TV and radio news programs to air on them,

LA 22 PC crafted Bloomberg Television into a business point of owning it if you don’t? Certainly not news channel, and extended its reporting to make money. If you wanna have fun, buy reach internationally with bureaus across the New York Post.” Europe and Asia, in the fashion of the paper- So, would he buy it? No, he said. “I would and-ink newspaper empires of 40 years ago. try to upscale it, and that’s what would Among other undertakings, it added destroy it.” Business Week to its portfolio, renaming it As for the print world, well, he told the Bloomberg Businessweek and reinvigorating magazine, “They are not good businesses. the magazine that started publishing just one The media world is changing. Newsweek month before the stock market crash of 1929. and U.S. News, two of the big newsweeklies As mayor, Bloomberg, perhaps feeling the nationwide, go out of print, and Time mag- need to compete with pioneering examples azine’s thinner than it was before. There’s in Beverly Hills and the state of California, something changing. Whether it’s good or launched his own New York City smoking bad for democracy, whether it’s good or bad ban; it was part of a number of Bloomberg for the public, I don’t know, but it’s changing.” health initiatives that prompted Bloomberg In the meantime, Bloomberg News and to make fun of the mockery they earned in Bloomberg Businessweek have wound up an appearance on “Saturday Night Live.” It positioned alongside big players at the busi- marked the end of his three terms as mayor, ness news table, competing with the likes of and he said he planned to be “fulfilling a life- Dow Jones and Reuters. There was, in fact, a long dream of enjoying a small soda on a Mr. Reuter; in the years before the telegraph, nonsmoking beach.” he got a jump on the competition by sending In an interview with New York magazine, news swiftly, via the feathered equivalent of Bloomberg was asked about his journalist the Internet—carrier pigeons. ambitions, and why his fellow billionaire Jeff For Michael Bloomberg too, hope—like Bezos bought the Washington Post. “I have its cousin, ambition—is metaphorically what no idea,” Bloomberg said. “He said that he Emily Dickinson found it to be: “the thing wasn’t going to get involved in it. What’s the with feathers that perches in the soul.”

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A Partner in Changing the Media Landscape BLOOMBERG NEWS’ EDITOR-IN-CHIEF MATTHEW WINKLER SHARES THE PRESS CLUB’S PRESIDENT’S AWARD

BY PAT T nlike his partner in the founding of paper for two years. When I arrived, I was MORRISON Bloomberg News, Matthew Wink- immediately covering police, courts, county ler is a native New Yorker, but he government, sports and even did community spent his college years and his feature stories. earlyU journalism career in Ohio. “There wasn’t any beat I wasn’t exposed Last year, Winkler accompanied one of to from the moment I started. It couldn’t have his three children—Lydia, his fellow Kenyon been more exhilarating for me. The way I College graduate—back to his professional thought about being a newspaperman is I get journalism alma mater, Ohio’s Mount Vernon to ask all the questions I want and someone News. Here is his own job description, and cuts me a check at the end of the week. What how he got bitten by the newspaper bug: “I a great way to go through life.” did everything. It was the first newspaper job Here it is, more than 30 years later. The I had outside of editing the college news- Mount Vernon News is still published six days

LA 24 PC a week and distributed to 10,000 homes. It INCLUDINGTHE'ERALD,OEB&OUNDATION also has a website and a paywall. Lifetime Achievement Award, and an Emmy Winkler is now the editor-in-chief of lifetime achievement award for business and an international Bloomberg staff number- financial reporting. ing nearly 2,000 journalists who also ask Bloomberg has expanded far beyond its questions and get a check at the end of the original financial reportage mission, and week—in part thanks to Winkler. He is shar- its journalists’ work on an array of sub- ing the Los Angeles Press Club’s President’s jects, from sports to food and lifestyle top- Award for Impact on Media with Michael ics, appears in more than 400 publications Bloomberg. Winkler’s own escape velocity took him back to the East Coast and New York, where “The way I thought about being a newspaperman he wrote for the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, among others. In 1990, he and future mayor is I get to ask all the questions I want and Bloomberg co-founded Bloomberg News. He has also served on the Committee to someone cuts me a check at the end of the week. Protect Journalists board, the Council on For- eign Relations, the Economic Club of New What a great way to go through life.” York and the International Women’s Media Foundation boards, and has chaired the board of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship Pro- across 65 nations, as well as in magazines gram at Columbia University. and newsletters, and on Bloomberg’s own He’s written The Bloomberg Way: A Guide 24-hour television and radio network. for Reporters and Editors. He also teamed up In short, Winkler has been instrumental again with Bloomberg to write the former in making Bloomberg make big news—quite New York mayor’s autobiography, Bloomberg a track record for a New Yorker who had to by Bloomberg. go to Ohio to begin to make it big in the Big Winkler has received many awards, Apple, and beyond.

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Leading by Example, and Making the World a Better Place, Too

lthough Maria Shriver already had a uncle, President John F. Kennedy. JOURNALIST distinguished career in journalism, “But one week later he was killed,” said AND FORMER her life changed in 2003 when she Shriver, “so it kind of never went anywhere.” woke up to find herself First Lady of Shriver set out to uncover the status of CALIFORNIA California.A Determined not to let her role be women today. What she found shocked her. simply symbolic, she created pioneering pro- “I was surprised by how many women were FIRST LADY grams and initiatives to help actually the primary or co-bread winners the working poor, military for their family,” recalled Shriver. MARIA SHRIVER families and the disabled, “It surprised me that only one- RECEIVES THE and to champion women. fifth of American families now 3HE INHERITED THE 'OV- had a man that went off to work LOS ANGELES ernor’s Conference for and a woman who stayed home, Women but soon realized and that image had not really PRESS CLUB’S there was little research caught up.” PUBLIC SERVICE into the lives of modern As first lady she could no lon- women. She discovered ger practice journalism. Instead, PRIZE that the last national sur- she created a new vehicle. vey had been conducted “The Shriver Report is an initia- BY ALEX BEN nearly half a century ear- tive I started when I didn’t have BLOCK lier by Eleanor Roosevelt. a journalistic platform, and it has Those results were pre- continued,” she said. “I think jour- sented in fall 1963 to her nalism is at its best when it informs, and it aspires and it ignites you to do something. That’s why I went into journalism, and I think that’s what the Shriver Report does.” That focus, and her career, has earned Shriver the Los Angeles Press Club’s Public Service Award for Journalistic Contributions to Civic Life. Those kinds of accolades are not surprising to Alexandra Wallace, Senior Vice President of NBC News. “Maria has made it her life’s mission to shine a light on issues that matter most to women, especially those in need,” Wallace said. “She is a trailblazer in this space and we’re so proud of the work she’s doing.” Another admirer is Oprah Winfrey, who

LA 26 PC praised Shriver for “reviving old-fashioned Maria Shriver was born in Chicago but grew (Previous page) - Oprah solid journalism and igniting important con- up around Washington, D.C., where her father admires Maria and her “old- fashioned solid journalism” versations about the changing roles of women helped found the Peace Corps. He was also an and says “she has her fnger and men in our society. I was profoundly architect of Lyndon Johnson’s War On Poverty on the pulse of what really affected by the eye-opening documentary she and ran for vice president (’72) and president matters to people.” recently produced about families living ‘pay- (’76). It was during that first campaign that his check to paycheck’ She has her finger on the only daughter discovered her interest in jour- Above - From the California State House to Washington’s pulse of what really matters to people and is nalism. corridors of power, Maria able to document it in a way that brings value “I grew up with two people who were what has worked with leaders, and true public service.” I call Architects of Change,” said Shriver. “I including Rep. Nancy Pelosi, never heard them talk about money, but every former Speaker of the House Parental Inspiration day they talked about what they were doing and current Minority Leader, and many others as she Maria Owings Shriver was born into a fam- to change the world. They challenged us kids “shines a light on injustice ily of wealth, but one that also taught public to think about what we could do. My parents and inequality.” service. Her mother Eunice Kennedy Shriver, drilled that down big time into all five of us.” sister of President Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. !FTERGRADUATINGFROM'EORGETOWN5NIVER- Kennedy and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, was sity in 1977, Shriver landed a job at CBS News. an advocate for children’s health and disability The first thing they gave her, recalled Shriver, issues, as well as the founder of Special Olym- “was a binder on ethics and standards that pics, a cause her children and grandchildren scared the living daylights out of me.” continue to support. She found a mentor in award-winning CBS

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Hollander said Shriver uses her “reporting and story-telling skills to uncover and discover what’s going on in this country, what needs to be changed, and how to do it. I really believe that not just because of who she is, but also because of her character and standards and storytelling skill, people all across this country pay attention when she shines a light on injus- tice and inequality.” On Jan. 14 of this year, Shriver received another kind of honor. She was invited to the White House by President Obama to discuss “The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink.” Some critics sneered that Shriver was just seeking more govern- ment welfare programs. She was unfazed by the critics. “Anybody who said that didn’t read the report and didn’t listen to me,” responded Shriver. “People said, ‘Oh she’s just putting Maria met with Pres. Obama producer Roberta Hollander, who more than on the mantle of her father, screaming about earlier this year to discuss 30 years later helps edit The Shriver Report. big government.’ But what I clearly said was her special Shriver Report on Shriver later moved to NBC and worked there there are things each and every one of us can women’s issues to encourage a more “compassionate, until she became first lady. She returned to the to do create a more compassionate, caring, caring” nation. network in 2013 as a special correspondent. conscious culture and country and companies. Her work has garnered numerous awards, and We can put the care in career.” she has been behind acclaimed documentaries That certainly is how Maria Shriver has led and half a dozen best-selling books. her life.

with Architects of Change

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ELI BROAD is a renowned Angeles to a gallery in Paris. A 19-time Emmy award business leader who built two winner, Harvey received an Emmy for a multiple-part Fortune 500 companies from report on basketball great Earvin “Magic” Johnson a the ground up over a five- decade after he was diagnosed with HIV. Other awards decade career in business. include being named Best News Anchor by the Associated He is the founder of both 0RESS ANATIONAL%MMYANDSEVEN'OLDEN-IKES SunAmerica Inc. and KB Home (formerly Kaufman and ROBERT KOVACIK is the current Broad Home Corporation). President of the Los Angeles Press Today, Eli Broad and his Club. He is an Anchor/Reporter wife, Edythe, are devoted for NBC4 Southern California’s to philanthropy as founders newscasts at 5 p.m., 6 pm and 11 of The Broad Foundations, which they established p.m. He joined the station in 2004 to advance entrepreneurship for the public good in and is known for bringing a local education, science and the arts. The Broad Foundations, perspective to international events. which include The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and Kovacik was NBC4’s correspondent The Broad Art Foundation, have assets of $2.7 billion. for the 2013 Papal Conclave in Rome, as well as assigned The Broads had created a family foundation in the to the Summer Olympics in London, where his coverage 1960s as a way to support their charitable interests and WASLATERHONOREDBYTHE"RITISH#ONSUL 'ENERALOF,OS causes. But with their financial success from the sale of Angeles. SunAmerica, the Broads focused their charitable giving One of his most compelling live shots captured an in a new style of investing that was more akin to their extensive manhunt for an alleged murderer. The suspect business acumen: venture philanthropy. An entrepreneur suddenly appeared and surrendered to Kovacik live on at heart, Eli Broad has applied his same spirit of creating the air. new enterprises to the family’s approach to philanthropy. Kovacik’s recent investigation into 911 response-times Eli Broad has held numerous leadership roles on prompted the Mayor to call for an audit of the LAFD. boards around the country. He was the founding Another investigation into LA Animal Shelters helped chairman and life trustee of The Museum of force the City of LA to change its laws. His investigation Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and a life trustee of into President Clinton’s impeachment was included in the the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the California Kenneth Starr Report. Institute of Technology, and The Museum of Modern Art Robert Kovacik began his career in New York City, in New York. Eli Broad is also a Fellow of the American where he was named the youngest anchor in the nation’s Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1994 was named largest market leading daily coverage of KCET-TV’s Chevalier in the National Order of the Legion of Honor by launch of “Nightworld.” the Republic of France. From 2004 to 2009, he served as As a journalist, Robert Kovacik has received numerous a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution by appointment ACCOLADESINCLUDING%MMY 'OLDEN-IKE !0AND%DWARD of the U.S. Congress and the President. Eli Broad received R. Murrow awards. And he was named Television the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy in 2007 and the David Journalist of Year in 2013 at the 55th Annual Southern Rockefeller Award from The Museum of Modern Art in California Journalism Awards. 2009. He is passionate about issues impacting Southern Cali- fornians and offers his services to a number of charities. PAT HARVEY is the co-anchor Kovacik is an honors graduate of both Brown of CBS 2’s weekday 5 and 11 5NIVERSITYAND#OLUMBIA5NIVERSITYS'RADUATE3CHOOLOF p.m. newscasts. She joined CBS Journalism. 2 following 20 years with sister station KCAL 9 as one of the original LISA LING is currently an executive producer and host of anchors of the nation’s first nightly “Our America” on OWN: the Oprah Winfrey Network, now three-hour primetime newscast. in its fifth season. For the show, she has embedded in a Harvey, who received the Joseph Midwest town ravaged by an onslaught of heroin, gotten M. Quinn Lifetime Achievement exclusive access inside an anti-gay religious movement award from the Press Club in 2004, regularly reports on and witnessed the manifestation of PTSD in returning issues of concern to Southern California and the world. veterans of war. In September, Ling will move from OWN Her reporting has ranged from filing live reports at the to CNN, where she will have her own show. She got her inauguration of President Barack Obama to following start in journalism as a correspondent for “Channel One the story of a homeless painter from the streets of Los News,” where she covered the civil war in Afghanistan

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at 21 years of age. In her show hosts. She is a senior fellow in in the Luskin School career she has reported from of Public Affairs at UCLA and the bestselling author of Rio dozens of countries, covering L.A., Tales from the Los Angeles River, a nonfiction book on stories about gang rape in the Los Angeles River. Pink’s, the famous Los Angeles hot the Congo, bride burning in dog stand, has a veggie dog named after her. India, the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda and the Mara JUDEA PEARL was born in Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang Tel Aviv and is a graduate of in Central America. She is the Technion-Israel Institute the co-author of Somewhere of Technology. He came to Inside: One Sister’s Captivity in the United States for post North Korea and the Other’s graduate work in 1960 and Fight to Bring Her Home, which she penned with her received his Master’s degree sister, Laura. in physics from Rutgers University and his Ph.D. PATT MORRISON is renowned in degree in 1965 from the print, radio and television. Aside Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. from winning a share of two Pulitzer Dr. Pearl joined the faculty Prizes as a columnist for the Los of UCLA in 1969, where he is currently a professor Angeles Times, she also has several of computer science and director of the Cognitive %MMYSAND'OLDEN-IKE!WARDS Systems Laboratory. He is known internationally for his for her work on KCET-TV and KPCC. contributions to artificial intelligence, human reasoning TALKERS Magazine ranked her and philosophy of science. He is the author of more than among the nation’s top 100 radio talk three hundred scientific papers and three path-breaking

Congratulations to all the recipients.

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Rabbi Marvin Hier and the entire staf of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and Museum of Tolerance

SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER MUSEUM OF TOLERANCE leadership with a global reach

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books in his fields of interest. News in Los Angeles. Dr. Judea Pearl is the father of slain Wall Street Journal Prior to joining MundoFOX, reporter Daniel Pearl and president of the Daniel Pearl Sarassa was the Anchor and Foundation, www.danielpearl.org, which he co-founded Producer for Univision’s KINC in Las in April 2002 “to continue Daniel’s life-work of dialogue Vegas and a Correspondent for news and understanding and to address the root causes of his magazine show Primer Impacto. tragedy.” The Daniel Pearl Foundation sponsors journal- Before moving to Nevada, she ism fellowships aimed at promoting honest reporting and anchored and reported for Univision East-West understanding, organizes worldwide concerts KORO in Texas. She started her that promote inter-cultural respect, and sponsors public career at Aquí y Ahora, Univision’s top investigative dialogues between Jews and Muslims to explore common journalistic show. ground and air grievances. The Foundation has received Carolina served on the board of governors for the the Commonground’s Partners in Humanity Award in Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and is currently 2002 and the 2003 Roger E. Joseph Prize for its “distinc- a board member for the LA Press Club. tive contribution to humanity.” Judea Pearl and his wife Ruth Pearl are co-editors of JILL STEWART, a print, digital the book I am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the and broadcast journalist, is Last Words of Daniel Pearl, winner of the 2004 National managing editor of L.A. Weekly, Jewish Book Award for Anthologies, which provides a where she oversees journalists panoramic view of how Jews define themselves in the across all platforms who pursue post 9/11 era. the newspaper’s brand of hyper- localism and analysis. Before joining CAROLINA SARASSA is 3-time Emmy® award and L.A. Weekly in 2006, she was West A TIME.ATIONAL'ABRIELAWARD WINNING!NCHORAND Coast editor of Open Source Media, Correspondant for MundoFOX National Network overseeing a team that brought 200 bloggers representing the political left, right and center under a common umbrella, and managing one of the earliest large-scale efforts in the world to assure that bloggers got paid for content. Prior to that, Jill owned a self-syndicated experience the column that critically examined the Sacramento power elite, and was a Metro reporter for the Los Angeles Times. new latimes.com She holds an MA in journalism from Stanford.

COLLEEN WILLIAMS serves as co-anchor of NBC4 Southern California’s weekday newscasts, NBC4 News at 5 and 11 p.m., alongside Chuck Henry. She joined the station in 1986. An award-winning journalist with more than 30 years experience, Williams is the recipient of numerous honors, including designed to fit your life > as it happens MULTIPLE%MMYAND'OLDEN-IKE!WARDS3HEALSOWAS RECOGNIZEDWITHA'OLDEN-IKEFORTEAMCOVERAGEOFTHE Completely reinvented to be as bold and compelling as our Chatsworth train crash, and an L.A. Emmy Award for journalism and as fast moving as the world you live in. Best Light News Story for “Toll Booth Bandits.” Prior to joining NBC4, Williams co-anchored the 5 p.m. news at KCBS-TV, and before that she was co-anchor of the noon and weekend newscasts at KPIX-TV in San Francisco. Williams is passionate about supporting social causes impacting Southern Californians. She participates take our tour and see for yourself annually at fundraising events for the Rape Crisis Center latimes.com/A sItHappens in Riverside and Casa de Las Amigas, a rehabilitation center for women, in Pasadena, among many other organizations.

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FEATURE (Online) College, “Feminism Finds a Room of Its 4, 2013” Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, Own” Daily 49er Staf, CSU Long Beach, “Gone “Sinful Synergy: How the Cronut Seduced Marsha A. Perry, Collegian Times, Los Angeles South” America” City College, “Measured By Meters: Daily Sundial, Cal State Northridge, “Daily Joseph Allchin, Takepart.com, “This Girl Requiem for a Sprinter” Sundial Print Editions” Walked Through Fire So We Can Get Jeans Jackson Prince, Highlights, Beverly Hills High Los Angeles Collegian, L.A. City College, for $9” School, “Get Back to Your Own Side of the “Special JFK Memorial Issue” Diane Anderson-Minshall, Advocate.com, Generation Gap, Mom” UCLA Daily Bruin, UCLA, “Malawi” “Remembering the Worst Mass Killing of Alexander Woodman, New You Magazine, LGBT People in US History” UCLA, “Obesity Among Emirati Youth in B2. 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C3. NEWS FEATURE, Under 1,000 Words B4. PERSONALITY PROFILE (Newspapers H4. PERSONALITY PROFILE (Online) (Newspapers under 50K) over 50K) Deborah Behrens, LA Stage Times, “Amy Christian Brown, The Downey Patriot, Gendy Alimurung, LA Weekly, “How Did Paul Brenneman Not Afraid To Rapture, Blister, “Vulnerable Homeless Residents Brockmann End Up With 55,000 Dresses?” Burn At Gefen Playhouse” Discovered in Downey” Fred Dickey, San Diego Tribune, “Prison Sarah Bennett, Long Beach Post, “The Donna Evans, Los Angeles Downtown News, Interview With Charles ‘Andy’ Williams” Anthropomorphic Imagination Of Lara “For Downtown Jaywalkers, A Lump of Karmel Melamed, Orange County Register, Meintjes” Christmas Coal” “Doctor Had Need To Write Holocaust” Nadja Brandt, Bloomberg News, “King Of Brian Hews and Randy Economy, Los Cerritos Michael J. Mishak, Los Angeles Times, “For Down Market Ofces Bets On Rentals” News, “Undercover FBI Agent ‘Rocky Patel’ Gavin Newsom, It’s Lonely Just Below The James Desborough, Daily Mail Online, “The Used Dal Rae in Pico Rivera To Stage Top” Unluckiest Man in the World” Calderon Sting Operation” Ben Westhof, LA Weekly, “Becoming Rif Raf” Jaci Stephen, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, “Eva Longoria, Me And The C Word” F3. NEWS OR FEATURE SHORT FORM C4. PERSONALITY PROFILE (Newspapers (Radio) under 50K) E5. PERSONALITY PROFILE (TV) Stephanie O’Neill, KPCC, “Becoming Los Randy Economy, Los Cerritos News, “Bob Caroline Armitage, Andrea Grossman, Patt Angeles” Olmsted Doesn’t Miss A Punch” Morrison, Bohdan Zachary, Angela Boisvert Stephanie O’Neill, KPCC, “Psychedelic Science” Donna Evans, Los Angeles Downtown News, and Mary Mazur, KCET, “Linda Ronstadt In “The Most Interesting Man in The Phil” Conversation with Patt Morrison” G3. FEATURE/COMMENTARY, Under 1,000 Alfred Lee, Los Angeles Business Journal, words (Magazines) Stephanie Fischette and Jennifer Laski, The “Russell Goldsmith: Taking Image Into Hollywood Reporter, “Why Ricky Gervais Johnny Dodd, People, “Escape from Account” Went Nice For Netfix” Polygamy” Mark R. Madler, San Fernando Valley Business Stephanie Fischette, Jennifer Laski and Victor Gregg Kilday, The Hollywood Reporter, “So Journal, “Enemy No.1” Klaus, The Hollywood Reporter, “Kelly Ripa What’s Wrong With Oscar Voters Being Theresa Marie Moreau, The Remnant, “A And Michael Strahan Talk ‘Chemistry’ Old?” Chinese Handmaid of Christ” During The New York Power List Photo Brian Lowry, Variety, “The Bundle of Joy That Shoot” Ended My Emmy Streak” J3. PERSONALITY PROFILE (International) Kenny Holmes, NBC4, “Hispanic Heritage: Brian Lowry, Variety, “Old Media Struggles to Daniel Compatangelo, RSI TV – Italian Languages Of Life” Play New Numbers Game” language Swiss Televison, “NASA Project Jacob Sullum, Reason, “When Policing Scientist Ed Stone – The Father of Voyager D3. PORTRAIT (Photo) Becomes Harassment” Spacecraft 1 and 2” Ringo H.W. Chiu, Los Angeles Business Journal, Barbara Gasser, Wiener, “Gottfried Helnwein: “Eli Broad” J2. FEATURE (International) The Homecoming of a Revolutionary Artist” Chris Dougherty, Breanna Britton, Darrick Tina Jøhnk Christensen, Plaza Kvinna, Alessandra Mattanza, Cosmopolitan Italy, Harris, Michele Stueven and Art Streiber, “Weapons – A False Sense of Security” “Sono 157 cm Ma Volo Sempre Alto” People, “The Fabulous Life of Rod Stewart” Romain Raynaldy, AFP Wire, “Quadriplegic Jaci Stephen, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Chris Mihal, Bailey Franklin, and Platon, French Fashion Designer Seeks the “Simon Cowell: the Baby That’s Lifted My Variety, “Day Dream Believer, Portrait of American Dream” Blues” Director, Ben Stiller” Tom Tugend, Jerusalem Post, “Steven Kerstin Zilm, German Public Radio, “Sama Chris Mihal, Bailey Franklin, Julian Broad, Spielberg Refects on Life” Wareh – Bringing Hope to Refugees” Variety, “Force of Gravity” Tom Walters, Liam Hyland, CTV – Canadian Carrie Smith, Jennifer Laski, Miller Mobley Television, “Caine Revisited” F5. PERSONALITY PROFILE (Radio) and Shanti Marlar, The Hollywood Reporter, Kerstin Zilm, German Public Radio, “The Day Avishay Artsy, KCRW, “Charles Bukowski” “Duck Dynasty” ICE Picked Up Daddy” Ashley Bailey, KPCC, “Hollywood Stuntman” Alex Cohen, KPCC, “Van Dyke Parks” X1. OBITUARY (Cross platform) D2. FEATURE PHOTO Kim Masters and Darby Maloney, KCRW, Gustavo Arellano, OC Weekly, “Ding-Dong! Chris Dougherty, Brenna Britton, Gladees “Guillermo Del Toro” Barbara Coe Is Dead!” Prieur, Joe Pugliese, People, “Valerie Kim Masters and Darby Maloney, KCRW, “Lee Michael Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, Harper—Ready To Say Goodbye” Daniels” “Critic Roger Ebert Dies At 70” Cheyne Gateley and Craig Cutler, Variety, “The Steven Gaydos, Variety, “The Night I Was Hard Sell, Oct. #2, Cover” G4. PERSONALITY PROFILE (Magazines) Kissed By Lawrence Of Arabia” Jennifer Laski and Joe Pugliese, The Tafy Brodesser-Akner, New York Times David Kirby, TakePart.com, “An Icon Passes: Hollywood Reporter, “Sidney Poitier And Magazine, “Max Brooks Is Not Kidding The Day I Dined With Nelson Mandela” Family” About the Zombie Apocalypse” Richard Stellar, TheWrap, “A Death On Jennifer Laski, Jenny Sargent and Art Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter, Facebook” Streiber, The Hollywood Reporter, “Jennifer “Pat Kingsley on the Record” Lopez and Stylist Mariel Haenn and Rob Cynthia Littleton, Variety, “The Gospel Of Mark” G7. IN-HOUSE OR CORPORATE Zangardi” Jenelle Riley, Variety, “Christian Bale: A PUBLICATION (Magazines) Chris Mihal, Bailey Franklin, Rene & Radka, Complicated Virtuoso” Collegian Times Staf, Los Angeles Collegian, Variety, “Power of Women” Jenelle Riley, Variety, “Him + Her” “Collegian Times-Summer 2013”

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Adam VanGerpen, The Los Angeles Firefghter Staf, Pacifc Coast Business Times, “Name H9. SPORTS (Online) Staf, Variety, “Violence & Entertainment” Dispute Boils Over: Julia Child Foundation Aaron Fischman, ATLX, “Concussions Sues Williams-Sonoma” Threatening BMX Racer’s Career” B13. DESIGN (Newspapers over 50K) Pacifc Coast Business Times Staf, Pacifc Antonio Martin Guirado, EFE News Services, “El Gerardo Alatriste, Hoy Los Angeles, “Ganar o Coast Business Times, “Burning Questions” Sueño Roto De Lenny Cooke” Ganar” Andrew Seah, Neon Tommy, “Nick Young And Gerardo Alatriste, Hoy Los Angeles, G8. HEADLINE (Magazines) Swaggy P. Arrive Back In L.A.” “Mayweather vs. Canelo Alvarez” Andrew Wallenstein, Variety Magazine, “Debt David Tobia, Neon Tommy, “Why Ed Orgeron Rodas Heiner, Hoy Los Angeles, “Comedia, of A Salesman” Won’t Coach USC Next Season” Familia y Politica” Andrew Wallenstein, Variety Magazine, “Go Matt Welch, Reason, “The Inglory Of Jackie Rodas Heiner, Hoy Los Angeles, “Alex Lora Fund Yourself” Robinson’s Times” Todavia Quema” Darrick Rainey, LA Weekly, “The Fabulous F9. USE OF SOUND (Radio) E7. SPORTS (TV) Flying Morgans” Avishay Artsy, KCRW, “At-Risk Youth Ofered Joel Goodling, Larry Patin, FOX Sports West/ DJ Skills” Prime Ticket, “Teemu and Faryan” C13. DESIGN (Newspapers under 50K) Avishay Artsy, Anayansi-Diaz Cortes and Rahshaun Haylock, Patrick McBride, Jef Brian Allison, Yumi Kanegawa and Alexis Jenny Radelet, KCRW, “Chivas USA” Shearin, Jake Loskutof and Shawn Rawlins, Los Angeles Downtown News, Avishay Artsy, KCRW, “LA by Bike” Kopelakis, FOX Sports West/Prime Ticket, “Issue of June 17” Avishay Artsy, Ari Karpel and Darby Maloney, “Brian Banks’ Tale of Redemption” Jonathan Fox & Cristina Gonzales, The KCRW, “Sounds Behind Django Unchained” Patrick McBride, Larry Patin and Lindsay Downey Patriot, “Downey 2013, A Year to Madeleine Brand, Saul Gonzalez and Matt Rhodes, FOX Sports West/Prime Ticket, Remember” Holzman, KCRW, “Power & Water” “CIF-SS 100th Anniversary: Bryshon Nellum” Robert Landry, San Fernando Valley Business Tony Stefanelli, FOX Sports West/ Prime Ticket, Journal, “Model Millennials” B11. SPORTS (Newspapers over 50K) “Halo Hitters: Brian Downing,” Eduard Cauich, Hoy Los Angeles, “Mayweather *Jack Wilson, Ed Lewis, Bob Miller, FOX Sports G9. DESIGN (Magazines) vs. Canelo Alvarez” West/ Prime Ticket, “A Day With The Stanley Ed Baker, Stephan Horbelt, Jef Wayne, Garret Eduard Cauich, Hoy Los Angeles, “Los Expertos Cup: Jarret Stoll” Yoshida, Mike Ciriaco, Frontiers Magazine, Opinan: ¿Canelo O Money?” “L.A.’s East Side” Eduard Cauich, Hoy Los Angeles, “Vas A Venir?” F11. DOCUMENTARY (Radio) Ed Baker, Stephan Horbelt, Giuliano Bekor, Matt Coker, OC Weekly, “Challenger 2.5: Danny Amy Alkon and Gregg Sutter, Blog Talk Radio, Garret Yoshida and Staf, Frontiers Thompson Races Toward The Bonneville “Science-Based Weekly Radio Show” Magazine, “Outfest” Cover, Frontiers Issue Salt Flats” Madeleine Brand, Saul Gonzalez and Matt 32 Volume 05 Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, “Bernstein Holzman, KCRW, “Power & Water” JD Heyman, Jen Garcia, Lizz Leondard and High Football Players Earn Letters Of Eric Molinsky and Bob Carlson, KCRW, the LA Events Team, People, “Oscars 2013: Parents’ Love” “Missileers” Winning Moments Package” Myke Dodge Weiskopf, KCRW, “Fire Island” Shanti Marlar, Peter Cury, Hollywood C11. SPORTS (Newspapers under 50K) Kerstin Zilm and Bob Carlson, KCRW, “Falling” Reporter Design Team, The Hollywood David Nusbaum, Los Angeles Business Journal, Reporter, “Cannes Issue” “Online Drive” E10. FEATURE DOCUMENTARY (TV) Staf, Frontiers Magazine, Frontiers Weddings David Nusbaum, Los Angeles Business Journal, Juan Devis, Bruce Dickson, Matthew Crotty “Golf Tourney Swings for Koreans” and Alex Chu, KCET, “AgH2O: Silver and B12. HEADLINE (Newspapers over 50K) Eric Pierce, The Downey Patriot, “Christopher Water” Mike Davis, Los Angeles Times, “Dodgers Are Picos Is Ready to Rumble” Paul Feine and Alex Manning, Reason, The Colossus Of Road” Mike Terry, San Fernando Valley Sun/El Sol, “America’s Longest War” Stephen Galloway, Laura Dominick, Los Angeles Times, “Mist “Dodger Star Power in Español” Jennifer Laski, Stephanie Fischette, Raphael Connections” Laski, Matthew Belloni, The Hollywood Blake Hennon, Los Angeles Times, “Tonight’s D4. SPORTS PHOTO Reporter, “Actress Roundtable” Forecast Calls For Scattered Viewership” Jennifer Laski & Joe Pugliese, The Hollywood Donna Kanter, Nausheen Dadabhoy, Dona Kevin Leung, Los Angeles Times, “He’s a Reporter, ”Yasiel Puig” Kanter, “Lunch” Wokking Encyclopedia” Rick Loomis, Los Angeles Times, “Seeing Red” Jorge Mettey, Manuel Giron, Luis Hernandez, Ruben Luengas, Hoy Los Angeles, ¿Qué Rezan Charlie Magovern, Neon Tommy, “USC v. West Rolando Nichols, Gustavo Gutierrez, Algunos Sobre El Papa Francisco ‘Señor Alabama” Armando Acevedo, MundoFox – Noticias Ilumínalo! O ‘Señor, Elimínalo!’” Allen J. Schaben, Los Angeles Times, “Rally MundoFox, “Milagros A Domicilio” Time for Matt Kemp” “Delivering Miracles” C12. HEADLINE (Newspapers under 50K) Jerry Ting, Neon Tommy, “USC v. Utah” Peter Musurlian, The Burbank Channel, Laurence Darmiento, San Fernando Valley “Burbank’s African Sister City” Business Journal, “Blood Simple” F8. SPORTS (Radio) Tom Hicks, Los Angeles Business Journal, “Date Ashley Bailey, KPCC, “Hollywood Stuntman” E11. DOCUMENTARY (TV) App Makes Move on Friends” Ed Mertz, KNX, “The Watts Bears” Vince Gonzales, Karen Foshay, Lata Pandya, Dan Caston, and Brian Frank, KCET, “LA Tom Hicks, Los Angeles Business Journal, Susan Valot, Freelance, “School-Sanctioned Experiment” “Clang Clang Clank” Skateboard League Gains Air”

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Stephanie Fischette, Jennifer Laski & Brian Academy slights actor Lupe Ontiveros” Baylen Linnekin, Reason, “California Rovanpera, The Hollywood Reporter, “Emmy Laurence Darmiento, San Fernando Valley Regulators Attempt to Kill Sriracha” Icons: Hank Azaria on Bringing ’Simpsons’ Business Journal Calvin Naito, Freelance, “The Forbes 400 Bartender Moe to Life” Thomas Elias, California Focus Syndicated Opportunity: Purchase the Los Angeles Tess Gomet, Jennifer Laski, Stephanie Column, “California Focus Column” Times For The People – And Leave a Lasting Fischette, Raphael Laski and Merle Calvin Naito, Freelance, “Clean Break on Water” Legacy” Ginsberg, The Hollywood Reporter, “Cannes Confdential: An Insider’s Guide to Luxury H7. POLITICAL COLUMN/ COMMENTARY I1 + I2. BEST USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA Gifting Suites” (Online) Julia Deng, USC’s Annenberg TV News, “Fans Allen J. Schaben, and Bethany Mollenkof, Los Chris Hedges, Truthdig, “The Play’s The Thing” Mourn Death of Paul Walker” Angeles Times, “From the Outside In” Bennet Kelley, Internet Law Center, Melody Soto, Drew Tewksbury and Daniel Angela Shelley, Bret Marcus, Alicia Clark, “Responding To The Tea Party Secession By Medina, KCET, “Social Media For Artbound” Michael Bloecher and Laura Ling, KCET-TV, Other Means” Rosa Carolina Gomez, Luis Hernandez, Jesus “Nothing to Cheer About” Jamie Alter Lynton, LA School Report, “Do You Ledezma, Jorge Mettey and Luz Pena, Or Don’t You Support Deasy?” MundoFox – Noticias MundoFox, “Entrevista F10.TALK/ PUBLIC AFFAIRS (Radio) Scott Shackford, Reason, “3 Reasons The Exclusiva a Sebastien De La Cruz en Charles Feldman, Laraine Herman, Diane ‘Nothing To Hide’ Crowd Should Be Worried Noticias MundoFox” Thompson, Frank Mottek and Bob About Government Surveillance” Staf, LA School Report, “Story Of Deasy Media McCormick, KNX, “Healthcare Uncovered” J.D. Tuccille, Reason, “Why I’m Teaching My Frenzy in 15 Tweets” Bennet Kelley, Internet Law Center, Internet Son To Break The Law” Steve Saldivar, Online, “My East LA On Law Center, “The Bully Pulpit And Facebook” Perspectives On Presidents And History” B8. COLUMNIST (Newspapers over 50K) Gary Scott, KCRW, “Power & Water / Social Of-Ramp, KPCC, “Of-Ramp For September Gendy Alimurung, LA Weekly Media Promotion” 14, 2013” Amy Alkon, Creators Syndicate Adam VanGerpen, The Los Angeles Firefghter, Warren Olney, Katie Cooper and Sonya Geis, Rob Eshman, Jewish Journal “United Firefghters of Los Angeles City KCRW, “Paul Tanaka” Social Media” Warren Olney, Anna Scott and Sonya Geis, C8. COLUMNIST (Newspapers under 50K) KCRW, “UCLA Lack Of Diversity” Amy Alkon, Creators Syndicate H13. BLOG, INDIVIDUAL Patricia Bunin, Redland Daily Facts Matthew Belloni and Eriq Gardner, The E9. TALK/PUBLIC AFFAIRS (TV) Charles Crumpley, Los Angeles Business Journal Hollywood Reporter, “Hollywood Esq.: The Caroline Armitage, Angela Boisvert, Andrea Intersection Of Entertainment And Law” Laurence Darmiento, San Fernando Valley Grossman, Mary Mazur & Bohdan Business Journal Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, “Scene Zachary, KCET, “Sotomayor & Longoria – A Stealer Margo Martindale on Her Long Dan Evans, Glendale News Press Conversation with the US Supreme Court” Winding Road to ‘August: Osage County’ ” Max Aub, Luis Hernandez, Jaime Maldonado, D6. EDITORIAL CARTOON Ellie Herman, LA School Report, “Why Teachers Jorge Mettey, Hector Pasilla and Carolina Doug Davis, Los Angeles Downtown News, “Be Teach? – Need You Ask?” Sarassa, MundoFox – Noticias MundoFox, Impressed, People” Richard Stellar, The Wrap, “Yom Kippur “Verdad O Mentira” “True Or False” Ralph Gamboa, San Fernando Valley Sun/El Surprise: Face To Face With A Hero Of The Sol, “Did Everyone Fail Gabriel?” Dutch Resistance” Jaci Stephen, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, DANIEL PEARL AWARD – KHALED ABU “Happy Father’s Day US and Another TOAMEH, presented by Judea Pearl J5. COLUMNIST OR CRITIC (International) Janet R. Nepales, Manila Bulletin, “Meryl Average Day In Hollywood” Streep on Growing Older, Wiser… And Not H14. BLOG, GROUP B7. COMMENTARY (Newspapers over 50K) Scary” Janet R. Nepales, Manila Bulletin, “Mike Tyson Dylan Howard, Jen Heger & Melissa Cronin, Amy Alkon, Creators Syndicate, “Science- RadarOnline, “Exposed: Tom Cruise’s Secret Based Syndicated Advice Column” On His Fears And Pains, And How He Sees Manny Pacquiao” Life – In His Own Words” Gustavo Arellano, Michelle Woo, Nate Damien Newton, Sahra Sulaiman, Brian Jackson, Gabriel San Roman, OC Weekly, Ruben V. Nepales, Philippine Daily Inquirer, “Helen Mirren Enjoys Being A ‘Bad A**’” Addison and Ted Rogers, Streetsblog “Where the Black People At?” Los Angeles, “Hit-And-Run Victims and Jaci Stephen, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Marty Kaplan, Jewish Journal, “Marty Kaplan’s Surviving Family Members Face Drunk “Looking for the One?” Column” Driver at Her Arraignment” Tom Walters, CTV, “In Search of Heroes” Ashley Merryman, The New York Times, Amy Scattergood, Besha Rodell, Samantha “Losing is Good for You” Bonar and Lesley Jacob Solmonson, LA Raphael J. Sonenshein, Jewish Journal, H8. NON-POLITICAL COLUMN/ COMMENTARY (Online) Weekly, “Squid Ink” “Columns” Justin Chang, Variety, “Why ‘Prisoners’ Is Too Peter Scheer, Kasia Anderson, Alexander Easy on the Subject of Torture” Reed Kelly, Natasha Hakimi, and Sheri C7. COMMENTARY (Newspapers under 50K) Gordon, Truthdig, “Ear To The Ground” Richard Connif, TakePart.com, “The Case for Amy Alkon, Creators Syndicate, “Science- Euthanizing Stray Dogs” Erik Scott, Brian Humphrey and Katherine Based Syndicated Advice Columns” Maine, The Los Angeles Firefghter, “Los Ellie Herman, LA School Report, “Pump Down Andres Chavez, San Fernando Valley Sun/El Angeles Fire Department News and the Volume on Rhetoric” Sol, “Death No Protection Against Insult – Information Blog”

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QUINN AWARD – ANN CURRY, presented Jonathan Polakof, Los Angeles Business D5. ENTERTAINMENT PHOTO by Colleen Williams Journal, “Future Focus” Ringo H.W. Chiu, Los Angeles Business Journal, Jonathan Polakof, Los Angeles Business “Esai Morales” Journal, “TV Contest May Take Toll On Jennifer Laski, Shanti Marlar and Austin B9. ENTERTAINMENT REVIEWS/CRITICISM/ Players” COLUMNS (Newspapers over 50K) Hargrave, The Hollywood Reporter, “Ricky Gervais” Andrea Carrion, Hoy Los Angeles, “Los Retos H10. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS (Online) Del Folclor” Charlie Magovern, Neon Tommy, “TimeFlies James Desborough, DailyMail Online UK, Concert” Marty Kaplan, Jewish Journal, “The Future “‘Dodi wasn’t a bad guy’: Actor Who Plays Of Technology; Fear Of Fun; CBS vs. Time Gladees Prieur, Chris Dougherty, Jessica Diana’s Lover Claims Naomi Watts Film Warner Cable vs. You; Mary Poppins Does Bryan and Diego Uchitel, People, “Classic Will Change How People Think About The Not Come Back” Beauties” Billionaire Playboy” Amy Nicholson, LA Weekly, “Entertainment Carrie Smith, Jennifer Laski, Ruven Afanador, Jen Heger, RadarOnline, “The Littlest Victim: Reviews by Amy Nicholson” The Hollywood Reporter, “The Actor Charlie Sheen & Brooke Mueller’s Son Bob Roundtable” Shown With Disturbing Injuries… As The G5. ENTERTAINMENT REVIEWS/CRITICISM/ COLUMN (Magazines) Pair’s Bitter Custody Battle Rages On” H11. ENTERTAINMENT FEATURE (Online) Andrew Barker, Variety, “Grown-Ups 2” Dylan Howard, RadarOnline, “He’s No Angel! Sarah Bennett, The Long Beach Post, Ryan O’Neal Confesses Under Oath How Justin Chang, Variety, “American Hustle: It’s “Cambodia’s Lost Psych Rock Scene Finds Farrah Fawcett Walked In On Him Cheating” Worth Falling For This ‘Hustle’” Rebirth In Contemporary Acts” Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter,” Tim Goodman, The Hollywood Reporter Sarah Bennett, The Long Beach Post, Sources: NBC Discussing Jay Leno Exit Plan” Matt Welch, Reason, “When Jackie Robinson “Whatever Happened To Suburban Jennifer Swann, LAWeekly.com, “Dirty Girls” Fought Back: A New Movie Elevates The Rhythm? The Unsung Music Of Long Trailblazing Ballplayer’s Nonviolence Over Beach, California: Part 1” F7. ENTERTAINMENT REPORTING/ James Desborough, DailyMail Online, His Furious Competitive Spirit” CRITICISM (Radio) Alynda Wheat, People, “12 Years a Slave” “Revealed: How Michael Jackson’s Thriller Arun Rath, Phil Harrell, Muthoni Muturi and Video Which Changed the Face of Music 30 Steve Lickteig, NPR’s All Things Considered, Years Ago Today Was Nearly Never Made” H12. ENTERTAINMENT COMMENTARY/ “Disney Hall At 10” REVIEWS (Online) Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter, Kim Masters, Carolina Miranda and Darby Justin Chang, Variety, “ ’12 Years A Slave:’ A “From ‘The Bible’ To The Amish, Why Maloney, KCRW, “Latino TV” Journey Through Brutality Toward Grace” Religion Is Hot on Cable” Scott Foundas, Variety, “Why ‘The Counselor’ Cortney Rae Riles, Neon Tommy, “The Real E8. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS OR FEATURE ‘Scandal’ - That Isn’t Discussed” Is One Of Ridley Scott’s Best Films” (TV) Nick Gillespie and Jim Epstein, Reason, “3 Cecilia Borgan and Andres F. Pruna, KMEX Reasons All Kids Should Be FORCED To J4. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS OR FEATURE Univision, “Iconos De Hollywood” (International) Watch South Park!” Juan Devis, Joris Debeij, Matthew Crotty and Tina Jøhnk Christensen, Gyllandsposten, “A Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, Drew Tewksbury, KCET, “Invisible Cities: An Costly Afair” “Film Reviews” Opera for Headphones” James Desborough, Sun Plus, “We Need More Ali Trachta, LA Weekly, “Matthew Weiner Jorge Mettey, Luis Hernandez, Carolina Black Winners On Telly…Downton Will Help” Explains Betty Draper, Mad Men’s Sarssa, Gustavo Gutierrez and Manuel ‘Melancholy Dame’” Barbara Gasser, Wiener, “The Superman Giron, MundoFOX-Noticias MundoFOX, Question: Is Being Good no Longer Cool?” “Donde Estan Los Latinos?” “Where Are The Tom Walters and Liam Hyland, CTV, “Justin’s B10. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS OR FEATURE Latinos?” (Newspapers over 50K) Monkey” George Pennacchio and Cheryl Diano, Kerstin Zilm, German Public Radio, “Invisible Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, “A Surprise KABC-TV, “The Girls In The Band” Showbiz Exit” Cities – Magic Live – Headphone Opera” Brian Rovanpera, Raphael Laski, Stephanie Naomi Pfeferman, Jewish Journal, “Jeremy Fischette and Jennifer Laski, The Hollywood G1. NEWS INVESTIGATIVE (Magazines) Piven Plays A Self (Ridge)-Made Man” Reporter, ”Comic-Con: The Cast of NTSF: Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, “No Zachary Pincus-Roth, LA Weekly, “Everyone SD: SUV on Fighting Terrorism” Says I Love You” Animals Were Harmed” Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, “Has Zachary Pincus-Roth, LA Weekly,” Warm-Up G6. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS OR FEATURE Comics Have the Toughest Job in Comedy” (Magazines) An A-List Hollywood Rehab Gone Of The Deep End” Linda J. Williamson, LA Weekly, “The Day The Matthew Belloni, The Hollywood Reporter, Man Came To Burning Man” “The War On Jay Leno” Howard Breuer, Champ Clark and Elaine Aradillas, People, “The McStay Mystery – A Scott Foundas, Variety, “Justin Lin: Even Better Family’s Tragic End” C10. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS OR FEATURE Luck Tomorrow” Ted Johnson, Variety, “Runaway Hollywood: (Newspapers under 50K) Marc Graser, Variety, “Mattel Takes the Wheel” L.A.’s New Boss Eric Garcetti Declares A Donna Evans, Los Angeles Downtown News, Staf, The Hollywood Reporter, “The New State Of ‘Emergency’” “The Most Interesting Man In The Phil” A-List” Nick Vivarelli, Variety, “Al Jazeera’s Eddie Kim, Los Angeles Downtown News, “The Andrew Stewart and David S. Cohen, Variety, (R)evolution” Most Exciting Chef In Downtown” “The End” Mark R. Madler, San Fernando Valley Business Journal, “Byte Sized Revolution”

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B6. BUSINESS (Newspapers over 50K) B5. INVESTIGATIVE SERIES (Newspapers Tracy Oppenheimer, Reason, “Cop Fired for Anh Do, Los Angeles Times, “In Vietnamese over 50K) Speaking Out Against Ticket and Arrest Salons, Nails, Polish And Unvarnished John R. Emshwiller and Jeremy Singer-Vine, Quotas” Opinions” The Wall Street Journal, “Waste Lands” Antonio Valverde and Juan Hernandez, KMEX John Gittelsohn and Heather Perlberg, Jonah Lowenfeld, Jewish Journal, “Doheny Univision, “El Silencio De Las Campesinas” Bloomberg News, “The Big Rent” Scandal” Ciaran McEvoy, Investor’s Business Daily, Nick Schou, OC Weekly, “California’s X2. CAUSE/ADVOCACY JOURNALISM “Fracking Cuts Energy Costs, Adds Jobs, Potpocalypse Now” (Cross platform) But Public Skeptical” Aitana Vargas, Hoy Los Angeles, “El Público Willy Blackmore, TakePart.com, “The Fight For Gene Maddaus, LA Weekly, “Snapchat Went Televisivo al Desnudo” The Image” From Frat Boy Dream To Tech World Willy Blackmore, TakePart.com, “The Darling” C5. INVESTIGATIVE/SERIES (Newspapers Surprising Solution to Urban Food Deserts Alan Ohnsman, Bloomberg News, “Tesla’s under 50K) (Hint: It’s Not More Supermarkets)” Transition” Christian Brown, The Downey Patriot, “PIH Amy DePaul, Nick Gerda, David Washburn Acquisition Of Downey Regional Raises and Caitlin Whelan, Voice of OC, “The C6. BUSINESS (Newspapers under 50K) Eyebrows in Health Community” Paradox of Latino Health…” Elliot Golan, San Fernando Valley Business Randy Economy and Brian Hews, Hews Media Alex Garcia and Diana Martinez, San Journal, “Sour Dough” Group, “Dirty Water: The Central Basin Fernando Valley Sun/El Sol, “San Fernando James Rufus Koren, Los Angeles Business Municipal District Saga” Valley Families Walk For Autism Speaks” Journal, “To the Rescue” Michael Goldstein, OC Weekly, “Blood Money” Zach Weissmueller, Reason, “Anarchy in Mark R. Madler, San Fernando Valley Business Alfred Lee, Los Angeles Business Journal, Detroit” Journal, “Byte Sized Revolution” “Developer Money Crosses The Lines” Joel Russell, San Fernando Valley Business Stephen Nellis, Pacifc Coast Business Times, X3. CONSUMER JOURNALISM (Cross platform) Journal, “Feds Probing Valley Firm” “Deadline Looms For NonProft Seeking Stephanie O’Neill, KPCC, “What the Heck Do Ryan Vaillancourt, Los Angeles Downtown Lompoc Land” All Those Insurance Terms Mean, Anyway?” News, “Downtown’s Quiet Bel Air Buyer” H2. INVESTIGATIVE (Online) Stephanie O’Neill, KPCC, “What You Need To Know About Crazy Hospital Prices” H5. DATABASE-DRIVEN JOURNALISM Dylan Howard and Melissa Cronin, Rich Schmitt, FairWarning, “Booming Sales of KPCC’s Digital Media Team, KPCC, “KPCC’s Fire RadarOnline, “Letters From The Departed: Novelty Helmets Boost Toll of Motorcycle Tracker” Boston Mobster Whitey Bulger Speaks Out From Jail” Deaths” H6. MULTIMEDIA PACKAGE Dylan Howard, Jen Heger, Melissa Cronin, Juan Devis, Justin Cram and George RadarOnline, ”Exposed: Tom Cruise’s Secret PRESIDENT’S AWARD – MICHAEL Villanueva, KCET, “North East Los Angeles Life – In His Own Words” Myron Levin and Lilly Fowler, FairWarning, BLOOMBERG and MATTHEW WINKLER, Riverfront Collaborative” presented by Eli Broad Rick Loomis, Los Angeles Times, “Private Wars” “Power Tool Industry Resisting Safety Fix” Damien Newton, Kris Fortin and Shireen Neon Tommy Staf Reporters, Neon Tommy, Alihaji, Streetsblog Los Angeles, “The 2013 “Special Report: Investigation Into Sexual Assault At USC” J1. NEWS (International) Mayoral Candidates Interview Series” Barbara Gasser, Kleine Zeitung, “My Life with Brianna Sacks, Neon Tommy, “Leimert Park’s Aitana Vargas, Hoy Los Angeles, “El Público Televisivo al Desnudo” JFK” The World Stage Fighting Event” Barbara Gasser, Besser, “50th Anniversary of Stacey Wilson, Jennifer Laski and Carrie F6. INVESTIGATIVE (Radio) JFK - Assassination” Smith, The Hollywood Reporter, ”Emmy Michael O’Sullivan, Voice of America, “US Icons” Charles Feldman and Laraine Herman, KNX, “Healthcare Uncovered: A Guide To The Tourist Towns Assess Shutdown Damage” Michael O’Sullivan, Voice of America, D7. PHOTO ESSAY Afordable Care Act” Karen Foshay, KPCC, “Central Basin’s Missing “California Debates Limits Of Medical Astudillo, Ed Baker, Garret Yoshida, Michael Marijuana” Turner, New Frontiers Media Holdings, Millions” “Frontiers Weddings (Dedicated E6. INVESTIGATIVE (TV) B1. NEWS (Newspapers over 50K) Magazine)” Soudi Jimenez, Hoy Los Angeles, “Familia Chris Dougherty, Brenna Britton, Gladees Lisa Bartley, Marc Brown, Jamie Evans, Jennifer Moya and Stephen Coleman, ABC7 Mexicana Inicia Camino De Esperanza” Prieur, and Martin Schoeller, People, “Best Alejandro Maciel, Hoy Los Angeles, “Frontera in Show” Eyewitness News, “Bishop Turner; Relieved Of Duty” En Disputa” Rick Loomis, Los Angeles Times, “A Soldier’s Gene Maddaus, LA Weekly, “Michael Hastings’ Wife” Paul Detrick, Reason, “LA County Sherifs Hassle Photographer, Trample Dangerous Mind” Chris Mihal. Bailey Franklin, Nelson Anderson Constitution, Get Lauded By Bosses” and Dan Winters, Variety, “Portrait Gallery” Jorge Mettey, Luis Hernandez, Rolando C1. NEWS (Newspapers under 50K) Carrie Smith, Jenny Sargent, Jennifer Laski, Nichols, Jose Diaz-Briseno, Juan Silva Tony Biasotti, Pacifc Coast Business Times, The Hollywood Reporter, ”Emmy Icons” and Manny Giron, MundoFox – Noticias “Retired Sherif Sues For Supplemental MundoFox, “El Evangelio Se Escribe En Pension” Espanol” “Writing the Gospel in Spanish”

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Brian Hews and Randy Economy, Los Cerritos E1. ANCHOR (TV) A1. PRINT (OVER 50,000 Circulation) News, “CA State Assembly Speaker John Patrick Healy, NBC4 Southern California Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter Perez Implicated” Leon Krauze, KMEX Univision Matthew Belloni, The Hollywood Reporter Patrick O’Neal, FOX Sports West/Prime Ticket Fred Dickey, San Diego Union Tribune H1a. NEWS (Online) Mark Rogondino, FOX Sports West/Prime Gene Maddaus, LA Weekly Paresh Dave and Jeremy Fuster, Neon Tommy, Ticket Ciaran McEvoy, Investor’s Business Daily “USC Students Decry Racial Profling by Gabriela Teissier, KMEX Univision Authorities” A2. PRINT (Under 50,000 Circulation) Dylan Howard, David Perel, Jen Heger, F2. NEWS (Radio) Dan Evans, Times Community News Melissa Cronin and The RadarOnline Team, Steve Chiotakis, Evan George, Darrell Alfred Lee, Los Angeles Business Journal RadarOnline, “I Use the ‘N’ Word Y’all! The Satzman and Caitlin Shamberg, KCRW, Diana Martinez, San Fernando Valley Sun Real Paula Deen Revealed” “Prop 8” Michael Martinez, CNN, “The U.S. Military’s Jon Regardie, Los Angeles Downtown News Stephanie O’Neill, KPCC, “Is Obamacare Good Ramin Setoodeh, Variety Rape Culture” For Small Business? Shoko Oda, Neon Tommy, “Sex Trafcking is Stephanie O’Neill, KPCC, “Californians Greet A5. ONLINE JOURNALIST No Foreign Matter” Cancelled Health Plans With Smiles” Ani Uncar, Neon Tommy, “Cyberbullying: L.A. Celeste Fremon, WitnessLA David Kirby, Takepart.com Schools Work to End Student Harassment” E3. NEWS (TV) Dennis Romero, LA Weekly Jorge Mettey, Luis Hernandez, Rolando Richard Stellar, The Wrap H1b. ENVIRONMENTAL-RELATED NEWS Nichols, Deanna Reyes and Armando (Online) Acevedo, MundoFox – Noticias MundoFox, Sahra Sulaiman, Streetsblog Los Angeles Lilly Fowler, FairWarning, ”After Flicking Away “Dios Mio! ¿Ahora Quien Manda?” ”My Lawsuits, Lead Industry Goes for a Final God! Now Who’s In Charge?” A6. ENTERTAINMENT JOURNALIST Knockout” Jorge Mettey, Luis Hernandez, Melissa del James Desborough, Freelance Tahsin Hyder, Neon Tommy, ”University Park Pozo, Christopher Alvarez and Jonathan Dylan Howard, RadarOnline Residents Say ‘Enough Is Enough’ On Poor Alvarez, MundoFox – Noticias MundoFox, Cynthia Littleton, Variety Air Quality” ”Tragedia en Mexico” “Furia de la Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter David Kirby, TakePart, “Corexit: An Oil Spill Naturaleza” “Tragedy in Mexico” ”Nature’s Jaci Stephen, Freelance Solution Worse Than The Problem?” Fury” David Kirby, TakePart, “This Porpoise Slaughter Leon Krauze and Andres F. Pruna, KMEX A4. RADIO JOURNALIST Is Seven Times Bigger Than The Cove’s, So Univision, “Profugos De E.E.U.U.” Alex Cohen, KPCC Why Haven’t You Heard About It?” Angela Shelley, Laura Ling, Michael Bloecher Deepa Fernandes, KPCC Alan Ohnsman, Bloomberg News, “Water + and Cathy Hue, KCET-TV, “High Online” Saul Gonzalez, KCRW Sunshine = Fuel As Lab In California Chases Joy Wang, USC’s Annenberg TV News, Dream” Stephanie O’Neill, KPCC “Protestors Demand Higher Wages For Fast Food Workers” D1. NEWS PHOTO A7. PHOTO JOURNALIST Allen J. Schaben, Los Angeles Times,” U.S Open Ringo H.W. Chiu, Los Angeles Business Journal F3. NEWS OR FEATURE SHORT FORM Rick Loomis, Los Angeles Times of Surfng Riot” (Radio) Allen J. Schaben, Los Angeles Times Sahra Sulaiman, Streetsblog Los Angeles, “Jose Stephanie O’Neill, KPCC, “Becoming Los Vasquez” Angeles” A3. TELEVISION JOURNALIST Stephanie O’Neill, KPCC, “Psychedelic Science” E2. VIDEOGRAPHER Wendy Burch, KTLA-TV Raphael Laski, The Hollywood Reporter H15. WEBSITE NEWS ORGANIZATION Rolando Nichols, MundoFox – Noticias Ed Lewis, Fox Sports West/Prime Ticket, “Ed EXCLUSIVE TO THE INTERNET MundoFox Lewis Sports Videographer” Juan Devis, KCET, “Departure Youth Voices” Antonio Valverde, KMEX Univision Peter Musurlian, The Burbank Channel, Zuade Kaufman & Robert Scheer, Truthdig “Burbank’s African Sister City” Staf, LA School Report Peter Musurlian, The Burbank Channel, George Lauer, California Healthline PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD – MARIA SHRIVER, presented by Lisa Ling “Lineman’s Rodeo” Doug Spoon, Menifee 24/7, “16-Year-Old Jef Shearin, Fox Sports West/Prime Ticket, “Jef Family Member Of Terry Smith Arrested For Shearin Sports Videographer” Murder”

F1. ANCHOR (Radio) H16. WEBSITE NEWS ORGANIZATION Steve Chiotakis, KCRW Juan Devis, KCET, “Artbound” Dick Helton and Vicky Moore, KNX, “KNX Juan Devis, Justin Cram, Yosuke Kitazawa, Morning News With Dick Helton and Vicky Alvaro Parra and Rubi Fregoso, KCET, Moore” “Departures” Sonali Kolhatkar, KPFK, “Uprising, November Nick Gillespie, Reason, “Reason.com” 26, 2013” KPCC Digital Media Team, KPCC Warren Olney, KCRW Janice Min, The Hollywood Reporter

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How the Awards are Judged

4(%,/3!.'%,%302%33#,5"$/%3./4 judge its own awards competition. Instead, our awards are decided by volunteer journalists representing press organizations from other cities across the country. In return, our press club judges other cities’ competitions. Each spring, press clubs ship many boxes of materials to one another, sharing a mutual commitment to honoring journalistic achievement. The reciprocal judging process ensures fair and impartial judging. Among the journalist organizations across the country helping us to judge the competiton are: Alaska Press Club, Arizona Press Club, Atlanta Press Club, Chicago International Press Club, Cleveland Press Club, Connecticut Press Club, Denver Press Club, Florida Press Club, Houston Press Club, New Orleans Press Club, Southeast Texas Press Club, St. Louis Press Club and Syracuse Press Club.

Press Club to Unveil Revamped Website

he Los Angeles Press Club section, with recurring payment the works. Naturally, in 2014, there has been online since the functionality (no more having to will be a greater integration with TInternet’s early days. Cynics re-subscribe each year!). The site social media such as Facebook and will say our website Twitter. shows it. Finally, the site will But not for long. have a refreshed, modern Finally, LAPressClub. design. The olive hues and org is about to Times New Roman will be relaunch, and with abandoned in favor of a LAPC 2.0 will come palette that refects the club’s a new, community- vibrancy. driven functionality “The ongoing upgrading designed to make of the club has to show joining, participating where we are frst seen, and and, yes, giving, that’s online,” said Press easier and more Club Executive Director Diana rewarding. Ljungaeus. Thanks to a So stay tuned and check partnership with WildApricot, will also hold a comprehensive back in to LAPressClub.org (be sure and the hard work of Club events calendar, meaning you’ll to bookmark it, too). It’s a whole members Bryan Ricker and Tony never miss one of the great new digital world, one that will Pierce, the new site will go live at evenings at the Club. continue to serve journalists in the the end of July. It will feature a Additionally, LAPC swag, such 21st century. completely revamped membership as T-shirts and coffee mugs, are in

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ENTERTAINMENT

Charles Shaughnessy EMCEE

#(!2,%33(!5'(.%339ISFROMASHOWBIZFAMILYIN London – his father was the principal writer on “Upstairs, Downstairs” and his mother was an actress. After getting a BA in Law at Cambridge University, he returned to his first love – acting – and worked on stage and television in England before moving to the U.S. in 1983. Here he is best known for playing Maxwell Sheffield on “The Nanny,” and Shane Donovan on “Days of Our Lives.” He received an Emmy for his voice work in the Disney series, “Stanley”, and a memorable arc as St. John Powell in AMC’s “ Mad Men.” In 2007, upon the death of a cousin, he became the 5th Baron Shaughnessy of Montreal and Ashford.

Christina Pazsitzsky

COMEDIAN CHRISTINA PAZSITZKY can be see on the upcoming TBS show “Funniest Wins.” She is also the co-host of the popular podcast “Your Mom’s House” with her husband, Tom Segura. She was a Round Table Regular and writer on the E! show “Chelsea Lately” and has been seen on the Showtime SPECIALh2ED,IGHT#OMEDY v46'UIDE#HANNELSh3TAND5P in Stilettos” and Nuvo TV’s “Stand Up and Deliver.” Pazsitzky has performed at the Aspen Comedy Festival, the Lucy Fest AND'ILDAS&EST3HEHEADLINESCOMEDYCLUBSINTHE53AND Canada, and has performed for the troops (our troops, not theirs) in Afghanistan, South Korea, the UAE and Africa. With a background in animation, she has written on and lent her voice to several animated projects. She was given Animation Magazine’s “Up and Coming Writer” award and most recently wrote on the feature film InAPPropriate Comedy.

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROSITY

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Awards Program GALA PRODUCER Editor Diana Ljungaeus Diana Ljungaeus Design Director Candice Ota Diana Ljungaeus is Executive Director of The Los Angeles Contributors Alex Ben Block, Ted Johnson, Robert Ladendorf, Press Club. She began her Diana Ljungaeus, Frank Megna, Patt Morrison, career as a cub reporter in Jon Regardie, Jill Stewart, Ben Sullivan Sweden at the age of ffteen. Copy editing Jon Regardie She has lived and worked in the U.S. since 1996. Her Proof reading Bob Ladendorf background has run the gamut Printing: CE Graphics from researcher to reporter and editor, to story/script writer and fnally to theater, flm and multimedia producer. She co-wrote the 56th Annual Southern California independent feature, The Seekers. Together with Journalism Awards Gala her husband, Frank Megna, she owns and runs the Producer Diana Ljungaeus small live theater venue Working Stage Theater in West Hollywood, as well as the non-proft educa- Technical Director Mark Drew tional theater and flm organization Opening Minds Camera Myles West, Thomas Engstrom Productions. She has produced or co-produced the Southern California Journalism Awards Gala for Script and more than a decade. Creative Consultant Frank Megna Sales Bill Moran Executive Assistant Rebecka Pontón Special thanks to: Bookkeeper Anna Robertson Andrew Weiss Gallery; Alex Ben Block; Alex Brod, Development Empire Diamond;; Bob Ladendorf; Louise Monaco; Coordinator Clay Russell Jon Regardie; Steve Duchesne; Terri Hernandez Rosales and Kim Dutton, NBC4 Southern California; Visual Service Jules Baker and AGF Media Olivia Manzo, Millennium Biltmore Hotel; Chris Emcee Charles Shaughnessy Woodyard, USA Today, Ty Trippet, Bloomberg, Lonnée Hamilton Stage Manager Harry Karp Photographers: Kerstin Alm, Inae Bloom, Chris Bordeaux, Thomas Engstrom, Gary Leonard and Gloria Zuurveen Judges: Social Media Tony Pierce Alaska Press Club, Arizona Press Club, Atlanta Press Flower Design Anna Connell Club, Chicago International Press Club, Cleveland Press Club, Connecticut Press Club, Denver Press Silent and Club, Florida Press Club, Houston Press Club, New online auction Will Lewis, Brian Marshak and Louise Orleans Press Club, Southeast Texas Press Club, St. Monaco Louis Press Club and Syracuse Press Club Volunteers Jon Beaupre, Inae Bloom, Rocío Flores Huaringa, Olga Grigoryants, Sandra Karlsson, Pablo Kay, Kevin James Matson, Daina Beth Solomon, Araks Terteryan, Alicia Toft, Romain Raynaldy, Tony Ryttar

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