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We are proud to salute our valued comrade-in-arms ERIN BROCKOVICH

Upon her receipt of the Los Angeles Press Club’s

BILL ROSENDAHL PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD

Erin is America’s consumer advocate and passionate crusader for environmental accountability from corporations and government. We are privileged to work side-by-side with her on so many essential causes, and look forward to many more years of mutual dedication to the prime interests of our fellow citizens.

With great respect and gratitude,

PERRY WEITZ ARTHUR M. LUXENBERG

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A Message From the President Celebrating a Record-Shattering Year

Welcome to the 58th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards! Tonight we celebrate the efforts of all our nominees, whose work was selected from a record-shattering 1,011 submissions. The achievements of those receiving our highest honorary awards tonight are nothing less than astounding. Our President’s Award goes to Jarl Mohn, who is being recognized for his tremendous impact on television and radio networks, and who now serves as President and CEO of NPR. Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post correspondent who spent 545 days in Iran’s infamous Evin prison, receives the Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism. The parents of the late Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl join us to present Jason with this distinguished honor. And we are so pleased to present media legend and Pulitzer prize- winning AP photographer Nick Ut with our Quinn Award for Lifetime Achievement. The young girl, Kim Phuc, captured in Nick’s historic robert Kovacik photograph taken during a napalm bombing 44 years ago, is also with us tonight. We are privileged that environmental and public service crusader Erin Brokovich will accept the inaugural Bill Rosendahl Public Service Award for Contributions to the Public Good. This evening, we also proudly commemorate the accomplishments of the Los Angeles Press Club and how far our non-profi t has come since its founding over 100 years ago. We are the only organization in Southern California speaking for all journalists: newspapers, maga- zines, radio, television and the internet. To a large extent, we have our former president, Bill Rosendahl, to thank. Before he became a Los Angeles City Councilman, Bill was a well-known public affairs tele- vision host who revitalized the Press Club in the late 1990s when it was on the brink of folding. Even while battling the cancer that would ultimately kill him, Bill championed our Club, recruiting our illustri- ous Advisory Board of city leaders. They are listed in this program and some of them are here tonight. There is so much to celebrate as we pay tribute to our profession and the giants of the free press in this room and those who are no lon- ger with us. Enjoy your evening,

Robert Kovacik

LA 1 PC th PRESS CLUB OFFICERS 58 Annual Southern California Journalism Awards

Awards for Editorial Excellence in 2015 and Honorary Awards for 2016

THE PRESIDENT’S AWARD PRESIDENT Robert Kovacik, Anchor/Reporter, For Impact on Media NBC4 Southern California VICE PRESIDENT Cher Calvin, Anchor/Reporter, Jarl Mohn KTLA, Los Angeles National Public Radio TREASURER Christopher Palmeri, Los Angeles Bureau Chief, Bloomberg News SECRETARY Adam J. Rose, Senior Editorial The Daniel Pearl Award Producer, CBS Interactive EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR For Courage and Integrity in Journalism Diana Ljungaeus, International Journalist Jason Rezaian Washington Post board membERS

THE BILL ROSENDAHL PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD For Journalistic Contributions to Civic Life Erin Brockovich

The Joseph M. Quinn Award For Lifetime Achievement JOE BEL BRUNO, News Director, The Hollywood Nick Ut Reporter Associated Press Elizabeth Espinosa, Co-host of Thompson & Espinosa, KFI Mariel Garza, Editorial board member Los Angeles Times Saul Gonzalez, Producer, KCRW PEGGY HOLTer, Story Producer, Investigation Dedicated to Bill Rosendahl and Discovery Channel In Loving Memory of Steve Julian Gabriel Kahn, Professor of Professional Practice, USC Annenberg

Sunday, June 26, 2016 The Crystal Ballroom, Millennium Biltmore Hotel 506 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

Jessica Keating, Editor, Redlands Daily Facts Elisa Ross, Sr. West Coast Producer, Telemundo Network Ben Sullivan, Founding Editor, Los Angeles Press Club A non-profit organization with 501(c)(3) status—Tax ID 01-0761875 ScienceBlog.com 4773 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90027 • Phone: (323) 669-808 Gloria Zuurveen, Editor-in- Fax: (310) 464-3577 • E-mail: [email protected] • Website: www.lapressclub.org Chief and Publisher, Pace News th 58 Annual Southern California Journalism Awards

4:30 p.m. red carpet SCHEDULE 5:00 p.m. COCKTAILS AND SILENT AUCTION OF EVENTS 6:00 p.m. program For all finalists see Robert Kovacik, Introductory Remarks pages 38-51 Remembering Steve Julian Presenters Cher Calvin and Charles Shaughnessy

STUDENT CATEGORIES The Denise King Scholarship Raffle

FEATURE

PRESIDENT’S AWARD: Jarl Mohn, NPR, introduced by Bill Davis

Presenters Patt Morrison and Colleen Williams

DESIGN/LAYOUT

SporTS

PUBLIC AFFAIRS

comEDIAN ALONZO BODDEN

Presenters Charles Shaughnessy and Pat Harvey

COMMENTARY

DANIEL PEARL AWARD: Jason Razaian, introduced by Judea Pearl

ENTERTAINMENT

INVESTIGATIVE

THE BILL ROSENDAHL PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD: Erin Brockovich, introduced by Ed Begley, Jr.

Presenters Robert Kovacik and Cher Calvin

NEWS

Journalists of the Year

QUINN AWARD—Nick Ut, introduced by Peter Arnett and presented by Kim Phuc

Don’t forget to pick up your certificates and silent auction goods on your way out. Meet the Advisory Board

This year the Los Angeles Press Club Advisory Board welcomed one new member, at right, who joins the existing members below.

Existing Members:

kat kramer Actress, singer, producer Katharine “Kat” Kramer is a stage and screen ELI BROAD RICK J. CARUSO MADELINE DI NONNO actress, singer and producer, and the founder Founder, The Broad Founder and Chief Chief Executive Officer of “Kat Kramer’s Films That Change the World,” Foundations Executive Officer Geena Davis Institute showcasing movies that raise awareness about Caruso Affiliated on Gender in Media important social issues. In so doing, she follows in the footsteps of her late father, the legendary producer/director Stanley Kramer, who was famous for taking artistic and financial chances to make relevant movies about injustice and controversial subjects.

An animal rights activist, Kat has received the Hope Award from the PETCO Foundation. Kat also received the “Compassion Award” from the Braveheart Women, an online platform DAVID W. FLEMING Bill imada sabrina kay for women, and was most recently named Counsel, Latham & Chairman & Chief Chancellor and CEO, Entertainer of the Year by the LA Comedy Watkins LLP Collaboration Officer, Fremont College Awards. IW Group, Inc. and Fremont Private Investments

SHERRY LANSING GEORGE E. MOSS CONSTANCE L. RICE HON. RICHARD J. RAMONA RIPSTON CEO, The Sherry Chairman Co-Director, RIORDAN Former Executive Lansing Foundation Moss Group Advancement Former Mayor of Director, ACLU of Project Los Angeles Southern California

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 Improvement­ of Commerce Journal Association of Los Angeles District

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The Year in Review 2015 – 2016 Another Very Big Year The Press Club Saw Huge Crowds and hosted some fascinating events

lot happened in the local journalism sphere in the last year. Once again, the ALos Angeles Press Club was often at the center of it. In June 2015, some 550 journalists, media executives and friends packed the Millennium Biltmore Hotel for the 57th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards. It was a big night, and not just because there were a record 975 entries. In addition to the scores of prizes that recognized the best print, radio, TV, online and other journalism, TV anchor and current University of Southern California journalism dean Willow Bay received the Joseph M. Quinn Award for Lifetime Achievement. Additionally, the room turned emotional when the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo received the Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity. Visionary Awardee, Joe Montegna; Luminary Awardee, Tavis Smiley; and Legend In December, the Press Club hosted the Awardee, Bob Barker. eighth annual National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards, again with a big crowd at the Biltmore. And again, there were some prominent attendees, as honorees included broadcaster Tavis Smiley, actor Joe Mantegna and game show host Bob Barker, who regaled guests with stories of his incredible life. A new Press Club prize, the Veritas Award for filmmakers, was launched in February, and it proved to be a trendsetter. The award is dedi-

Host Robert Kovacik shares a laugh during his chat with Legendary Award honoree, Bob Barker; Below, Robert Kovacik with Visionary Awardee Joe Mantegna, who was introduced by Dan Lauria. Luminary Awardee, Tavis Smiley, was introduced by Diahann Carroll.

Purses and artwork were among the silent auction items.

LA 6 PC Upper left: Judea Pearl presents the Daniel Pearl Award to Antonio Fischetti, represent- ing Charlie Hebdo. Left: Joseph M. Quinn Awardee Willow Bay, is introduced by Wallis Annenberg and Press Club president, Robert Kovacik. Above: Pat Harvey introduces the President’s Award honorees of CBS This Morning: Norah O’Donnell, Charlie Rose and Gayle King, seated with producer Chris Licht, on left.

LA 7 PC cated for a fi lm based on or inspired by a true story, and it went to Spotlight, about the Boston Globe investigative reporters who uncovered a massive molestation scandal in the Catholic Church. Just four days after receiving the fi rst Veritas Award, Spotlight became the surprise winner of the Oscar for Best Picture. It was not the only Press Club tie to Spotlight. Also in February, the Club hosted a fascinat- ing panel discussion featuring three of the real members of the Spotlight team, as well as screenwriter Josh Singer, who also took home A Press Club member exclusive book party for Jason Kelly's new book, Sweat Equity: an Oscar. Inside the New Economy of Mind and Body, was held at Bloomberg LA offi ces. Kelly is the The Press Club continued to host prominent Bloomberg New York bureau chief. events during the year. One panel discussion

The LA Press Club Veritas Award For best movie based on or inspired by real people and real events

WHy the laPC decided to undertake this new award:

irst of all, we chose the name “veritas” for the Latin word for truth— or more correctly for the elusive Roman goddess known for her Fbeauty and purity. As journalists our job is to fi nd the truth following the path to her wherever it may lead and to delivering to our readers and Popular Press Club comic, Alonzo Bodden, provides an audience whatever her form may be—even when she is ugly or painful. entertainment break between recognizing the honor- As we all know today there is less and less money allocated to inves- ees and the awards presentations. tigative, in-depth reporting and there is an ever increasing corporate pressure to deliver the cheapest form of “surface news.” And so we must celebrate the quiet, unglamorous heroes who toil away—very often in oblivion—bringing to light the stories that reveal corruption or injustice or criminal- ity—and sometimes even of human accomplishments and triumphs. Why honor fi lms “based on or inspired by real events and people”? Because those fi lms would never have been made had it not been for the persistence, the drudgery of detailed groundwork by tireless re- porters like those of The Boston Globe’s spotlight team. Currently, we are in a cycle of fi lms being marketed as “real stories.” We are not fi lm critics but we do have a special insight into these kinds of fi lms. Journalists are the truth gatherers and storytellers supplying the fi lm- makers with their material. the Los Angeles Press Club—as an important part of the Hollywood community—wants to encourage the making of such fi lms and acknowledge the best among them. the award thus brings attention to fi lms that tell us about ourselves, our society and our world and light the way to a better future. Spotlight is the perfect example of the kind of fi lm we will honor with future veritas Awards. the bar has Spotlight’s Josh Singer (co-writer), the journalists that been set high and we encourage fi lmmakers to reach for it. the fi lm was based on, Mike Rezendes, Ben Bradlee, Jr., and Sacha Pfeiff er, with Patt Morrison, moderator.

LA 8 PC focused on reporter safety in the wake of the killing of two TV journalists in Virginia. Another event featured two young Pakistani reporters and Daniel Pearl fellowship recipients who had internships in the U.S. Reporters also shared horror stories at a light-hearted Halloween event at the club’s Hollywood headquarters. Along with the celebrations, there was some sadness. We said goodbye to “super volunteer” Louise Monaco, a familiar presence at dozens of events. Additionally, the Press Club joined with the rest of Los Angeles in mourning the death of City Council member Bill Rosendahl, who also once served as president of the Club. The annual Public Service Award has been renamed in his honor.

Students showed up in large numbers at the awards show. Not only was 48-year Press Club member Buster Sussman present with the Los Angeles Collegian staff, left, but Willow Bay’s USC Annenberg students came to support her and their colleagues, above.

SoCal Gas Sponsors $1,000 Scholarship Award Tonight

ll student finalists whose entries as a community are named in the Los Angeles affairs manager. APress Club’s 2016 Southern She conducted California Journalism Awards have more than 1,000 a chance to win a $1,000 scholar- public presenta- ship tonight. The Southern California tions on natural Gas Co. has donated the money for gas safety and the Denise King Scholarship Award, energy conser- which is named for the company’s vation for stu- recently retired senior communica- dents and com- tions manager. Denise King munity leaders; The winner will be chosen in a raffle helped develop near the beginning of the 58th annual energy education materials that were awards gala. King will select the win- incorporated into the curriculum in Los ner. If the winning entry is the work of Angeles and Orange County schools; more than one person, the $1,000 will and, as a spokesperson, worked with be shared equally. local, state and national media on sto- The Press Club is seeking a new ries covering a broad range of topics, sponsor for 2017. including energy deregulation, the About Denise King: Denise King 1994 Northridge earthquake, launch Last year’s scholarship winner, Manny Araujo from Cal State Northridge. Not only worked for SoCal Gas for nearly 40 of the first zero-emissions vehicle, and did he win $1,000, he also took home the years. After graduating from USC with clean energy technology. trophy for best Spot News with his Sundial a bachelor’s degree in public rela- King has been a longtime supporter story “A Former CSUN Scientist Is Claiming tions, she joined the company in 1976 of the Los Angeles Press Club. He Was Fired for His Christian Beliefs.”

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Press Club Awards Dedicated to Bill rosendahl Journalist, Educator and Councilman Was Also a Press Club President

ill Rosendahl was many things: a progressive political leader, Los Angeles’ fi rst openly gay

B Karen Ocamb Karen Ocamb City Council member, an educator, a Vietnam veteran, an award-winning host of thousands of public affairs programs, and a president of the Los Angeles Press Club. He passed away March 30, 2016, at the age of 70. The Press Club dedicates the 58th annual Southern California Journalism Awards to Rosendahl. Additionally, the Club’s annual Public far left, Rosendahl Service Award, which this year goes in Venice, Calif., before being to environmentalist and activist sworn into the Erin Brockovich, has been renamed L.A. City Council; the Bill Rosendahl Public Above, with Patt Service Award. Morrison at his Tall, occasionally loud City Hall retire- and often opinionated, ment ceremony; Rosendahl served as Left, as Chair of the 11th District City the Transpor- Councilman from 2005- tation Committee, 2013, resigning after he he gives a thumbs was diagnosed with can- up after Council members unani- cer. Throughout his time mously on the Council, Rosendahl approved L.A.’s was a champion of the bike plan. poor and those who are unrepresented, including Left: Rosendahl congratulates LADoT engineer Yadi the homeless. He was an Hashemi on his retirement and presents him with half a dozen eggs from his own chickens, a tradition he began advocate for renters’ rights, to reward those who do good work for the people of L.A. public transportation, pay- ing workers a living wage, and stopping expansion of LAX. As a student, Rosendahl became with a new high school named after William Joseph “Bill” Rosendahl active in 1960s politics and was Kennedy. was born in Englewood, New Jersey, involved in the civil rights move- From 1969-1971, Rosendahl one of eight children raised by ment. While in grad school earning served in the U.S. Army, much of it German Catholic immigrants who a Master’s of Social Work from the as a psychiatric social worker who had left Europe as Hitler rose to University of Pittsburgh, Rosendahl counseled soldiers returning from power. Rosendahl went to Catholic took a leave of absence to help combat. He won national recognition schools and earned a bachelor’s bring together student volunteers for reorganizing the base mental degree from Benedictine College near for the 1968 presidential campaign health services and boosting morale. Pittsburgh. Although he would draw of Robert F. Kennedy. He was at After the Army, Rosendahl spent on many religions in his life, including the Ambassador Hotel on the night six months working for John D. Judaism and Buddhism, Rosendahl Kennedy was assassinated. Years Rockefeller, administering the fam- always said the Catholic emphasis on later he helped turn the site of the ily’s endowments. In 1979, President love and charity was his bedrock. hotel into a public school complex Jimmy Carter made Rosendahl, a

LA 10 PC quickly to recruit new members, many of whom were top journalists and media movers and shakers. He also worked to make the Press Club membership more diverse, adding

Photos by Karen Ocamb by Photos more women, people of all races and sexual minorities. Rosendahl had come out as gay in the 1970s at age 32, shortly after the death of his mother and long before it was fashionable—he was the fi rst openly gay person elected to the Rosendahl, recognized by the Press council. In his fi nal years he was a Mary Moore, who he brought on board, became the Club for his long service, is given the strong advocate for legalizing medi- new president, here with Rosen dahl, and his partner honor by his friend, Warren Beatty, cal marijuana, admitting he used it to Hedi el Kholti. and president Mary Moore in 2000. treat his own health problems. Rosendahl is survived by Hedi el lifelong Democrat, his chief of opera- for over 16 years. Though he never Kholti, his partner of the last 20 years, tions in the trade and development trained to be a journalist, his years who works in publishing. program. After Carter lost to Ronald on TV asking tough questions of Rosendahl’s accomplishments will Reagan in 1980, Rosendahl moved to elected offi cials, business people not be soon forgotten, which isn’t Los Angeles and entered broadcast- and celebrity journalists, made him surprising considering that some ing. As an executive with Adelphia, one. He produced and moderated called him the “disruptor-in-chief,” then one of the largest U.S. cable TV such shows as “Week In Review” and because he would not just accept the companies, Rosendahl was a strong “Beyond The Beltway,” and he was a status quo. That message will live advocate of providing better customer Distinguished Professor at California on in the Public Service Award now service and more local programming. State University Dominguez Hills. named for him. The Press Club counts Rosendahl personally produced, Rosendahl was elected President itself lucky as one of the causes for wrote and hosted television shows of the Press Club in 1999. He moved which Rosendahl was a champion. Executive-Ad-LAPRESS-b.pdf 1 6/17/16 3:17 PM

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Remembering STEVE JULiAN BY LArrY mANTLE

HIS WARM, assuring geographical knowledge was invaluable. country. He set up a Facebook page voice was a constant It was great to drive with Steve. He where they could share their experi- in the lives of thou- always knew the best alternates. If you ences for everyone’s benefit. There’s sands of Southern were one of his listeners, that’s some- something about getting up at 3 a.m. Californians. For thing you knew too. He was a great “vir- that helps forge mutual understanding many, it was the tual” passenger. and support. first voice of the I met Steve in 1983, at the old CBS In recent years, Steve showed his day, heard from our affi liate KPRO-AM in Riverside. We co- longtime love for theater by collaborat- radio or smartphone anchored the afternoon drive time all- ing with several local companies as a before we even got out of bed. We relied news block, and stayed close friends for dedicated playwright, actor and director. on his precise traffi c reporting to get us the following 33 years. He loved the camaraderie and sense of to work, and on his newscasts to gain a Even in his early 20s, Steve was community that characterizes the best fi rm grasp on what happened while we smooth, conversational and a gener- of L.A. theater. slept. ous co-anchor. He was driven to deliver All these facets of Steve Julian helped Steve Julian, who was born in 1958 the news with depth and clarity. He was make him the gifted host and journal- and died two months ago, earned our exacting about every story he read. Most ist he was. He cared deeply about, and trust not just through the accuracy of his importantly, he had a deep sense of how was truly interested in, many different news and traffi c reports, but by connect- to connect with listeners. types of people. We felt that regard as ing with us in a personal way. That’s the That drive to connect extended listeners, which makes his death hit all art of radio. He understood it and prac- beyond radio. Steve had an extraordi- the harder. ticed it as few can. nary number of friends—real friends— Steve passed away April 24 of a brain Steve knew all the varied communi- from varied backgrounds. He was also tumor. He hosted his last “Morning ties in which we live and work. He grew devoted to social media, garnering thou- Edition” just fi ve months prior. He had up in Pomona, in the same house in sands of Facebook friends. In fact, he been KPCC’s “Morning Edition” host which his mother, Marlene, now lives. met his future wife, Felicia Friesema, on since 2000. But he lived all over the region, from the Facebook. high desert to the Inland Empire, South He reached out to his fellow “Morning Larry Mantle is the host of Air Talk on Orange County to Northeast L.A. That Edition” hosts in markets around the KPCC.

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Remembering Journalists Killed The Deaths of More Than 100 Journalists in the Line of Duty Remind Us of the Risks in the Field

very year the Los Angeles Press was made starkly clear on Aug. 26, Club lists the names of journalists 2015, when videographer Adam Ward Ewho were killed during the previ- and reporter Alison Parker of WDBJ in ous year as they toiled to bring informa- Virginia were shot and killed on live tion to the public’s attention. It’s a grim television by a disgruntled former co- task to compile this depressingly long worker, Vester Lee Flanagan, who later list, but it is also necessary to remind all turned the gun on himself. working in this profession just what’s at stake every day. Most of the deaths occur as journal- ists are working to expose corruption or political misdeeds, or to chronicle WDBJ Reporter Alison Parker and videogra- the ravages of war. That was the case pher Adam Ward. of NPR photographer David Gilkey and Monika Evstatieva/NPR Afghan interpreter Zabihullah Tamanna, It’s worth reminding ourselves, as we who were killed June 5 during a Taliban ply our trade in Southern California, that ambush while they were traveling with while we are lucky to do this worthwhile a convoy near Marjah in Afghanistan’s profession, it is not without risk, espe- Helmand province. cially when our stories speak truth to Like other war correspondents, they power. understood that reporting in a con- Once again, we honor the journalists flict zone has inherent and significant who between June 2015 and June 2016 risk. But journalists engaged in non- were targeted by sick minds, caught in controversial stories working in peace- NPR photographer David Gilkey, right, and the crossfire or were a casualty of cor- ful locales can be targets too. That Afghan interpreter Zabihullah Tamanna. ruption. We remember:

2016

David Gilkey, National Public Radio Nicolás Humberto García, Radio Expressa Mohammad Zubair Khaksar, Nangarhar Zabihullah Tamanna, National Public Radio March 10, 2016, in Tacuba, El Salvador Radio and Television June 5, 2016, in Marjah district, Helmand Joa Valdecir de Borba, Radio Difusora AM January 29, 2016, in Surkhrod, Afghanistan province, Afghanistan March 10, 2016, in Sao Jorge de Oeste, Hashim al-Hamran, Al-Masirah TV Sagal Salad Osman, Radio Mogadishu, Brazil January 22, 2016, in Dahyan, Saada Somalia Rohat Aktas, Azadiya Welat Newspaper Province, Yemen June 5, 2016, in Mogdishu, Somalia February 24, 2016, in Cizre, Turkey Marcos Hernández Bautista, Noticias, Voz e Abdullah Azizam, MarebPress Moisés Dagdug Lutzow, Grupo VX Imagen de Oaxaca May 29, 2016, in Shabwa, Yemen February 20, 2016, in Villahermosa, January 21, 2016, in Oaxaca, Mexico Alaa Qassem Mohan, Al-Ahed Radio Tabasco, Mexico Jawad Hussaini, Tolo TV May 20, 2016, in Baghdad, Iraq Majid Dirani, Freelance January 20, 2016, in Kabul, Afghanistan Manuel Torres, Noticias MT February 19, 2016, in Daraya, Syria Ricardo Durán, Venezuela TV May 14, 2016, in Poza Rica, Veracruz, Elvis Banggoy Ordaniza, dxWO FM January 20, 2016, in Caricuao, Venezuela Mexico February 16, 2016, in Pitogo, Philippines Mehboob Shah Afridi, AAJ TV Rajdev Ranjan, Hindustan Ahmed al-Shaibani, Yaman News, Yemen TV January 19, 2016, in Peshawar, Pakistan May 13, 2016, in Siwan, Bihar, India February 16, 2016, in Taiz, Yemen Almigdad Mojalli, Freelance Akhilesh Pratap, Taaza TV Karun Misra, Jansandesh Times January 17, 2016, in Hamam Jarif, Yemen May 12, 2016, in Chatra, Jharkhand, India February 13, 2016, in Sultanpur, Uttar Muhammad Umar, Daily Dera News Khurram Zaki, Let Us Build Pakistan Pradesh, India January 16, 2016, in Dera Ismail Khan, May 7, 2016, in Karachi, Pakistan Anabel Flores Salazar, El Sol de Orizaba Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan Zaher al-Shurqat, Aleppo Today February 8 or 9, 2016, in Veracruz, Mexico Hassan al-Anbaki, Al-Sharqiya April 12, 2016, in Gaziantep, Turkey El-Hadj Mohamed Diallo, Guinée7, Afrik January 12, 2016, in Baquba, Diyala Francisco Pacheco Beltran, El Sol de February 5, 2016, in Conakry, Guinea province, Iraq Acapulco Tarun Mishra, Jan Sandesh Times Saif Talal, Al-Sharqiya April 25, 2016, in El Foro de Taxco February 2, 2016, in Sultanpur, India January 12, 2016, in Baquba, Diyala Mohammed al-Yemeni, Freelance province, Iraq March 21, 2016, in Taiz, Yemen [Continued on page 16]

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2015

Naji Jerf, Hentah, Raqqa is Being Jomaa al-ahmad (Abu al-Nour al-Halabi), rasim aliyev, institute for Reporters’ slaughtered silently shahba Press Agency Freedom and safety, Azerbaijan News December 27, 2015, in Gaziantep, turkey October 27, 2015, in Aleppo, syria Network mashiur rahman Utsho, Juger Alo mithilesh Pandey, Dainik Jagran August 9, 2015, in Baku, Azerbaijan December 24, 2015, in Rangpur, October 24, 2015, in Gaya district, Bihar, Niloy Neel, Freelance Bangladesh India August 7, 2015, in Dhaka, Bangladesh ahmed mohamed al-mousa, Raqqa is Being Wasem aledel, Maarat Media Center Gleydson Carvalho, Radio Liberdade slaughtered silently October 23, 2015, in Binin, idlib province, FM 90.3 December 16, 2015, in idlib, syria syria August 6, 2015, in Camocim, Brazil amar oumar aka Joel, La Radio Chrétienne Christophe Nkezabahizi, Radio television adrian martinez lopez, Presente tombouctou Nationale du Burundi August 4, 2015, in tobasco, Mexico December 15, 2015, in timbuktu, Mali October 13, 2015, in Bujumbura, Burundi adel Sayegh, salaheddin tv louis manouel Souza, Radio Ecuadora Saleh mahmoud laila, Anadolu Agency August 2015, in Mosul, iraq FM 94.5 October 8, 2015, in Huraytan, syria rubén espinosa becerril, Proceso, AvC December 7, 2015, in Uba, Brazil Hemant yadav, tv24 Noticias, Cuartoscuro Zakaria Ibrahim, Al-Jazeera October 3, 2015, in Dheena, india July 31, 2015, in Mexico City, Mexico December 7, 2015, in taldou, Homs obada Ghazal, sMARt News Agency Thaer al-ajlani, sham FM; al-Watan province, syria september 26, 2015, in taftanaz, idlib July 27, 2015, in Damascus, syria majed al-rabi’I, Al Masar tv province, syria adelmo arturo Cortez milla, Galaxia 21 December 5, 2015, in Garma, Anbar, iraq bilal Sharaf al-deen, Al-Masirah tv July 22, 2015, in Gracias, Lempira, Hindia Haji mohamed, Radio Mogadishu, september 17, 2015, in sana’a, Yemen Honduras somali National tv yahya abdul Hamid, Radio Rasheed raghavendra dubey, Khushboo Ujala December 3, 2015, in Mogadishu, somalia september 12, 2015, in Mosul, iraq July 17, 2015, in Kashimira, Bhayander, amanulla atae, Asia tv George abanga, success FM, Peace FM India November 29, 2015, in Kabul, Afghanistan september 10, 2015, in sankore, Ghana Jalaa al-abadi, Nineveh Reporters Network orislândio Timóteo araujo, Blog do Roberto Flor alba Núñez Vargas, Red Noticias and La July 15, 2015, in Mosul, iraq Lano Preferida Estereo abu Sayem, samakal Daily November 21, 2015, in Buriticupu, Brazil september 10, 2015, in Pitalito, Colombia July 8, 2015, in Jibannagar Upazila, Guillaume barreau-decherf, Freelance aftab alam, Geo tv Bangladesh November 13, 2015, in Paris, France september 9, 2015, in Karachi, Pakistan Ghazi al-obeidi, Freelance Ítalo eduardo diniz barros, Blog Ítalo Diniz abdullah al Hussein, Waagacusub July 5, 2015, in iraq November 13, 2015, in Governador Nunes september 8, 2015, in Mogadishu, somalia akshay Singh, Aaj tak Freire, Brazil Priyantha ratnayake, Freelance July 4, 2015, in Meghnagar, Madhya Israel Gonçalves Silva, Rádio itaenga FM september 8, 2015, in Minneriya, sri Lanka Pradesh, india November 10, 2015, in Lagoa de itaenga, arshad ali Jafri, Geo tv Filadelfo Sánchez Sarmiento, La Favorita Brazil september 8, 2015, in Karachi, Pakistan 103.3FM La voz de la sierra sur ahmed abu al-Hamza, sMARt News Paulo machava, Diario de Noticias July 2, 2015, in Miahuatlán de Porfi rio Díaz, Agency, Hama Media Center August 28, 2015, in Maputo, Mozambique Mexico November 6, 2015, in sukayk, Hama Juan mendoza delgado, Escribiendo la province, syria Cosme maestrado, DXOC Radio August 27, 2015, in Ozamiz City, verdad batoul mokhles al-Warrar, Noor al-sham; 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LA 16 PC NPR CONGRATULATES TONIGHT’S HONOREES: ERIN BROCKOVICH, NICK UT, JASON REZAIAN AND OUR OWN JARL MOHN.

From smooth-talkin’ DJ to our CEO.

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arl Mohn was a surprise choice in 2014 to lead National Public Radio. After all, this was the man Jarl Mohn’s who had helmed E! Entertainment Television Leadership and was known partly for his work at MTV. J Then there was the inner turmoil. Mohn was of NPR Is Just the eighth CEO in eight years at NPR. Competition for listeners was intense, affiliated stations often Part of What were at odds with headquarters in Washington, D.C., and the last philanthropic mega-gift had come Has Earned a decade earlier. The year before, NPR had cut 10% of its workforce and was facing a $6 million annual Him the deficit. Press Club’s “I saw the turnover and was very concerned about it,” Mohn recalled. “I knew the journalism President’s was solid; they were doing great reporting and great work. But they needed to have an organization in Award place to manage the business better.” It was clear the turnaround would be neither quick nor easy, so Mohn made a five-year commit- ment to NPR. He began by visiting local stations across the country to learn what they needed to succeed. Press Club is honoring Mohn tonight with its 2016 Eighteen months into the Mohn era, things are President’s Award for Impact on Media. Previous looking up. Changes have been made, and today winners include Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, there’s a new sense of stability. Anderson Cooper and Steve Lopez. “It’s too early to declare victory,” said Bill Davis, Mohn is rarely in one place for long, as he divides president of Southern California Public Radio and his time between Los Angeles, New York, visits to KPCC, “but I would say Jarl has put a steady hand local stations and Washington, D.C., where he can on the tiller for NPR and has also brought in people often be found on Capitol Hill explaining the impor- with similar steady hands to run the organization tance of NPR. His pitch, he said, boils down to: With in terms of its content, its strategy and fundraising. the loss of so many newspapers, public radio is a He’s done a really nice job setting a clear and stable primary source of local news for many people. course for the organization.” Why has he reached so many politicians on both In 2015, for the first time in years, NPR broke sides of the aisle? even. In 2016, it may move into the black. “Maybe they see his interest and vision for it,” That is among the reasons the Los Angeles suggested Pamela, his wife of 33 years. “He just

LA 18 PC Stephen Voss really believes in what he’s doing, the importance recalled Mohn, “but they had it on in the dormitory… of NPR and having fact-based radio rather than and that became my escape because I didn’t like opinion.” being in this children’s home. So my entire career has been a form of escapism.” Personal Connection He got his first job at a local radio station at age Mohn’s connection to radio is unusually per- 15, though there was one problem: He had, he sonal. It goes back to when he was growing up recalls, “a terrible radio name. It’s not easily remem- in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 27 miles north of bered or said.” Philadelphia. Jarl is Norwegian and Mohn is German. To con- When he was 11, Mohn and two sisters were nect better with audiences, he adopted the nom de placed in a government-run home for several years. radio Lee Masters. He worked the overnight shift His father, a college literature professor, had been at a station in Philadelphia while attending Temple jailed for not making support payments and his University on a scholarship, but as the job became mother was institutionalized with mental illness. more demanding he dropped out of college. “I really hadn’t experienced radio until then,” In 1986, Mohn moved to New York City as a DJ

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on radio powerhouse WNBC. He later left to help Around 2002, Mohn met Bill Davis, then in his create and program MTV and VH-1. He was gen- fi rst year running KPCC-FM in Los Angeles. Davis eral manager of the youth-oriented networks and wanted to focus his station on news. Mohn joined brought major change, signifi cantly expanding the the KPCC board and a few years later became chair- audiences. man. He led a fundraising drive for a new broadcast In 1992, Mohn moved his wife and two daughters facility and ended up making the biggest gift, an west to take command of the fl edgling Movietime estimated $6 million. Since 2010, it has been known channel. He renamed it E! Entertainment Television as the Mohn Broadcast Center. and created a mix of celebrity news and reality Mohn wasn’t looking for a job in 2014 when Davis mentioned he had begun a search for a new NPR president. A day later, Mohn called to say he In 2015, for the fi rst time in years, NPR broke even. was interested. Davis and the broadcast world were stunned: After all, this was public radio. In 2016, it may move into the black. “A lot of people were absolutely shocked,” recalled Davis, “that NPR hired somebody with a shows that became cultural touchstones and was deep commercial background, who wasn’t a jour- a precursor of much of today’s celebrity-obsessed nalist or from public media.” entertainment media. The turnaround since then proves that thinking He was wooed away during the late 1990s Internet out of the box may be the best path to future suc- frenzy. He ran Liberty Digital, which invested in cess. Mohn knows that the challenges are many, startups and interactive TV. After the dot-come bust, but he recognizes that much depends on having he became a venture capitalist. He also took back top-notch reporting. his real name, Jarl Mohn. “My goal is to make sure this great group of jour- He joined several corporate boards, became a nalists I get to work with every day have the tools noted art collector and served as chairman of the they need to do the kind of work they do best,” said ACLU and the board of the USC Annenberg School Mohn, “and to encourage them, motivate them and of Journalism. inspire them to continue doing great work.”

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LA 21 PC DANIEL PEARL AWARD for Courage and Integrity in Journalism Once a Prisoner, Always a Voice for Understanding Jason Rezaian, the Recipient of the Press Club’s Daniel Pearl Award, Has Long Sought to Bring Cultures Together

here’s a bitter irony in the fate suf- By Adam Rose fered by Washington Post correspon- dent Jason Rezaian. At the same time, there’s a sense of inspiration and even Ttriumph, the kind that makes any journalist wonder whether he or she could have survived

what the reporter endured. Post Bill O’Leary/ Washington Rezaian, who was born and raised in Northern California, always had a love for Iran, the country of his father’s birth. In 1980, when Jason Rezaian was a small child, the United States and Iran broke off diplomatic relations. They’ve never been restored. Undeterred, Rezaian would become a de facto ambassador between the two coun- tries and cultures. He learned Farsi. He drove around with a license plate holder proclaiming, “Powered by ghormeh sabzi” (a popular Iranian herb stew). He obtained dual citizenship and During the first seven months in prison, moved to Tehran. Rezaian was not even allowed to see a lawyer. And he wrote. Rezaian spent five years cover- Eventually, he would be sentenced on vague ing Iran from within, becoming the Washington charges, including espionage and “propaganda Post’s correspondent there. His stories ranged against the establishment.” from nuclear negotiations to more traditional Rezaian’s wife, Yeganeh Salehi, was also American concerns: burger joints, baseball arrested, though she was freed after 72 days. A teams and water parks. print journalist, she was working in Tehran as “It’s home,” he told chef and CNN personal- a correspondent for The National, a publication ity Anthony Bourdain in June 2014. “It’s become based in the United Arab Emirates. Salehi had home.” only Iranian citizenship. Not that Rezaian’s U.S. A few weeks later, on July 22, Rezaian was citizenship was any help—Iran refused to rec- arrested. He soon found himself in one of ognize it. the country’s least hospitable places: Evin Details of what prompted his detention were Prison. He was just two miles from his home. never officially explained. Media speculation Rezaian remained locked up for 545 days, raised questions but provided no real answers. much of it in solitary confinement. He was Was it an effort to silence his reporting? Did released this past January as part of a prisoner certain powers want to use him as a bargain- exchange. Tonight, he receives the Los Angeles ing chip? Ali Rezaian, Jason’s brother, recalled Press Club’s Daniel Pearl Award for Courage two pieces of evidence that were presented in and Integrity in Journalism. relation to the espionage charge: an American

LA 22 PC visa application for Salehi, and a form letter to Barack Obama’s 2008 transition team offer- ing support in improving U.S.-Iran relations. Neither seemed like much cause for Iran’s concern. Rezaian, however, always knew that he had reason to be wary. According to one account in the New York Times, he had noticed a man on a motorcycle following him for weeks before his arrest. The surveillance was so obvi- ous, Rezaian even got a picture of the license plate. “It’s like walking a tightrope,” he said during an interview before being detained. “When you fall down, it is over.” Despite the risks, Rezaian pressed on. “While most of us counted ourselves itiner- ant adventurers, always with plans of going replace misconceptions with accurate percep- Far left: Secretary of State John back home to the States, Jason was differ- tions. That is all. But that is everything.” Kerry greets Rezaian at the ent,” wrote fellow Iranian-American expatri- Bourdain praised Rezaian and his wife, grand opening of the Washing- ate Shervin Malekzadeh in The Atlantic. “Jason describing them on that June day as “open- ton Post’s new building. viewed his Iranian citizenship, granted through minded ambassadors of understanding.” Top: Rezaian and wife Yeganeh his late father, as both a privilege and a respon- In the Washington Post, Bourdain wrote, Salehi at the White House. sibility. The ability to travel without restriction “Jason and Yeganeh helped me to look at their Above: Washington Post Editor between the United States and Iran seemingly country more deeply and with an open heart.” Martin Baron and Wolf Blitzer, CNN, flanking Rezaian and obliged him to serve both homes, to act as a After being freed in a deal that required Salehi. bridge between these two estranged countries, negotiation between top-level officials in constituent parts of his identity. To do this prop- Tehran and Washington, Rezaian was joined by erly, to see his project through to the end, he his wife on the flight out of Iran. The two now would have to remain in Iran.” live in California. Rezaian has since accepted a During his imprisonment, Rezaian received Nieman Fellowship at Harvard, where he plans an outpouring of support from world lead- to spend a year exploring the possibilities and ers and celebrities. In remarks to reporters on challenges of diplomacy between the U.S. and World Press Freedom Day, Secretary of State Iran. John Kerry observed how, “Jason did not go to “I tried to make [Iran] understandable for Iran to advance an ideology or to make a politi- American readership,” he said in April while cal point. He actually went there to explain to receiving the Hugo Shong Reporting on Asia his own country what life was really like in Award. “I would be doing readers and myself a the country of his ancestry. And he wanted to big disservice if I didn’t finish the loop on that.”

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He added that he still loves Iran and intends their stated ideology of upholding Islamic val- to return eventually, but not any time soon. ues and lifting up the oppressed. There’s one On June 4, Rezaian’s byline appeared in the problem: He’s American.” Washington Post for the first time in two years. Rezaian added that Ali “was always a hero He wrote after the death of boxer Muhammad who transcended faith, race and borders. He

On July 22, 2014, Rezaian was arrested. He soon found himself in one of the country’s least hospitable places: Evin Prison. He was just two miles from his home. Post Bill O’Leary/ Washington Ali, who had also called for Rezaian’s release. He said that Ali’s support came during some of his darkest days, and not only lifted his spirits, but even caused the prison guards to treat him better. In typical Rezaian fashion, he seized on the opportunity to show what unites and divides his two cultures. “As he is everywhere, Ali is revered in Iran,” never belonged to anyone, but he is part of Rezaian wrote. “The people love him as a cham- everyone.” pion of sports, but also charity, and authorities As a journalist and cultural ambassador, those have a deep attachment to him as representing words could also describe Jason Rezaian.

but we don’t have the same expecta- tions for them, while we know there Courage, Integrity and are journalists who fight against cor- ruption and are sacrificing their lives in an effort to speak the genuine truth Impacting the World with no strings, no pressure from pol- Judea Pearl and the Award Named for His Late Son iticians, religions or donors.” The work the Pearls do in honor of their son is not limited to the award. very year the Los Angeles Press Judea Pearl, who is a Chancellor’s The Daniel Pearl Foundation seeks to Club, in partnership with Judea Professor of Computer Science at create respect for different cultures Eand Ruth Pearl, hands out the UCLA and winner of the prestigious via a series of fellowships, programs Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Turing Award, heads The Daniel Pearl and forums. Even music is part of the Integrity in Journalism. It is named Foundation. In an interview with effort. for the Pearls’ late son Daniel, the Devra Maza last year, Pearl noted “[Daniel] really loved the violin and Wall Street Journal reporter, who was that when he and his wife present mandolin and wherever he went, he killed by Islamic terrorists in Pakistan the award, they feel like they have carried these instruments with him in 2002. “another family of journalists in L.A.” and made contact with the local cul- This year’s recipient is Jason Journalists, Pearl believes, can tural scene,” Pearl told Maza. “It’s Rezaian, who served as the have a significant impact on the what enabled him to form connec- Washington Post’s correspondent world. He noted that the Daniel Pearl tions in every place that he was sta- in Tehran, Iran, from 2012 to 2016. Award focuses on the most coura- tioned.” Rezaian was kidnapped and spent geous journalists. Pearl sought to draw a larger circle, 545 days in Evin Prison, Iran’s worst. “Each of them can access hundreds and to find the connection between He was released in January in a pris- of thousands of readers,” he told Maza music, the satire of Charlie Hebdo, oner exchange. when talking about the prize last year journalists in general and others. Previous Pearl Award recipients honoring Charlie Hebdo. “This is our “Everyone has their own mode of include the French satirical maga- future, how we can reach moderate expression and we’re trying to lever- zine Charlie Hebdo, Richard Engel, Muslims to try to have them listen less age all of these modes into one thing: Robyn Dixon, Anna Politkovskaya, to their mullahs and imams and more To say that we are together and we Anne Garrels, Michael Kelly and Bob to journalists. They’re more effective. will not give up our values,” he told Woodruff. We respect our religious leaders here, Maza.

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Erin Brockovich’s Recipient of Press Club’s bill Rosendahl Public Service Award for Crusade Contributions to the Public Good Has Never Stopped Continues Her Activism By Ted Johnson

arlier this year, as the Flint, mental and toxic disasters. Michigan, water crisis grew She is currently grappling with what into a national news story, Erin seem to be ever-increasing reports Brockovich sat with Stephen of perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, EColbert on CBS’s “The Late Show” and contamination. She calls this the “OSHA the host called her the “water Batman.” moment,” a reminder for the public It was amusing, and reflected not to assume that their water is being the extent to which her name is still properly monitored, and to be aware instantly recognized, even 16 years after of the flaws in the systems that lead to Julia Roberts portrayed her in an Oscar- public agency and private corporation winning performance. It also showed failures. the extent to which she is called upon in “The point is people are waking up,” the face of toxic disasters. she said. “We have been lulled into a Brockovich used the Colbert segment false sense of security.” not only to explain the chemical dangers Like Rosendahl, Brockovich’s story is posed by the crisis, but to point out the one of “pressing on,” as she writes in her urgency to act. She had first heard about book Take It From Me. it a year earlier. She became a nationally known “Flint, Michigan,” she said, “is the tip figure through her work on the case of the iceberg.” against Pacific Gas & Electric over Brockovich is the recipient of the the contamination of drinking water Los Angeles Press Club’s Public Service in the town of Hinkley, Calif. She was Award, which this year has been working as a legal clerk for the firm renamed the Bill Rosendahl Public of Masry & Vititoe when she pursued Service Award for Contributions to the the investigation. That led to the Public Good, in honor of the late City 2000 movie, which showed that the Councilman, longtime Los Angeles company had been polluting the town’s public affairs television host and cable drinking water with chromium 6. When executive and onetime Press Club Brockovich started in 1991, she had president. three children: Elizabeth, then 1, Katie, Brockovich says that she was “so who was 6, and Matthew 7. taken aback and honored” by the award, The case led to a settlement of $333 and cites the role that the media has million. Brockovich received $2.5 million played, and continues to play, in building as her share in 1996. awareness and investigating environ- She wrote that there were “many

LA 26 PC people who naturally assumed… that it “This made them equal partners in must have been my hot-cha clothes, big their marriage at a time when most chest and presumably loose high heels women were taught by their parents that that had led me to victory. In truth, it was marriage meant staying home, having my identification with the victims—the babies, making dinner and cleaning unglamorous, hard working, dirt-on- house,” she wrote. their-hands, clothes-on-the-line, early- to-bed and early-to-rise folks—that helped me understand why in my own “Superman’s not coming. Guess who is: You are. life for such a long time it had been difficult to ever get anyone to listen to me We are. And that is what I think is happening.” about anything.” Brockovich says that the movie was “98% accurate,” and the producers took Given his work for Texaco, her few creative licenses. “Yes, I had a potty father “always taught me the value of mouth in the movie and I still do,” she water, health and the right to a clean wrote. environment, is all that matters,” she Brockovich grew up in Lawrence, says. Her mother wrote for the KU Kansas, to “wonderful parents who had alumni association and showed her the strong, deeply ingrained values regarding value of “digging and looking for that family, land and health.” Her father was truth.” an engineer for Texaco and her mother Brockovich earned an associate was a journalist for the University of in applied arts degree in fashion Kansas, which, she has noted, was pretty merchandising and interior design from progressive for the time. Wade Business College in Dallas. In the

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’80s she had a series of jobs, including I am involved in—deceit. Someone is a brief stint at Kmart and even entered hiding something for the sake of fear or a beauty pageant, winning the title of greed.” Miss Pacific Coast in 1981. She originally When it comes to Porter Ranch, she came in contact with Masry & Vititoe believes that it will turn out that there because she needed an attorney to was more awareness of the dangers represent her after she suffered serious than has been publicly disclosed. injuries in a car accident. They ended Still, Brockovich is hopeful that up settling “for a pittance,” she wrote, government and corporate practices will but afterwards she asked Jim Vititoe change through the power and pressure and Ed Masry if they needed someone of public awareness, in part driven by to answer phones for them. After some the ability of victims to communicate persistence, they hired her. with each other via social media. In Since the movie, Brockovich has some some cases, she notes, this worked on a number of high-profile occurs decades after exposure to toxic environmental lawsuits, including chemicals. litigation over chromium contamination She points to communities where in Willits, Calif., and additional PG&E residents are being advised not to drink claims in Kings County, Calif. More their water, creating enough of a public recently, as a consumer protection outrage where “every day people are advocate for the law firm of Weitz going to move the dial.” & Luxenberg, she has worked with What she warns against is politicizing residents of Porter Ranch on claims environmental situations—or believing related to the ruptured gas leak from a promises of a quick fix. Southern California Gas Co. well. “Superman’s not coming,” she says. She says that, “The same seed is “Guess who is: You are. We are. And that there from Hinkley in every situation is what I think is happening.”

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JoSePH m. QUINN aWard for Journalistic Excellence and Distinction The man who Took ‘THE PiCTUrE’ NiCK UT’S ViETNAm wAr PHOTO CHANgED HiSTOrY. iT iS ONLY ONE PArT OF HiS STOriED CArEEr BY LiNDA DEUTSCH

n Los Angeles, where he has spent most of his career, the diminutive photographer with the ready smile is known to his news photo col- leagues as “Nick” or “Nicky.” They give him Ispecial deference when he arrives at the scene of a disaster, at a Hollywood premiere, in a courtroom or at a sports competition on assignment for The Associated Press. They honor Huyn Cong “Nick” Ut as someone important—the only one among them who changed history with a single picture. If some photographers are too young to remember the Vietnam War, the veteran shooters fi ll them in on Nick’s history and they are awestruck. This is the man who took “The Picture” is all they need to know. All of them know about that image. It is part of America’s history now, part of our col- lective memory. Tonight, Nick Ut receives the Los Angeles Press Club’s Joseph M. Quinn Award for Lifetime Achievement. By the time I met Nick Ut in April of 1975, he was a legend. He had snapped one of the most famous scenes of the Vietnam War, a photo that would be dubbed “Napalm Girl.” The picture of a young girl, her clothes burned off her body, running to escape napalm falling from the sky, became an enduring image of the horrors of that war. He was 21 when he clicked his shutter in 1972 and changed the course of his life and the history of the war. Here is what I know about Nick’s life: He was He would become the youngest photographer born in Vietnam in 1951. His brother, Huyn Than ever to win the Pulitzer Prize, along with every other My, a gifted photographer, was covering the war for major photographic award in 1973. the American news agency The Associated Press, But when I met him he was a refugee, one of when in 1966 he was wounded and later shot by many Associated Press bureau staffers evacuated as the Viet Cong while awaiting evacuation. The grief- Saigon fell to the communists. He was huddled in a stricken younger brother was a mere 15 years old, tent on Guam with other evacuees. Here he was not but had been learning about photography from his a celebrity, just a very young looking man, displaced brother. “I picked his camera up,” he remembered, and uncertain where the future would take him. and volunteered to shoot for the AP.

LA 30 PC Huyn Cong “Nick” Ut spent his early life covering the war in Vietnam after his brother was shot by Viet Cong. He captured scenes of terror, the hardship of refugees and the yellow. “It was beautiful,” he thought, but said to toll that war takes himself, “My God, it’s the napalm.” He had not seen on a country and its that cruel weapon used before. people. People began running toward him, refugees who had been mistakenly targeted as Viet Cong. “I saw an old lady running,” he remembers. “She carried a baby in her arms. The baby died while I shot my pictures. “Then I see the girl running and I say to myself, “The AP was my family now,” he recalls, and ‘Why she has no clothes?’ Then she came closer there were times when he slept on a couch in the and I see her skin coming off.” Saigon bureau waiting for assignments. Another After shooting his pictures, he poured water on photographer gave him the nickname “Nick” and it the girl, wrapped her in a coat and put her in the stuck. He had many close calls in the fi eld and was AP van. He and the driver raced to the nearest fi eld wounded three times in 1970 as he covered the U.S. hospital. During the 40-minute ride, the 9-year-old and South Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia. Kim Phuc screamed that she was dying. Then on June 8, 1972, a routine assignment At the hospital, which was overwhelmed with became his story of a lifetime. There was word of wounded soldiers, no one wanted to help until Nick fi ghting on Highway 1 near the Cambodian border. realized what he had to do. He showed his press Nick was sent out along with a driver. pass. “We had a big AP van,” he recalled recently. “We “I told them, ‘If she dies, picture will be every- see a lot of black smoke and a lot of fi ghting. I told where tomorrow.’ I told them they do not want the my driver to stop. We could not go further because news media.” soldiers were blocking the road.” Once they agreed to help her, Nick raced to the He hiked with the soldiers over a mile and then AP Saigon bureau with his fi lm. Those who were considered turning back. there remember him running in the door, sweat “I said I had enough,” he recalled. “Maybe I go pouring off of him, yelling, “Great pictures! Great back. Then I saw South Vietnamese planes coming. pictures!” I picked up my camera and was shooting pictures.” When they processed the shocking photos, some Suddenly, he said, the smoke turned a brilliant wondered if the girl’s nakedness would be a prob-

LA 31 PC JOSEPH M. QUINN AWARD nick ut

After moving to Los Angeles, Ut continued working for Associated Press and covered a different range of subjects, from Hollywood celebrities to court cases, to political figures. Top: President Obama with older daughter Malia Top right: actor Robert Blake Middle: celebrity couple actor James Brolin and singer Barbra Streisand

Bottom, left to right: Kim Phuc stays in touch with Nick Ut, whom she calls “Uncle Ut” and lives with her husband and children in Canada. lem for publication. But photo editor Horst Faas Phuc visits a burn victim in England. ordered that the photos be transmitted immediately to New York. Editors soon called and said it was on front pages everywhere in the world. It has since was coming, was overcome with excitement. As been dubbed “Napalm Girl” and has been repro- Nick arrived, Ellsberg rose and embraced him. duced perhaps more than any other photo from the “You helped to end the war,” he said. Vietnam War. As for Kim Phuc, she continues to fight the Although it is the picture for which he will be after-effects of her injuries that required numerous remembered, Nick Ut’s other images from Vietnam surgeries. She won asylum in Canada where she are a searing testament to the horrors of war and lives with her husband and two children. And she the power of news photography. He has taken thou- became a UN Goodwill Ambassador. She travels the sands of pictures since then, proving himself a bril- world telling her story. liant interpreter of the American scene. She and Nick have remained close over the years After the war, Nick was assigned to the Tokyo and she calls him “Uncle Ut.” For a time she disliked bureau for two years, then was sent to Los Angeles seeing the painful picture. But Nick said she now where he has distinguished himself with dazzling accepts it as her legacy. pictures for nearly four decades. But “The Picture” “Her picture tells a story forever, not just for is always present for him. Vietnam but for every war,” Nick said. He recalled In the 1990s I was interviewing Daniel Ellsberg, a recent conversation with Kim about her experi- the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers secret ences since the day she ran for her life. history of the Vietnam War. The bureau sent Nick to “She said to me, ‘Uncle Nick, I’m so busy. I’m not photograph Ellsberg, who, when he was told who running now. I’m flying.’”

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Peter Arnett is a Pulitzer Prize- tion, tourism and homelessness issues. A co-founder of Camp winning war correspondent from New Courage, a training program for community organizers fighting Zealand best known for his live TV cov- for the freedom to marry in the LGBT community, Mike lives in erage from Baghdad during the first Gulf Mar Vista with his husband, Sean Arian. War in 1991, including his interview with President Saddam Hussein, for which he won an Emmy. Before that, Arnett cov- CHER CALVIN co-anchors the KTLA5 ered the Vietnam War for 13 years for AP. News weekday 6, 10 and 11 p.m. news- He then joined CNN, covering wars and casts alongside Micah Ohlman. She joined civil disturbances in scores of countries KTLA in 2005 and was recently elected to in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia, the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles and being the first Western journalist to interview Osama Bin Press Club. Her first event for the Club was Laden. During the Gulf War in 2003, he gave a controversial a tribute to newsman Stan Chambers, interview critical of the U.S. war planning to Iraqi TV and was where many of his colleagues and family let go, although he covered the war for other media. Arnett’s came to remember the legendary reporter. autobiography, Live from the Battlefield, was named Book of As a Filipino American she has a deep the Year by the New York Times. Over his distinguished career, connection with her community and her most recent Emmy Arnett has received 57 major journalism awards. He now lives Award was for her efforts in mobilizing her station and Los in Southern California and teaches journalism at Shantou Angeles for a telethon special to raise money for the victims University in China. of Typhoon Haiyan. The three-hour program raised nearly $200,000. She has three Golden Mike Awards and three Emmys. ED BEGLEY, JR. Actor Ed Begley, Jr.’s name has become synonymous with environmentalism thanks to more than BILL DAVIS is the founding president 40 years of activism. Begley was talk- of Southern California Public Radio, a ing about the need for renewable energy California-controlled subsidiary of the and water conservation long before it American Public Media Group. He joined became cool to do so. His celebrity from a SCPR in January 2001, and prior to his long career in television, film and theater appointment was senior vice president helped him spread his important mes- for programming at National Public Radio sages about protecting the environment. (NPR) in Washington, D.C. where he He and his family live in a LEED-platinum certified, envi- directed NPR’s programming divisions: ronmentally sustainable house in Los Angeles, and it is not news, cultural programming, new media, unusual to see him zipping around town in an electric vehicle. and satellite. For 10 years, he served as general manager of In recent years he and his family’s environmental efforts have WUNC-FM in Chapel Hill, NC, where he directed all aspects of been chronicled on reality TV shows such as “On Begley this NPR affiliated station licensed to the University of North Street” and “Living with Ed” and the web series, “Our Green Carolina, making it one of the nation’s most-listened-to NPR- House.” He is the author of Ed Begley, Jr.’s Guide to Sustainable stations. He previously managed WBFO-FM in Buffalo, NY, and Living: Learning to Conserve Resources and Manage an Eco- KALX-FM in Berkeley, CA. Conscious Life and Living Like Ed: A Guide to the Eco-Friendly Davis earned degrees from Occidental College in Los Life. Angeles, the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley, and the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at UNC-Chapel Hill.

MIKE BONIN is a former newspaper reporter and a current hands-on L.A. PAT HARVEY is the co-anchor of CBS 2’s councilmember, often filling potholes or weekday 5 and 11 p.m. newscasts. She performing other city services in his 11th joined CBS 2 following 20 years with sis- District and giving him insight into the ter station KCAL 9 as one of the origi- needs of the community. First elected in nal anchors of the nation’s first nightly 2013, he has served Westside neighbor- three-hour primetime newscast. Harvey, hoods since 1996, working in senior posi- who received the Joseph M. Quinn Award tions for the late Councilmember and LA for Lifetime Achievement from the Press Press Club advisory board member Bill Club in 2004, regularly reports on issues Rosendahl, Congresswoman Jane Harman, and Councilwoman of concern to Southern California and Ruth Galanter. With a B.A. from Harvard in U.S. History, Mike the world. gained insight he uses as he works extensively on transporta- Her reporting has ranged from filing live reports at the inau-

LA 34 PC CONGRATULATIONS TO NBC4 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NOMINEES AT THIS YEAR’S LA PRESS CLUB JOURNALISM AWARDS. WE ARE PROUD OF YOU! presenters guration of President Barack Obama to following the story of Pearl and his wife Ruth Pearl are co-editors of the book I a homeless painter from the streets of Los Angeles to a gallery am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of in Paris. Harvey is a 21-time Emmy winner, the most recent for Daniel Pearl, winner of the 2004 National Jewish Book Award a half-hour special on the 20th anniversary of the L.A. riots. for Anthologies. Other awards include being named Best News Anchor by the Associated Press and seven Golden Mikes. Known as the “napalm girl,” or simply as “the girl in the picture,” Phan Thi Kim ROBERT KOVACIK is the current Phuc was the 9-year-old Vietnamese girl President of the Los Angeles Press Club. depicted in photographer Nick Ut’s iconic He is an anchor/reporter for NBC4 Pulitzer Prize-winning photo shot after Southern California’s newscasts at 5, 6 a U.S. napalm bombing of Kim’s village and 11 p.m. Kovacik joined the station during the Vietnam War on June 8, 1972. in 2004 and is known for bringing a local Severely burned by the napalm, Phuc’s perspective to international events. agony so moved Ut that he immediately Kovacik was NBC4’s correspondent for took her, and other children, to a hospi- the 2013 Papal Conclave in Rome and tal, where she recovered over 14 months and with 17 surgi- was assigned to the Summer Olympics in cal procedures. Kim has since been married to Bui Huy Toan, London. and they have two children. They sought political asylum in One of his most compelling live shots captured an exten- Canada and are now Canadian citizens. In 1997, she set up the sive manhunt for an alleged murderer. The suspect suddenly Kim Phuc Foundation in the U.S. – and later other foundations appeared and surrendered to Kovacik live on air. Kovacik – to help child victims of war with medical and psychological has received accolades including Emmy, Golden Mike, AP assistance. and Edward R. Murrow awards. He was named Television Journalist of Year in 2013 at the Southern California Journalism Awards. CHARLES SHAUGHNESSY is from a showbiz family in London—his father was the principal writer on “Upstairs, PATT MORRISON is renowned in print, Downstairs” and his mother was an radio and television. Aside from winning actress. After getting a B.A. in Law at a share of two Pulitzer Prizes as a colum- Cambridge University, he returned to his nist for the Los Angeles Times, she also has first love—acting—and worked on stage several Emmys and Golden Mike Awards and television in England before mov- for her work on KCET-TV and KPCC. ing to the U.S. in 1983. Here he is best TALKERS Magazine ranked her among known for playing Maxwell Sheffield on the nation’s top 100 radio talk show hosts. “The Nanny,” and Shane Donovan on “Days of Our Lives.” She is a senior fellow in in the Luskin He received an Emmy for his voice work in the Disney series, School of Public Affairs at UCLA and the “Stanley”, and a memorable arc as St. John Powell in AMC’s “ bestselling author of Rio L.A.: Tales from the Los Angeles River, a Mad Men.” In 2007, upon the death of a cousin, he became the nonfiction book. Pink’s, the famous Los Angeles hot dog stand, 5th Baron Shaughnessy of Montreal and Ashford. has a veggie dog named after her.

COLLEEN WILLIAMS serves as co- JUDEA PEARL was born in Tel Aviv anchor of NBC4 Southern California’s and is a graduate of the Technion-Israel weekday newscasts NBC4 News at 5 and Institute of Technology. He came to the 11 p.m., alongside Chuck Henry. United States for postgraduate work in Williams, who joined the station in 1960 and received his master’s degree in 1986, is the recipient of numerous hon- physics from Rutgers University and his ors, including multiple Emmy and Golden Ph.D. degree in 1965 from the Brooklyn Mike awards. She also was recognized Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Pearl joined with a Golden Mike for team coverage of the faculty of UCLA in 1969, where he is the Chatsworth train crash, and an L.A. currently a professor of computer science Emmy for Best Light News Story for “Toll Booth Bandits.” Prior and director of the Cognitive Systems Laboratory. He is known to joining NBC4, Williams co-anchored the 5 p.m. news at internationally for his contributions to artificial intelligence, KCBS-TV, and before that she was co-anchor of the noon and human reasoning and philosophy of science. weekend newscasts at KPIX-TV in San Francisco. Williams is Dr. Pearl is the father of slain Wall Street Journal reporter passionate about supporting social causes impacting Southern Daniel Pearl and president of the Daniel Pearl Foundation Californians. She participates annually at fundraising events (danielpearl.org), which he co-founded in April 2002 “to con- for the Rape Crisis Center in Riverside and Casa de Las Amigas, tinue Daniel’s life-work of dialogue and understanding and to a rehabilitation center for women, in Pasadena, among many address the root causes of his tragedy.” other organizations.

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Kim, KTLA, “Stan Chambers Karen Klein, San Fernando Valley Business Network Australia, “Tracy Chapman” Special” Journal, “Homed-In Tech” Barbara Gasser, Maxima, “Blake Lively - Ana Garcia, Dorothy Lucey, John Williams Joe Piasecki, The Argonaut, “Nurturing Nature” Perfectly Happy” and Tony Sweet, UBNRADIOTV.COM, “Kim Garrett Reim, Los Angeles Business Journal, Alessandra Mattanza, Freelance, “Amanda Goldman Interview with Ana Garcia and “Connected” Seyfried - Ho imparato a essere onesta e a Dorothy Lucey” Omar Shamout, Los Angeles Business Journal, dire sempre la verità” Devra Maza, The Huffington Post, “Ode to Joy: “Battle Ready” Janet R. Nepales, Manila Bulletin, “Leo On Robin, Joan and Laughter’s Long Life” Kevin Uhrich, Pasadena Weekly, “Imagine His Parents, Tough Challenges In Doing Morris O’Kelly, KFI AM640/iHeartMedia, “Say- Love” ‘Revenant’” ing Goodbye to B.B. King” Jon Regardie, Los Angeles Downtown News, E4. PERSONALITY PROFILE (Newspapers I6. PERSONALITY PROFILE/INTERVIEW “Remembering Rick Orlov” over 50K) (Radio) Stephanie Case, LA Weekly, “An L.A. Artist Built Rasha Ali, Annenberg Media, “Ndume Ola- PRESIDENT’S AWARD—Jarl Mohn, intro- A House With Salvaged Materials – Without tushani discusses finding peace in prison” duced by Bill Davis Her Eyesight” Rico Gagliano, American Public Media, “The Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, “Longtime Dinner Party Download: Oscar Isaac Peers G8. IN-HOUSE PUBLICATION L.A. muralist Kent Twitchell, at 72, isn’t Into our Fearsome Future” Bennet Kelley, Internet Law Center, “A Dozen slowing down, with five new projects in the Rico Gagliano, The Dinner Party Download, Things in Tech You Need to Know (Patriot’s works” American Public Media, “Oscar Isaac Peers Day Edition)” Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, “Modern Into our Fearsome Future” Elizabeth Post and Marina Senderov, San Fer- day pirate John Biggs helped artist Chris Sharon McNary, KPCC, “Ezell Ford was a victim nando Valley Bar Association “Valley Lawyer” Burden build his final airship—and a of gang gunfire long before he died in Los Angeles Collegian Staff, Collegian Times shared dream took flight” LAPD shooting” Variety Staff, Variety “Marriage Equality” Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, “Mural- The Randy Economy Show, AM 870 The USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and ist Lydia Emily faces down death to keep Answer KRLA, “US Senate Candidate Duf Sciences,USC Dornsife Magazine painting” Sundheim Cracks Up in Interview with Randy Economy” Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, “Pioneer- B2. HEADLINE (Print) ing choreographer Rudy Perez, 88, is legally Tom Hicks, Los Angeles Business Journal, blind -- but still creating new work” H8. PERSONALITY PROFILE/INTERVIEW (TV) “Labor Buds” Mike Amor, Duncan McLeod and Ben Shaw, 7 Tom Hicks, Los Angeles Business Journal, “Troll Network Australia, “Tracy Chapman” G6. PERSONALITY PROFILE (Magazines) Toll” Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, Todd Krainin and Meridith Bragg, Reason, “The Deer Hunter, the Director and a “Larry King on Drugs, Cryonics, Airplane I10. USE OF SOUND (Radio) Sex Orgies & Half-Libertarianism” Decade in Seclusion” Sara Brooke Curtis, KCRW, “Ask Me” Jennifer Laski, Laela Zadeh, Stephanie Fisch- Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, “It Costs Randy Economy, Dennis P. Zine, The Randy ette, Cameron Rumford and Stacey Wilson $10,000 to See This Woman’s Face” Economy Show, AM 870 The Answer KRLA, Hunt, The Hollywood Reporter, “SNL Alumni Brent Lang and James Rainey, Variety, “New “Snoop Dog, LAPD Sirens Invade The Randy Dana Carvey” Sony Chief Tom Rothman on His Plan to Get Economy Show” George Pennacchio and Cheryl Diano, KABC, the Studio Back in the Game” Deepa Fernandes, KPCC, “Kindergarten in “Anthony Geary Checks Out Of ‘General Jenelle Riley, Variety, “Brie Larson” Mandarin” Hospital’” Paul Tullis, The New York Times Magazine, “Into Susan Valot, KQED, “Uncovering the Buried Jennifer Sabih, Val Zavala, Michael Bloecher The Wild” History of a Japanese-American Internment and John Sandoval, KCET, “SoCal Con- Camp”

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F10. deSIGN (Newspapers under 50k) Lamar Odom’s Horrifying Brothel Over- Aitana vargas, 20minutos.com,”La población Brian Allison, Yumi Kanegawa and Alexis dose, PARt ONE” carcelaria baja en California” Rawlins, Los Angeles Downtown News, Paolo Uggetti, Annenberg Media, “scenes “summer’s top 40” From A Women’s World Cup viewing Party” x7. edUCaTIoNal rePorTING (any Plat- Dustin Ames, OC Weekly, “OC Weekly People Paolo Uggetti, Annenberg Media, “UsC Wins form) 2015” the Battle of LA, Advances to Pac-12 Juan Devis, Matthew Crotty, Chris Metzler sally Jones, tia seifert and Kristin skaggs- Championship” and Jeff springer, KCET, “Artbound— Kirby, Los Angeles Business Journal, “100 How Arts Education Fuels the Creative Fastest Growing Private Companies” J10. SPorTS CommeNTary (online) Economy” sally Jones, tia siefert and Kristin skaggs- Devra Maza, The Huffi ngton Post, “the Kings stassy Olmos, Annenberg Media, “Attending Kirby, San Fernando Valley Business Journal, of Comeback: Five Lessons for success school As A Homeless Child” “issue of Dec. 14” From the World series” Lu Parker and Madelaine Hahn, KTLA, “Home- Michael Kraxenberger, The Argonaut, “Marina Paolo Ugetti, Annenberg Media, “sarkisian Just less Headshots” del Rey’s Golden Anniversary” Another Low Point Among Many For UsC” Gary Walker, The Argonaut, “still in the Fight” e10. deSIGN (Newspapers over 50k) H9. SPorTS (TV) H12. doCUmeNTary, SHorT (TV) Rob Eshman, Jewish Journal, “Jewish Hebdo” Conor Knighton, Lata Pandya and Dan Cas- Juan Devis, Matthew Crotty and Joris Debeij, ton, KCET, “soCal Connected—All About KCET, “Artbound—the star Apartments” G9. deSIGN (magazines) that Badminton” Juan Devis, Matthew Crotty, Chris Metzler Ed Baker, Ryan Forbes, Godofredo Astudillo victoria McKillop, stephanie Fischette, Jose and Jeff springer, KCET, “How Creative and Rodelio Astudillo, Frontiers Media, Cortez and Jennifer Laski, The Hollywood Placemaking Plays a Role in Community Frontiers Magazine, “Frontiers Weddings” Reporter, “U.s. Gymnast simone Biles on Revitalization” Ed Baker and Ryan Forbes, Frontiers Media, her journey to the Olympics” Yoonj Kim, Playboy, “the Last Hippie Haven in Frontiers Magazine, “A Whole New World” Andres Pruna, KMEX, “La sirena De La Paz” America” Chris Mihal, Variety, “Oscar’s Big Week” Ernesto torres and Angie Crouch, KNBC, todd Krainin, Reason, “the Alternative Medi- Chris Mihal, Variety, “the survivors” “Wounded Warrior Coaches” cine Racket: How the Feds Fund Quacks” UsC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Antonio valverde Francisco vasquez, Amex Janice Min, stephen Galloway, Jennifer Laski, sciences, USC Dornsife Magazine, “Fall Univision, “Motoamerica” stephanie Fischette and Laela zadeh, The 2015/Winter 2016 issue” Hollywood Reporter, “Mentorship” x4. PUblIC SerVICe NeWS or FeaTUre b3. SPorTS (Print) (any Platform) I12. doCUmeNTary (radio) Esme Deprez, Bloomberg News, “the Bulgar- Mike Amor and Arron Hage, 7 Network Aus- Craig Chester, Nick White, Bob Carlson, and ian Duo Leading an indoor Rock Climbing tralia, “salton sea” Darby Maloney, KCRW, “i Am Montgomery Revolution” Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Reason, “the War on Clift” Loren Kopff , Los Cerritos Community News, sex traffi cking is the New War on Drugs: Kevin Ferguson, KPCC, “Welcome to vinci” “Cerritos’ Movchan Newest Member Of And the results will be just as disastrous, Kristian Leth, KCRW, “Possession” small 1,000-Point Club” for ‘perpetrators’ and ‘victims’ alike” Lina Misitzis, KCRW, “Last Chance to Evacuate Loren Kopff , Los Cerritos Community News, Gary Cohn, Capital & Main, “Arbitration Earth” “Former Cerritos Resident, Coach at Clauses: More Job seekers Are signing on a David Weinberg, KCRW, “Grace of the sea” University of Florida, Wins second straight Crooked Dotted Line” College World series” Angie Crouch and tommy Bravo, KNBC, H11. FeaTUre doCUmeNTary (TV) David Nusbaum, Los Angeles Business Journal, “Under the Bridges” Frava Burgess, KNBC, “50 Watts” “team Player” Robert W. Poole Jr., Reason, “Who’s Going to Cher Calvin, Micah Ohlman, Gayle Anderson, Pay for New Highways? Our interstates are Chris Wolfe, Kimberly Cornell, Angel C. Kim, d4. SPorTS PHoTo wearing out. Here’s what we need to do to Madalaine Hahn and Brianna Ruff alo, KTLA, shanti Marlar, Jennifer Laski, Carrie smith, fi x them” “America’s veterans” Michelle stark, Wesley Mann, The Holly- Juan Devis, Matthew Crotty, Chris Metzler wood Reporter, “Gabby Douglas” x6. PolITICal/GoVerNmeNT rePorTING and Jeff springer, KCET, “Artbound—the shotgun spratling, Los Angeles Times, “Bruins (any Platform) state of Creativity” crash through UsC” Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, “Angry Jennifer Laski, stephanie Fischette, Alfred People Live Here… And Here… And Aquino, Michael O’Connell and stacey J9. SPorTS NeWS or FeaTUre (online) Here… And Here… And Here” Wilson Hunt, The Hollywood Reporter, Dylan Howard, Lachlan Cartwright, & the timothy P. Carney, Reason, “the Crony Capi- “Comedy Actress Roundtable” RadarOnline.com & National ENQUiRER talism Litmus test: the Ex-im Bank won’t Peter Musurlian, Horizon Armenian TV, “the staff , RadarOnline.com, “Body slam! Hulk survive 2015—if the GOP is serious about 100-Year-Old survivor” Hogan’s Racist Rant Exposed” free market principles” Devra Maza, The Huffi ngton Post, “the Kings Michael Martinez and Jaqueline Hurtado, I11. Talk/PUblIC aFFaIrS (radio) of Comeback: Five Lessons for success CNN , “Latino vote: Will the sleeping giant Martha Daniel, Annenberg Media, “From From the World series” fi nally choose the next president?” Where We Are” the RadarOnline.com & National ENQUiRER Damon Root, Reason, “trump vs. the Consti- Randy Economy, KRLA, “the Drought in staff , RadarOnline.com, “‘Covered in Blood!’ tution: the misguided attack on birthright southern California” citizenship” Evan George, Katie Cooper, Caitlin shamberg

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and Warren Olney, KCRW, “Who Is Leaving Marty Kaplan, Jewish Journal Chris Mihal and Chuck Kerr, Variety, “China Los Angeles Because of Housing Prices?” Raphael Sonenshein, Jewish Journal, “Sonen- Rising” Larry Mantle, Lauren Osen, Jasmin Tuffaha, shein on Benjamin Netanyahu” Chris Mihal and Chuck Kerr, Variety, “Tom Fiona Ng and Matt Dangelantonio, KPCC, The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Rothman” “De-stigmatizing abortion after Septem- Times, “Grading City Hall and Grading Jose Tobar, Los Angeles Collegian, “Sorry ber’s heated debates” Sacramento” Seems to be the Hardest Word” Paul von Zielbauer and Jenny Hamel, KCRW, “Is L.A. or San Francisco Leading the Way to G2. COMMENTARY (Magazines) C1. BEST USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA the Future?” Ronald Bailey, Reason, “Chipotle Treats Cus- Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times, “Braving the tomers Like Idiots: The burrito chain stokes ‘Star Wars’ marathon until the new movie H10. TALK/PUBLIC AFFAIRS (TV) bogus GMO fears and tries to profit from hits, #randyawakens” Sonali Kolhatkar, Free Speech Television, “How anti-biotech propaganda” Carol McColgin, Sarah Gidick and Meg Hemp- Not To Succumb to Depression Upon Read- Greg Beato, Reason, “Cameras in the Court: hill, The Hollywood Reporter, “Beauty Issue” ing The News” Will allowing recording devices unleash Zoe Montano, Melody Soto and Drew Tewks- Val Zavala, Linda Burns, Derrick Shore and the Supremes’ inner Judge Judys?” bury, KCET, “Artbound—Artist and Gallerist Lata Pandya, KCET, “SoCal Connected” Veronique de Rugy, Reason, “Big Data, Big Dale Brockman Davis Reflects on the 50th Business, and Big Government: How Anniversary of the Watts Uprising” COMIC ALONZO BODDEN bureaucrats are keeping people in the dark about the Export-Import Bank” J14. BLOG, INDIVIDUAL F8. COLUMNIST (Newspapers under 50K) Brian Lowry, Variety, “Bill Cosby Scandal” Joel Epstein, The Huffington Post, “Mermaid Amy Alkon, Creators Syndicate Matt Welch, Reason, “It’s Not Just About Race, Avenue” Patricia Bunin, Pasadena Star News, “Senior It’s About Power: Rethinking policing after Bennet Kelley, Bennet Kelley, “Trophy Lives” Moments” the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Devra Maza, The Huffington Post, “Ode to Dr. Alan Frischer, Downey Patriot, “Paging Dr. Brown” Joy, The Adaptation Game, Art of Resis- Frischer” tance, The Kings of Comeback, Becoming Kelly Hayes-Raitt, The Argonaut, “Living Large J7. POLITICAL COLUMN/COMMENTARY Fearless” in Limbo” (Online) Jaci Stephen, LA Not So Confidential, “LA Not Jon Regardie, Los Angeles Downtown News, Bill Blum, Truthdig, “The People vs. Citizens So Confidential” “The Regardie Report” United: 7 Steps to Reversing Runaway Dale Thomas Vaughn, The Good Men Project, Political Spending” “28 Trillion Reasons Why Gender Equality E8. COLUMNIST (Newspapers over 50K) Chris Hedges, Truthdig, “We Are All Greeks Should Be Our Top Priority” Amy Alkon, Creators Syndicate Now” Rob Eshman, Jewish Journal Sonali Kolhatkar, Truthdig, “Boycott Indiana— J15. BLOG, GROUP Marty Kaplan, Jewish Journal for Imprisoning a Woman Who Miscarried” Hit & Run Blog, Reason Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times Devra Maza, The Huffington Post, “Art of Resis- Joe Linton, Sahra Sulaiman, Damien Newton David Suissa, Jewish Journal tance: Charlie Hebdo’s Antonio Fischetti and Jason Islas, Streetsblog Los Angeles and Judea Pearl on the War on Journalists” Carol McColgin, Stephanie Chan, Samantha K5. COLUMNIST or CRITIC (Foreign Cor- Ryan McRee, Annenberg Media, “To Be or Not Reed, Merle Ginsberg, Jane Carlson and respondents) To Be: An Arts President” Jeanie Pyun, The Hollywood Reporter, Ruben V. Nepales, Philippine Daily Inquirer “Pret-a-Reporter” Mary O’Hara, The Guardian, “Making it in the J8. NON-POLITICAL COLUMN/COMMEN- Alexander Reed Kelly, Natasha Hakimi Zapata, film industry with a disability” TARY (Online) Roisin Davis, Donald Kaufman and Kasia Jaci Stephen, Mail on Sunday, “My Wedding of Brian Addison, LongBeachize, “Addressing Anderson, Truthdig, “Ear to the Ground” the Week” Homelessness in Long Beach (and It Starts Lacey Rose, Lesley Goldberg, Michael with Your Assumptions)” Tom Walters, CTV National News, “Boy on the O’Connell, Bryn Elise Sandberg, Kate Stan- Beach” Peter Debruge, Variety, “Panic in Paris: Variety hope and Marisa Guthrie, The Hollywood Journalists, Nearly Trampled, Describe Reporter, “Live Feed” Their Ordeal” F7. COMMENTARY (Newspapers under 50K) M.G. Lord, Dame Magazine, “You’d Be Such a Amy Alkon, The Advice Goddess DANIEL PEARL AWARD—Jason Rezaian, Good Mother. If Only You Weren’t You” introduced by Judea Pearl Thomas Elias, California Focus Rip Rense, The Rip Post, “The Last Mexican of Bonnie Mansell and Carol Kearns, Downey Venice” J11a. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS (Online) Patriot, “Shared Stories: The Ties That Bind” Sahra Sulaiman, Streetsblog Los Angeles, Kasia Anderson, Truthdig, “VIDEO: Politicon R. Scott Moxley, OC Weekly “What Does the “Failure” of the Ban on 2015: Ann Coulter Claims She Fed Don- Jon Regardie and Sue Laris, Los Angeles Fast-Food Restaurants in South L.A. to Curb ald Trump ‘That Spicy Stuff on Mexican Downtown News, “In Tribune’s Hands, the Obesity Really Tell Us?” Rapists’” L.A. Times Will Continue to Get Worse” Devra Maza, The Huffington Post, “The Adapta- D6. EDITORIAL CARTOON tion Game: Playing With Fifty Shades of Sex E7. COMMENTARY (Newspapers over 50K) Doug Davis, Los Angeles Downtown News, for Film” Amy Alkon, Creators Syndicate “Urban Scrawl on The Force and Donald Dave McNary, Variety, “Paramount Admits it Rob Eshman, Jewish Journal, “Iran Nuclear Trump” Dismissed Executive for Alleged Embezzle- Deal” Chris Mihal, Variety, “It’s No Cakewalk” ment (Exclusive)”

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Anousha Sakoui, Bloomberg News, “Miramax G5. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS/FEATURE Paul Detrick and Alex Manning, Reason, “The Owners Said in Talks to Sell to Qatar’s Bein (Magazines) Star Wars Economy is Bigger Than You Media Group” David S. Cohen, Variety, “The Little-Known Think” Execs Who Move Mountains for Major Nick Hardcastle and Alicia Clark, KCET, “SoCal J11b. CELEBRITY NEWS (Online) Studios” Connected—Bringing Back Broadway” Dylan Howard, Melissa Cronin, Lachlan Jim Rainey, Variety, “Joel Silver Dream Venice Sam Rubin, Jessica Holmes, Lawrence Zarian, Cartwright, Doug Montero, James Post Office Project Stalled and in Debt” Kimberly Cornell, Jenni O’Hagen, Chris Vituscka and The RadarOnline.com and Stephen Rebello, Playboy, “The Making of the Reilly, Angel C. Kim, Madelaine Hahn and National ENQUIRER Staff, RadarOnline.com, Mafia’s Ultimate Home Movie” Grace Mendoza, KTLA, “Live From Emmys” “Beyonce’s Nightmare: Jay Z Love Child Lucas Shaw, Bloomberg Businessweek, “The Scandal Revealed” Dothraki Industry” J13a. ENTERTAINMENT REVIEWS (Online) Dylan Howard, Melissa Cronin and The Radar­ Tatiana Siegel, The Hollywood Reporter, “Ryan Kasia Anderson, Truthdig, “‘Prophet’s Prey’ Online.com and National ENQUIRER Staff, Kavanaugh Hits Back” Film Review: This American Horror Story Is RadarOnline.com, “Charlie Sheen HIV Scan- All Too Real” dal, DAY THREE: The Cover-Up Exposed” K4. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS/FEATURE Kasia Anderson, Truthdig, “Stephen Col- RadarOnline.com and National ENQUIRER (Foreign Correspondents) bert’s ‘Late Show’ Debut: Well, That Was Staff, RadarOnline.com, “An A-List Split! Ben Mike Amor and Arron Hage, 7 Network Aus- Awkward” Affleck & Jennifer Garner’s Divorce” tralia, “Human Nature” Allen Barra, Truthdig, “Clive James’ ‘Latest RadarOnline.com and National ENQUIRER Mike Amor, Duncan McLeod and Ben Shaw, 7 Readings’” Staff, RadarOnline.com, “Gone Too Soon! Network Australia, “Tracy Chapman” Gabriel Thompson, Truthdig, “‘Barbarian Days’ The Medical Crisis, Coma & Death Of Bobbi Janet R. Nepales, Manila Bulletin, “Spotlight Book Review” Kristina Brown” On Fil-Am Co-Director Of Pixar’s ‘Inside Natasha Hakimi Zapata, Truthdig, “I Am the RadarOnline.com and National ENQUIRER Out’ Beggar of the World” Staff, RadarOnline.com, “Rock Bottom: Ruben V. Nepales, Philippine Daily Inquirer, ‘Buffy’ Star Nicholas Brendon’s Suicide “Woody Allen hopes to direct till he’s 100” J13b. ENTERTAINMENT COMMENTARY Attempt Caught On Tape” Tom Walters and Liam Hyland, CTV National (Online) News, “Oswald the Lucky Rabbit” Paul Boland and Kelly Monteith, The Anglo- F3. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS/FEATURE phile Channel, “Brit Flix with Kelly, Paul and (Newspapers under 50K) J12. ENTERTAINMENT FEATURE (Online) (Two Buck) Chuck” Patricia Bunin, Pasadena Star News, “Senior Jason Leopold and Ky Henderson, VICE News, Justin Chang, Variety, “Why Quentin Tarantino Moments: Still Loving My Dear Elvis” “Tequila, Painted Pearls, and Prada — How Shouldn’t Apologize” Nate Jackson, OC Weekly, “The Soul of Billy the CIA Helped Produce ‘Zero Dark Thirty’” Devra Maza, The Huffington Post, “Art of Resis- Preston is Being Fought Over in a Santa Devra Maza, The Huffington Post, “Art of Resis- tance: Charlie Hebdo’s Antonio Fischetti Ana Courtroom” tance: Charlie Hebdo’s Antonio Fischetti and Judea Pearl on the War on Journalists” Eddie Kim, Los Angeles Downtown News, and Judea Pearl on the War on Journalists” Devra Maza, The Huffington Post, “The Adap- “Inside KCHUNG, Downtown’s Rebel Radio Devra Maza, The Huffington Post, “Ode to Joy: tation Game: Playing With Fifty Shades of Station” Robin, Joan and Laughter’s Long Life” Sex for Film” Loren Kopff, Los Cerritos Community News, Ruben V. Nepales, PositivelyFilipino.com, “A David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, “Valley Christian Alumna Kenna on Verge Trailblazing Orchestra of Filipino Expats” “Critic’s Notebook: Why ‘Hamilton’ Counts of Debut Single, Album” Kristopher Tapley, Variety, “Hateful Eight - as a Legitimate Game-Changer” Mark Madler, San Fernando Valley Business Badass Buddies” Journal, “Almost Legendary” G7. ENTERTAINMENT REVIEWS/CRITICISM/ I8. ENTERTAINMENT REPORTING/CRITI- COLUMN (Magazines) E3. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS /FEATURE CISM (Radio) Peter Debruge, Variety, “Homeland (Iraq Year (Newspapers over 50K) Steve Chiotakis and Benjamin Gottlieb, Zero)” Jessica Langlois, LA Weekly, “On Television, KCRW, “Steve Martin the Art Curator” Glenn Garvin, Reason, “The Unbearable Finally Los Angeles Is No Longer Just a Kim Masters and Kaitlin Parker, KCRW, “Ava Awfulness of Campaign Lit: We read seven Backdrop” DuVernay on ‘Selma,’ Building a Career Her 2016 presidential wannabes’ books so you Naomi Pfefferman, Jewish Journal, “Son of Own Way” don’t have to” Saul” Kim Masters and Kaitlin Parker, KCRW, Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter Jennifer Swann, LA Weekly, “These L.A. Come- “Banned in India, Leslee Udwin’s Docu- Gavin Polone, The Hollywood Reporter, “Your dians Are Turning Their Women’s Basket- mentary Opens in US” Agent Gets Money for Nothing” ball League Into a Phenomenon” Jacob Sullum, Reason, “Bill Bennett’s Pot Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, “LA H7. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS / FEATURE Prevarications: A former drug czar’s dazed muralist Lydia Emily faces down death to (TV) and confused defense of marijuana keep painting” Seth Abramovich, Victoria McKillop, Minh prohibition” Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, “Pioneer- Hieu Bui, Jennifer Laski and Stephanie ing Choreographer Rudy Perez, 88, is Fischette, The Hollywood Reporter, “MPTF B4. REVIEWS/NEWSPAPERS (Print) legally blind—but still creating new work” Country Home” Christina Campodonico, The Argonaut, “Art David Cohen, Variety, “Zombie Bites! Greg House of Horrors” Nicotero and the Walking Dead” Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times, “Dear John

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Fogerty: Here’s why your new autobiogra- Cher Calvin, Kimberly Cornell and Madelaine Mann, The Hollywood Reporter, “The Last phy needs more music tales and less score Hahn, KTLA, “Avery’s Journey” Survivors” settling” Juan Devis, Matthew Crotty and Emily Lacy, Matthew Glasser, Joel Grover, Jonathan Lloyd Besha Rodell, LA Weekly, “Jon & Vinny’s KCET, “Artbound—A Living Wage” and Matt Goldberg, KNBC, “LA’s Nuclear Grapples With What It Means to Be a Fam- Sonali Kolhatkar, Truthdig, “Why Black Lives Secret” ily Restaurant” Matter Is the Movement of the Year” Rosa Gomez, Johnattan Bilancieri and Yuranis Judith Lewis, Capital & Main, “California’s Caballero, NTN24, “Camino a la Casa Blanca: D5. ENTERTAINMENT PHOTO Worst Law — And What’s Behind the Elecciones Presidenciales (Road to the Donna Balancia, California Rocker, “The Band Repeal Movement” White House: Presidential Elections)” Fishbone Survives and Thrives Through the Lacey Rose, Stacey Wilson, Matthew Belloni, Years” X5. SCIENCE/HEALTH/TECHNOLOGY RE- Benjamin Svetkey and Andy Lewis, The Hol- Donna Balancia, California Rocker, “Dick PORTING (Any Platform) lywood Reporter, “SNL 40th The Wild and Dale, King of the Surf Guitar, Still Reigns Todd Krainin, Reason, “The Alternative Medi- Crazy Time of SNL” Supreme” cine Racket: How the Feds Fund Quacks” Kim Stringfellow, Juan Devis, Matthew Crotty, Shanti Marlar, Jennifer Laski, Carrie Smith, Lu Parker, Kimberly Cornell, Madelaine Hahn, Stephen Pagano and Drew Tewksbury, David Carthas, Austin Hargrave, The Hol- KTLA, “Cochlear Implants” KCET, “Artbound—The Mojave Project” lywood Reporter, “Bryan Cranston” Lu Parker, Kimberly Cornell, Angel Kim and Shanti Marlar, Jennifer Laski, Carrie Smith, Madelaine Hahn, KTLA, “Neurodegen F6. BUSINESS (Newspapers under 50K) David Carthas, Miller Mobley, The Holly- Diseases” Howard Fine, Los Angeles Business Journal, wood Reporter, “John Boyega” Garrett Reim, Los Angeles Business Journal, “Glass Forges Newest Billionaire” Chris Mihal and Bailey Franklin, Variety, “Skeptics Zap Wireless Charging” Stephanie Henkel, San Fernando Valley Busi- “Leonardo DiCaprio and Alejandro G. Lynette Romero, Kimberly Cornell and Mad- ness Journal, “ISP Hurt by Hang-Ups” Inarritu” elaine Hahn, KTLA, “Secondary Drowning” Eddie Kim, Los Angeles Downtown News, “The Rising Price of Downtown Living” X3. ACTIVIST JOURNALISM (Any Platform) X9. MULTI-MEDIA PACKAGE (Any Platform) Carol Lawrence, Los Angeles Business Journal, Bill Boyarsky, Truthdig, “Why Ending Home- Peter Flax, Gary Baum, Jennifer Laski, Victoria “American Apparel coverage” lessness Is Political Poison” McKillop, Michelle Stark and Wesley Matt Pressberg, Los Angeles Business Journal, “Right Words”

LA 48 PC E6. BUSINESS (Newspapers over 50K) Allen J. Schaben, Los Angeles Times, “Drought Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, “Selling Jeff Collins, Orange County Register, “In the brings Lake Mead to Historic Low” Stardom” continuing drought, can Orange County Jessica Ogilvie and Dennis Romero, LA keep building?” F5. INVESTIGATIVE/SERIES (Newspapers Weekly, “How Hollywood Keeps Out Jeff Collins, Orange County Register, “Newport under 50K) Women and Minorities” Beach man is fighting Macy’s to resurrect Howard Fine, Los Angeles Business Journal, Mike Reicher, Los Angeles Daily News, “What old brands” “Hacked Off” drought? Some L.A. County supervisors Jeff Collins, Orange County Register, “Orange Hayley Fox, Frances Sharpe, BJ Samuels, Rich have their car washed 2, 3 times a week” County’s Housing Shortage” Schmitt and Casey Smith, Palisadian Post, Jason Song, Victoria Kim and Sandra Poind- Jeff Collins and Roxana Kopetman, Orange “Lawsuits, Judgments Stack Up Against exter, Los Angeles Times, “Nearly 9 out of County Register, “Dollars for green cards: Prominent Local Biz Denton Jewelers” 10 students drop out of unaccredited law EB-5 program grants visas to foreigners Brian Hews, Los Cerritos Community Newspa- schools in California” who invest in U.S.” per, “Commerce Mayor Pro Tem Baca Del Anousha Sakoui, Christopher Palmeri and Jeff Rio Violating City’s Vehicle Use Policy” G1. INVESTIGATIVE (Magazines) Green, Bloomberg News, “Star Wars Opens Brian Hews, Los Cerritos Community Newspa- Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, “Sam with Record-Breaking $238 Million Ticket per, “State Water Board Drought Restric- Simon Would Be Humiliated and Enraged” Haul” tions Show Political Bias Favoring Governor Gary Baum and Scott Feinberg, The Hol- Brown’s Party” lywood Reporter, “The Tears and Terror of D7. PHOTO ESSAY Rebecca Kimitch, Steve Scauzillo, Jason Mickey Rooney’s Final Years” Brian Addison, LongBeachize, “Addressing Henry and Frank Girardot, San Gabriel Val- Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, “The Homelessness in Long Beach (and It Starts ley Tribune, “City of Industry Investigation” Girl & The Acting Coach” with Your Assumptions)” Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, “Yes, I Elizabeth Fladung, Capital & Main, “Indigence E5. INVESTIGATIVE/SERIES (Newspapers Am a Big Target” & Opulence: Images from San Francisco” over 50K) Robby Soave, Reason, “Junk Science and Larry Hirshowitz, KCRW, “The Barnyard” Julie Gruenbaum Fax, Jewish Journal, “Trans- Campus Rape: A new inquiry casts serious Francine Orr, Los Angeles Times, “No room at gender Jews” doubt on the most influential study on col- the inn for innocence” legiate sexual assault” finalists

J3. INVESTIGATIVE (Online) “Exide: Can’t Put Together Proper Closure California Bill Trump Minimum Wage Cristina Costantini and Jorge Rivas, Fusion, Plan but Absolves Itself of Blame for Mas- Ordinance?” “Shadow Prisons” sive Public Health Disaster” Stephanie Rivera, Long Beach Post, “Former Nathaniel Haas, Annenberg Media, “Price of Long Beach football star Brian Banks Sex at USC” X8. ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTING (Any tells police, prosecutors the story of his Dylan Howard, Melissa Cronin, Alan But- Platform) wrongful rape conviction and eventual terfield andT he RadarOnline.com and Mike Amor and Arron Hage, 7 Network Aus- exoneration” National ENQUIRER Staff, RadarOnline.com, tralia, “Salton Sea” Sara Tiano and Celeste Alvarez, Annenberg “Sex, Drugs & A Dark Downward Spiral: Vincent Bevins, Los Angeles Times, “Defores- Media, “Inglewood Censorship” Lamar Odom’s Overdose” tation forces face losing battle in Brazil’s Aitana Vargas, 20minutos.com, “El mayor mar Dylan Howard, Melissa Cronin, Gina Bac- Amazon” de pobreza concentrado en 2km cuadrados chiocchi and The RadarOnline.com and Chris Clarke, KCET, “Redefine—Hazing Ravens en el centro de Los Angeles” National ENQUIRER Staff, RadarOnline.com, With Lasers: A Humane Way to Save Baby “Apple’s Shame: Inside The Tech Company’s Tortoises?” B1. HARD NEWS (Print) Chinese Sweatshops” Gary Cohn, Capital & Main, “Paradise Burned: Christian Brown, Eric Pierce and John Zander, Jeff Maysh, Medium.com, “The Murder House” How Climate Change Is Scorching Downey Patriot, “Downey Mourns After California” Police Officer is Shot and Killed” I7. INVESTIGATIVE (Radio) Derrick Shore, KCET, “SoCal Connected— Alex Dominguez, Downey Patriot, “Suspect Ross Blocher and Carrie Poppy, Maximum Microbeads: A Dirty Little Secret” Fatally Shot After Taking Hostages at Chris Fun Podcasting Network, “Ross and Carrie & Pitts” Investigate Christian Science” X10. CRIME REPORTING (Any Platform) Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter, Deepa Fernandes, KPCC, “Harm At Home” Hillel Aron, LA Weekly, “A Hotheaded Landlord “A Phone Call, ‘Betrayal’ and the ‘Midnight George Lavender, KCRW, “Tasers 101” Made a Movie About Murdering His Ten- Raid’ at CAA” Stephanie O’Neill, KPCC, “Police and the ants. Then He Knifed One” Kim Masters, Tatiana Siegel, Austin Siege- mentally ill: LAPD unit praised as model for Carol Lawrence, Los Angeles Business Journal, mund-Broka, Borys Kit, Rebecca Ford and nation” “Against Wall” Gavin Polone, The Hollywood Reporter, Anna Scott, KCRW, “Sawtelle Homeless Jeff Maysh, BBC, “The rise and fall of the “Sony Terrorized: The Panic Fear and Fury, Encampment” Bombshell Bandit” Amy Pascal’s Fate” Jeff Maysh, Playboy, “The Pez Outlaw” David Montero, Los Angeles Daily News, “San Bernardino Shooting: Friends, family of H4. INVESTIGATIVE (TV) R. Scott Moxley, OC Weekly Anthony L. Fisher, Reason, “The Dispos- victims wait hours to hear from loved ones” able Life of a 20-Year-Old Confidential D1. NEWS PHOTO H3. NEWS (TV) Informant” Chris Mihal and Bailey Franklin, Variety, “Mar- Alex Janin, Annenberg Media, “California Joel Grover, Matthew Glasser, Andres Pruna riage Equality & The Supreme Court” Participates in Great Shakeout” and Matt Goldberg, KNBC, “LA’s Nuclear Allen J. Schaben, Los Angeles Times, “Freak Alberto Moya and Tom Larson, CNN, “San Secret” storm brings hail to the beach” Bernardino Terror” Kyung Lah and Jason Kravarik, CNN, “Schwar- Ted Soqui, Freelance, “San Bernardino George Pennacchio and Cheryl Diano, KABC, zenegger Clemency” Memorial” “The Death of Maureen O’Hara” Jenna Susko, Matt Schrader, Matt Goldberg Sahra Sulaiman, Streetsblog Los Angeles, “Dana Denise L. Poon and Pat Harvey, KCBS/KCAL9, and Mike Cervantes, KNBC, “LA Classrooms Gilbert Returns to Ask for Promised Jobs” for Rent” “Superbug” Antonio Valverde, Hugo Olguin and Ana Derrick Shore, Lata Pandya and Michael K1. NEWS (Foreign Correspondents) Bautista, KMEX, “NARCOFARMACIAS” Bloecher, KCET, “SoCal Connected—‘Small Mike Amor, Angela Cox, Ben Shaw and Lots, Big Controversy’” Duncan McLeod, 7 Network Australia, “San PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD – Erin Brockovich, Bernardino Terror Attack” introduced by Ed Begley, Jr. H2. VIDEOGRAPHER (TV) Marc Herman, TakePart.com, “To Repel Arron Hage, 7 Network Australia, “Salton Sea” Migrants, European Border Patrol Turns J2. TRAFFIC/CITY NEWS (Online) Bloody” Suzanne Mejean, KCET, “Artbound—Noah Purifoy’s Desert Art Museum” Brian Addison and Kate Rispoli, LongBeachize, Aitana Vargas, 20minutos.com, “La sequía en “The Planned Demolition and Eventual California ahoga a los inmigrantes” Cameron Quon, Annenberg Media, “Hip Hop Heals: USC Dance Crew Helps Children’s Salvation of the First Taco Bell” Tom Walters and Liam Hyland, CTV National Hospital Los Angeles” Damien Newton, Streetsblog California, “Santa News, “Valley Fire” Ernesto Torres, KNBC, “Christmas Eve Cold Ana Partners With City’s Kids to Bring a Tom Walters, Liam Hyland, John Vennavally- Case” Safer Route to School” Rao, Will Dugan and Marley Parker, CTV Bill Raden, Capital & Main, “Los Feliz Tenants National News, “San Bernardino” Antonio Valverde, KMEX, “Isla De Pascua” Fight Evictions With Protest Parties” Sahra Sulaiman, Streetsblog Los Angeles, J1. HARD NEWS (Online) I1. ANCHOR (Radio) “Are You Supposed to be Here?: Officer Damien Newton, Santa Monica Next, “Step Steve Chiotakis, KCRW, “Local News: Decem- Harasses Black Cyclists during MLK Day Forward or Backing Down? Council ber 16, 2015” Parade” Debates Airport Plan” Steve Chiotakis, KCRW, “Local News: Decem- Sahra Sulaiman, Streetsblog Los Angeles, Bobbi Murray, Capital & Main, “Will a New ber 31, 2015”

LA 50 PC Steve Chiotakis, KCRW, “The Mixer” Anousha Sakoui and John Gittelsohn, Bloom- Stephanie O’Neill, KPCC Chery Glaser, KCRW, “San Bernardino berg News Susan Valot, Freelance Shooting” Melody Soto, Drew Tewksbury and Zoe Mon- Carrie Poppy and Ross Blocher, Maximum Fun tano, KCET Artbound A3a. TV JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR Podcasting Network, “Ross and Carrie Cure Mike Amor, 7 Network Australia Clubfoot: Essential Oils Edition” A4. ONLINE JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR Norma Roque, KMEX Bill Boyarsky, Truthdig Derrick Shore, KCET H1. ANCHOR (TV) Damien Newton, Streetsblog Los Angeles Antonio Valverde, KMEX Marlise Boland and Elyse Ashton, The Bill Raden, Capital & Main Anglophile Channel, “The Downton Dish, Robert Scheer, Truthdig A2. PRINT JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR OutlandDish, Poldark Dish” Aitana Vargas, Freelance Correspondent (Newspapers under 50K) Paul Boland and Kelly Monteith, The Anglo- Howard Fine, Los Angeles Business Journal phile Channel, “Brit Flix: Kelly, Paul and (Two A5. ENTERTAINMENT JOURNALIST OF THE Buck) Chuck” Eddie Kim, Los Angeles Downtown News YEAR Sonali Kolhatkar, Free Speech Television, “14 R. Scott Moxley, OC Weekly Randy Economy, AM 870 The Answer KRLA Years After 9/11; the Uber Economy; Green Jon Regardie, Los Angeles Downtown News Burial” Devra Maza, The Huffington Post Omar Shamout, Los Angeles Business Journal Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times J16. WEBSITE, NEWS ORGANIZATION EX- Jim Rainey, Variety A1. PRINT JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR CLUSIVE TO THE INTERNET Tom Teicholz, Forbes.com, Los Angeles Review (Newspapers over 50K) Celeste Fremon and Taylor Walker, WitnessLA of Books, Jewish Journal Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter Dylan Howard, Melissa Cronin & The Radar­ Fred Dickey, San Diego Union Tribune Online.com Staff, RadarOnline.com A7. PHOTO JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR Dylan Howard, RadarOnline.com and The Zuade Kaufman and Robert Scheer, Truthdig Ringo Chiu, Los Angeles Business Journal National ENQUIRER Francine Orr, Los Angeles Times Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter J17. WEBSITE, NEWS ORGANIZATION Ted Soqui, Freelance Jared Sichel, Jewish Journal LA Weekly Staff, LA Weekly Daniel Medina, Carla Pineda, Justin Cram, A3b. RADIO JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR QUINN AWARD—Nick Ut, introduced by Melody Soto and Bijan Rezvani, KCET.org Deepa Fernandes, KPCC Peter Arnett and presented by Kim Phuc Janice Min, The Hollywood Reporter Warren Olney, KCRW

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WED., JULY 6: Journalist Mega Mixer THURS., AUG. 11: The Daniel Pearl • Mingle with local journalists and bloggers Fellow Discussion • Rockwell Table and Stage, 1714 N. Vermont Ave., two blocks east • Meet this year’s fellow Amal Khan, female of the Press Club. Feature Editor at the Nation in Lahore, • 6:30 pm. Pakistan. • Free, but you pay your own drinks. • Moderated by Rob Eshman, Editor of • Parking: Valet at Rockwell, street parking, or park for free at the Jewish Journal Press Club. • Hosted by LA Press Club • Hosted by LA Press Club, SPJ, RTNA, ONA, AAJA, NABJ, The Association of LGBT Journalists, Journalism and Women THURS., SEPT. 8: An evening Amal Khan Symposium and the 8-Ball Welfare Foundation. with Warren Olney and selected past guests of “Which Way L.A.” THURS., JULY 14: Ask a Muslim • “Which Way L.A.” ended its 23-year run earlier this year. • Discussion of recent journalistic and socio-political developments • Don’t miss this Roast and Toast of Warren Olney! • Co-sponsored by the LA Press Club and The Markaz Arts Center • Co-sponsored by KCRW. for the Greater Middle East THURS., SEPT. 22: Election Discussion • Check back for details

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he Los Angeles Press Club does not judge its own Tawards competition. Instead, our awards are decided by volunteer journalists representing press orga- nizations from across the country. In return, our press club judges other organizations’ competitions. Each spring, press clubs exchange contest entries with one another, sharing a mutual commitment to Southeast Texas Press Club, St. Louis Press Club honoring journalistic achievement. and the Syracuse Press Club. In addition, another The reciprocal judging process ensures 15 bilingual journalists across the country and in fair and impartial judging. Mexico, all belonging to the National Association Among the organizations across the of Hispanic Journalists, have helped judge categories country helping us to judge this com- petition are: with both Spanish and English language entries. Without Cleveland Press Club, Connecticut Press Club, Florida Press them it would have been impossible to open up the contest Club, Houston Press Club, Kansas Press Club, Milwaukee to journalists working in Spanish. Press Club, National Association of Hispanic Journalists, New Orleans Press Club, Press Club of West Pennsylvania,

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alonzo bodden I was born and grew up in the suburb St. the late night shows: “Tonight Show with Albans in Queens, N.Y. It’s not quite the Jay Leno,” “Conan O’Brien” show, “The hood but it played the hood on rap records. Late Show with Craig Kilbourne,” “Keenan I studied aerospace at Aviation HS and Ivory Wayans” show and Comedy Central, became a licensed aircraft mechanic. That to name a few. I’ve worked around the was my fi rst career. I worked on everything world for the USO, played a security guard, from stealth fi ghters and DC-10s to pri- bouncer, crook or cop on numerous shows, vate jets. Lockheed, McDonnell Douglas, and a couple of fi lms including Bringing Continental airlines are some companies, Down the House starring Steve Martin and then they started drug testing—just kidding. Scary Movie 4. Plus doing monster voices for Teaching aircraft mechanics led to Power Rangers. I like jazz and have hosted my career in comedy. I had to make the the Capitol Jazz Festival in Maryland and am students laugh. And starting this month, I’m a regular host and performer on the Smooth using that experience again as one of the Jazz cruises hosted by Marcus Miller and comedian commentators for a new show Dave Koz. on the Science Channel— “How to Build . . . You might have seen me recently on Everything.” the Showtime Comedy Club doing my My fi rst big break came at the Just For “Historically Incorrect” routine. Laughs Festival in Montreal. I won season By the way, I’m single, and, of course, 3 of “Last Comic Standing.” I’ve hosted TV like long walks on the beach. I am kidding series including “101 Cars You Must Drive” about the beach—I can’t swim. I know, it’s on Speed Channel and “America’s Worst a stereotype but I guess sometimes they’re Driver” on Travel Channel. I’ve done all true. from the CONGRATULATIONS TO MUSEUM OF TOLERANCE NICK UT and JASON REZAIAN JARL MOHN ERIN BROCKOVICH

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awards Program GALA PRODUCER Editor Diana Ljungaeus diana ljungaeus Design Director Candice Ota Diana Ljungaeus is the Executive Director of the Los Contributors Alex Ben Block, Melissa Breccia, Angeles Press Club. she began Linda Deutsch, Mariel Garza, her career as a cub reporter in ted Johnson, Bob Ladendorf, sweden at the age of fi fteen. Diana Ljungaeus, Larry Mantle, she has lived and worked Frank Megna, Christopher Palmieri, in the U.s. since 1996. Her Jon Regardie, Ande Richards, background has run the gamut Adam Rose from researcher to reporter and Copy editing Jon Regardie editor, to story/script writer and fi nally to theater, Proofreading Bob Ladendorf fi lm and multimedia producer. together with her husband, Frank Megna, she owns and runs the Printing CE Graphics small live theater venue Working stage theater in West Hollywood, as well as the not-for-profi t 58th annual Southern California educational theater and fi lm organization Opening Minds Productions. she has produced the southern Journalism awards Gala California Journalism Awards Gala for more than a Producer Diana Ljungaeus decade. technical Director Mark Drew Camera Myles West script and Special thanks to: Creative Consultant Frank Megna Alex Ben Block, Linda Deutsch, ted Johnson, David sales Bill Moran Kass, Bob Ladendorf, Dan Lauria, Will Lewis, Kevin Martinez and Andrew Weiss Gallery, Alex Brod and Executive Assistant Melissa Breccia Empire Diamond, steve Duchesne, Marie Jewelry, Bookkeeper Jason Piskopus Olivia Manzo, Millennium Biltmore Hotel, Jon Regardie and Jill stewart. Development Coordinator Clay Russell visual service Jules Baker and AGF Media Judges: stage Manager Harry Karp Cleveland Press Club, Connecticut Press Club, Photographers Kerstin Alm, inae Bloom, Christopher Florida Press Club, Houston Press Club, Kansas Press Bordeaux, Gary Leonard, Club, Milwaukee Press Club, National Association of George McQuade iii, Curtis sabir, Hispanic Journalists, New Orleans Press Club, Press Gloria zuurveen Club of West Pennsylvania, southeast texas Press social Media Adam Rose and tony Pierce Club, st. Louis Press Club and syracuse Press Club Flower Design Anna Connell silent auction Brian Marshak volunteers Donna Balancia, Jon Beaupre, James Duff y, Annika Greder Duncan, Frida Hammarlund, Lavielle Hibbert, Helena Jönsson, Pablo Kay, Will Lewis, Richard Martinez, Claudia Oberst, Romain Raynaldy

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