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Dear Friends of L.A. Press Club,

Well, you’ve done it this time. Yes, you really have! The Los Angeles Press Club’s 57th annual Southern California Journalism Awards are marked by a jaw-dropping, record-breaking number of submissions. They kept our sister Press Clubs across the country, who judge our annual competition, very busy and, no doubt, very impressed. So, as we welcome you this evening, know that even to arrive as a finalist is quite an accomplishment. Tonight in this very Biltmore ballroom, where Senator (and future President) John F. Kennedy held his first news conference after securing his party’s nomination, we honor the contributions of our colleagues. Some are no longer with Robert Kovacik us and we will dedicate this ceremony to three of the best among them: Al Martinez, Rick Orlov and Stan Chambers. The Los Angeles Press Club is where journalists and student journalists, working on all platforms, share their ideas and their concerns in our ever changing industry. If you are not a member, we invite you to join the oldest organization of its kind in Southern California. On behalf of our Board, we hope you have an opportunity this evening to reconnect with colleagues or to make some new connections. Together we will recognize our esteemed honorees: Willow Bay, Shane Smith and Vice News, the “CBS This Morning” team and representatives from Charlie Hebdo. A memorable evening is about to unfold, as we pay tribute to your inspirational achievements and careers.

Robert Kovacik President MORE NOMINATIONS THAN ANY Los Angeles Press Club Board of Directors OTHER NEWS ORGANIZATION

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Awards for Editorial Excellence in 2014 and 4:30 p.m. RED CARPET Honorary Awards for 2015 SCHEDULE 5:00 p.m. COCKTAILS AND SILENT AUCTION 6:00 p.m. DINNER THE PRESIDENT’S AWARD PRESIDENT Robert Kovacik, Anchor/Reporter, OF EVENTS NBC4 Southern California For Impact on Media For all nalists see 6:30 p.m. PROGRAM VICE PRESIDENT Adam J. Rose, Senior Editorial pages 36-48 Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell Producer, CBS Interactive Presenters Robert Kovacik and Cher Calvin TREASURER Anthony Palazzo, Los Angeles STUDENT CATEGORIES CBS This Morning Bureau Chief and Entertainment Team Leader, Bloomberg News Scholarship Ra e and Special Award SECRETARY Dr. Gloria Zuurveen, Editor-in-Chief THE DANIEL PEARL AWARD and Publisher, Pace News FEATURE For Courage and Integrity in Journalism EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Diana Ljungaeus International Journalist PRESIDENT’S AWARD: Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell, Charlie Hebdo CBS This Morning, introduced by Pat Harvey BOARD MEMBERS Presenters Pat Harvey and Christine Devine THE PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD DESIGN/LAYOUT For Journalistic Contributions to Civic Life SPORTS Shane Smith VICE News COMEDIAN ALONZO BODDEN Presenters Brian Watt and Carolina Sarassa THE JOSEPH M. QUINN AWARD PUBLIC AFFAIRS For Lifetime Achievement COMMENTARY Willow Bay CHER CALVIN, News Presenter, KTLA, Los Angeles DANIEL PEARL AWARD: Charlie Hebdo, introduced by Judea Pearl Director, USC Annenberg School for ELIZABETH ESPINOSA, Co-host of Thompson & Communication and Journalism Espinosa, KFI Presenters Elizabeth Espinosa and Colleen Williams MARIEL GARZA, Editorial board member ENTERTAINMENT Los Angeles Times Mag. BARBARA GASSER, Active Member, INVESTIGATIVE Hollywood Foreign Press Association GABRIEL KAHN, Media, Economics and THE PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD: Shane Smith and VICE, Entrepeneurship program, USC Annenberg introduced by Bill Maher JESSICA KEATING, Digital Director of Opinion / Presenters Colleen Williams and Robert Kovacik Dedicated to Al Martinez, Rick Orlov and Stan Chambers Deputy Editorial Pages Editor, LA News Group NEWS

Sunday, June 28, 2015 QUINN AWARD—Willow Bay, introduced by Wallis Annenberg The Crystal Ballroom, Millennium Biltmore Hotel Presenters Robert Kovacik and Cher Calvin with President pro Tempore Senator Kevin de León 506 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA FERNANDO MEXIA, West Coast Correspondent, JOURNALISTS OF THE YEAR Spanish EFE News Service CAROLINA SARASSA, National News Anchor, MundoFox BEN SULLIVAN, Editor, Los Angeles Press Club A non-pro t organization with 501(c)(3) status—Tax ID 01-0761875 ScienceBlog.com 4773 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90027 • Phone: (323) 669-8081 BRIAN WATT, Business and Fax: (310) 464-3577 • E-mail: [email protected] • Website: www.lapressclub.org Economics Reporter, KPCC Don’t forget to pick up your certi cates and silent auction goods on your way out. Meet the Advisory Board

This year the Los Angeles Press Club Advisory Board welcomed two new members, who join the existing members below.

BILL IMADA SABRINA KAY Chairman & Chief Collaboration O cer, IW Group, Inc. Chancellor and CEO, Fremont College and Fremont Bill Imada has represented some of the Private Investments top companies in the U.S. for more than 20 Kay, founder of the Art Institute of Hollywood, years. He is very active in the Asian-American rose from her modest beginnings as a poor, community and serves on several nonpro t immigrant, single mom to become one of boards, including the California Asian Pacific the most respected tech educators and Chamber of Commerce, the Coalition of Asian philanthropists in the U.S. She owns an Paci cs in Entertainment, the Advertising accredited private college, a commercial Educational Foundation and the Center for bank, an investment firm and a fashion Asian American Media. He also co-founded company. During her MBA program at USC, CONGRATULATIONS the Asian/Pacific Islander American Chamber of Commerce and she founded Premier Business Bank with her Entrepreneurship. He is a member of President Obama’s Advisory finance professor and later started a number of entrepreneurial and Commission on Asian American and Paci c Islanders and has fostered marketing ventures. She’s a philanthropist who has served on more the next generation by mentoring young entrepreneurs and investing than 30 charitable and civic boards and taught at the University of USC ANNENBERG STUDENTS in several start-up companies. Pennsylvania, USC and UCLA. EXISTING MEMBERS: On your well-deserved recognition for outstanding achievements in journalism. ELI BROAD RICK J. CARUSO MADELINE DI NONNO DAVID W. FLEMING SHERRY LANSING Founder, The Broad Founder and Chief Chief Executive O cer Counsel, Latham & CEO, The Sherry Foundations Executive O cer Geena Davis Institute Watkins LLP Lansing Foundation Caruso A liated on Gender in Media

You make us all proud!

GEORGE E. MOSS CONSTANCE L. RICE HON. RICHARD J. RAMONA RIPSTON HON. BILL ROSENDAHL Chairman Co-Director, RIORDAN Former Executive Former Councilmember Moss Group Advancement Former Mayor of Director, ACLU of City of Los Angeles Project Los Angeles Southern California Former President, Los Bob Iger and Willow Bay Angeles Press Club

ANGELICA SALAS CAROL E. SCHATZ GARY L. TOEBBEN MATT TOLEDO STUART WALDMAN Director, Coalition President and CEO President & CEO, Los President & Publisher President, Valley for Humane Downtown Center Angeles Area Chamber Los Angeles Business Industry & Commerce Immigrant Rights Business Improve ment of Commerce Journal Association of Los Angeles District

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A Year of Diversity, Celebration and Loss THE PRESS CLUB SAW HUGE CROWDS, THOUGHTFUL PROGRAMS AND INTENSE DEBATE

uring the past year, the Los were held at the Millennium Biltmore Angeles Press Club held its Hotel’s Crystal Ballroom. Dtwo biggest events: the vener- In the fall, an intimate evening with able Southern California Journalism Mayor Richard Riordan at the Press Awards, in June 2014, and the sev- Club left the audience chuckling as he enth annual National Arts and regaled the audience with anecdotes, Entertainment Journalism Awards, many from his memoir The Mayor. in November. The first one sold out Among them: the time Riordan, as early to a huge crowd, and the second California Secretary of Education, had the biggest turnout of any Press signed Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Taking questions from the audience. Club entertainment awards yet. Both name to an official order, knowing

Right: After the Charlie Hebdo massacre, Jill Stewart moderated a panel about free speech which Schwarzenegger might not exactly debated limits to free approve—and deciding to ask his for- expression. giveness later. Below, French The club kicked off 2015 with a journalist Guillaume packed house as four leading media Serina and Salam voices discussed the Charlie Hebdo Al-Marayati of the Muslim Public Aairs massacre in Paris. Moderated by L.A. Council listen as L.A. Weekly Managing Editor Jill Stewart, Times cartoonist David the debate riveted the audience as Horsey discusses Pakistan-born Patrick Chappatte, the cartooning risks. Lebanese-Swiss artist whose car- Below right, Lebanese- toons appear in the International New Swiss cartoonist York Times, debated ideas with Salam Joseph M. Quinn awardee Ann Curry with Maria Matthew Winkler, the President’s Award co- Patrick Chappatte Shriver, the Public Service awardee. honoree with his daughter and her friend. responds with his Al-Marayati, of the Muslim Public comments. Affairs Council; L.A.-based French writer Guillaume Serina; and Pulitzer Prize-winning L.A. Times cartoonist CONCHITA WURST Conchita Wurst with Jase Peebles, below left; participating David Horsey. Also in January, inter- in an interview with Barbara Gasser, below. national sensation Conchita Wurst, a symbol of tolerance in Europe for her acceptance as a top recording artist and drag queen, sat down for a Q&A with Press Club board member and Foreign Press Association member Barbara Gasser. Black History Month at the Club meant a look at race relations in a pre- sentation of the original play Ghost in Gloria Allred was presented the “LGBTs in the the House by Ernie Hudson and Frank News” rst “Elgy” Award by founder Thom Senzee. Megna and starring Tony Todd. House

LA 8 PC LA 9 PC Actor Tony Todd, who portrays boxer Jack Johnson, board member Brian Watt, Press Club director Diana Ljungaeus and co-writer-director of Ghost in the House, Frank Megna, on the red carpet. Left, questions are taken from the audience. addressed the life and times of the first African-American heavyweight cham- pion, Jack Johnson, who openly broke the racial taboo of being with white women, which led to his wrongful conviction for violating the Mann Act. In March, a tribute to the late dean of L.A. broadcast journalism, Stan Chambers, was hosted by Press Club board members and KTLA anchorwoman Cher Calvin and attended by about 100 people, among them family and friends. Few newsmen were so admired by their Tina Sinatra shares a hug colleagues and the public. Chambers with her long-time family worked at the same job and at the same friend, Quincy Jones, station, KTLA Channel 5, for 63 years honored with the 2014 and filed more than 30,000 stories. NAEJ Visionary Award.

Nancy O’Dell, the recipient of the 2014 NAEJ Luminary For One Lucky Student, Award, with LAPC President Robert Kovacik and “ET” a Very Big Victory executive producer, Press Club Will Hold Ra e for a Brad Bessey. $1,000 Scholarship

ALL STUDENT FINALISTS whose entries are named in the 2015 Southern California Journalism Awards tonight have a chance to win a $1,000 scholarship from the Los Angeles Press Club. The scholarship will be chosen during a raffle near the beginning of the program for the 57th annual awards gala. The winner will be randomly chosen and need not be present to win. If a finalist entry was the work of more than one person, the $1,000 will be shared equally. “We wanted to do something special for the stu- dents. They are the future of our profession,” said Los Angeles Press Club President Robert Kovacik. The Press Club is seeking a sponsor to increase the student journalism scholarship in 2016. The Stan Chambers tribute, sponsored by LAPC, was attended by 100 guests, family and friends of the veteran of TV news.

LA 10 PC column was a must read for the politically BY ALEX BEN BLOCK savvy. But his influence went deeper: After his death, journalists across Los Angeles recalled the thrill they would receive when, after a In Honor of the certain story appeared, they would get a call or an email from Orlov, saying “Nice work.” In Purple Lady all the memories, the two most frequently used words were “mentor” and “gentleman.” Remembering Louise Monaco, the Remembering Three Giants of Press Club’s Super Volunteer Stan Chambers, who passed away in February Journalism at the age of 91, was a true pioneer of television or the last decade Louise Monaco was journalism. In fact, he began doing stories Fa fixture at any Los Angeles Press Club before many people even had televisions. event, including the Southern California Press Club’s Awards Dedicated During a career at KTLA that began in 1947 Journalism Awards. Our super volunteer to Al Martinez, Rick Orlov and and spanned six decades, Chambers did more passed away after a short illness on Jan. Stan Chambers, Who In uenced than 22,000 stories, covering everything from 15, a few days shy of her 74th birthday. natural disasters to the assassination of Sen. Many of you knew her as the Purple So Many in Los Angeles Robert F. Kennedy to the Rodney King beating. Lady, for the way she “purplefied” every- He was a familiar and trusted face to millions thing she touched. If there were flow- of Angelenos. ers on the table, they were purple. If she His first break came in 1949 when he brought you a gift, it was wrapped in pur- he 57th Southern California column,” he wrote in his goodbye Orlov Memorial Media Center. provided live round the clock coverage of a ple paper. She drove a purple car, wore Journalism Awards are piece. “There aren’t too many in “Rick, the dean of the City little girl caught in a well—with Chambers in purple clothes, purple shoes, jewelry and her signature round, Tdedicated to three outstanding the newspaper biz who are given Hall press corps,” said Mayor Eric front of the camera, viewers were riveted as purple glasses. journalists who made significant an opportunity to write 800 words Garcetti, “was so much more than never before. No one wondered why our silent auction items at every Press contributions not only to the field on their dog and actually get them a journalist. He was a mentor to Chambers was a dedicated family man who Club gala had purple ribbons, purple frames and purple wrapping of journalism but also to the city of published.” young reporters, a counselor to leaves behind 11 children, 38 grandchildren and paper. The purple-clad Louise stood next to the tables agreeing Los Angeles. From the advent of elected officials, and a friend to eight great grandchildren. He set a standard of with every compliment she got. television through the heights of print Rick Orlov passed away in February us all.” professionalism that elevated TV news right up We’ll never forget the Purple Lady. and into the digital age, Al Martinez, at age 66 of complications from Born in Chicago and raised in until his retirement on his 87th birthday in 2010. Rick Orlov and Stan Chambers set diabetes. To understand his influence Encino, he joined the Daily News in the standard in their field. They and role in the city, just consider what 1978. He covered politics from 1988 influenced thousands of journalists happened a week later: City leaders on. In 2009, he received the Los and will long be remembered. The honored him in Council Chambers, Angeles Press Club’s Joseph M. Quinn Los Angeles Press Club is proud to something no one in a room packed Award for Lifetime Achievement. As honor and remember them tonight. with politicians, journalists and Michael Anastasi of the L.A. News local leaders could remember ever Group said, “He cared about his Al Martinez, who passed away happening before. The council soon craft, he cared about his colleagues, in January at the age of 85 from heart voted unanimously to name the third and he cared about his city.” congestion, spent decades writing floor City Hall press room the Rick Orlov’s Monday morning “Tipoff” thoughtful, insightful columns that humanized the news. He was a storyteller who provided a voice for many in Southern California. A Man of the Times He had a home for 25 years at the Los Angeles Times, beginning in Just this month, Los Angeles lost another figure 1984, and later wrote for the Daily who played a key role in local journalism. News and the website LAObserved. John S. Carroll, who died on June 14 at the His family members were frequent age of 73 from a neurological disorder, oversaw subjects, but he could also hit a news the Los Angeles Times for five difficult years as it story like the lash of a whip: “Hate entered the 21st century. During his tenure the won last weekend in Westchester,” paper won 13 Pulitzer prizes—including five in he wrote in a 1986 column about a 2004, its biggest haul ever—after winning only biracial couple suffering from racism. eight throughout the 1990s. Martinez grew up in Oakland Carroll joined the Times in 2000, after being editor of the Baltimore and served in the Korean War. He Sun and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Despite budget cuts and wrench- also wrote a number of books and ing changes in the media business, he maintained high standards that worked on several TV series. But he were appreciated in his newsroom. When he announced his resigna- loved his column most of all. Even tion, Carroll received a standing ovation from the staff. The publisher, after he took a buyout from the Times Jeff Johnson, said Carroll left behind “an extraordinary legacy of jour- in 2007 he continued working. nalistic excellence.” “I’ve had a ball writing this

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BS has been a leader in primetime, its audience grow by over half a million view- news and sports for decades, but it has ers in the past year alone. Much of the credit been frustrated in efforts to compete goes to the on-camera team of Charlie Rose, in the morning against NBC’s “Today” Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell, along with Cshow and ABC’s “Good Morning America.” Executive Producer Chris Licht. Since 1954, CBS has launched 10 breakfast “CBS This Morning” comes out of a tradi- time shows—and scrapped nine of them. tion dating back to when CBS was the Tiffany The network has finally found the right eye Network, with a mandate to bring viewers the Licht’s goal was to redefine the morning provocative interviews with top celebrities, Norah O’Donnell, Charlie opener with “CBS This Morning.” Since it went top stories of the past 24 hours told through TV landscape with domestic and international politicians and business leaders he has con- Rose and Gayle King, above, form the news team and on the air in 2012 with a different mandate reports, interviews and commentary. There reporting that was lively while still being seri- ducted on public television since 1991. cover top stories such as the than “GMA” and “Today”—to present serious isn’t even an Al Roker doing weather (instead, ous, featuring interviews with leading figures One of his big coups for “CBS This Morning” presidential inauguration at news using original storytelling, analysis and weather comes via local CBS affiliate meteo- in business, politics and entertainment. was an interview with Syrian President Bashar far left. discussion—it has won over critics and seen rologists). It is a collaborative effort with the three al-Assad. When it won a Peabody Award, it “CBS This Morning” has significantly shrunk hosts. O’Donnell told the Washington Post in was declared, “the biggest journalistic get of the ratings gap since Rose, King and O’Donnell November 2014 that the producers pay atten- 2013.” took their seats around the circular desk with tion to the anchors and care what they think. King, known as Oprah Winfrey’s best friend the eye symbol. More importantly, the program “That’s the beauty of our show,” O’Donnell and sometime business partner, also brought a lives up to the best practices in contemporary said. “If we don’t want to do something, strong background in news, talk and opinion. journalism. “The news is back in the morning,” we say something, and actually they listen. Among her credits was 18 years as a reporter is a mantra for the show and the anchors. We’ve turned down major celebrity interviews and news anchor for WFSB in Hartford, Conn., That is why the Los Angeles Press Club has because we’re like, ‘What’s the story?’ We have as well as shows in recent years for the OWN chosen to honor Rose, King, O’Donnell and to have a news peg. There has to be some Network and elsewhere. “CBS This Morning” with the 2015 President’s value.” The last to join the team, more than six Award for Impact On Media. The prize recog- “The vision,” as Licht told the Daily Beast months after the show’s re-launch, was nizes the show for bringing integrity back to in July 2013, “was to dispense with a lot of the O’Donnell, who moved over from being CBS’s morning news. dross that had made morning shows morning chief White House correspondent. She was The show began taking shape when Licht shows—the live pop concerts, the centenarian named one of Washington’s 100 most power- was hired. He had previously served as execu- birthdays, even the weatherman, and focus on ful women by Washingtonian magazine. She tive producer of “Morning Joe” on MSNBC. what makes people turn on the TV in the first is also an occasional guest host of “Meet The Licht said from the start he wanted to take place. Instead, ‘CBS This Morning’ would find Press.” an out of the box approach. There would be out what is going on in the world.” At a time when the chemistry among the no cheering crowds on an outdoor plaza, no The casting of the anchors showed how stars of the two top-rated morning shows has cooking segments and no comedic bits. While serious CBS was about getting it right. Rose occasionally turned toxic, the surprise on “CBS both “GMA” and “Today” tend to shift after its brought both instant star quality and a seal of This Morning” is how successful the chemistry first segments to soft news, features and per- journalistic integrity. He had hosted “CBS News has been among this trio. sonality profiles, “CBS This Morning” keeps Nightwatch” in the 1980s, worked with Bill “It’s great when you can be part of something drilling down on the most important events, Moyers at PBS and contributed to “60 Minutes,” that is turning the ship around,” O’Donnell told people and global game changers. but was best known for the thoughtful, often the Huffington Post.

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“You can’t put a price and you can’t it has actually been successful, because put a formula on chemistry,” added you couldn’t focus-group this.” Licht. “If you put these three names on The accolades and the decision to a piece of paper and say these people focus on hard news and serious matters are going to connect with each other has had another effect, one that might and thus the audience in a unique and surprise people in the short-attention- successful way, they would laugh you span era: a climb in the ratings. out of the room. And I think that’s why From June 2014 until June 2015, “CBS This Morning” was the only two-hour daily morning show from a big three broadcast network to record ratings gains among the key demographic group of adults 25-to-54. “CBS This Morning” was up 29% in the demo. It also increased 17% among total viewers. Amidst the super competitive broad- cast, cable and digital media land- scape, “CBS This Morning” in one year added 560,000 viewers, closing the gap with NBC and ABC by 710,000 viewers. For the first time in generations, there’s less than 1 million viewers on average each day between first and third place. And, for the first time in a long time, there’s a place to get serious over that morning cup of coffee.

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An Unending Display of Courage THE STAFF OF SATIRICAL MAGAZINE CHARLIE HEBDO ACCEPTS THE DANIEL PEARL AWARD

BY PAT T o this very day, and throughout and hypocrisy wherever they were found, in written forcefully that “we are all Americans.” colleagues were murdered, told the Liberation MORRISON the world—and often in the farther places secular and religious. Now, millions proclaimed, they too were newspaper right after the attacks, “They reaches of the world, whether a fire- Charlie Hebdo is no modern-day anomaly. French, they were Charlie. wanted to completely eradicate a newspa- fight in Syria or a park in Guatemala— It is the inheritor of a tradition of satire deeply With signs, with candles, with song, and per. This is not ‘just’ kill the editor. There are Tjournalists are getting murdered just for being embedded in French culture, in centuries of with pens and pencils held aloft, the French no words. This is really an act of war. All for journalists and practicing their craft. writers and performers. The magazines that massed in their cities and towns by the hun- drawings… Charlie had a mission, supported But on Jan. 7, 2015, murder happened not were the immediate precursors of Charlie dreds of thousands to show their support of by some, opposed by others. I am even more one by one, not in places far from the interna- Hebdo were born, were banned, disappeared, free speech and defiance of those who would aware today how important this fight is. We tional seats of power, but to nine journalists sued, were firebombed and hacked, threat- try to kill it. The message was also spread in were all in agreement that we should not give killed at once, all shot to death, and four oth- ened, and at last reborn. cities across the globe. ers wounded, on the second floor of a placid The staff of Charlie Hebdo is the recipient Novelist Salman Rushdie, who knows office building in the vibrant heart of one of of the Los Angeles Press Club’s Daniel Pearl what it’s like to wear a target, wrote in the “I’ve got no kids, no wife, no car, no credit cards. the most fabled and civilized cities in the Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism. Guardian newspaper after the attacks: “Stand Perhaps what I’m going to say sounds a bit pompous, world—Paris. At Charlie Hebdo, threats were no anom- with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend These were murders directed not only aly, either. The magazine’s editor, Stephane the art of satire, which has always been a but I prefer to die standing up rather than living on at human beings, but at what those human Charbonnier, was among the dead, as was force for liberty and against tyranny, dishon- my knees.” — Stéphane Charbonnier (Charb) beings practiced and stood for: the principle his police bodyguard. Charbonnier had told esty and stupidity.” of free speech. the French newspaper Le Monde several Cartoonists the world over paid tribute in. But they decided to eradicate this symbol The French satirical magazine Charlie years before that his cartoons shocked “those to their professional kin with cartoons of of freedom that was Charlie.” Hebdo long prided itself on being an equal who will want to be shocked… I don’t feel as their own proclaiming the pen’s enduring In fact, that still is “Charlie,” as the murders opportunity offender, leveling its satirical though I’m killing someone with a pen… I’m might over the sword: an automatic weapon meant to intimidate have only served to steel barbs and cartoons at power, pomposity not putting lives at risk. When activists need arrayed against a mass of pencils; the Statue the resolve and unity of journalists. Fischetti a pretext to justify their violence, they always of Liberty, a French gift to the United States, is here representing his colleagues, living and Antonio Fischetti find it.” cradling a copy of Charlie Hebdo in her arm; dead, to accept the Pearl Award. Extremists had firebombed the magazine’s a masked terrorist cutting off the head of a The award was named for the Southern Paris office in 2011, after the publication of pencil only to see a hundred more spring up California journalist and Wall Street Journal an issue editors sardonically said had been in its place. reporter who was kidnapped and murdered “guest-edited” by the prophet Muhammad. The week following the attacks, Charlie in the line of duty in 2002, investigating Al Thereafter, the paper had moved to the loca- Hebdo was published on schedule, not with Qaeda links to the shoe-bomber terrorist tion where the killers attacked this year. its usual 60,000 copies, but ultimately with a Richard Reid. Since that year, and beginning After the January 2015 attack, the swell of press run of as many as 5 million, the revenue with Daniel Pearl himself, the award has been support for Charlie Hebdo’s staff, and for the going to the families of the victims. given to those who epitomize courage and free speech rights it practices, was instanta- Its cover: the headline “All is forgiven,” and integrity in journalism. neous. It was also international. The hashtag a cartoon of the prophet Muhammad, holding Those are traits clearly displayed in the #jesuisCharlie leaped to the top of Twitter. a sign reading, “Je Suis Charlie.” work the staff of Charlie Hebdo did before Jan. In September 2001, after the terrorist Charlie Hebdo journalist Antonio Fischetti, 7, and the work the magazine continues to attacks on the United States, Le Monde had who had been attending a funeral when his do today.

LA 18 PC LA 19 PC Journalists Killed Fernando Raymondi Uribe, Caretas Abdul Rahman Abu Batra, Syrian Al Shaab TV Reynaldo Paz Mayes, RPM TV Canal 28 Remembering Those Who Gave November 9, in San Vicente de Cañete, Peru December 5, in Syria December 15, in Comayagua, Honduras Their Lives to Keep the World Informed Abdirisak Ali Abdi, Radio Daljir, Horn TV Luke Somers, Freelance Zubair Hatami, Mitra TV IN THE LINE OF DUTY November 18, in Galkayo, Puntland, Somalia December 6, in Shabwa province, Yemen December 21, in Kabul, Afghanistan Zaher Mtawe’e, Zebdine Coordination Committee Marcos de Barros Leopoldo Guerra, Ubatuba eing a journalist has never been Saudi Liberals, that “insulted Islam November 22, in Zebdine, Syria DECEMBER 8, IN SHEIKH MISKEEN, DARAA Cobra PROVINCE, SYRIA December 23, in Ubatuba, Brazil more dangerous, and the need through electronic channels.” In India, MVN Sankar, Andhra Prabha November 26, in Andhra Pradesh, India Rami Asmi, Orient News Robert Shamwami Shalubuto, Congolese for courageous journalism has journalist Ram Murti Verma was B Oleksandr Kuchynsk, Criminal Express Yousef El-Dous, Orient News National Radio and Television never been greater. From the war- burned to death by police after start- November 29, in Ukraine Salem Khalil, Orient News December 26, in Goma, Democratic Republic fronts of Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, ing a Facebook page to bring to light Monica Andrea Roche, Television Ciudadana of the Congo to intolerant and corrupt regimes alleged corruption and land grabs by a December 1, in Colombia Mahran al-Deeri, Al-Jazeera Abdulkadir Ahmed, Freelance around the globe, reporters, photog- local politician. December 10, in Sheikh Miskeen, Daraa December 5, in Baidoa, Somalia province, Syria raphers, videographers, bloggers and As we go about our own forms of Mohamed Isaq, Kalsan TV other public witnesses have paid a journalism here in Southern California, December 5, in Baidoa, Somalia heavy price—up to and including their let us work with courage, be it on the lives—for trying to inform the world business page, sports channel or polit- about things that matter. ical blog, to continue to speak truth Even journalists in “moderate” to power and emulate the dedication JOURNALISTS KILLED IN 2015 allied countries suffer for their trade. shown by the fallen journalists below The case of liberal Saudi blogger Raif in pursuing their craft. Kenji Goto, Freelance Serhii Nikolaiev, Segodnya Abdulkareem Ali Muthna, manager/editor of January, in Syria February 28, in Peski, Ukraine regional state radio Badawi highlights this. Arrested in These are the journalists who have José Moisés Sánchez Cerezo, La Unión Edgar Quintero, Radio Luna April 22, in Yemen 2012 and later sentenced to 10 years been targeted or caught in the cross- January 2, in Medellín de Bravo, Mexico March 2, in Palmira, Colombia Thaer Al-Ali, Rai al-Nas in prison and 1,000 lashes, Badawi’s fire since the last Southern California Khalid Mohammed al-Washli, Al-Masirah TV Gerardo Ceferino Servían, Ciudad Nueva FM April 26, in Mosul, Iraq crime was founding a website, Free Raif Badawi Journalism Awards in June 2014. January 4, in Dhamar, Yemen March 5, in Ponta Porã, Brazil Noureddine Hashim, Al Etihad Press APRIL 27, IN LIBYA JANUARY 7, IN PARIS, FRANCE March 8, in Damascus, Syria Khaled Al Sobhi, Al Barka TV Jean Cabut (Cabu), Charlie Hebdo Danilo López, Prensa Libre Younes Al Mabruk Al Nawfali, Al Barka TV Elsa Cayat, Freelance March 10, in Mazatenango, Guatemala Abdallah Al Karkaii, Al Barka TV JOURNALISTS KILLED IN 2014, AFTER JUNE 21 Stephane Charbonnier (Charb), Charlie Federico Salazar, Radio Nuevo Mundo Yousef Kader Boh, Al Barka TV Hebdo March 10, in Mazatenango, Guatemala Mohamed Jalal, Al Barka TV Yusuf Ahmed Abukar Keynan, Radio Ergo, Timur Kuashev, Dosh Steven Sotlo, Freelance Philippe Honoré, Freelance Villatoro Ramos, local television show host Mustaqbal Radio August 1, in Russian Federation September 2, in Syria Bernard Maris, Freelance March 13, in Guatemala Daud Ali Omar, Radio Baidoa June 21, in Mogadishu, Somalia Andrei Stenin, Rossiya Segodnya Mohammed al-Qasim, Rozana Radio Mustapha Ourrad, Charlie Hebdo Abdel Karim al-Khaiwani, Freelance April 29, in Baidoa, Somalia Elisabeth Oloo, Bé–Oko August 6, in Snizhne, Ukraine September 10, in Idlib province, Syria Bernard Verlhac (Tignous), Freelance March 18, in Sana’a, Yemen John Kituyi, The Mirror June 22, in Central African Republic Leyla Yildizh (Deniz Firat), First News Agency Facély Camara, Liberté FM Georges Wolinski, Charlie Hebdo Washiqur Rahman Babu, Freelance April 30, in Kenya Luis Alonso Funez Duarte, Radio Patria August 8, in Makhmur District, Iraq September 16, in Womé, Guinea March 30, in Dhaka, Bangladesh Armando Saldana Morales, Le Ke Buena June 23, in Honduras Octavio Rojas Hernández, El Buen Tono Molou Chérif, Radio N’Zérékoré Nerlita Ledesma, Abante Jamal Khalifeh, Freelance May 4, in Mexico Mohamed Taani, SMART News Agency August 11, in Oaxaca, Mexico September 16, in Guinea January 8, in Balanga City, Philippines April 1, in Yarmouk, Damascus, Syria Ananta Bijoy Das, Freelance June 27, in Daraa, Syria Luis Carlos Cervantes Solano, Morena FM Sidiki Sidibé, Radio N’Zérékoré Aqil Mohammad Waqar, Speenghar Radio Blas Olivio, local journalist May 12, in Sylhet, Bangladesh Anatoly Klyan, Pervy Kanal August 12, in Tarazá, Colombia September 16, in Guinea January 18, in Afghanistan April 13, in Dominican Republic Evany José Metzker, editor-in-chief of investiga- June 30, in Donetsk, Ukraine Ali Abuafash, AFP Palwasha Tokhi Miranzai, Bayan-e-Shamal Alberto “Pastor” Martine, local broadcast Melinda Magsino-Lubis, Philppine Daily Inquirer tive journalism blog Newton Gonzalez, Canal 25 TV August 13, in Palestinian Territory September 17, in Mazar-e-Sherif, Afghanistan journalist April 13, in Philippines May 18, in Brazil July 1, in Dominican Republic Kamili Simon, The Associated Press Tawq Faraj Ben Saud, Lyniana Hits January 20, in Philippines Soleil Balanga, Radio Monkoto Soso Aleli Youssef al-Ayzari, Suhail TV Donny Buchelli Cueva, Más Radio August 13, in Beit Lahiya, Gaza, Israel and the September 19, in Iraq Ali al-Ansari, Al-Ghadeer April 16, in Monkoto, Equateur Province, May 21, in Dhamar, Yemen July 8, in Pacasmayo, Peru Occupied Palestinian Territory Marwan Shahadat, Jasim Media Center January 23, in Iraq Democratic Republic of the Congo Abdullah Qabil, Yemen Youth TV, Belqees TV Hamid Shibab, Media 24 Nery Francisco Soto Torres, Canal 23, Radio October 3, in Jasim, Daraa province, Syria Adnan Abdul Razzaq, Sama Mosul Humam Najjar (Abu Yazan al-Halabi), Aleppo May 21, in Dhamar, Yemen July 9, in Palestinian Territory Full FM Nadeem Hayder, Dunya News January 24, in Iraq Today Jagendra Singh, Freelance Mohammed Smeri, Gaza Now August 14, in Olanchito, Honduras October 3, in Hafizabad, Pakistan April 16, in Aleppo, Syria June 8, in Shahjahanpur district, Uttar Pradesh, July 11, in Palestinian Territory Abdul Rahman Hamid al-Din, Sanaa Radio Aung Kyaw Naing “Par Gyi,” Freelance JANUARY 25, IN WESTERN BAHR AL GHAZAL Oles Buzyna, Segodnia India Khalid Agah Yaqubi, local radio journalist August 16, in Sanaa, Yemen October 4, in Kyaikmayaw, Myanmar STATE, SOUTH SUDAN April 16, in Ukraine July 12, in Afghanistan James Foley, Freelance Yaqoob Shehzad, Express News Randa George, Raja FM Mohamed Shamsan, Yemen Today Source: IFJ (International Federation of Journal- Khaled Reyadh Hamad, Continue Production August 19, in Syria October 5, in Pakistan Musa Adam, Raja FM April 20, in Sana’a, Yemen ists) and Committee To Protect Journalism Films Adballah Fadel Mortaja, Al-Aqsa TV Raad Mohamed Ramadan Al-Azzoui, Sama Dalia Marko, Raja FM July 20, in Gaza, Israel and the Occupied August 25, in Palestinian Territory Salaheddin Boutros Martin, South Sudan Television Palestinian Territory Fatima Omar AbdelKarim, Iraqi Journalists’ October 10, in Tikrit, Iraq Musa Mohamed, Raja FM Herlyn Ivan Espinal Martinez, Hoy Mismo Syndicate Atilano Roman Tirano, Fiesta Mexicana eventeen journalists were killed in Syria alone in 2014, according to the July 20, in Honduras August 26, in Baghdad, Iraq October 11, in Mazatlan, Mexico Beni Faisal, Fokus Lampung Committee to Protect Journalists. The death toll, coupled with the high- Herlyn Espinal, Hoy Mismo Maolana Nurul Islam Farooqi, Channel i Taing Try, Freelance S January 27, in Indonesia profile murders of American freelance journalists James Foley and Steven July 22, in Honduras Television October 12, in Kratie province, Cambodia Luis Antonio Peralta, Linda Stereo Sotloff by ISIS militants, served as a stark reminder that local reporters—who Sameh Al-Aryan, Al-Aqsa TV August 27, in Dhaka, Bangladesh Atallah Bajbouj, Nabaa Media Foundation February 14, in Doncello, Colombia July 31, in Shijaiyah, Gaza, Israel and the Irshad Mastoi, Online International News Network, October 15, in Daraa, Syria Maurito Lim, dyRD make up the vast majority of the casualties—and freelancers do not have the Occupied Palestinian Territory ARY News Pablo Medina Velázquez, ABC Color February 14, in Tagbilaran City, Philippines extensive security safeguards afforded to full-time staff at large news organi- Rami Rayan, Palestine Network for Press and Media August 28, in Quetta, Pakistan October 16, in Curuguaty, Paraguay Avijit Roy, Freelance zations like the New York Times. To help address the problem, major outlets July 31, in Shijaiyah, Gaza, Israel and the Muhammad Abdul Rasool, Online International Jose Antonio Gamboa Urias, Nueva Prensa February 26, in Dhaka, Bangladesh and advocacy groups established global safety principles and practices in Occupied Palestinian Territory News Network October 23, in Sinaloa, Mexico Ivanildo Viana, 100.5 FM Lider Mohammed Aldeiri, Palestinian Media Network August 28, in Quetta, Pakistan Jewan Arain, Dharti TV February 27, in Paraíba, Brazil early 2015. July 31, in Palestinian Territory November 6, in Pakistan Source: FreedomHouse.org

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Telling the Story V ice News, the Recipient of and Being Part the Press Club’s Public Service Award, Does Things Its Own Way, of the Fight and Gets Results | By Lucas Shaw

hane Smith hosts a regular an alternative magazine in 1994 called about man boobs, famous stoners, and straight journalistic point of view, we State militant group. The latter piece “In a world that is hostile to journal- news show, but he has no illu- Voice of Montreal. It soon morphed into taco and burrito emojis. actually go to a place and press record,” was cited by almost every major news ism in all its forms, where dangerous sions of being the next Walter Vice, a free magazine specializing in But there’s a serious side that sets Smith said in a March interview. “We outlet, and earned Vice a 2014 Peabody conflicts seem to jump off every other Cronkite. Instead, he’s trying to humorous writing and cultural criticism Vice apart. With thousands of contrib- see how the story takes us. If the story Award, one of two it received. day, you can’t be uppity about where Screate a new type of newscast, one that with a distinctly anti-authoritarian flair. utors around the world and bureaus takes us into a different place, then we That is as many as CNN won last your news comes from,” Carr wrote in forgoes the longstanding tradition of Over the past two decades, as Smith in more than 30 countries, the com- follow that. We have young people film- year. The comparison is fitting, as Vice August 2014. “I’m just glad that some- dispassionate, objective reporting and and his team pushed into journalism, pany sends reporters to some of the ing, picking stories and continuing to partnered with the cable news giant one’s willing to do the important work replaces it with a more active style of Vice has transformed yet again, becom- most dangerous war zones. Its troops give us that freedom.” in January 2010, an alliance surprising of bearing witness, the kind that can get service journalism. ing a multi-platform global news out- interview dictators and cover stories Vice has had a reporter stationed enough that the late New York Times you killed if something goes wrong.” It’s a unique body of work that led let that produces thousands of hours neglected by many other news outlets. in Russia and the Ukraine since 2014, media critic David Carr famously asked Vice’s piece on the Islamic State also the Los Angeles Press Club to honor of video for its websites, YouTube, It’s unconventional, yes, but it’s find- filing more than 100 dispatches. He Smith, “What the fuck is going on that attracted the interest of Richard Plepler, Smith and Vice with this year’s Public Snapchat, HBO and TV networks in ing an audience. It’s also finding people continued his job even after he was you’re doing business with CNN?” the chief executive officer of HBO. Vice Service Award, bestowed annually for Europe and Canada. Soon Vice will who believe in its future—Vice’s popu- kidnapped. Carr, who died in February, grew to already produced a weekly newsmaga- contributions to civic life. have its own U.S. TV channel. larity among younger viewers has con- The company secured footage from embrace Vice over time, and praised zine for the network featuring reports Smith, a New Yorker by way of The company has never abandoned vinced investors it is worth more than within North Korea by bringing along its piece on the Islamic State for dem- on the American military industrial Ottawa, is the co-founder and CEO of the prurient and sensational. Recent $2 billion. basketball player Dennis Rodman, and onstrating “extraordinary access and complex, the conflict in Syria and cli- Vice Media, a company that began as shows on its website include stories “We’re not coming at it from a embedded a reporter with the Islamic footage.” mate change.

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Plepler wanted more, and will now pay Vice to produce a daily newscast and a number of specials for HBO, exploring everything from revolutionary cancer treatments to transsexu- als in Iran. The special “Killing Cancer” signals Vice’s ambition to combine journalism with service. In addition to shining a light on a potential cure for the disease, the company worked with the Mayo Clinic on a fundraising campaign. It pulled in more than $2 million, including a $1 million matching gift from Smith. “Going forward Vice will not only remain committed to this type of story but also helping wherever we can,” Smith said in May. This year, Vice began dedicating weeks to specific subjects such as mental health. It also investigated the lives of detainees at Guantanamo Bay in a project that featured Above: VICE Correspondent Tania Rashid in Bangladesh for her VICE News piece essays, poems, drawings and satire written by “Bangladeshi Gang Rape” some of those held captive at the prison. All of these stories had in common the same edgy editorial voice that defines the brand. Vice is not a bystander. It is part of the fight. Smith took that fight on in Vice magazine’s first environmental issue, writing, “Because there are entities out there, Big Oil, petrochemi- cal companies, etc., actively spending billions of dollars on media to obfuscate the truth, we have to fight that, and that’s what this issue is. Vice is committed to this battle, and we are put- ting our editorial where our mouth is.” Smith’s ambitions continue to grow. He has broadened Vice Media by creating a number of distinct brands, including Motherboard, which reports on technology, and Noisey, which cov- ers music. In December, the company part- nered with the Knight Foundation to invest $500,000 to train reporters at City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism to adopt new ways of storytelling. The imprimatur of CNN and HBO has helped Vice News earn the trust of major advertis- ers, media critics and viewers, while maintain- Above: VICE News won a Peabody Award for its in-depth look at The Islamic State Below: VICE Founder & CEO Shane Smith reporting from Greenland for Emmy-winning ing its reputation as a youthful, transgressive “VICE on HBO” media company.

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illow Bay, the director of the USC Annen- berg School of Journalism, took a few Wdetours before winding up in her chosen career. After a modeling career and an MBA from New York University, she finally got around to doing what she really wanted to do: reporting. Bay got her break on the NBC show “NBA Inside Stuff,” and went on to work for CNN, ABC, NBC, Seventeen magazine led me to a career in modeling, of women pioneers who preceded us. In news, MSNBC and Bloomberg TV. She has interviewed which paid for college and graduate school. When I Barbara Walters. In sports, Lesley Visser and others. world leaders, CEOs and the Dalai Lama, and joined was finishing my MBA I knew I didn’t want to work I was part of a generation that earned a place in the the Huffington Post to help expand the reach of that on Wall Street, which was the typical path for NYU newsroom and proved our capabilities on air but digital news machine. Stern grads, but I did want to pursue a career in did not have to fight our way in. We all owe those Bay is the recipient this year of the Los Angeles An interview with Michael Jordan; below, left, speaking at business. women who preceded us an enormous amount of Press Club’s Joseph M. Quinn Award for Lifetime the commencement ceremony this year. I also still really wanted to see if I could be a gratitude. Achievement. She recently spoke about her varied reporter. So I gave myself a year. I kicked around That said, it wasn’t always pretty. Remember “the career. Annenberg Hall, with its state of the art media cen- in some really bad cable jobs, got some decent live money-honey” nickname? Or the fact that Hannah ter. It’s a newsroom, a classroom and an incuba- broadcasting experience and was ultimately hired Storm and I became interchangeable in the minds Q: Your most recent move was from the news- tor all in one, allowing students to create, publish by the National Basketball Association to co-host a of some, those “girls” who covered the NBA? room to the classroom. What motived you to and promote journalistic content across multiple pioneering new television program that took view- Today, when I consider that the School of run the USC Annenberg School of Journalism? platforms. Helping students navigate the profound ers behind the scenes, introducing them to the lives Journalism has a majority female student body, it’s A: I can’t imagine a more exciting time to begin changes reshaping the media business, establish- of players off the court, and allowing us to tell their clear just how much change we’ve seen in oppor- a career in journalism. Or a more exciting time ing the technological, ethical and intellectual fun- stories in a personal and significant way. That show tunities for women in news. Now it’s my job to help to be here on campus, as we settle into Wallis damentals, and preparing them to lead the industry was called “Inside Stuff.” position those young women to lead news organi- forward—now that’s an interesting job! zations of the future. Q: Back up a little bit. What drew you to jour- Q: What made this a good time for the move? nalism? Q: How did you fare in business news? A: My husband was considering retirement, and it A: I was always a strong writer, but I also really liked A: In financial news I was often told that inves- seemed like the perfect time for me to dive head- unearthing new information and sharing people’s tors—meaning men—didn’t want to get bad finan- long into a challenging and time-consuming new stories. Being a reporter was the closest thing I cial news from a woman. When my male co-anchor job. However, once I decided to take the position, could get to being in school all the time, where you was out on vacation and a woman filled in for he decided to defer his retirement for a few years. constantly learn and process new information, put him, our senior producers worried that investors I will say that I have two teenage boys who are not it in context and present it. wouldn’t like to get their business news from two entirely unhappy that their mother is very, very busy women sitting side by side at the desk. Turns out, when they get home from school. Q: You have wound up in places where women investors didn’t much care. were scarce: first sports, then business. What Q: Take us through your career. was the environment like when you started Q: What about the attitudes of the executives A: I wanted to be a reporter from the time I was covering sports in 1991? in sports? a kid. An interview for an editorial internship at A: The doors had been opened by a generation A: I was really lucky to have worked at the NBA for

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Above, The “Good Commissioner David Stern and then with Adam Morning America” Silver, and they were incredibly supportive of team women. When Stern hired me, he said, “We’re Upper right, Robert considering you and another woman, and you’re Iger, chairman both OK on television, but you have an MBA so and CEO, The Walt we’re going to go with you, because if the TV thing Willow Bay Disney Company with Graydon Carter, doesn’t work out, we’ll put you to work in the mar- editor, Vanity Fair, keting department.” attend a forum led by Bay Q: How did you make the leap from sports on the Joseph M. Quinn Memorial Award for Right, Moneyline with Stuart Varney to news? A: I knew I didn’t want to be a sportscaster. As Lifetime Achievement much as I loved that show and loved covering the NBA, I really wanted to be in news. So I worked for “Good Morning America” on the weekends. When I moved to CNN to co-anchor “CNN & and our Entertainment Weekly,” I talked myself into a busi- ness-news show. They were launching a show based on Fortune magazine, and I said, “Why can’t I do that show?” They said, “You already have a Q: Which brings us to Annenberg. USC Annenberg Students for their outstanding show.” “Well, I’m the only one on the team with an A: I saw a real opportunity to equip students, not MBA, and I’m a woman, so you know I’m going to just with the skill set they need, which these days is journalistic recognition work twice as hard. Why can’t I do two shows?” sizeable, but also with the mindset that’s entrepre- They said OK. That led to “Moneyline.” neurial and risk-taking. I want to see our graduates not only go out and change the world with their Q: Fast-forward a few years to the Huffington reporting, but also to change the world of journal- Post. In the midst of all the disruption in the ism. I want to see the future of journalism in the news industry, you headed to purely digital hands of journalists, rather than technologists, outlet. who are our partners, or big media companies, A: It was the moment when Arianna Huffington who are our funders. was planning to expand the Huffington Post from politics and front page to other verticals that Q: What is the most important thing for included lifestyle and entertainment, business and students today to learn? media. I joined to help her and Ken Lerer manage A: When I look at a journalism degree and what we that expansion on the West Coast. teach right now, it equips students to engage with the world around them in a meaningful way. They Q: What was it like moving into digital? discover stories, research issues thoroughly, vet in memorium of legendary broadcaster, USC alumnus and friend of the Annenberg School ~ A: Growth was off the charts, so managing and that research, contextualize it and present infor- keeping up with that growth and then driving it was mation in a clear, accurate and compelling way. Stan Chambers a significant function of everybody’s job. Our roles Today, they engage with audiences around those and responsibilities changed constantly. It also stories. Beyond journalism, that skill set is invalu- required working with a small army of 20-some- able. Clear, concise, accurate, effective communi- things. cators—every industry needs them.

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WALLIS ANNENBERG is the Chair- CHRISTINE DEVINE co-anchors man of the Board, President and the FOX 11 News at 10 p.m. Monday CEO of the Annenberg Foundation. through Friday evenings. Devine has Based in Los Angeles, Annenberg is a covered L.A.s biggest news stories, visionary who strives to improve the including earthquakes, elections and well-being of people and communi- the L.A. Riots. She is also the host of ties throughout the world. Wednesday’s Child. The adoption seg- Her keen vision for philanthropy ment has aired on FOX 11 since 1995, LAYTON furthers the core values of the helping more than 700 children from fos-

ROBIN Foundation: openness, accessibility, ter care find forever homes. fairness and relationship building. Devine authored the autobiography Finding a Forever Under her leadership, the Los Angeles office of the Family, A News Anchor’s Notebook. She also has written arti- Foundation has given more than a quarter billion dollars cles for Fostering Families magazine. She received the Anna to over 500 organizations. Complementing this wide and Quindlen Award for philanthropy journalism from the Society high-impact grantmaking are special projects and initiatives of Professional Journalists. In 2012, she was named by Los which are pushing the boundaries of traditional philanthropy Angeles Magazine as one of the “50 Women Changing L.A.” while serving the Los Angeles community. Annenberg serves on a number of boards and is the longest-serving Trustee at ELIZABETH ESPINOSA co-hosts the University of Southern California. “Thompson and Espinosa” weekdays from 1-3 p.m. on KFI. She has worked as CHER CALVIN co-anchors the KTLA5 a reporter for FOX 11 and KTLA5 News News weekday 6, 10 and 11 p.m. news- and hosted her own show, CNN Latino’s casts alongside Micah Ohlman. She “Sin Límites.” In 2007, the Mexican joined KTLA in 2005 and was recently American Opportunity Foundation elected to the Board of Directors of the named her Woman of the Year. That Los Angeles Press Club. Her first event same year, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio for the Club was a tribute to newsman Villaraigosa and the City Council honored Espinosa for her Stan Chambers, where many of his col- support and work of Operation Confidence, a committee leagues and family came to remember that helps the disabled population in hurricane-ravaged New the legendary reporter. Orleans rebuild. Espinosa’s work has taken her into some As a Filipino American she has a deep connection with of the world’s most treacherous regions, including reporting her community and her most recent Emmy Award was for from Uganda, Pakistan and El Salvador. She is a graduate of her efforts in mobilizing her station and Los Angeles for a UCLA and speaks five languages. telethon special to raise money for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan. The three-hour program raised nearly $200,000. She PAT HARVEY is the co-anchor of CBS has three Golden Mike Awards and three Emmys. 2’s weekday 5 and 11 p.m. newscasts. She joined CBS 2 following 20 years with KEVIN DE LEON is the first Latino sister station KCAL 9 as one of the origi- elected President Pro Tempore of the nal anchors of the nation’s first nightly California State Senate in more than 130 three-hour primetime newscast. Harvey, years. Senator de León (D-Los Angeles) who received the Joseph M. Quinn Award is setting a bold agenda to give every kid for Lifetime Achievement from the Press a fair shot at a higher education, and to Club in 2004, regularly reports on issues combat climate change while building a of concern to Southern California and the world. new, low-carbon economy with oppor- Her reporting has ranged from filing live reports at the tunities for all Californians. Leading the inauguration of President Barack Obama to following the Senate of the largest state in the union, de León takes on story of a homeless painter from the streets of Los Angeles challenging issues that strengthen the national reach of to a gallery in Paris. Harvey is a 21-time Emmy winner, the California’s policy-making. most recent for a half-hour special on the 20th anniversary of Senator de León was elected to the State Assembly in the L.A. riots. Other awards include being named Best News 2006 and to the State Senate in 2010. He was the first in his Anchor by the Associated Press, a national Emmy and seven family to graduate from high school, later earning a degree Golden Mikes. with honors from Pitzer College. He is a Rodel Fellow at the Aspen Institute and a guest lecturer at the University of ROBERT KOVACIK is the current President of the Los Southern California. Angeles Press Club. He is an anchor/reporter for NBC4

LA 30 PC Cognitive Systems Laboratory. He is known internationally for PRESENTERS his contributions to artificial intelligence, human reasoning and philosophy of science. Dr. Pearl is the father of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Southern California’s newscasts at 5, 6 Daniel Pearl and president of the Daniel Pearl Foundation and 11 p.m. Kovacik joined the station (danielpearl.org), which he co-founded in April 2002 “to in 2004 and is known for bringing a local continue Daniel’s life-work of dialogue and understanding perspective to international events. and to address the root causes of his tragedy.” Kovacik was NBC4’s correspondent Pearl and his wife Ruth Pearl are co-editors of the book I for the 2013 Papal Conclave in Rome and am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of was assigned to the Summer Olympics Daniel Pearl, winner of the 2004 National Jewish Book Award in London. for Anthologies. One of his most compelling live shots captured an extensive manhunt for an alleged murderer. CAROLINA SARASSA is a three-time CONGRATULATIONS The suspect suddenly appeared and surrendered to Kovacik Emmy and a four-time National Gabriel live on air. Kovacik has received accolades including Emmy, Award-winning anchor and correspon- Golden Mike, AP and Edward R. Murrow awards. He was dent for MundoFOX National Network named Television Journalist of Year in 2013 at the Southern News in Los Angeles. Prior to joining California Journalism Awards. MundoFOX, she was the anchor and pro- TO NBC4 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ducer for Univision’s KINC in Las Vegas JUDEA PEARL was born in Tel Aviv and a correspondent for the news mag- and is a graduate of the Technion-Israel azine show “Primer Impacto.” Before Institute of Technology. He came to the moving to Nevada, she anchored and reported for Univision NOMINEES AT THIS YEAR’S United States for postgraduate work in KORO in Texas. She is a board member of the L.A. Press Club. 1960 and received his Master’s degree in physics from Rutgers University and his BRIAN WATT covers working and entrepreneurship for Ph.D. degree in 1965 from the Brooklyn KPCC. He joined the KPCC news team in 2007. Prior to that, Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Pearl joined he worked as a producer at “Marketplace.” In 2008, Watt won LA PRESS CLUB JOURNALISM AWARDS. the faculty of UCLA in 1969, where he is the Press Club award for Business and Financial Coverage— currently a professor of computer science and director of the Broadcast. He’s won two Golden Mike awards, including WE ARE PROUD OF YOU!

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Best Consumer/Financial Reporting in Bill Maher’s Journey From Comedy to VICE 2010. Watt’s KPCC career began with a year-long fellowship courtesy of the The Talk Show Host Introduces the Recipient of the Annenberg Foundation. In 2014, he was Public Service Award one of 30 fellows selected nationally for or more than 20 years, Bill Maher an intensive seminar at the Reynolds Fhas set the boundaries of where Center for Business Journalism. funny, political talk can go on Ameri- can television. First on “Politically COLLEEN WILLIAMS serves as co- Incorrect” (Comedy Central, ABC, anchor of NBC4 Southern California’s 1993-2002), and for the last 13 years weekday newscasts NBC4 News at 5 and on HBO’s “Real Time,” Maher’s com- TOLOT 11 p.m., alongside Chuck Henry. bination of unflinching honesty and Williams, who joined the station big laughs have garnered him 33 ALBERTO in 1986, is the recipient of numerous Emmy nominations. Maher won his honors, including multiple Emmy and rst Emmy in 2014 as executive producer for the HBO series Golden Mike awards. She also was “VICE.” In 2008, this same combination was on display in Maher’s uproarious and unprecedented swipe at organized recognized with a Golden Mike for team religion, Religulous. coverage of the Chatsworth train crash, In addition to his television program, Maher has written and an L.A. Emmy for Best Light News Story for “Toll Booth five bestsellers, most recently, The New New Rules: A Funny Bandits.” Prior to joining NBC4, Williams co-anchored the 5 Look at How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass. p.m. news at KCBS-TV, and before that she was co-anchor Maher started his career as a stand-up comedian in 1979, of the noon and weekend newscasts at KPIX-TV in San and still performs at least 50 dates a year. Three of his 10 Francisco. Williams is passionate about supporting social stand-up specials for HBO have been nominated for Emmy causes impacting Southern Californians. She participates awards. annually at fundraising events for the Rape Crisis Center in Maher was born in New York City and attended Cornell Riverside and Casa de Las Amigas, a rehabilitation center University. He now resides in Los Angeles. S:10.375» B:11.25»

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L6a. FEATURE WRITING – PRINT or ONLINE L7. REPORTING – BROADCAST, PODCAST Los Angeles Collegian, Los Angeles City G4. FEATURE, under 1,000 words X11. BEST TRAVEL FEATURE ON Claudine Mulard, Le Monde (France), “James (Student) or STREAM (Student) College (Magazines) CALIFORNIA (Cross Platform) Ellroy, Confidential in L.A.” Brooke Becher, Daily 49er, “Alumni in Love, 46 Kelsey Cruz, Daily 49er, “30 Years of Legend” The Sundial, California State University, Alex Ben Block, The Hollywood Reporter, “A Degen Pener, Jeanie Pyun and Leslie Tom Walters and Liam Hyland, CTV – Years Later” Eldrin Masangkay and Francesca Manto, Daily Northridge Filmmaker’s Prison Nightmare Over Tax McKenzie, The Hollywood Reporter, “How to Canadian Television, “Car Pool” Olga Grigoryants and Daina Solomon, Bruin, “Maxlove” Credits” Do Summer Malibu Style” Intersections South LA, “40 Years for Four Kelly Reinke, Annenberg TV News, “LAFD Nathan Deuel, The New York Times Magazine, Maria Estevez, Conde Nast Traveler Spain & J3. NEWS FEATURE (Online) Shots” Looks to Add More Women to Fire SCHOLARSHIP RAFFLE and SPECIAL “Let’s Go Ride a Bike” Latin America, “El Lado Sexy de Los Angeles” Rebecca Gibian, David Hodari and Vanessa Lizeth Luevano, Daily Titan, “Finding Your Department” AWARD Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, “At Okoth-Obbo, Neon Tommy, “The High Cost Niche: Spanish for Health Services” Marc Sallinger, Annenberg TV News, “Storm Home with Jerry Lewis as He Opens Up F1. NEWS FEATURE, over 1,000 words of Dying in L.A.” Neon Tommy Staff Reporters,Neon Tommy, System Prompts Evacuations in Glendora” About Son’s Death, Skirmishes with Fans” (Newspapers under 50K) John Gittelsohn and Karen Gullo, Bloomberg X1. HUMOR/SATIRE WRITING (Cross Justin Chapman, Pasadena Weekly, “Justice on “More Than Overcrowding: A Deeper Look Sarah Zahedi, Intersections South LA, “South Platform) Steven Gaydos, Variety, “Mel Brooks Riffs on News, “Chinese Millionaire Over Shrinking Parade” at the Problem with Prisons” LA High School Curbs Suspension Rates Amy Alkon, Creators Syndicate, “Advice ‘Young Frankenstein,’ Laddie and the Biz” Mansion” Andre Coleman, Pasadena Weekly, “Turn the Jackson Prince, Highlights, “How to Be Funny with Restorative Justice” Goddess” Dave McNary, Variety, “Set in California, but Daina Beth Solomon, Intersections South LA, Page” in An Oversensitive Society” Zachary Pincus-Roth and Eve Weston, LA Shot Where It’s Cheap” “South LA Street Cooks Could Soon Go L4b. SPORTS PHOTO (Student) Eddie Kim, Los Angeles Downtown News, “How Weekly, “Cards Against Humanity: LA Legit” L6b. PERSONALITY PROFILE – PRINT or J4. LIFESTYLE FEATURE (Online) Downtown Came to be Weedtown” Winnie Huang, Daily Titan, “Women’s Soccer” Edition” Sahra Sulaiman, Streetsblog Los Angeles, “To ONLINE (Student) Alfred Lee, Los Angeles Business Journal, Austin Yu, Daily Bruin, “UCLA Defeats USC 38- Zachary Pincus-Roth, LA Weekly, “LA Weekly Alana Bracken, Neon Tommy, “An Inside Look Be or Not To Be a Gang-Banger: Is that Jessica Brecker, Los Angeles Collegian, “Jerzy “Booze-filled 7-Eleven Left Reeling” 20, Wins Rivalry for Third Straight Year” April Fools Day” Into The World Of Competitive Irish Dance” Really the Question?” Poglodzinski: Pool Man with a Past” H.G. Reza, OC Weekly, “Santa Ana Jon Regardie, Los Angeles Downtown News, Sasha Bronner, The Huffington Post, “This Aitana Vargas, 20 Minutos, “Norma Ramirez, Elizabeth Case, Daily Bruin, “Coming Up For L4c. FEATURE PHOTO (Student) Michoacanos vs. the Templarios” “Thanks For Calling 911” Hidden Oasis Offers Spiritual Peace in the Una Guatemalteca Que Saldra de Las Air” Jessica Brecker, Los Angeles Collegian, Jaci Stephen, LA Not So Confidential, “Penis vs. Heart of L.A.” Sombras Tras 14 Anos Sin Papeles” Kelsey Cruz, Daily 49er, “Thirty Years of “Astronomy Club Gravitates to Star- Christian Brown, Neon Tommy, “Will a Mass E1. NEWS FEATURE, over 1,000 words The Furry Cup” (Newspapers over 50K) Legend” Studded Premiere” Grave in L.A. Be Your Final Resting Place?” I3a. HARD NEWS FEATURE (Radio) Gendy Alimurung, LA Weekly, “Gimme Shelter: Jennifer Nguyen, Daily Titan, “Professor Maria Carrillo, Daily Titan, “The Bug Lady” I3b. LIGHT NEWS FEATURE (Radio) Damien Newton, Streetsblog Los Angeles, Madeleine Brand and Anna Scott, KCRW, Finds Self-Acceptance Through Historical Living Homeless in a Shelter Gave the Winnie Huang, Daily Titan, “Waka Flocka” Jerome Campbell, USC Annenberg Radio “StreetsR4Families: Walk/Bike to School “Fault Lines: A Trip to the Midnight Mission” Documents” WeHo News Publisher the Story of His Life” Curtis Sabir, Los Angeles Collegian, “Encore: News, “As Black As I Wanna Be?” Day Is Easy” Leo Duran, Laura Krants and Megan Larson, Annie Yu, The Clause, “Former APU Prof to Try Hillel Aron, LA Weekly, ”Barbarians at the Gate: Nun Goes Missing in Theatre Academy Kristin Marguerite Doidge, USC Annenberg Saul Rubin, Santa Monica Next, “Meet Two of KPCC, “LGBT Seniors Lack of Affordable Year Without God” Production at Odyssey” DK’s Donuts” The Cultural War Over the Last True Skid Housing” Radio News, “Into Space With Barbara Row in America” Morgan” Saul Gonzalez, KCRW, “Armed and Concealed L5a. SPOT NEWS WRITING (Student) L4a. NEWS PHOTO (Student) I4. LIFESTYLE FEATURE (Radio) R. Scott Moxley, OC Weekly, “Newport Beach Victor Figueroa, USC Annenberg Radio News, in Orange County” Manny Araujo, The Sundial, “A Former CSUN Jessica Brecker, Los Angeles Collegian, “Solar Police Department Corruption” “Carl the Bartender Keeps Santa Monica Madeleine Brand and Christian Bordal, KCRW, Logan Heley, USC Annenberg Radio News, “Bell Scientist is Claiming He Was Fired for His Eclipse Attracts Stargazers to Astronomy Laura Sanchez Ley, Hoy Los Angeles, “Niños Laughing” “Tough Choices for Transgender Kids” Reaction” Christian Beliefs” Club Viewing Party” Migrantes Viajan en el Nuevo Tren Diablo” Saul Gonzalez, KCRW, “This Business of Death: Steve Chiotakis and Avishay Artsy, KCRW, “A Stephanie O’Neill, Southern California Public Michael J. Arvizu, The Sundial, “Two Arrested Rocio Flores, Los Angeles Collegian, “Obama Jared Sichel, Jewish Journal, “What the Beverly Death Doulas” Look Back at Pacific Ocean Park” Radio, “Confusion, Cost Leave Some in Investigation of Abdullah Alkadi’s Supports Tools … At Trade Tech” Hills Hotel Boycott Says About Where We Bryony Inge, USC Annenberg Radio News, Erica Mu, KCRW, “San Gabriel Valley’s Evolving Californians to Go Uninsured” Disappearance” Marisela Gonzalez, Daily Titan, “Kim Takes 65th” Draw Our Lines in a Global Economy” “Divided Love: a Nanny’s Story” Food Scene” Jake Camarena, Los Angeles Collegian, “Civil Curtis Sabir, Los Angeles Collegian, “Civil Stephanie O’Neill, Southern California Public H5b. NEWS FEATURE (TV) Unrest Hits Los Angeles” Unrest Hits Los Angeles” G3. FEATURE, over 1,000 words F2. NEWS FEATURE, under 1,000 words Radio, “Psychedelic Research” (Magazines) Conor Knighton, Katherine Spiers, John Clinton Cameron, Los Angeles Collegian, Loren Townsley, The Sundial, “Ferguson Kerstin Zilm, Bob Carlson and Skylar Myers, Sandoval and Michael Bloecher, KCET, (Newspapers under 50K) Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, “’Transgender Woman’ Slain, Police Search Protests” KCRW, “I Knew You Back Then” “SoCal Connected: Foreign Restaurant Brian Hews, Los Cerritos Community News, “How Dr. Heimlich Maneuvered Hollywood for Killers” Chains” “Lavish Friday Golf Outings” Into Backing His Dangerous AIDS ‘Cure’” Richard Martinez, Los Angeles Collegian, L3. NEWS WEBSITE (Student) H5a. LIFESTYLE FEATURE (TV) Denise L. Poon, Pat Harvey, Gustavo Sampaio, Hannah Miet, Los Angeles Business Journal, Vince Beiser, Playboy Magazine, “Prescription “Protesters Demand Justice for Victims of Daily 49er Staff, Daily 49er, “daily49er.com” Mike Amor, Arron Hage and Duncan McLeod, Peter Wilgoren and Scott Diener, CBS2LA, “Fuller Plates” for Death” Transgender Violence” Daily Bruin Staff, Daily Bruin, “dailybruin.com” Seven Network Australia, “Grand Battle” “40th Anniversary of Biggest Shootout” Nick Gillespie and Emily Ekins, Reason, Intersections South LA Staff,Intersections South E2. NEWS FEATURE, under 1,000 words Kimberly Cornell, Angel C. Kim, Madelaine Derrick Shore, Katherine Spiers, Michael “Generation Independent: Millennials L5b. ENTERPRISE NEWS WRITING (Student) LA, “www.intersectionssouthla.org” (Newspapers over 50K) Hahn, Michah Ohlman and Jason Roberts, Bloecher and John Sandoval, KCET, “SoCal Aren’t Listening to You. That’s a Good Jake Camarena, Los Angeles Collegian, The Sundial Staff, The Sundial, “sundial.csun. Thomas Curwen, Mel Melcon, Lorena Iniguez KTLA5 News, “From Diagnosis to Death: Connected: Bugs as Food” Thing.” “Squatters Find Shelter on Campus in edu” Elebee and Javier Zarracina, Los Angeles John Eggers” Guillermo Quiroz and Andres Pruna, KMEX, Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, Men’s Gym” USC Annenberg School of Journalism, Neon Times, “Behind the Grand Pour: Building Michael Martinez, Ana Cabrera and Sara “Excavaciones y Temblores” “Oscar to Suicide in One Year: Tracing the Will Federman and Matthew Tinoco, Neon Tommy, “neontommy.com” L.A.’s New Tallest Tower” Weisfeldt, CNN, “Prescription Drug Abuse Zach Weissmueller, reason.tv, “Police Shoot, ‘Searching for Sugar Man’ Director’s Tragic Tommy, “New South L.A. Hospital Faces Paula Diaz, Hoy Los Angeles, “Confusion y Epidemic: How a Grandmother of 18 Kill 80 year old” Final Days” Criticism Over Delays, Lack of Services” L2. HIGH SCHOOL NEWSPAPER (Student) Temor” Became Addicted” Ashley Powers, The California Sunday Jordyn Holman, Intersections South LA, “Plaza The Highlights, Beverly Hills High School Selena Rivera, Hoy Los Angeles, “Ser Gay es Jennifer Laski, Stephanie Fischette, Carol D2. FEATURE PHOTO Magazine, “Their Town” Aims to Boost Leimert Park Community” The Pearl Post, Daniel Pearl Magnet High Delito en mi Pais” McColgin, Jose Cortez and Chris O’Konski, Ringo H.W. Chiu, Los Angeles Business Journal, Kate Parkinson-Morgan, Daily Bruin, “UCLA, School “Beyond Vape” Josh Rottenberg and Daniel Miller, Los The Hollywood Reporter, “Emily Blunt & K2. FEATURE (International) Student Groups Combat College Sexual Angeles Times, “Before Sony Hacking, Makeup Artist Jenn Streicher” Benjamin Dunn, Neon Tommy, “Xinran Ji Mike Amor and Arron Hage, Seven Network Assault” L1. COLLEGE NEWSPAPER (Student) ‘Interview’ Co-Directors Knew of N. Korea Carolina Sarassa, Gustavo Gutierrez and Supporters Prepare For Press Conference” Australia, “Free for a Day” Annie Yu, The Clause, “Student Health The Clause, Azusa Pacific University Risk” Manny Giron, MundoFOX, “Marcados De Jennifer Laski, Shanti Marlar, Carrie Smith and Mike Amor, Arron Hage and Duncan McLeod, Insurance Fees to Triple Under Obamacare” Daily Bruin, University of California, Los Eileen Truax, Hoy Los Angeles, “La Accion que Por Vida/Marked For Life” David Needleman, The Hollywood Reporter, Seven Network Australia, “Grand Battle” Angeles llego Demasiado Tarde” “Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis, Cover” Maria Estevez, Vogue Mexico, “Eva una Musa Daily Titan, California State University, Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, con Causa” Fullerton “Cowgirl at Stagecoach”

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Allen J. Schaben, Los Angeles Times, “Kings Barbara Gasser, Kleine Zeitung, “Angelina Jolie Magnum P.I. and Battlestar Galactica, Dies ARTBOUND Fans Rally After Stanley Cup Win” – An Unbroken Woman” at 77” David Sprague, San Fernando Valley Business Barbara Gasser, Wiener, “Mike Tyson - Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter, Journal, “Sparking Growth” Unvarnished Truth” “Robin Williams Dies of Suspected Suicide” Chrissy Iley, Sunday Times Magazine, “Aretha George Pennacchio and Cheryl Diano, KABC, F4. PERSONALITY PROFILE (Newspapers Franklin Return of the Diva” “Shirley Temple: A Fond Farewell” under 50K) Chrissy Iley, Telegraph, “Hillary Clinton Matt Welch, Reason, “The Third Lesson of Tom Dotan, Los Angeles Business Journal, Interview - Forgiveness is Hard” Nelson Mandela” “Deep L.A. Roots” Donna Evans, Los Angeles Downtown News, I5. PERSONALITY PROFILE (Radio) “Strike a Pose” Victor Figueroa, USC Annenberg Radio News, PRESIDENT’S AWARD—Charlie Rose, Carol Kearns, Downey Patriot, “Family “Interview with Kopal Khanna on Her Book Gayle King, Norah O’Donnell, CBS this Business” ‘Almost Whole’” Morning, introduced by Pat Harvey Carl Kozlowski, Pasadena Weekly, “Oracle of Larry Mantle, Lauren Osen, Fiona Ng and Outrage” Shawn Campbell, KPCC, “Music Legend G8. IN-HOUSE/ CORPORATE PUBLICATION Theresa Marie Moreau, The Remnant, “29 Herbie Hancock Opens Up About This Wild (MAGAZINES) Years in Laogai” Creative Ride From Jazz to Hip Hop” Bennet Kelley and Cyber Report, Internet Law Kim Masters and Kaitlin Parker, KCRW, “TV Center, “A Dozen Things in Tech You Need CONGRATULATIONS E4. PERSONALITY PROFILE (Newspapers Legend Norman Lear on a Lifetime of to Know” over 50K) ‘Experience’” Irma Mejia, Elizabeth Post and Marina Gendy Alimurung, LA Weekly, “The Shot of a Elvis Mitchell and Jenny Radelet, KCRW, Senderov, San Fernando Valley Bar Lifetime” “Charles M. Blow: Fire Shut Up in My Bones” Association, Valley Lawyer Magazine, Gendy Alimurung, LA Weekly, “He Wears A *Elvis Mitchell and Jenny Radelet, KCRW, “November 2014 ‘New Lawyers’ Issue” SOCAL CONNECTED, Dress. She’s Fine With That” “Patricia Arquette: Boyhood” Adam VanGerpen, The Los Angeles Firefighter, Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, “Hollywood “Does LAFD Need an Overhaul?” Cameraman Insists he Invented the H7. PERSONALITY PROFILE (TV) Celebrity Selfie in 1981” Kimberly Cornell, Chris Schauble, Jason B2. HEADLINE (Print) Zachary Pincus-Roth, LA Weekly, “The World Roberts, Brian Choo and Justin Mashouf, Laurence Darmiento, San Fernando Valley ARTBOUND AND Pun Champion Defends His Title” KTLA5 News, “Chris Schauble’s Adoption Business Journal, “A New Brand of Cheese Aitana Vargas, Hoy Los Angeles, “Pablo Search” Whizzes” Gonzales” Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg, Reason, Laura Dominick, Los Angeles Times, “Colossal “Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic on Punk, FairVote, Fossil” G6. PERSONALITY PROFILE (Magazines) DEPARTURES TEAMS Why He Dumped the Dems, & Why the Mike Davis, Los Angeles Times, “Stalks and Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, GOP Should Embrace Anarchy” Bonds” “X-Men’s Ellen Page on Life After Coming Nic Cha Kim, Kenny Gioseffi, Michael Bloecher Tom Hicks, Los Angeles Business Journal, “High Out…” and Matt Crotty, KCET, “’SoCal Connected’ – Times: Soaring Stock Mints First Legal Pot Taffy Brodesser-Akner, New York Times Clare Graham” Billionaire” Magazine, “Damon Lindelof Promises You ON YOUR 19 Todd Kranin, Reason, “Cody Wilson: Happiness Kevin Leung, Los Angeles Times, “Waiter, I’m His New Show Won’t End Like Lost” is a 3-D Printed Gun” Ready for the Tabby” Michael Estrin, Super Lawyers Magazine, “A Lacey Rose, Christopher Genovese, Alfred Deal is a Deal” Aquino, Jennifer Laski and Stephanie I9. USE OF SOUND (Radio) Scott Foundas, Variety, “Marion Cotillard on Fischette, The Hollywood Reporter, “Chris Victor Figueroa, USC Annenberg Radio News, Her Latest Cannes Film and Getting Over SOUTHERN Rock” “Carl the Bartender Keeps Santa Monica Edith Piaf” Laughing” Scott Shackford, Reason, “The Gamer D3. PORTRAIT PHOTO Stephanie O’Neill, Southern California Public Congressman” Chris Mihal, Bailey Franklin and Pari Dukovic, Radio, “The Surge in Psychiatric Research Variety, “Marion Cotillard” Using Hallucinogens” CALIFORNIA J5. PERSONALITY PROFILE (Online) Chris Mihal, Bailey Franklin and Yu Tsai, Susan Valot, KQED’s “The California Report,” Jase Peeples, The Advocate, “Susan Blu: Variety, “Rosamund Pike Spread” “Arena Football with a Hard Rock Beat” Transformation of an Animation Icon” 19 Godofredo Astudillo, Rodelio Astudillo, Ed Sinduya Rangarajorin, Intersections South Los Baker and Frontiers Media, Frontiers Media, F11. DESIGN (Newspapers under 50K) Angeles, “The Father of Leimert Park, or the “India’s Gay Crown Prince Manvendra Brian Allison, Yumi Kanegawa and Alexis JOURNALISM Octopus” Singh Gohil” Rawlins, Los Angeles Downtown News, “Issue Jenelle Riley, Variety, “Foxcatcher: Steve Jennifer Laski, Shanti Marlar, Carrie Smith of ‘Summer’s Top 40’” Carrell on the Darkest Role of His Career” and Miller Mobley, The Hollywood Reporter, Sally Jones, Jose Morales and Laurence Brianna Sacks and Will Federman, Neon “Philip Seymour Hoffman” Darmiento, San Fernando Valley Business AWARD Tommy, “Daniel Ellsberg: On the Republic Ringo H.W. Chiu, Los Angeles Business Journal, Journal, “End of Year Special Issue” We Couldn’t Keep” “Stewart and Lynda Resnick” Robert Landry and Business Journal Staff, Los Tom Teicholz, Forbes.com, “The Rothschild is Angeles Business Journal, “50 Wealthiest a Mensch” X2. OBITUARY (Cross Platform) Angelinos” Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, “Casey Adam VanGerpen, The Los Angeles Firefighter, NOMINATIONS! K3. PERSONALITY PROFILE (International) “The Los Angeles Firefighter” Barbara Gasser, Besser, “Julianne Moore - An Kasem, American Top 40 Icon Dies at 82” Unusual Normal Woman” Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, “Glen A. Larson, Creator of TV’s Quincy M.E.,

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E11. DESIGN (Newspapers over 50K) Paolo Uggetti, Neon Tommy, “Landon’s Last John Cádiz Klemack, NBC4, “Miramonte Sex Design Staff, Los Angeles Daily News, “April Stand: The Cup” Scandal: Exclusive Continuing Coverage” 25th” Paolo Uggetti, Neon Tommy, “The NFL, Silene Rivera, Hoy Los Angeles, “Con Caracter y Rodas Heiner, Hoy Los Angeles, “Una Mujer de America’s Monster” sin Complejos” Pelicula” Matt Tinoco, Intersections South LA, “LAUSD I8. SPORTS (Radio) Software Inflicts Scheduling Chaos” G9. DESIGN (Magazines) Matt Levin, USC Annenberg Radio News, “Draft Shanti Marlar, Jennifer Laski, Peter Cury and Insurance” H11. DOCUMENTARY, short (TV/Film) The Hollywood Reporter Design Staff, The Susan Valot, KQED’s “The California Report,” Juan Devis, Joris Debeij and Matthew Crotty, Hollywood Reporter, “The Oscar Issue” “Arena Football with a Hard Rock Beat” KCET, “Shades of L.A.” Chris Mihal and Bailey Franklin, Variety, “Bill Juan Devis, Chris Metzler, Jeff Springer and Murray: Saint Bill” H8. SPORTS (TV) Matthew Crotty, KCET, “Zorthian Ranch” Chris Mihal and Bailey Franklin, Variety, Seth Abramovitch, Stephanie Fischette, Todd Krainin, Reason, “Jay Austin’s Beautiful, “Marion Cotillard: French Connection” Jennifer Laski, and Vincent Venturella, The Illegal Tiny House” Chris Mihal and Bailey Franklin, Variety, “Out Hollywood Reporter, “David Kopay” Jennifer Laski, Stephanie Fischette, Brian of Control” Rick Garcia and Raymond Bell, KCBS-TV, Rovanpera and Victor Klaus, The Hollywood Kayoko Suzuki-Lange, Stephan Horbelt, Ed “Kopay NFL Secret” Reporter, “The Making of the Oscar statue” Baker, Gabriel Goldberg and Frontiers Moira Haney, Jennifer Laski, Stephanie Janice Min, Stephen Galloway, Jennifer Laski, Media, Frontiers Magazine, “Outfest 2014” Fischette and Mario Troncoso, The Stephanie Fischette and Tess Gomet, The Hollywood Reporter, “RGIII” Hollywood Reporter, “WIE Mentorship B3. SPORTS (Print) Kenny Holmes, KNBC-TV, “Mechanics of an Program” Patricia Bunin, Pasadena Star-News, “Senior Olympian” Moments - Robert Riger and His Sport” I11. DOCUMENTARY (Radio) Howard Fine, Los Angeles Business Journal, Amy Alkon and Gregg Sutter, Blogtalk Radio, COMIC ALONZO BODDEN “Will NFL Team Link to Carson?” “Nina Teicholz on Why Butter, Meat, and Eddie Kim, Los Angeles Downtown News, Cheese are the Foundation of a Healthy “Downtown’s Unlikely Soccer Champs” X4. PUBLIC SERVICE NEWS or FEATURE Diet” David Nusbaum, Los Angeles Business Journal, (Cross Platform) Madeleine Brand, KCRW, “Fault Lines” “Site Long Seen as NFL Catch” Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, Bob Carlson, Jesse Hardman, Wendy Aitana Vargas, Hoy Los Angeles, “De ‘Luchador “Hollywood’s Vaccine Wars: L.A.’s ‘Entitled’ Dorr, Tiffany Camhi and Elly Yu, KCRW, Callejero’ a ‘Campeón de Lucha’” Westsiders Behind City’s Epidemic” “Preacher’s Kid” Nadja Brandt and John Gittelsohn, Bloomberg Lu Olkowski, KCRW, “The Pilots” D4. SPORTS PHOTO News, “Housing Woes Worse in L.A. Than Lu Olkowski, KCRW, “The Pirate” David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News, New York, San Francisco” “Kershaw Celebrates Dodgers Victory” Will Federman and Matthew Tinoco, Neon H10. FEATURE DOCUMENTARY (TV/Film) Benjamin Dunn, Neon Tommy, “USC Dives For Tommy, “New South L.A. Hospital Faces Juan Devis, Matthew Crotty and Drew The Football” Criticism Over Delays, Lack Of Services” Tewksbury, KCET, “Without Borders/Sin Charlie Magovern, Neon Tommy, “Women’s Steve Friess, Takepart.com, “The Military Has Fronteras” Soccer vs. Colorado” a Rape Problem—and It’s Not Just Women Juan Devis, Bruce Dickson, Joris Debeij and John McCoy, Los Angeles Daily News, Who Suffer” Matthew Crotty, KCET, “America Deserta” “Dodgers Defeat Braves” Michael Martinez, Stephanie Elam and Erica Peter Musurlian, Horizon Armenian Television, Allen J. Schaben, Los Angeles Times, “Stanley Henry, CNN, “Ferguson: A Small Town “Historic Armenia” Cup Celebration” in Missouri Opens a Chasm of National Rolando Nichols, Armando Acevedo, Gustavo Wounds” Gutierrez, Manny Giron and Jorge Mettey, J8. SPORTS NEWS or FEATURE (Online) MundoFOX Noticias, “’Como encontrar a la Marah Alindogan, Neon Tommy, “Can Social X6. POLITICAL/GOVERNMENT REPORTING Tuta’ ‘How to Find La Tuta’” Media Bring Back the LA Rams?” (Cross Platform) Stacey Wilson, Lacey Rose, Jennifer Laski Devra Maza, The Huffington Post, “Shooting Bill Blum, Truthdig, “No Justice for Michael and Stephanie Fischette, The Hollywood Diamonds: Directing the World Series” Brown” Reporter, “Comedy Actor Roundtable Ryan Reft, KCET, “Politics of Surfing” Agustin Durán, Hoy Los Angeles, “Como Don (Emmys)” Sahra Sulaiman, Streetsblog Los Angeles, Porfirio” “Kickball to the Rescue” KTLA Prods, KTLA5 News, “KTLA Channel 5 I10. PUBLIC AFFAIRS (Radio) Paolo Uggetti, Neon Tommy, “Landon’s Last Celebrates America” Alex Cohen, KPCC, “Take Two – Executive Stand: The Final Home Game” Andres Pruna, Leon Krautze and Andres Action and Immigration” Bonilla, KMEX Univision 34 Los Angeles, “La Charles Feldman and Tom Haule, KNX, “Ask J9. SPORTS COMMENTARY (Radio) Frontera Millonaria” the Mayor” Jeremy Bergman, Neon Tommy, “Michael Sam Aitana Vargas, 20 Minutos USA Edition & Hoy Benjamin Gottlieb, KCRW, “War in Gaza” May be Tebowed Out of NFL” Los Angeles, “Arbritaje Laboral” Sonali Kolhatkar, Pacifica Radio, “The Legacy Devra Maza, The Huffington Post, “Baseball’s of Occupy Wall Street” Library: Inside the Hall of Fame Archives” X7. EDUCATIONAL REPORTING (Cross USC Annenberg Radio News, ARN Live Show, Max Meyer, Neon Tommy, “Penn State’s NCAA Platform) “November 5, 2014” Sanctions Lifted Due to Program, Why Not Leslie Aaronson, KCET, “How to Get Students USC’s?” Excited About Learning to Code”

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H9. PUBLIC AFFAIRS (TV) E7. COMMENTARY (Newspapers over 50K) Chris Mihal and Bailey Franklin, Variety, “New Sonali Kolhatkar, Free Speech TV, Amy Alkon, Creators Syndicate Producers Flooding Indie TV With Faith and “Understanding the Historical and Political Thomas Elias, California Focus Syndicated Family Friendly Fare” Context of the US War on ISIS” Column Jose Tobar, Los Angeles Collegian, “Next Stop: Val Zavala, Linda Burns, Cara Santa Maria, Marty Kaplan, Jewish Journal Fare Hike Ave.” Derrick Shore, Jennifer Sabih et al., KCET, R. Scott Moxley, OC Weekly “SoCal Connected: Environmental Special” Raphael Sonenheim, Jewish Journal C2. BEST USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA Carolina Sarassa, Jaime Maldonado, Victor Christina Cocca, Samia Khan, Jonathan Lloyd, Castillo, Miguel Gamboa and Manny Giron, G2. COMMENTARY (Magazines) Andrew Lopez and Irene Moore, NBC4, MundoFOX Noticias, “Frontera Esperanza Ronald Bailey, Reason, “Leave 23 and Me “Deadly California Bus Crash” Muerta” (The Border: Dead Hope) Alone; The Fable of Hawaiian Frankencorn; Gillian Sheldon, Rachel Kraus and Catherine Criminal Immigrants?” Manzanares, TakePart.com, “SeaWorld’s F8. COLUMNIST (Newspapers under 50K) Greg Beato, Reason, “The Benefits of Worst Nightmare” Amy Alkon, Creators Syndicate Unregulated Pot; Kickstarting Utopia; The Gillian Sheldon, Rachel Kraus and Catherine Charles Crumpley, Los Angeles Business Surprising Power of Subtitles” Manzanares, TakePart.com, “U.N. Climate Journal Janice Min, The Hollywood Reporter, “Chris Summit: Film Premiere & Live Coverage” Dan Evans, Glendale News-Press & Burbank Rock Pens Blistering Essay on Hollywood’s Melody Soto, Drew Tewksbury and Daniel Leader Race Problem: ‘It’s a White Industry’” Medina, KCET, “Social Media for ‘The Jon Regardie, Los Angeles Downtown News Matt Welch, Reason, “When the Left Turned Mojave Project’” Patricia Bunin, Pasadena Star-News Against Free Speech; Rand Paul, Racism, Adam VanGerpen, United Firefighters of Los and Prison; Kiss Your Financial Privacy Angeles City, IAFF, Local 112, “Firefighter E8. COLUMNIST (Newspapers over 50K) Goodbye” Endorsements for City Council” Gendy Alimurung, LA Weekly, “Candyland” Michael Wolff, The Hollywood Reporter, Danielle Berrin, Jewish Journal, “The Horror “HBO, CBS Streaming: TV Is Disrupting the J13. INDIVIDUAL BLOG of ISIS” Internet, et al.” Donna Balancia, California Rocker, “The New Fred Dickey, San Diego Union-Tribune, “Cyclist Basement Tapes One Night Only” CONGR ATULATIONS Stunned Hit-And-Run Driver Remains J6. POLITICAL COLUMN/COMMENTARY Eriq Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, “THR, Unpunished…” (Online) Esq.” Rob Eshman, Jewish Journal, “A Collection Francesca Bessy, Neon Tommy, “This Bicycle Carren Jao, KCET, “Confluence” of Columns, ‘New Rule: Fanatics Can’t Use Kills Patriarchy” Rebecca Plevin, KPCC, “Impatient: Helping TO ALL OF THIS Twitter,’ et al.” Bill Blum, Truthdig, “Recess Is Over: What the Make The Health Care System Work for Marty Kaplan, Jewish Journal, “A Collection Supreme Court Has In Store for Us Now” You” of Columns, ‘The Flappy Bird of Paradise,’ Chris Hedges, Truthdig, “Alcatraz: A Prison As Simone Wilson, Jewish Journal, “Simone’s et al.” Disneyland” Blog: Hella Tel Aviv” YEAR’S HONOREES! Bennett Kelly, The Huffington Post, “Johnson, K5. COLUMNIST (International) Reagan and the Great American Paradox” J14. GROUP BLOG Janet Nepales, Manila Bulletin, “Robin Jesse Walker, Reason, “Regulating Hateful Melanie Curry, Joe Linton, Damien Newton Williams: ‘Just Dance On My Grave’” Speech Won’t Stop Hateful Crimes” and Sahra Sulaiman, Streetsblog Los Ruben V. Nepales, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Angeles “Anjelica Huston” J7. NON-POLITICAL COLUMN/ Carribean Fragosa and Romeo Guzman, KCET, Ruben V. Nepales, Philippine Daily Inquirer, COMMENTARY (Online) “East of East” “Stephen King: Why Master of Horror Sasha Bronner, The Huffington Post, Lesley Goldberg, Lacey Rose, Michael Novels Doesn’t Scare Us” “Everything Changed When I Started O’Connell, Marisa Guthrie and Bryn Elise Jaci Stephen, Mail On Sunday, “Weekly TV Meditating Every Day” Sandberg, The Hollywood Reporter, “The Review” Neal Broverman, The Advocate, “Op-Ed: Live Feed” Tom Walters, CTV – Canadian Television, Finding Sympathy for the Most Hated Natasha Hakimi, Peter Z. Scheer, Alexander “Parliament Hill” Woman in America” Reed Kelly, Kasia Anderson and Donald Heidi Carreon, Neon Tommy, “USC Sends Poor Kaufman, Truthdig, “Ear to the Ground” F7. COMMENTARY (Newspapers under Message to Grieving Family with Botched Erin Weinger, The Hollywood Reporter, “Pret-A- 50K) Memorial Service” Reporter” Amy Alkon, Creators Syndicate, “I’m with Eriq Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, “Can Stupor” Sony Get Around the First Amendment to DANIEL PEARL AWARD – Charlie Hebdo, Charles Crumpley, Los Angeles Business Sue Media Over Hack?” introduced by Judea Pearl Journal, “The Creative Economy’s Naked Robby Soave, Reason, “Is the UVA Rape Story Truth” A Gigantic Hoax?” Henry Dubroff, Pacific Coast Business J11. ENTERTAINMENT FEATURE (Online) Times, “Commentary” D6. EDITORIAL CARTOON Taffy Brodesser-Akner, GQ, “The Leftovers” Deon Joseph, Los Angeles Downtown Doug Davis, Los Angeles Downtown News, Josh Dickey, Mashable, “Everyone Is Altered” News, “Downtown is in a Mental Health “Keep Digging, Donald” Jeremy Fuster, Neon Tommy, “Is Sunset Strip State of Emergency” Steve Greenberg, Ventura County Reporter, Dying?” Ricardo Perez, Downey Patriot, “The “The Critical Line” David Hodari, Neon Tommy, “The Hasidic Accordion, the Attorney, and My Passion” Chris Mihal and Bailey Franklin, Variety, Blues Guitarist: Lazar Lloyd” “Emmy Comedy Preview: Quirky Is the Daniel Reynolds, The Advocate, “Has Gaga New Black” Lost the Gays?”

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F3. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS/FEATURE David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, G7. REVIEW/CRITICISM/COLUMN (Newspapers under 50K) “Elaine Stritch: An Appreciation” (Magazines) Elliot Golan and Mark Madler, San Fernando Eve Weston, LA Weekly, “Does “Into The Justin Chang, Variety, “Grand Budapest: ‘Hotel’ Valley Business Journal, “Life After Leno” Woods” Punish a Wife for Adultery and Not Worth Checking Out” Eddie Kim, Los Angeles Downtown News, “To a Husband?” Tim Goodman, The Hollywood Reporter, Tiananmen Square and Back” “Critic’s Notebook” Charles Lam, OC Weekly, “The Very Merry Un- I7. ENTERTAINMENT REPORTING/ David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, Gangs of Disneyland” CRITICISM (Radio) “Theater Reviews” L.A. Downtown News congratulates Sandro Monetti, Los Angeles Business Journal, Anthony Byrnes, KCRW, “What Does It Mean Amy H. Sturgis, Reason, “Not Your Parents’ “Baywatch Eyes Splash in China” to Be Local?” Dystopias: Millennial fondness for worlds all the honorees and nominees of the 57th Annual Jonathan Polakoff, Los Angeles Business Larry Mantle, Lauren Osen, Jasmin Tuffaha, gone wrong” Journal, “Sky’s Limit” Fiona Ng and Matt Dangelantonio, KPCC, Jesse Walker, Reason, “The Sultan of Sewers: Southern California Journalism Awards, and the “The Death of ‘Midnight Rider’ Crew William Burroughs’ anti-authoritarian Los Angeles Press Club for recognizing their E3. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS/FEATURE Member Sarah Jones Leads Hollywood to vision” (Newspapers over 50K) Re-examine its Safety Practices” contributions to journalism. Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, “Finding Larry Mantle, Lauren Osen, Jasmin Tuffaha, D5. ENTERTAINMENT PHOTO Marlowe” Fiona Ng and Matt Dangelantonio, KPCC, “A Ringo H.W. Chiu, Los Angeles Business Journal, Zachary Pincus-Roth, LA Weekly, “Can TV save Massive Hack of Sony Pictures Leaves the “Hero Ventures” India?” Studio and Industry Reeling” Benjamin Dunn, Neon Tommy, “USC Students Martha Sarabia, La Opinión, “¿Es Racista la Celebrate Springfest” Televisión Latina en Estados Unidos?” H6. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS/FEATURE (TV) Charlie Magovern, Neon Tommy, “Hang Time” Tom Teicholz, Jewish Journal, “Czech Photog­ Cecilia Bogran and Andres Pruna, KMEX, Jenny Sargent, Jennifer Laski, Shanti Marlar rapher’s Work is Peaceful Political Protest” “Paseo de las Estrellas” and Ruven Afanador, The Hollywood Tom Teicholz, Jewish Journal, “Jewish Heroes David S. Cohen, Variety, “The Dangerous Art Reporter, “Glenn Close” of the Great Patriotic War” of Aerial Cinematography” Shanti Marlar, Jennifer Laski, Carrie Smith, Juan Devis, Matthew Crotty, Drew Tewksbury Jenny Sargent and Andrew Hetherington, G5. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS/FEATURE and Daniel Leonard, KCET, “Artbound The Hollywood Reporter, “John Oliver” (Magazines) Presents Studio A: La Santa Cecilia” David S. Cohen and Ted Johnson, Variety, Jennifer Laski, Stephanie Fischette and X3. ACTIVISM JOURNALISM (Cross “Midnight Rider: We Are Sarah” Minh Hieu Bui, The Hollywood Reporter Platform) Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, “A “Channing Tatum” Bill Boyarsky, Truthdig, “We Have to Change Train, a Narrow Trestle and 60 Seconds to George Pennacchio and Cheryl Diano, KABC- the Way We Report on Rape” Escape” TV, “Debbie Reynolds ‘For Sale’” Chris Hedges, Truthdig, “How the Brutalized Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, “How Become Brutal” Marvel Became the Envy (and Scourge) of J10. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS (Online) Chris Hedges, Truthdig, “The Last Days of Hollywood” Dawn Chmielewski, Re/code, “Microsoft Tomas Young” Brian Steinberg, Variety, “‘Today’ vs. ‘Good Struggles in Hollywood” Sunnivie Brydum, Daniel Reynolds and Parker Morning America’” Dawn Chmielewski and Arik Hesseldahl, Re/ Marie Molloy, The Advocate, “Is the T Word Peter Suderman, Reason, “The New Face of code, “Sony: The Worst Hack in Corporate the New N Word?” Television” History” Neon Tommy Staff Reporters, Neon Tommy, Michael Martinez, Elliot C. McLaughlin and “More than Overcrowding: A Deeper Look K4. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS/FEATURE Ben Brumfield, CNN, “Bill Cosby and His at the Problem Within Prisons” (International) Accusers” Barbara Gasser, Besser, “Julianne Moore – An RadarOnline.com and The National Enquirer X5. SCIENCE/HEALTH/TECH REPORTING Unusual Normal Woman” Staff, RadarOnline.com, “The Tragic Loss of (Cross Platform) Barbara Gasser, Kleine Zeitung, “Angelina Jolie a Legend: Robin Williams Death Coverage” The Advocate Staff, The Advocate, “31 Days of – An Unbroken Woman” Edwine Tamara, Associated Press, “Ruben PrEP” Tom Walters and Liam Hyland, CTV – Salazar” Anna Gorman, Kaiser Health News, “Nursing Canadian Television, “The Death of Robin Home Oversight” Williams” E9. REVIEW/CRITICISM (Newspapers over KTLA Special Projects, KTLA5 News, “KTLA’s Tom Walters and Liam Hyland, CTV – 50K) Virtual Reality Check” Canadian Television, “The Last Ramone” Sergio Burstein, Hoy Los Angeles, “Una Mujer Daina Beth Solomon, Intersections South Kerstin Zilm, Deutschlandradio, “Freedom De Pelicula” LA, “Zumba Boom in South LA’s Concrete Rocks – Berlin Wall Fragments in California” Amy Nicholson, LA Weekly, “The Boxtrolls Desert” is the Cutest Kiddie Cartoon Ever Made Paul Tullis, TakePart.com, “The Incredible True J12. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS/FEATURE About Hitler” Story of How Cannabis is Coming to Rite- (Online) Amy Nicholson, LA Weekly, “Transformers: Aid” Kasia Anderson, Truthdig, “The United States Age of Extinction: At Least the Product of Amnesia: Gore Vidal in Winter” Placement is Interesting” X9. MULTI MEDIA PACAKAGE (Cross instagram.com/ladowntownnews facebook.com/L.A.DowntownNews twitter: @Downtownnews Justin Chang, Variety, “Why ‘Noah’ is the Besha Rodell, LA Weekly, “Barton G Review: A Platform) Biblical Epic That Christians Deserve” Joel Grover and Jacquelin Sonderling, NBC4, Fiasco from Miami, Now in Beverly Hills” 213.481.1448 Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, Tom Teicholz, Jewish Journal, “With Cohen’s “Risky Ride: Who’s Behind the Wheel?” “How Bacall, Bogie and Hawks Turned 80th Birthday Come ‘Popular Problems’” Sexual Chemistry Into A Classic”

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Fernando Hurtado and Kimberly Leoffler, Alfred Lee and Matt Pressberg, Los Angeles Ivan O’Mahoney, Nial Fulton, Darren Foster, Annenberg TV News, “Ferguson Protests Business Journal, “Life Settlements” Jeff Plunkett and Alex Simmons, Al Jezeera Reach USC Campus” Beau Yarbrough, The Sun, “Rialto Unified America, “Borderland” Noel King, Krissy Clark, Caitlin Esch, Lindsay Investigation” Andres Pruna and Leon Krauze, KMEX, “La Thomas and Deborah Clark, Marketplace, Frontera Millionaria” “York & Fig: At the Intersection of Change” E5. INVESTIGATIVE (Newspapers over 50K) Carolina Sarassa, Steve Malave, Manny Giron, Los Angeles News Group Staff, Los Angeles Richard Marosi, Hoy Los Angeles, “Producto de Armando Acevedo and Gustavo Gutierrez, News Group, “California Drought Website” México” MundoFOX Noticias, “¿Injusticias?” Daniel Miller, Lily Mihalik, Armand Karmel Melamed, Jewish Journal, “Creditors Val Zavala, Lata Pandya, Dan Caston and Emamdjomeh, Kari Howard and Morgan Left with Little in Namvar Bankruptcy Case” John Sandoval, KCET, “SoCal Connected: Schweitzer, Los Angeles Times, “Finding & “Local Iranian Jewish Banker and Leader Overmedicated Elderly” Marlowe” Acquitted of Federal Fraud Charges” Frank Suraci, Rob Kuznia and Rebecca PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD – Shane Smith F6. BUSINESS (Newspapers under 50K) Kimitch, Torrance Daily Breeze, “Centinela and VICE Gustavo Arellano, OC Weekly, “Aaron Corruption” Kushner’s Wrecking Ball” Ani Ucar, Chris Walker and Elana Pritchard, LA Los Angeles NAACP Henry Dubroff and Marlize van Romburgh, Weekly, “On the Inside” J1b. TRAFFIC AND CITY NEWS (Online) Pacific Coast Business Times, “Costly Eye Simone Wilson, Jewish Journal, “Wilson’s Brian Addison, LongBeachize, “SoCal’s First Drug” Investigation Into the Gaza War” Freeway Removal Project” CongratulationsExtends Elliot Golan, Joel Russell and Staff, San Christian Brown, Neon Tommy, “Beverly Hills Fernando Valley Business Journal, “Real Life G1. INVESTIGATIVE (Magazines) Battles Metro Over Purple Line Extension” Storage Wars” Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, Christina Cocca, Samia Khan and Jonathan Eddie Kim, Los Angeles Downtown News, “Hollywood’s Vaccine Wars: L.A.’s ‘Entitled’ Lloyd, NBC4, “Deadly California Bus Crash” “As Downtown Grows, the Big-Money Westsiders Behind City’s Epidemic” David Nusbaum, Los Angeles Business Journal, Developers Rush In” David Evans, Bloomberg Markets, “Anything “L.A.’s NFL Hopes Turn to Inglewood” James Rufus Koren, Los Angeles Business But Secure” Sahra Sulaiman, Streetsblog Los Angeles, Journal, “Good Deal?” Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, “A “Dupont-Walker, Community Press Metro ‘Survivor’ Producer, a Dead Wife, Four Years on Surprising Changes Slated for Mariachi E6. BUSINESS (Newspapers over 50K) in a Mexican Prison: New Evidence Amid a Plaza, Demand More Outreach” Jeff Collins, Orange County Register, “Back in Nightmare” the Nest: Staying with Parents Hampers The National Enquirer Staff, The National X8. ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTING (Cross Recovery” Enquirer & RadarOnline.com, “The Ultimate Platform) Jeff Collins, Orange County Register, “Chinese Betrayal! Kendra Wilkinson’s Husband Mike Amor, Arron Hage and Duncan McLeod, Homebuyers Seeking Security in O.C.” Hank Baskett Cheated on Her With A Seven Network Australia, “Grand Battle” Jeff Collins, Orange County Register, “Housing Transsexual” Joel Beers, OC Weekly, “The Santa Ana River Is Rebound Has Construction Workers Ready for Its Renaissance” Rebuilding Lives” J2. INVESTIGATIVE (Online) John R. Platt, Takepart.com, “The Battle to to Christopher Palmeri, Anousha Sakoui, Lucas Will Federman and Matthew Tinoco, Neon Control the Story—and Science—of the Shaw, Robert B. Golum and Michael Riley, Tommy, “Identity for Sale” Deepwater Horizon Catastrophe” Bloomberg News, “Sony Hacking Exposes Eriq Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, Cara Santa Maria, Alicia Clark, John Sandoval Los Angeles Press Club the Studio’s Inner Workings “ “’Blurred Lines’ Lawsuit Coverage” and Michael Bloecher, KCET, “‘SoCal Annie Gilbertson, KPCC, “Los Angeles Unified Connected’ - Wildlife Center” D7. PHOTO ESSAY (Single topic) School District’s iPad Program” Gabriela Teissier, Hugo Olguin and Andres Brian Addison, Long Beach Post, “IN PICTURES: Joel Grover and Jacquelin Sonderling, NBC4, Pruna, KMEX Univision, “Cada Gota Cuesta” The Soon-to-Be Ghost of the Belmont “Risky Rides” Plaza Olympic Pool” X10. CRIME REPORTING (Cross Platform) Southern California Joel Grover and Jacquelin Sonderling, NBC4, Ringo H.W. Chiu, Los Angeles Business Journal, “Water Hogs Investigation” Kimberly Cornell, Angel C. Kim, Chip Yost, “Hollywood: Strip Away” Jason Roberts and Justin Mashouf, KTLA5 Jennifer Laski, Shanti Marlar, Carrie Smith and I6. INVESTIGATIVE (Radio) News, “The Killing Gene” Olga Grigoryants and Daina Beth Solomon, 2015 Austin Hargrave, The Hollywood Reporter, Charles Feldman and Laraine Herman, KNX, Journalism Awardees “Downtown Abbey Set Visit” “Running on Empty: Our Epic Drought” Intersections South LA, “40 Years for Four Chris Mihal and Bailey Franklin, Variety, Annie Gilbertson, KPCC, “Los Angeles Unified Shots” “Emmy Gallery” School District’s iPad Project” Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, “A Allen J. Schaben, Los Angeles Times, Stephanie O’Neill, Southern California Public Survivor Producer, A Dead Wife, Four Years “California’s Drought Crisis” Radio, “The Surge in Psychiatric Research, In A Mexican Prison: New Evidence Amid A et al.” Nightmare” From: Minnie Hadley-­‐Hempstead, F5. INVESTIGATIVE (Newspapers under 50K) Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, “Finding Andre Coleman, Kevin Uhrich, Pasadena H4. INVESTIGATIVE (TV) Marlowe” Weekly, “When Worlds Collide” Anthony L. Fisher, reason.tv, “Sex, Spice, and R. Scott Moxley, OC Weekly, “Lonnie Kocontes’ President, Los Angeles Branch Donna Evans, Los Angeles Downtown News, “A Small-Town Texas” Love Boat” Downtown Pharmacy’s Big Pill Problem” Laela Zadeh, Gary Baum, Jennifer Laski, Brian Hews, Los Cerritos Community News, Minh Hieu Bui and Stephanie Fischette, D1. NEWS PHOTO “La Mirada Football Booster Club Under The Hollywood Reporter, “Hollywood Benjamin Dunn, Neon Tommy, “Da Vinci Scrutiny by Attorney General” Vaccination Fail” Apartments Burn Behind Downtown Los Angeles Skyline”

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Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, “Colby Chris Sedens, KNX, “Ed Begley’s Not Running Glendale News-Press Staff, Fire” on Empty” Glendale News-Press Website, Chris Mihal, Bailey Franklin and Ture Truthdig Radio, Truthdig, “Edward Snowden’s “glendalenewspress.com“ Lillegraven, Variety, “Gravity’s Alfonso Lawyer Takes on John Kerry” Janice Min, The Hollywood Reporter, Cuaron Talks Moving on From Oscars” Truthdig Radio, Truthdig, “Former CIA “THR.com” Allen J. Schaben, Los Angeles Times, “Fighting Interrogator Glenn Carle: Torture Is Stu Oldham, Variety, “variety.com” Cocos Fire From Above” Unamerican” Sahra Sulaiman, Streetsblog Los Angeles, QUINN AWARD – Willow Bay, introduced “Friends of Oscar Toledo, Jr., Gather H3. NEWS (TV) by Wallis Annenberg Around the Ghost Bike Put up at 47th and Kirk Hawkins and Kevin Horton, KTLA5 News, Normandie in South LA” “I Will Hospitalize you. Shut Up!” A5. ONLINE JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR Kacey Montoya and Kevin Horton, KTLA5 K1. NEWS (International) News, “Westchester Rat Hoarder” Brian Addison, “Longbeachize”, Long Daniele Compatangelo, RSI Swiss Italian Public Derrick Shore, Lata Pandya, Kenny Gioseffi Beach Post Television, “Expo 2015 Universal Exposition” and Michael Bloecher, KCET, “’SoCal Bill Boyarksy, Truthdig Daniele Compatangelo, RSI Swiss Italian Public Connected’- Processed Human Waste as Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter Television, “First Portable Dialysis Machine” Fertilizer: The Stinky Controversy” Carren Jao, KCET Ruben V. Nepales, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Ani Ucar, Annenberg TV News, “Javier Bolden Robert Scheer, Truthdig “Courtney Love Hopes to Start Kurt Biopic Sentenced to Life Without Parole in Double A6. ENTERTAINMENT JOURNALIST OF THE Next Year, Writing Her Own Book” USC Murder” YEAR Tom Walters and Liam Hyland, CTV – Zach Weissmueller and Paul Detrick, Reason, Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times Canadian Television, “Comedown in “Ferguson Protestors React to Michael Amy Nicholson, LA Weekly Tinseltown” Brown Robbery Footage” Jase Peeples, The Advocate Kerstin Zilm, Deutschlandradio, “Police Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter Brutality” H2. VIDEOGRAPHER (TV) Ramin Setoodeh, Variety Arron Hage, Seven Network Australia, “Grand HERE’S TO A J1a. HARD NEWS (Online) Battle” A4. RADIO JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR Willian Avila, Christina Cocca, Kelly Goff, Ernesto Torres, KNBC-TV, “Risky Ride” Saul Gonzalez, KCRW Bleed: 11.25 Bleed:

Samia Khan, Jonathan Lloyd and Andrew Ani Ucar, LA Weekly, “EXCLUSIVE: Inside the Trim: 11 Larry Mantle, KPCC Lopez, NBC4, “Massacre Near UC Santa Gay Wing of L.A. Men’s Central Jail” Barbara” A8. PHOTOJOURNALIST OF THE YEAR Eriq Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, I1. ANCHOR (Radio) FREE PRESS Ringo H.W. Chiu, Los Angeles Business Journal “Producers Sue Actress for Refusing to Film Steve Chiotakis, KCRW Allen J. Schaben, Los Angeles Times Nude Sex Scene (Exclusive)” Megan Farnsworth, USC Annenberg A+E Networks salutes the Los Angeles Press Club and this year’s Rebecca Gibian, Neon Tommy, “‘Yes Means Radio News A2. PRINT JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR Yes’ Sets Affirmative Consent Standard for Sonali Kolharkar, Pacifica Radio (Newspapers under 50K) honorees: Willow Bay, Charlie Hebdo, Norah O’Donnell, Charlie Rose, California” Jim Rondeau, KCLU Dan Evans, Glendale News-Press Faith Miller, Emily Thornburg, Heidi Carreon, Peter Scheer, Truthdig Radio James Rufus Koren, Los Angeles Business Gayle King and Shane Smith. Thank you for maintaining such high Rebecca Gibian and Ani Ucar, Neon Tommy, Journal “L.A. Reaction to Ferguson Grand Jury H1. ANCHOR (TV) Brent Lang, Variety standards and playing such an essential role in journalism. Decision” Sonali Kolhatkar, Free Speech TV, “Uprising Jon Regardie, Los Angeles Downtown News Peter Suderman, Reason, “Watch Obamacare with Sonali” Beau Yarbrough, The Sun Architect Jonathan Gruber Admit in 2012 Frances Wang, Annenberg TV News, “Repairs That Subsidies Were Limited to State-Run for South L.A. Sidewalks Take Step A1. PRINT JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR Exchanges” Forward” (Newspapers over 50K) Hillel Aron, LA Weekly B1. HARD NEWS (Print) J15. WEBSITE, NEWS ORGANIZATION Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter Henry Dubroff, Erika Martin, Marissa Wenzke EXCLUSIVE TO THE INTERNET Fred Dickey, San Diego U-T and Stephen Nellis, Pacific Coast Business Fernando Mexia, WestJournal, “WestJournal” R. Scott Moxley, OC Weekly Times, “Isla Vista Tragedy” Juan Devis, Justin Cram, Rubi Fregoso, Yosuke Frank Suraci, Daily Breeze

Howard Fine, Los Angeles Business Journal, Kitazawa and Luis Sierra Campos, KCET, 0600A. reserved. All rights LLC. Networks, Television A&E ©2015 “Will NFL Team Link to Carson?” “Departures” Gregg Kilday and Tina Daunt, The Hollywood KPCC’s Data Desk, KPCC.org, “KPCC’s Reporter, “Beverly Hills Hotel Boycott: The Earthquake Tracker” Economic Fallout” USC Annenberg School of Journalism, Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, “Sony Neon Tommy, “Neontommy.com” Terrorized: The Panic, Fear and Fury” Zuade Kaufman and Robert Scheer, Truthdig, “Truthdig.com” 2. NEWS/FEATURE SHORT FORM (Radio) Rosalie Murphy, USC Annenberg Radio News, J16. WEBSITE, TRADITIONAL NEWS ORGANIZATION “LA Bus Driver Sees all Sides of the City” Stephanie O’Neill, Southern California Public 89.3 KPCC/Southern California Public Radio, “Covered California Again Pulls Radio, KPCC, “KPCC.org” Faulty Doctor List from Website” The Advocate Staff, The Advocate, “advocate.com”

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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 Melissa Breccia, Cher Calvin, Mariel Garza, Press Club. She began her Gabriel Kahn, Bob Ladendorf, career as a cub reporter in Diana Ljungaeus, Gretcken P. McCartney, Sweden at the age of fifteen. Frank Megna, Patt Morrison, Robert Rand, She has lived and worked Jon Regardie, Lucas Shaw, Jill Stewart, in the U.S. since 1996. Her Gloria Zuurveen background has run the gamut Copy editing Jon Regardie from researcher to reporter and editor, to story/script writer and finally to theater, Proofreading Bob Ladendorf film and multimedia producer. Together with her Printing: CE Graphics husband, Frank Megna, she owns and runs the small live theater venue Working Stage Theater ENERGY OF in West Hollywood, as well as the not-for-profit 57th Annual Southern California educational theater and film organization Opening » ACHIEVEMENT Journalism Awards Gala Minds Productions. She has produced the Southern Producer Diana Ljungaeus California Journalism Awards Gala for more than a decade. Technical Director Mark Drew Camera Myles West Script and Special thanks to: Creative Consultant Frank Megna Rebecca Aguilera, NAHJ; Kerstin Alm; Anne Martin Sales Bill Moran and Kevin Martinez, Andrew Weiss Gallery; Willow Executive Assistant Rebecka Pontón Bay, Melanie Bir, Sylvie Posner and their team at AirFrance; Alex Ben Block; Alex Brod, Empire Bookkeeper Anna Robertson Diamond; Steve Duchesne; Jake Golman, VICE; Development Bob Iger, Stacy Kennedy; Bob Ladendorf; Will Coordinator Clay Russell Lewis; MaryBeth Leonard, Debra Lawler, Gretchen SoCalGas® celebrates The Los Angeles Press Club for its commitment to improving P. McCartney, and Nancy Ruiz, USC Annenberg; quality of life in the region. Visual Service Jules Baker and AGF Media Jon Regardie; Romain Raynaldy; Terri Hernandez Stage Manager Harry Karp Rosales and Carol Soudah, NBC4 Southern We congratulate: California; Olivia Manzo, Millennium Biltmore Hotel; Photographers: Kerstin Alm, Inae Bloom, Christopher Weesie Vieira, CBS This Morning. Willow Bay, The Joseph M. Quinn Award Bordeaux, Gary Leonard, Dave Martin, Charlie Hebdo, The Daniel Pearl Award George McQuade III, Curtis Sabir, Ken Weil, Gloria Zuurveen Norah O'Donnell, Charlie Rose and Gayle King, The President’s Award Shane Smith, The Public Service Award Social Media Adam Rose Judges: Flower Design Anna Connell with Hunter Connell Alaska Press Club, Atlanta Press Club, Cleveland For more than 140 years, SoCalGas has been proud to partner Press Club, Connecticut Press Club, Florida Press Silent and Club, Kansas Press Club, Milwaukee Press Club, with the communities we serve and support those who give Online auction Will Lewis, Brian Marshak, Stacey National Association of Hispanic Journalists, New back such positive energy to Southern California. Kennedy Orleans Press Club, Southeast Texas Press Club, St. Volunteers Jon Beaupre, Inae Bloom, Stephen Louis Press Club and Syracuse Press Club. Affordable, domestic and abundant, natural gas is also part Fixary, Ana Gallo, Annika Greder Duncan, of the clean-energy solution, helping California communities Pablo Kay, Eva Lund, Robert Rand, cut smog, clean the air and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Romain Raynaldy

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