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A Letter From the President CONGRATULATIONS t’s a challenging time for sure. We’ve all been warned more than once JAIME JARRIN by now. We’ve all heard the message, “The media is in trouble.” I Journalists are mistrusted, misrepresented, maligned. We’ve taken it on the chin in both red states and blue states. FOR RECEIVING THE BILL ROSENDAHL But as songwriter and Visionary Award winner Diane Warren told the PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD Los Angeles Press Club last December, “We need you now more than ever.” Not to worry, as the Los Angeles Press Club is not going anywhere. HONORING YOUR COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS We remain one of the oldest organizations in the nation dedicated to representing and defending journalists—and the Free Press. Our democracy THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS ARE PROUD OF YOUR depends on it. But tonight, we come together to celebrate our colleagues, our fellow ACCOMPLISHMENTS BOTH AS THE TEAM’S SPANISH LANGUAGE journalists. Congratulations to all of the nominees for the 59th Annual VOICE FOR NEARLY 60 YEARS AND YOUR SERVICE AND Southern California Journalism Awards. Submissions this year shattered COMMITMENT TO THE CITY’S HISPANIC COMMUNITY. the previous record as press clubs from around the country, including the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., were called upon to judge more WE ARE HONORED THAT YOU WILL ALWAYS BE PART than 1,200 entries. OF OUR DODGER FAMILY. Robert Kovacik It is also a privilege to welcome our Honorary Awardees, selected by our Board of Directors for their contributions to our industry and our society. They represent the role models and the standards we all aspire to in our field. As this year comes to an end, so will my final term as Press Club president. During the past six years, we have grown our ranks and our influence. We have instituted an Advisory Board consisting of community leaders who understand the importance of our vibrant non-profit organization. Here in Los Angeles, the entertainment capital of the world, the Los Angeles Press Club is now in the movie business: Our members decide on the annual Veritas Award given to the best film “based on or inspired by real events and people.” The inaugural award in 2016 went to Spotlight which, three days later, captured the Academy Award for Best Picture. This year our members chose Hidden Figures as the Veritas Award winner. We’re extending our reach in other ways, too. Just last month, we presented our very first Friend of the Free Press trophy to “Late Night” host Seth Meyers. Tonight you will see our new emblem, a belief we have always held close to our hearts, but now wear proudly: “A Free Press Is the Pillar of Democracy.” In this time when we are needed now more than ever, the Los Angeles Press Club has never been stronger or more committed to our mission. We all proudly stand together.

Robert Kovacik President, Los Angeles Press Club

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Awards for Editorial Excellence in 2016 and PRESIDENT Robert Kovacik, Anchor/Reporter, NBC4 Southern California Honorary Awards for 2017 VICE PRESIDENT Cher Calvin, Anchor/Reporter, KTLA, Los Angeles TREASURER Christopher Palmeri, Los Angeles The Daniel Pearl Award Bureau Chief, Bloomberg News For Courage and Integrity in Journalism Daniel Berehulak Photojournalist

THE BILL ROSENDAHL PUBLIC SERVICE SECRETARY Adam J. Rose, Senior Editorial AWARD Producer, CBS Interactive For Journalistic Contributions to Civic Life EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Diana Ljungaeus, International Journalist Jaime Jarrín Los Angeles Dodgers Announcer/Broadcaster board membERS The TRUTHTELLER Award For Contributions to Public Discourse and Cultural Enlightenment of Our Society Shawn "Jay Z" Carter and Harvey Weinstein JOE BEL BRUNO, Managing Editor, Variety ALEXANDRA BERZON, Reporter, Wall Street THE PRESIDENT’S AWARD Journal For Impact on Media Elizabeth Espinosa, Co-host of Thompson & Jake Tapper Espinosa, KFI CNN

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ANGELICA SALAS CAROL E. SCHATZ GARY L. TOEBBEN MATT TOLEDO STUART WALDMAN Director, Coalition President & CEO President & CEO, President & President, Valley for Humane Downtown Center Los Angeles Publisher, Los Industry & Congratulations to 2017 honorees Andrea Mitchell, Immigrant Rights Business Improve­ Area Chamber of Angeles Business Commerce of Los Angeles ment District Commerce Journal Association Jake Tapper, Daniel Berehulak, Jaime Jarrín, Shawn “JAY Z” Carter and Harvey Weinstein; the finalists and winners of the 2016 Awards for Editorial Excellence; and the 2017 winner of the Frontier Communications Press Club scholarship. A Free Press is the Pillar of Democracy TV | Internet | Phone #NotTheEnemy #MakingaDifference The Year in Review 2016 – 2017

What a Year to be a Journalist The Last 12 olitics dominated the attention of media’s credibility is increasingly under attack. national and local journalists last year, The lineup included a panel discussion, “Civil Months Were Pfrom the stunning election of Donald Liberties and Press Freedom in the Age of Trump as president to his first, tumultuous few Trump,” held just days before the inauguration; Huge for the months in office. Many of President Trump’s a conversation with California Congresswoman policies were felt locally, from immigration Maxine Waters on press freedom and President Press Club, raids to the short-lived travel ban. Trump; and most recently, a Friend of the Free Journalism and Journalists themselves became part of Press reception with “Late Night” host Seth the news thanks to the president’s antipathy Meyers. Free Speech toward the “fake news” media, as he calls it. The year was not all about Trump, although And once again, the Los Angeles Press Club the new president has certainly had an effect Robert Kovacik, LAPC president; Diana Ljungaeus, executive director; Erin Brockovich, Bill Rosendahl Public Service Awardee; Jarl Mohn, President's was at the vanguard, standing up for the on both the perception of journalists and the Awardee; Nick Ut, Joseph M. Quinn Awardee; Jason Rezaian, Daniel Pearl Awardee; and Cher Calvin, LAPC vice president. industry and touting the importance of the increase in interest in real news (thank you work all journalists do. for that, Mr. President!). Much of the board’s As part of that, the Press Club hosted attention was on how to recognize and discussions and events that examined what celebrate excellent local journalism. it means to be a journalist at a time when the Last June, some 500 journalists, media

Above: Jason Rezaian makes his acceptance speech; Ed Begley, Jr. introduces Erin Brockovich for the Bill Rosendahl Public Service Award;. Left: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Peter Arnett, introduces Daniel Pearl Awardee Nick Ut with Kim Phuc (the girl in the napalm photo) presenting the award; Jarl Mohn accepts his President's Purses and artwork were among the silent auction items. Award and flowers. Above and above right: The lobby fills with guests awaiting the opening of the Biltmore Bowl doors; the auction items attracted a lot of attention. Right: Over 300 people attended the conversation with California Congresswoman Maxine Waters and Beverly White from NBC, held at Barnsdall Park Gallery Theater.

LA 8 PC LA 9 PC From ‘Weekend Update’ to a Friend of the Free Press In May, the Press Club Honored Seth Meyers With a New Award

eth Meyers may not be a journalist, but he’s Splayed one on TV. On May 19, the Los Angeles Press Club honored the comedian with the organization’s inaugural Friend of the Free Press Award. The event was the first in a series Naej 2016 award winners bracket Robert Kovacik: Chelsea Handler, Lumi- celebrating our colleagues in related industries, and nary; Angela Lansbury, Legend; and Diane Warren, Visionary. allowing them an opportunity to share their insights with the Club. executives and FFOJs (friends and fans of journalists) congregated Meyers developed a reputation for speaking truth at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel for the 58th Annual Southern to power in the “Weekend Update” chair on “Saturday California Journalism Awards. The big-name honorees were Night Live,” where he also served as head writer. In Jason Rezaian, a Washington Post correspondent recently 2014, he took over as host of NBC’s “Late Night,” where released from imprisonment in Iran, who received the Daniel he helps audiences make sense of a dizzying news Pearl Award; legal activist Erin Brockovich, who was awarded cycle with segments like “A Closer Look” as well as the Bill Rosendahl Public Service Award; and NPR CEO Jarl interviews with newsmakers and reporters. Mohn, who received the President’s Award. The Press Club also celebrated the lifetime achievements of Associated Press photographer Nick Ut, who retired in March after 51 years. Although Ut has been a longtime Los Angeles photographer, he remains best known for his iconic and Pulitzer Prize-winning picture of a naked young girl fleeing napalm bombing by U.S. forces during the Vietnam War. That girl was Kim Phuc, and she was on hand at the ceremony to help recog- nize Ut with the Joseph M. Quinn Award. In December, the Press Club hosted the eighth annual National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards, which featured a trio of inspiring women: Chelsea Handler, Diane Warren and Angela Lansbury. And the Veritas Award, for the Best Movie based on or inspired by real people and real events, was a hit again this year with Hidden Figures taking the top prize. The film, starring Taraji Robert Kovacik chats with Seth Meyers at a reception held at P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monae, tells the true the Steve Allen Theater. story of three African-American women who worked behind the scenes in NASA’s space program in the 1960s. At a happy hour reception in his honor, Meyers sat The past year was a big one for local journalism. But with down with Press Club President Robert Kovacik for a everything going on from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., it’s Q&A. clear that working journalists will be just as active and important “As someone who consumes a great amount of jour- in the months to come.. —Mariel Garza nalism, I think the most thrilling thing about being a journalist must be that you get to unlock things for peo- ple,” Meyers told the crowd. “I know there are tons of downsides to being a journalist, but that’s quite a gift.” In the wake of “fake news” accusations, Meyers had some straightforward advice. “You have to be unimpeachably great at your jobs. Fact checking is more important than ever,” he said. “I understand, we have it in comedy as well, so I can only imagine what the pressure is for people in journalism, which is being the first to get a story out.... If you make any mistakes, they will get blown up and magnified because of the fact that you have a president who says that you’re liars and cheats.” For more, including Meyers' thoughts on Donald Trump, the future of Fox News, the struggle of inter- viewing politicians, and how he prepares his show each day, watch the full hour-long interview at http:// Los Angeles Times film critic Justin Chang in conversation with Hidden lapressclub.org/seth_meyers. —Adam Rose Figures screenwriter Allison Schroeder and producer Mimi Valdes, at the Press Club.

LA 10 PC Remembering the 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 Club lists the journal- reporting in a conflict zone has inherent and significant risk. ists killed during the previous year as they toiled to But journalists engaged in non-controversial stories work- Ebring information to the public’s attention. It’s a grim ing in peaceful locales can be targets too. It’s worth remind- is proud of its 48 nominations for task to compile this depressingly long list, but it is also nec- ing ourselves, as we ply our trade in Southern California, essary to remind all working in this profession just what’s at that while we are lucky to do this worthwhile profession, it is stake every day. not without risk, especially when our stories speak truth to The 59th Annual Southern California Most of the deaths occur as journalists are working to power. expose corruption or political misdeeds, or to chronicle the Once again, we honor the journalists who between June ravages of war. 2016 and June 2017 were targeted by sick minds, caught in Journalism Awards Like other war correspondents, they understood that the crossfire or were a casualty of corruption. We remember:

AFGHANISTAN RBS HONDURAS Mohammad Nazir, BBC Giovane Klein Victóri, Igor Padilla, HCH May 31, 2017, in Kabul Bruno Mauri da Silva. January 17, 2017, in San Pedro Sula Congratulations To Our Nominees Aziz Navin, MOBY/TOLO TV Djalma Araújo Neto, Elmer Cruz, TeleMorazan 10 and Max TV May 31, 2017, in Kabul André Podiacki June 19, 2016, in Morazan Four killed in suicide bombing Laion Espíndola (Globo Esporte), INDIA Mohamad Amir Khan, Renan Agnolin (Radio West Capital), Kamlesh Jain, Nai Dunia Debra Birnbaum Chris Mihal Zinullah Khan, Gelson Galiotto (Radio Super Conda), May 31, 2017, in Pipliya Mandi, Abdul Latif, and Edson Ebeliny (Rádio Super Condá) and Dharmendra Singh, Dainik Bhaskar Henry Chu Preston Northrop Ghani, Afghan Public Radio and Television (RTA) Jacir Biavatti (Rádio Vang FM). November 30, 2016, near Medellin, November 12, 2016, in Sasaram, Bihar May 17, 2017, in Jalalabad, Nangrahar Columbia Kishore Dave, Jai Hind David Cohen Jim Rainey province August 22, 2016, in Junagadh, Gujarat Luciano Fernandes, Olhos de Águia Mohammad Nasir Mudasir, Melli Paigham Gordon Cox Jenelle Riley October 25, 2016, in Piauí Radio IRAQ Mauricio Campos Rosa, Freelance December 15, 2016, in Mohammad Agha Suhaib al-Heeti Asiasat Bailey Franklin Maureen Ryan Aug. 17, 2016, in Belo Horizonte District, south of Kabul May 30, 2017, in Heet João Miranda do Carmo, SAD Sem Censura Naimatullah Zaheer, Ariana News Shifa Zikri Ibrahim (Shifa Gardi), Rudaw TV Owen Glieberman Malina Saval July 24, 2016, in Santo Antônio do November 4, 2016, in Lashkar Gah February 25, 2017, in Mosul Descoberto Yaqoub Sharafat, Radio Television Mohammed Thabet al-Obeidi, Radio Baba Tim Gray Ramin Setoodeh Afghanistan Gurgur DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO October 16, 2016, in Qalat December 6, 2016, in Kirkuk Marcel Lubala, Radio Télévision nationale Ted Johnson Brian Steinberg congolaise Shukri Zaynadin, Kurdish News BANGLADESH Network November 15, 2016, in Mbuji-Mayi Brent Lang Kristopher Tapley Abdul Hakim Shimul, Samakal November 29, 2016, in Amedi February 3, 2017, in Shahjadpur DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Ali Risan, Al-Sumaria TV Cynthia Littleton Andrew Wallenstein October 22, 2016, in Al-Shura, south of BRAZIL Luís Manuel Medina, FM 103.5 Leo Martinez, FM 103.5 Mosul Gene Maddaus Variety.com 20 killed in plane crash February 14, 2016, in San Pedro de Macoris Ahmet Haceroglu, Türkmeneli TV Fox Sports Brasil October 21, 2016, in Kirkuk Victorino Chermont, Nabil Mohamed, Mosulia TV Rodrigo Santana Gonçalves , GUATEMALA Hamilton Hernández, Canal 5 Ahmed Al Hadidi, Mosulia TV Devair Paschoalon, October 9, 2016, in Iraq Lilacio Pereira Jr. , November 6, 2016, in Coatepeque Felipe David Munguia Jimenez, Canal 21 Ali Ghani, Al-Ahad TV Paulo Clement, August 20, 2016, in Jaziret al-Khalideya We proudly support Mario Sergio, September 4, 2016, in Santa Maria Xalapán Globo Álvaro Alfredo Aceituno López, Radio Illusión Mustafa Said, Kurdistan TV Guilherme Marques, June 25, 2016, in Coatepeque August 14, 2016, in Mosul Ari de Araújo Jr., Victor Hugo Valdes Cardona, Chiquimula Widad Hussein Ali, Roj News Guilherme Laars, de Vision August 13, 2016, in Dohuk Rádio Chapecó June 7, 2016, in Chiquimula Ali Mahmud, Al-Ghadeer TV Douglas Dorneles, July 13, 2016, in Qayyarah Fernando Schardong

LA 12 PC Ahmed Mohammed Al Jbouri, Freelance PAKISTAN Ahmad Hallak, Al-Buraq Media Institution July 13, 2016, in Al Shirqat Taimoor Khan (Taimur Abbas), Samaa TV August 2, 2016, in Aleppo Fadil al-Garaawi, Freelance February 12, 2017, in Karachi Mohammed Sayyed Hassan, All4Syria, June 15, 2016, in Falluja Muhammad Jan, Qudrat Al-Nabaa Media Center January 12, 2017, in Qalat August 1, 2016, in Atareb JORDAN Shehzad Ahmed, Aaj News Abdullah Mohammad Ghannam, Shahba Nahed Hattar, Al-Akhbar newspaper Mehmood Khan, Dawn News Press Agency The Hollywood Foreign Press Association September 25, 2016, in Amman August 8, 2016, in Quetta July 14, 2016, in Kafr Hamra, Aleppo Ibrahim Omar, Al Jazeera would like to congratulate LIBYA PERU July 11, 2016, in Tarmanin, Idlib Jeroen Oerlemans, Freelance Hernán Choquepata Ordoñez, La Ribereña Khaled Eissa, Freelance October 2, 2016, in Sirte November 20, 2016, in Camaná June 24, 2016, in Aleppo all winners and nominees of the Abdelqadir Fassouk, Arraed Satellite TV PHILLIPINES Five killed between Oct. 4, 2015, and June 25, July 21, 2016, in Sirte 2016 59th Southern California Joaquin Briones, Remate Khaled al-Zintani, Freelance Sami Jawdat Rabah (Syrian Observatory for March 13, 2017, in Milagros, Masbate June 24, 2016, in Benghazi Human Rights), Larry Que, Catanduanes News Now Journalism Awards Samer Mohammed Aboud (Free Deir al-Zour MEXICO December 20, 2016, in Virac, Catanduanes Radio, Development Interaction Network), Javier Valdez Cárdenas, Ríodoce Mustafa Abdul Hassa (Shaam News and is proud that its RUSSIAN FEDERATION May 15, 2017, in Culiacán, Sinaloa Network), Dimitri Popkov, Ton-M Héctor Jonathan Rodriquez, El Costeño Mohammed Eissa (Nateq Network), and May 24, 2017, in Minusink, Krasnodarski esteemed members May 15, 2017, in Autiân de Navarro, Jalisco Mahmoud Shabaan al-Haj Hadhir (Al-Aan province Filberto Álvarez Landeros, Freelance FM) Nicolai Andrushchenko, Novy Peterburg April 29, 2017, in Tiaquilternango June 25, 2016 [revealed], in Deir al-Zour Maximino Rodríquez, Freelance April 19, 2017, in St. Petersburg Abdul Wahed Abdul Ghany, Anadan Media April 14, 2017, in La Paz, Baja California Sur Nine killed in plane crash Center Janet Nepales Miroslava Breach Velducea, La Jornada Channel One June 21, 2016, in Mallah March 23, 2017, in Chihuahua Dmitry Runkov, Ricardo Monlui Cabrera, El Político Vadim Denisov, TURKEY Ruben Nepales March 19, 2017, in Yanga, Veracruz Alexandre Soydov, Saaed Karimian, GEM TV Cecilio Pineda Birto, Freelance NTV Channel April 29, 2017, in Istanbul Adam Tanswell March 2, 2017, in Ciudad Altamirano, Michael Luzhetsky, Mustafa Cambaz, Yeni Safek Guerrero Oleg Pestov, July 16, 2016, in Istanbul Jesús Adrián Rodríquez Samaniego, Eugene Tolstov , Antena 102.5 FM and Antena 760 AM Zvezda TV UKRAINE December 10, 2016, in Chihuahua City Pavel Obukhov, Pavel Sheremet, Ukrainska Pravda are among the finalists. Aurelio Cabrera Campos, El Gráfico de la July 20, 2016, in Kiev Sierra Alexander Suranov, and September 15, 2016, in Huauchinango Valery Rzhevsky December 25, 2016, in the Black Sea UNITED STATES Pedro Tamayo Rosas, Freelance Jacinto Hernandez Torres, La Estrella July 20, 2016, in Veracruz SOMALIA June 13, 2016 [found], in Garland, Texas The Hollywood Zamira Esther Bautista, El Mercurio and Le Verdad Mahad Ali Mohamed, Codka Mudug Radio November 6, 2016, in Galkayo YEMEN June 20, 2016, in Victoria 3 photojournalists killed in rocket attack Foreign Press Association Elidio Ramos Zárate, El Sur Abdiasis Mohamed Ali, Radio Shabelle September 27, 2016, in Mogadishu Taqi-eddin Al-Huzeifi, June 19, 2016, in Oaxaca Wael Al-Absi, and wishes all finalists Sa’ad Al-Nadhari MYANMAR SOUTH SUDAN May 26, 2017, in Taiz Soe Moe Tun, Daily Eleven Isaac Vuni, Freelance good luck! December 13, 2016, in Monywa June 4 - September 26, 2016, in Kerepi Awab al-Zubiry, Taiz News Network Wai Yan Heinn, Iron Rose magazine November 18, 2016, in Taiz SYRIA April 16, 2017, in Rangoon Mubarak Al-Abadi, Nabaa Media Foundation Mohamed Abazied (George Samara), Nabd August 5, 2016, in Al-Ghail, Al-Jawf Syria Satellite Station/ Syria Media Organiza- NIGERIA Province tion (SMO) Famous Giobaro, Radio Glory FM 97.1 Abdelkarim Al-Jarbani, Ma’reb Press and March 12, 2017, in Daraa April 16, 2017, in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State Yemen Al-Aan Mohsen Khazael, Islamic Republic of Iran July 21, 2016, in Yemen Broadcasting November 12, 2016, in Aleppo Abdul Salam Kanaan, Al-Jisr TV October 31, 2016, in Zafraneh Taha Shawkat Al-Halou, Freelance August 27, 2016, in Daret Ezza, Aleppo province

LA 14 PC Left: In June, 2012, anti-Ahmed DANIEL PEARL AWARD Shafiq protesors gesture at military for Courage and Integrity police through a barbed wire bar- in Journalism ricade outside the Supreme Consti- tutional Court in Cairo, Egypt. Clockwise, below: Pakistan, 2011, Mueen Ibrahim peers from behind his grandfather Ghulam Qadir, rec- reating the portrait taken as they returned to see their home for the first time as flood waters receded in 2010. Land washed away by flood- Shooting in the Eye ing is seen from a Pakistan Army helicopter during relief operations in Sindh province, Pakistan. Late 2015, Chinese, Chilean and Russian priests, scientists and logistics personnel play football of the drug storm in a dome gym at the Chilean Air Force base on King George Island, Daniel Berehulak, the Recipient of the Press Club’s Daniel Pearl Antarctica. Left: A year after the March 2011 Award, Found an Assignment Like No Other in the Philippines tsunami, chairs are seen strewn in a Kadonowaki Elementary School classroom in Ishinomaki, Japan. By ALEXANDRA fter reports emerged last year of the through playing sports. I took my camera with BERZON Philippines’ bloody drug war, includ- me and was curious about traveling and dis- ing the murders of thousands of covering the world. I came across the World drug users and dealers at the hands Press Photo Exhibition in Vienna when I was ofA police, freelance photojournalist Daniel 23. My sister also passed away, which led me Berehulak went to Manila to document it for The to throw everything in and realize life is short. New York Times. His photos of murder victims I started studying photography in a course and and their families, along with jail cells and vigil then I dropped out. I was freelancing for a small sites—and the essay he wrote to accompany agency at that time. I worked with amazing them—revealed that the government’s account photographers and learned mostly from them of the drug war was not the same as what was in the field. being experienced on the streets. Published in December 2016, his work was a vivid wake-up What drew you to the Philippines story? call. It won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for breaking I noticed when Rodrigo Duterte was cam- news photography. paigning for president, there was alarming Berehulak, who has worked in hot spots rhetoric coming from the Philippines. He was around the globe, is the recipient of the Los known for death squads. When he came to Angeles Press Club’s Daniel Pearl Award for power, he had based his campaign on fight- Courage and Integrity in Journalism. We spoke ing corruption and fighting crime and equated to him from Mexico City, where he now lives. drugs and high levels of users to high crime rates. The way he was going to combat that was How did did you got started as a photojournalist? by tackling the drugs. In the first month or two, I grew up in Sydney, Australia, on a farm. I the bodies started piling up in the streets and it studied history in university and had no idea was a very bloody war. There were local jour- what I wanted to do, but I was able to travel nalists covering the story. It was something I felt was kind of under-reported. I had been in touch Daniel Berehulak accepts with Filipino friends whom I had worked with the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography. in Pakistan and other places, and I spoke with them and they said the story is still going on and there is no end in site. That led me to pitch it to my editor. I landed in Manila September 28 last year.

How did the work proceed? I was reaching out to friends and colleagues and found an amazing local journalist. She was my fixer. We worked together over the dura- tion of 35 days to report the story. When I met up with Rica Concepcion and started going out with the local journalists, accompanying them, we would start with the crime scenes. I found out what the story was at that time.

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How much pushback did you get from police? From the police at the scenes, they weren’t really pushing back. Sometimes they wanted us there as well because at the start I think they were kind of proud of what they were doing and believed it was the right thing. It was this level of impunity they were acting with. They would present the information like it was a “buy bust” operation and say here are the drugs in the pocket of the guy and the gun they tried to shoot us with. But then we realized so many of the killings had these same details. It appeared they were planting the drugs, planting guns; and that some of the people weren’t even involved in drugs at all.

What was the impact after your story ran? The president put out a statement directly after the story ran saying it was completely biased and completely one-sided. But we were only reporting and using the figures the Philippines national police had given us. The U.S. apparently halted aid that was heading to the Philippines. We don’t know if that was direct result of the reporting, but there certainly was so much more attention on the story. I was targeted by Duterte trolls and supporters and received death threats, dozens and dozens of death threats and emails. On the flip side, I had so many emails from people all over the world October 2016, clockwise: What did you find? reaching out and saying how can we help, how Heavy rain falls on the body of The first night really set the tone for what the can we donate money? Romeo Joel Torres Fontanilla, next 35 days would be. The first scene I went killed by two gunmen on to was a triple homicide. The police said it was What is it like now for journalists in the Philippines? motorcycles. He is one of 3,400+ unsolved homicides in a shootout. There were 30 journalists at the They are doing amazing work there. This the Philippines since President scene and in 30 seconds everyone cleared out. is something happening on their doorstep. We Rodrigo Duterte took office I remember leaving that scene thinking, how do report on a 35-day period and go home, but June 30 and started a brutal we find out exactly what happened in terms of these guys are covering this day in and day out. crackdown on drug users and interviewing witnesses or family members? We The group doing the nightshift there are young, sellers. quickly realized we had to work at a slower energetic journalists who find it deeply disturb- Inmates sleep on a pace and go back to these places and interview ing that this is happening in front of them. basketball court at Quezon people and follow up. The police were telling City Jail, one of the country's most congested jails. us one thing, saying it was all legitimate police What was the most difficult moment for you in operations, and only after interviewing, only the reporting? A family lives in a tent erected atop a tombstone at after speaking to the families and the eyewit- One night we made it late to a scene, and the Manila North Cemetery. nesses, we got a completely different story. all I could hear down the street as we were Berehulak witnessed murder approaching were the cries of a widow. You get scenes almost everywhere. It seems a bit unusual that you, the photographer, there and you miss the scene but it was kind Michael Araja was gunned were also the main reporter and writer on the of—it just made you understand how futile in a down outside a "sari-sari," story. How did that happen? way my efforts were. a kiosk that sell staples on It was a month shy of the U.S. elections. At certain times it just felt overwhelming and the street, by two men on a They were trying to get me to match up with disheartening. I talked about this a lot with the motorcycle, a common modus operandi known as a "riding in a reporter, but they weren’t able to find the guys we were working with. We all agreed that tandem" killing. Officers from resources. What my editor has done in the past what we were doing was important because SOCO, the scene of the crime is have us do journals and write about our expe- people in 15 years time will read what was hap- unit, gather evidence. riences out there. After a week I realized there pening in history books. If we weren’t doing our wasn’t anyone coming out, and I would have job it would be a completely one-sided account to be writing the story as well. I was doing a lot of official police operations trying to combat more follow-up interviews with families and drug usage, and all of the voices of the families just trying to get an understanding of what was wouldn’t be recorded. We were doing something going on, how it was going down, to better that was important, writing history and giving a understand the story. balanced account of what was going on.

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enerationCalling 58 Years of Dodgers' Games Is Just the Start of What Has Earned Jaime JarrÍn the g L.A. Press Club’s Public Service Award By SAUL GonZALEZ

o a large number of Dodger announcer. His sharp eye and eloquence Above: Jarrín received fans, a familiar and beloved make his radio audience feel like they’re the Golden Mike Lifetime Achievement Award for phrase is, “¡Se va, se va, se va, y in the stadium with him watching a 2007. He was the first despídala con un beso!” game on a cool spring evening or warm Latino American to win a TFor non-Spanish speakers, it means, summer day. Golden Mike in 1970 and “It’s going, going, going, kiss it good- In this metropolis of immigrants, repeated in 1971. bye!” It’s what Los Angeles sportscaster Jarrín’s broadcast presence has become From left: Jarrín started Jaime Jarrín says to his listeners when a a kind of cultural touchstone. His voice announcing for the player hits a home run. reassures Spanish-speaking newcomers Dodgers on radio station Since 1959, the dapper and dignified that they’re welcome in L.A. and that KWKW in 1958. Jarrín has been the (make that “the”) becoming a fan of the Dodgers is one Early Dodger games Spanish-language voice of the Dodgers, way to connect to this sprawling and were broadcast from the covering the team’s victories and losses confusing city. Los Angeles Coliseum. through thousands of games at Dodger Jarrín knows firsthand about the Below: Frank Sinatra Stadium and Major League ballparks bravery of immigrants, and the sacri- visits the clubhouse across the country. He’s as synonymous fices they make to leave everything they before the 1974 World with life in L.A. as the beaches, palm know behind and start a fresh life in a Series game against the trees and freeways. new country. Oakland A's. His 58 years covering the team have Born in Ecuador, where he studied earned Jarrín honors at tonight’s 59th literature and journalism, a 20-year-old annual Southern California Journalism Jarrín came to the United States in 1955, Awards. He is receiving the Bill booking passage on a banana boat. him. Eventually the bosses gave in. Rosendahl Public Service Award for After the vessel docked in Florida, he In 1958, the Dodgers moved to L.A. Vin Scully was an early mentor in Jarrín's Contributions to Civic Life, named for decided to make his way west, all the from Brooklyn. The team approached broadcast career. the late journalist, public access TV host way to Los Angeles. KWKW with a proposal to broadcast and city councilman. His first job in L.A. had nothing to games in Spanish. Team owner Walter Jarrín has been a conduit for genera- do with broadcasting or baseball. Jarrín O’Malley understood the potential of tions of listeners. He has seen players’ worked at a factory in East Los Angeles cultivating Southern California’s Latinos lives play out before his eyes, detailing making metal fences. He spent the rest as Dodgers fans. their arc from rookies whose names few of his time brushing up on his English Jarrín was offered a job as an people knew to gray-haired elder states- and trying to convince the bosses announcer and given a year to learn the men of the game. at KWKW, one of the first Spanish- fundamentals of baseball, a game he Jarrín is far more than an expert language stations in the country, to hire knew little about.

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There have also been fortuitous turns. In 1979 the Dodgers signed a 19-year- old, left-handed pitching phenomenon from rural Mexico named Fernando Valenzuela. The young player’s talent sparked “Fernandomania,” especially among Southern California’s growing Latino population. Thousands of them tuned into Jarrín’s broadcasts to follow Valenzeula’s accomplishments on the field. “It was like a dream,” Jarrín told The Guardian about that era. “What Fernando did for baseball is amazing. I think he is one single player who created more baseball fans than any other player.” Jarrín’s work extends far beyond the ballpark. He has covered events including the funeral of President John F. Kennedy, the Chicano civil rights marches of the 1970s, and Pope John Paul II’s visit to Top, from left: former Dodger pitcher Fernando The other legendary Dodgers America. He also coordinated Spanish- Valenzuela, Jarrín and Pepe Yñiguez announce announcer, Vin Scully, was one of language coverage of the 1984 Summer games for the Dodgers' Spanish language Jarrín’s first broadcast mentors, and later Olympics in Los Angeles. broadcasts. a friend. Jarrín says he has always fol- Jarrín has received numerous awards Son, Jorge, started calling Dodger games with lowed some of the early professional and honors. That includes his 1998 his father in 2015. advice Scully gave him: Prepare for induc­tion into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Above: Jarrín with his wife, Blanca, and their every game as if it’s your first, and never His native Ecuador has awarded Jarrín pet dog in 1974. get too close to the players. the country’s most prestigious medal of Jarrin was inducted into the Cooperstown, NY Scully also became a broadcast life- service given to civilians. Baseball Hall of Fame in 1998 as the recipient of the Ford C. Frick award. line for Jarrín. During the early days of As his professional life has flourished, his career, the Dodgers didn’t have a so too has Jarrín’s personal life. He and budget for Jarrín to travel with the team his wife Blanca have two sons, Jorge on the road. Jarrín improvised by listen- and Mauricio. Jorge followed his dad ing to Scully’s broadcasts and quickly into broadcasting and now calls Dodger translating Scully’s play-by-play cov- games with the elder Jarrín. A grandson, erage into Spanish. Scully would also Stefan, is a baseball scout. include details about the weather and At a time when many in this coun- crowds that Jarrín could use to help set try are engaged in a bitter debate over the scene. immigration, Jarrín’s life is a testament There’s another reason fans are so to the contributions immigrants have familiar with Jarrín’s voice—he doesn’t made to journalism and to that most believe in sick days. From 1962 to 1984, American of sports, baseball. he never missed a game, calling close to ¡Se va, se va, se va, y despídala con 4,000 games over 22 seasons. un beso!”

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The Rapper, the Producer Shawn “Jay Z” Carter and Harvey Weinstein Partner on “TIME: The Kalief Browder Story” and Receive a New Press Club Award and the Truthtellers

By Chris Palmeri neighborhood in the 1970s. He was raised by Hit After Hit After Hit his mother Gloria after his father abandoned Picture a world without The English Patient, the family. Carter dropped out of high school Clerks, Pulp Fiction, Shakespeare in Love, Il and sold crack, but his love of music carried Postino, Good Will Hunting and The Lord of the onight, the Los Angeles Press Club him through. Rings trilogy. The films produced or distributed hands out the 59th annual Southern Called Jazzy by his friends for his freestyling by Harvey Weinstein are some of the most California Journalism Awards. Don’t lyrics and table-top drumming, Carter adopted iconic in cinema history. expect complacency, however: Nearly the stage name “Jay Z” and began selling CDs As the co-founders of Miramax and later Tsix decades in, things are changing, as this out of the trunk of his car. Unable to secure a the Weinstein Co., Harvey and his brother evening the Club will present its inaugural deal with a major label, he co-founded Roc-A- Bob Weinstein created the template for the Truthteller Award for Contributions to the Fella Records with Damon Dash and Kareem independent film producer. Public Discourse and Cultural Enlightenment Burke. “If you display a diamond correctly it of Our Society. He had a hit right out the gate with his becomes the only diamond you’re looking at,” The recipients are a pair of entertainment 1996 debut album Reasonable Doubt, which author Peter Biskind once said. “That’s what industry titans: Shawn “Jay Z” Carter and included an appearance by rapper The Harvey did with movies. He displayed them on Harvey Weinstein. They are being recognized Notorious B.I.G. It was the beginning of a a black felt cushion.” both for their bodies of work, as well as their Weinstein’s story begins in the New York documentary series TIME: The Kalief Browder lifetime of collab­o­­­ra­tions with artists ranging City neighborhood of Flushing, Queens, Story. Based on the true tale of a falsely from singer/producer Pharrell Williams to imprisoned black man who took his own life, Carter’s wife, Beyoncé Knowles. it aired this year on Spike TV. Carter’s 1998 hit “Hard Knock Life (Ghetto “In our troubled times, we could not Anthem)” borrowed a chorus from the musical find two finer examples of integrity and Oliver! and helped expose rap music to a larger social responsibility than Jay Z and Harvey audience. Weinstein,” Press Club President Robert Along with his music, Carter is a pioneer in Kovacik said when the award was announced. merging celebrity and commerce. He created It is just the latest award for Carter, one the casual chic apparel brands the S. Carter of the rare individuals who is both an artist Collection and Rocawear; the latter was sold and a successful businessperson. In his to Iconix Brand Group for $204 million in three-decade-long career, he has sold tens of 2007. Carter has also invested in the Brooklyn millions of albums, won 21 Grammys and was Nets basketball team, founded a sports talent named the Greatest MC of All Time by Rolling agency and launched a chain of sports bars, Stone magazine. He has also woven himself the 40/40 Clubs. into popular culture with the companies he’s Now 47 years old and still on top of the founded in music, clothing and sports. latest trends, Carter introduced the music It could have turned out much differently. streaming service Tidal in 2015 and last year Carter grew up in a housing project in New Carter with Kalief Browder at the offices of Roc Nation signed a deal with the Weinstein Co. to create York’s rough-and-tumble Bedford-Stuyvesant in New York, 2015. TV shows and films. That led to Time.

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where Harvey’s father was, appropriately movie, guiding it to $25 million in ticket sales. enough, a diamond cutter. Weinstein attended Suddenly, what Soderbergh called a “dialogue- the University of Buffalo and with his younger laden talkudrama” became box office gold. brother became a concert promoter, working Along the way, Weinstein took such films with the biggest bands of the day. They created out of the art houses and into the multiplexes, a film production company, naming it after their exposing independent pictures to a much larger parents Miriam and Max. Their first hit was The audience. Secret Policeman’s Other Ball, a 1982 concert film The Weinsteins proved they could sell their benefiting Amnesty International. films not only to the general public, but also to Hit after hit followed as the Weinsteins their peers, as their movies won a mind-boggling proved to have a knack for discovering up-and- string of awards. The brothers perfected the coming directors such as Quentin Tarantino, art of Oscar campaigning, racking up six Best Kevin Smith and Steven Soderbergh. The latter’s Picture winners, including The Artist, The King’s 1989 film, Sex, Lies and Videotape, is credited Speech and Chicago. With a silent film, a docu- drama about a stuttering royal, and a musical, Weinstein continually took risks and proved he could do it all. “Kalief Browder is a modern day prophet; his story a More recently Weinstein has branched out into TV production, with “Project Runway,” and Netflix proudly failure of the judicial process..." Broadway shows such as The Producers and —Shawn "Jay Z" Carter August: Osage County. An advocate of gun control, Weinstein has also backed films that highlight our country’s congratulates with launching the Sundance Film Festival ongoing struggle with racism and inner city into the industry juggernaut it is today after violence, with pictures such as Fruitvale Station the Weinsteins snapped up his still-unreleased and Time: The Kalief Browder Story. Shawn “JAY Z” Carter and Harvey Weinstein Telling a Story, Changing the System on receiving the alief Browder was a 16-year-old high school student in 2010 when he was accused of stealing a backpack. Unable to make the $3,000 bail, Khe was sent to the Rikers Island penitentiary, where he awaited trial for three years, two of them in solitary confinement. Truthteller Award Depressed and losing weight, Browder attempted suicide four times. When his accuser moved to Mexico, Browder finally had the charges dropped. Two years later, he hanged himself. TIME: The Kalief Browder Story premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January and later ran on Spike TV, where the six-part documentary series won widespread acclaim. The series features interviews with close friends, family members and public figures such as New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Bill DeBlasio and former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. In large part due to the publicity surrounding Browder’s case, New York has passed sweeping changes to its criminal justice system. Wait times for trials are being sped up. The state no longer sends teenagers to adult prisons. Following an investigation by an independent commission, Rikers Island is being closed. “Kalief Browder is a modern day prophet; his story a failure of the judi- ABC News cial process,” said Shawn “Jay Z” Carter, executive producer of the series. “His tragedy has brought atrocities to light and now we must confront the issues and events that occurred so other young men can have a chance at justice.” TIME is the first in a series of productions in a partnership between Carter and the Weinstein Company, the independent studio founded by producers Harvey and Bob Weinstein. Next up is Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story, based on the life of the Florida youth shot and killed by neighborhood watch member George Zimmerman. It’s set to air on the Paramount Network, the new name for Spike TV, in January. —C.P

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LA PRESS CLUB PROGRAM PUB DATE: 06/25/17 TRIM: 8.5” X 11” BLEED: 8.75” X 11.25” PRESIDENT’S AWARD for Impact on Media delivering Facts and Truth in the 'fake news' era By Alex Ben Block

month after Donald Trump’s standing up unexpected victory in the 2016 David S Holloway Presidential election, then- for what is Vice President-elect Mike Pence appearedA on CNN’s news show “The Lead right earns with Jake Tapper.” jake tapper the Tapper asked him why General Michael Flynn, Trump’s nominee to head the National l.a. Press Club’s Security Agency, sought a national security clearance for his son, a conspiracy theorist President’s who was behind a bizarre, fake news story about a D.C. pizzeria being a front for a Hillary Award Clinton pedophilia ring. As a result of those rumors, on the day before Pence spoke to Tapper, a man with John Nowak David S Holloway Meghan Sinclair/Conaco, LLC two rifles had burst into the pizza parlor and threatened employees. ing the rounds on competitors like “Meet The His effective interview style cuts to the core.” worked in public relations, helped the group Top: September, 2015: Tapper Did Pence, who headed the Trump transi- Press.” Rising ratings are one sign of Tapper’s suc- Handgun Control and began freelance writing hosts "State of the Union" from tion, know Flynn wanted security clearance “He was protesting the fact I had stood up cess across six hours a week of CNN pro- with an article about dating Monica Lewinsky the Reagan Presidential Library where he will moderate the CNN for his son? for trying to get an answer to the question gramming. However, the surest sign he is an (once). Republican Presidential Candidate Instead of answering, Pence equivocated, about something that was empirically shock- impartial journalist is that he is equally dis- He took a salary cut to join the Washington Debate. telling Tapper “how grateful and honored” ing,” says Tapper. “It’s not pleasant to be dis- liked by politicians from both parties. City Paper to pursue his passion, covering he and Trump were to have Flynn. Of course, liked, but if you feel like you’re standing up for President Obama felt Tapper was too tough politics. His editor there, the late David Carr, Across the bottom: Vice President- Flynn was later fired for lying to Pence and has the right thing, I think it is important.” on him. Hillary Clinton was blunt when the later a star New York Times reporter, became Elect Mike Pence on "The Lead with been implicated in the Russia/Trump election That ability to stand up for what is right, anchor ran into her after she became Secretary Tapper’s mentor. Jake Tapper." scandal. and being a journalist who will not take pat of State. “I learned at his knee,” Tapper said. “He was 2016 Election Day coverage in Washington DC with Wolf Blitzer. Pence shifted topics but Tapper kept com- answers from the powerful, rich and con- Tapper had asked Clinton if he should refer tough but great. I remember every criticism.” ing back to the same question—nine times in nected, has made Tapper stand out, especially to her as “Madame First Lady” or “Madame He spent a year working for the online CNN Presidential Town Hall with President Barack Obama in 2016 to four and a half minutes. Pence just repeated in the Trump era. The Los Angeles Press Club Secretary.” “She said, ‘either one is preferable magazine Slate, covering the presidential discuss veterans, national security that Flynn’s son was no longer on the tran- is presenting him with the President’s Award to what we call you when you’re not around,’” campaigns of John McCain and George W. and foreign policy issues impacting sition team and they were going to make for impact on the media at tonight’s Southern recalls Tapper. “That kind of burned.” Bush. Tapper wrote a book about the Florida the US military. America great again. California Journalism Awards. Tapper grew up in Philadelphia, the son recount in 2000, which led him to appear- Tapper appears on the Conan That was the last—and only—time Pence “During a divisive election,” says NBC4 of a pediatrician father and nurse mother. At ances and part-time work on CNN and VH1. O'Brien show in 2016. was on with Tapper. The Veep has since anchor/reporter and L.A. Press Club President Dartmouth he worked as cartoonist for the He was hired by ABC, where he got his big refused to appear on his Sunday newsmaker Robert Kovacik, “Jake Tapper was willing to school paper, skewering a range of subjects. break covering Arnold Schwarzenegger’s suc- show, “State of the Union,” even if he is mak- take on politicians from both sides of the aisle. He tried film school at USC but dropped out, cessful run for Governor in the 2003 California

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Tapper worked as a cartoonist for the Dartmouth newspaper and still keeps his hand skills; above are subjects sketched, including Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell. T B S mages for mages for Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty I

The CNN Republican Candidate Debate at the Reagan Presidential Library on September 16, 2015: Jake Tapper facing: George Pataki, Rick Santorum, Bobby Jindal, Lindsey Graham. Right: In the CNN offices, Washington, DC. Jake and Jennifer Tapper attend David S Holloway "Full Frontal With Samantha Bee's" Not The White House Correspon- dents' Dinner, April 2017. is such distain coming from the most power- ful man in the world for empirical facts and empirical truth,” says Tapper, “and when the President of the United States makes it his mission to undermine the Fourth Estate, call- ing reporters the enemy of the American peo- ple, that is quite a challenge.” CNN on location coverage of the That is aggravated by the rise of conserva- Ferguson, Missouri, protests. tive news outlets led by arch competitor Fox Michael Brown, an unarmed black News. Yet Tapper is undeterred. teenager, was shot and killed by Darren Wilson, a police officer, in “I have a responsibility to deliver facts 2014. and the truth to the public and my viewers,” says Tapper. “I can’t worry about people who recall election. That led to air time on “Good believe falsehoods and see the world in a Morning America,” “World News Tonight” and topsy-turvy way. I just have to make sure my “Nightline.” facts are correct and what I am presenting is Tapper authored The Outpost, a critically the truth—because at the end of the day, the acclaimed book about the war in Afghanistan, truth always wins out.” and ABC soon named him its White House Tapper has been heralded as courageous, correspondent. He got married (he has two but he shakes that off. children). “‘Courageous’ is Navy Seals going into After Jeff Zucker became CEO of CNN in Yemen and trying to kill terrorists…. What I 2013, his first hire was Tapper. A year later do takes a certain degree of assuredness and Medialite.com named “The Lead With Jake requires that you feel you are on stable, moral, Tapper” the top cable TV news show. non-partisan, non-ideological ground, but I Zucker calls Tapper’s coverage of the would never use the word courage.” 2016 election “truly remarkable,” adding, “He That said, he recognizes his work is having has an intense curiosity about the world, a an impact. profound desire to take advantage of every “I have met a lot of young people who are opportunity to demand answers and truth, a now inspired to be journalists,” says Tapper. sharp mind and a very quick wit. His reporting “This is a time for us to rise to the moment, and interviews cut through in a unique way.” when journalism is under attack rhetorically Covering Trump’s presidency has pushed at home and literally abroad, and be worthy Tapper’s profile to a new level. “When there of the [first] amendment that protects us.”

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Challenging the

Status QuoBy Chris Palmeri For Decades Andrea Mitchell, Recipient of the Press Club’s Quinn Award for Lifetime Achievement, Has Been Sharing Important Stories With the World

t was just supposed to be a photo op. Above: Mitchell with Andrea Mitchell had been warned not to ask U.S. troops in the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad any questions Balkans. during a brief appearance with President Bill IClinton in 1994. But as the sole reporter at the event From left: Mitchell in Damascus, Mitchell knew she had to press Assad meets with Nancy about his support for terrorists. He answered, on Reagan, chats with camera, as she was dragged from the room by his Al and Tipper Gore, security guards. and speaks with Fidel That’s no surprise to anyone who has followed Castro. Mitchell over the decades. From her early days as a “copyboy” at a Philadelphia radio station in the 1960s to her current role as NBC News’ chief foreign affairs correspondent and host of “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on MSNBC, Mitchell has continued to chal- lenge the status quo, asking tough questions of people in power and sharing what’s she’s learned with millions of viewers. That record of achievement has earned Mitchell this year’s Joseph M. Quinn Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Los Angeles Press Club. happening, Mitchell pushed past Chinese authori- teasingly call her the “designated shouter” for her she talked her way instead into a job in the news- Mitchell has an extensive list of highlights: She ties to get into a women’s conference near Beijing willingness to put tough questions to reluctant poli- room of a Philadelphia station. That began a long broke the news that George H. W. Bush had chosen that Western officials and journalists had been ticians. It also helps explain why she titled her 2005 ride covering politics that would accelerate along Dan Quayle as his running mate in 1988. She scored banned from attending. Covering a diplomatic mis- memoir Talking Back...to Presidents, Dictators, and with the electoral fortunes of characters such as the first interview with Fidel Castro during the Elian sion to North Korea in 2000, Mitchell dodged her Assorted Scoundrels. Mayor Frank Rizzo and then-District Attorney Arlen Gonzalez affair. Most recently, Mitchell supervised minders at a hotel so she could get out in the streets Mitchell grew up in the New York City suburb Specter. NBC’s coverage of Hillary Clinton’s historic but ulti- and shoot footage of how the people lived. After of New Rochelle, where her journalism instincts Although she has spent the bulk of her career mately failed presidential campaign. she was arrested by local police, Mitchell switched were visible early. She reported on her school for at NBC, Mitchell hasn’t always gotten the plumb Along the way, Mitchell, 70, has never shied tapes and hid the real video in her dress so NBC the local newspaper at age 11 and made the morn- assignments. She was at times denied prestigious away from a tough assignment. Her exploits include could get its exclusive. ing announcements over the public address sys- jobs. Exiled to foreign coverage, Mitchell nonethe- hopping on a plane to Guyana after two of her NBC “The best word to describe her is ‘indefatigable,’” tem. An English literature major at the University less made it her own, constantly fighting for air time colleagues were killed by cult leader Jim Jones, and says her longtime friend, Washington Post columnist of Pennsylvania, Mitchell dove into the storytelling on the evening news for stories such as the geno- wearing a dosimeter to measure radiation exposure Ruth Marcus. “I don’t know anyone in journalism of Chaucer, Nabokov and Dostoyevsky. She also cide in Bosnia and the humanitarian crisis in Haiti. as she reported on the Three Mile Island nuclear who works harder, knows more, or has better news worked at the campus radio station. After dating economist Alan Greenspan for 13 reactor leak. judgment.” When she was accepted to a management train- years, Mitchell married the Federal Reserve Board Doing whatever it took to be where news was Perhaps that’s why her journalism colleagues ing program at radio station owner Westinghouse, Chairman in a 1997 service performed by Supreme

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RIght: MItchell hosts "Meet the Press."

Below: Mitchell interviews Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton.

Right: Mitchell talks with former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Husband Alan Greenspan, economist and former Federal Reserve Chairman, appears with Mitchell on "Meet the Press."

Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Mitchell said that Greenspan had actually asked for her hand three times before she under- stood what he was saying. “If you think you don’t get his testimony, his marriage proposals aren’t any less transparent,” she joked with interviewer Charlie Rose in 2005. After years of cultivating sources at the highest levels in Washington, Mitchell finally had one available night and day, but as she told Rose, Greenspan’s rule was that he never shared classified information. Mitchell recalled the night in 2003 that she saw her husband and Vice President Dick Cheney chatting seriously at a party. Awakened at 5 a.m. with a rumor from one of her network colleagues that Iraqi dicta- tor Saddam Hussein had been captured, Mitchell had to work the phones to confirm the information, even though she had a sense that’s what Greenspan and Cheney had been talking about. Mitchell got the story anyway, and as always, she shared it with the world.

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Jeffrey BAllou, news editor at Al for philanthropy journalism from the Society of Professional Jazeera Media Network, is the 110th presi- Journalists. dent of the National Press Club and its Devine has received two Gracie Awards from the American first male African-American president. A Women in Radio and Television and 16 Emmys, including the Pittsburgh native, Ballou helped launch prestigious Governors Award. She also has appeared as a news Al Jazeera Media Network’s English lan- reporter in films and TV shows. guage channel in 2006 and helped estab- A graduate of Arizona State University, Devine was inducted NOMINATED FOR lish the channel’s State Department and into the Hall of Fame at the Walter Cronkite School of Broadcast Congressional beats. Journalism. Ballou previously worked at WTTG-TV/ FOX 5 DC as a plan- ning editor, and at C-SPAN, WAMU, WTOP and National Public COURTNEY FRIEL is a news anchor/ Radio. Ballou has served as a two-term member of the execu- reporter at KTLA. Before starting there in tive committee of correspondents for the Congressional Radio 2013, she worked six years at Fox News and Television Gallery. He also is active in numerous journalist Channel, where she was a New York cor- organizations, including the Society of Professional Journalists, respondent, headline anchor and fill-in the National Association of Black Journalists, the Capital Press host for “Fox & Friends.” Before FNC, Friel Club, and the White House Correspondents Association." anchored and reported for the CBS affili- His many honors include DuPont, Peabody, Edward R. ate in Palm Springs and ABC station in Murrow and Emmy awards, as well as spot news awards Jackson, Tenn. On the programming side, from AP. Courtney hosted “The World Poker Tour” on the Travel Channel Ballou earned a bachelor's degree in journalism and African- and “The Saturday Night Solution” on Court TV, as well as many American studies from Penn State University and a mas- others. She got her start as a student reporter for Channel ter's degree in journalism and public affairs from American One News. She also worked as an entertainment reporter for LOS ANGELES PRESS CLUB University. He lives in Washington, DC. KTTV-TV. Friel graduated from San Diego State University with a B.A. in political science. 59th southern california CHER CALVIN is a five-time Emmy Award JOURNALISM AWARDS winner who co-anchors the KTLA 5 News ERIC GARCETTI is the 42nd Mayor of at 6,10 and 11 p.m. weeknights alongside Los Angeles. He was elected four times by Micah Ohlman.She joined KTLA in 2005 his peers to serve as President of the Los and is currently Vice President of the Los Angeles City Council from 2006 to 2012. Angeles Press Club. With a deep connec- From 2001 until taking office as Mayor, he INCLUDING tion to her community in Los Angeles, she served as the Councilmember for the 13th BEST WEBSITE serves as Mistress of Ceremonies for the District, which includes Hollywood, Echo annual YWCA Pasadena Foothill Valley Park, Silver Lake, and Atwater Village. BEST tv/film criticism Women for Racial Justice Awards, which creates a venue for Garcetti was raised in the San Fernando BEST BLOG women fighting for racial justice to discuss how they work to Valley and earned his B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University. eliminate racism. Calvin also hosts the annual Miss Philippines He studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and the London AND USA pageant in Los Angeles, giving young Filipino American School of Economics and taught at Occidental College and JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR women the confidence and community support they need to USC. A fourth generation Angeleno, he and his wife, Amy Elaine advance themselves and give them a voice. An avid traveler, Wakeland, have a young daughter. He is a Lieutenant in the she has visited more than 45 countries. In the last six months U.S. Navy reserve and is an avid jazz pianist and photographer. her travels have brought her to Japan, Philippines, Cuba and China. Tamron Hall currently hosts "Deadline: Crime" on Investigation Discovery chan- Christine devine is a TV news anchor/ nel. She was formerly the national news reporter at KTTV in Los Angeles. She anchor for NBC News, day-side anchor co-anchors the FOX 11 News at 10 p.m. for MSNBC, host of the program “MSNBC Monday through Friday. She has covered Live with Tamron Hall,” and a co-host of L.A.'s biggest news stories, including earth- “Today’s Take,” the third hour of “Today.” quakes, elections, and the L.A. riots. Before joining MSNBC in 2007, Hall Devine also is the host of the Wednes­ worked at WFLD in Chicago for 10 years; day's Child adoption segment that has aired at KTVT in Dallas for four years; and at KBTX in Bryan, Texas. since 1995, helping more than 700 children Hall has received several Emmy nominations, including serving from foster care find forever families. She has authored an auto- as the reporter of the NBC News segment "The Inauguration biography, Finding a Forever Family: A News Anchor's Notebook, of Barack Obama," which won an Emmy in 2010. She won an and been honored by the Child Welfare League of America and Edward R. Murrow Award for her report on domestic abuse in the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute as an "Angel 2016. She holds a B.A. degree in Broadcast Journalism from in Adoption." She also received the Anna Quindlen Award Temple University.

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THR_ba_LA_PressClub_2017_v2.indd 1 5/24/17 9:22 AM katy tur is an NBC News Corres­pondent coverage of the Chatsworth train crash, and presenters and anchor of a weekday hourly show on an L.A. Emmy for Best Light News Story “MSNBC Live.” She emerged as a breakout for “Toll Booth Bandits.” Prior to joining jorge jarrín is a radio broadcaster include “Criminal Minds,” “The Mentalist,” and “Nurse Jackie.” broadcaster in 2016 while covering the NBC4, Williams co-anchored the 5 p.m. alongside his father, Hall of Famer Jaime His extensive film work includes roles in Stakeout, Independence entirety of the Trump campaign across news at KCBS-TV, and before that she was Jarrín, for the Los Angeles Dodgers. This Day and The Spirit. all platforms for NBC News and MSNBC. co-anchor of the noon and weekend news- season marks his third year calling games Known for her resolute reporting style, she casts at KPIX-TV in San Francisco. Williams with his father, forming the only father- nancy leal is the news anchor for has held government officials accountable is passionate about supporting social son broadcasting team in MLB Spanish- Telemundo 52’s award-winning weekday for their statements, accusations, and causes impacting Southern Californians. language radio, and his 6th year as a morning newscasts, Noticiero Telemundo actions. In her 18 months covering the election, Tur conducted She participates annually at fundraising events for the Rape member of the Dodgers’ broadcast team. In 52 a las 5 AM y 6 AM, delivering the lat- multiple in-depth interviews with then-candidate Trump from Crisis Center in Riverside and Casa de Las Amigas, a reha- 2016, he was recognized by the Southern est breaking news and information for his campaign headquarters. While on the road, she traveled bilitation center for women, in Pasadena, among many other California Sports Broadcasters Association as the top Spanish- Spanish-speaking viewers in the greater to more than 40 states, logging nearly 4,000 live television organizations. radio analyst in Los Angeles. Los Angeles area. appearances. Previously, Jarrín served as KABC Talk Radio's "Captain Telemundo 52 Los Angeles / KVEA is Tur previously worked as a foreign correspondent in the chris wolfe has been a reporter at Jorge" for covering traffic from Jet Copter 790 from 1985 to Telemundo’s West Coast Flagship televi- NBC News London Bureau; a correspondent in the NBC News KTLA since 2006 and continues to cover 2011. During this period, he also filled in as a KTLA News sports sion station. New York bureau, earning a Gracie Award from the Alliance news anytime between 4:30 a.m. and 11 anchor at 10 p.m. AP honored Jarrín with four awards for his Prior to joining Telemundo 52, Leal worked for sister station for Women in Media; a reporter for WNBC from 2010 to 2012, p.m. Previously, he has worked as a travel work in reporting the Los Angeles riots following the verdict of Telemundo 39 Dallas-Fort Worth / KXAS, where she served as where she was awarded multiple Emmys; a digital reporter for correspondent, weather anchor, news the 1992 LAPD/Rodney King trial. AP also honored the Dodger the Weekend News Anchor for Noticiero Telemundo 39 Fin de The Weather Channel, chasing storms from 2009 to 2010; and anchor, news writer and reporter at several broadcaster with an award for his live coverage of a Highway Semana a las 4:30 PM y 10 PM. worked at WPIX, where she won an AP Spot News award. She stations and TV networks, including The Patrol pursuit and hostage situation. Leal has received numerous recognitions for excellence in started her reporting career in 2007 at News12Brooklyn. Weather Channel and CNN, where he Jarrín graduated with a B.A. in theater arts from Pepperdine journalism including five Lone Star Emmy Awards. She joined A native of Los Angeles and graduate of the UC Santa covered Hurricane Katrina. University in 1979. Telemundo in 2005 and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Media Barbara, Tur currently resides in Brooklyn with her fiancé. Growing up in the northeastern part of the country, Wolfe Production from the University of Houston. spent years abroad because his father, a former financial ROBERT KOVACIK is the current COLLEEN WILLIAMS serves as co-anchor of NBC4 Southern manager for General Electric, took the family to Singapore President of the Los Angeles Press Club. He conan o'brien is a comedian, writer California’s weekday newscasts NBC4 News at 5 and 11 p.m., from 1978 to 1981. He attended an American school on the is an Anchor/Reporter for NBC4 Southern and producer who rose to fame as the host alongside Chuck Henry. Southeast Asian island, with the experience being one of the California, joining NBC in 2004. Kovacik is of the talk show “Late Night” and later the Williams, who joined the station in 1986, is the recipient of most rewarding in his life. known for bringing viewers in-depth cov- “Tonight Show.” Since 2010, he has hosted numerous honors, including multiple Emmy and Golden Mike Chris earned a Bachelor of Science degree in broadcast erage of international events from a local the late night show on TBS called “Conan.” awards. She also was recognized with a Golden Mike for team journalism from Boston University. perspective, having recently returned from O'Brien started out as a TV writer for “Not covering the terror attack in Manchester. Necessarily the News” (a series on HBO), Kovacik was NBC4's correspondent “Saturday Night Live,” and “The Simpsons” for the 2013 Papal Conclave at the Vatican and the Summer before moving in front of the camera to Olympics in Rome. Both assignments were recognized with become a TV talk show host. The writing staff of SNL won an Emmy Awards. Emmy for Outstanding Writing in 1989. He also performed with One of his most compelling live shots occurred during an an L.A. improv group, The Groundlings. extensive manhunt for an alleged murderer. The suspect sud- With the retirement of David Letterman on May 20, 2015, denly appeared and surrendered to Kovacik live on air. His O'Brien became the longest-working of all current late-night work has received several awards and accolades. Kovacik's talk show hosts in the United States. exclusive examination into the Los Angeles Fire Department's O’Brien attended Harvard University, where he majored in 911 response times prompted the Mayor to demand an audit, American History (BA 1985). He was elected as president of the and his groundbreaking expose into overcrowded L.A. animal revered parody magazine, The Harvard Lampoon twice, with the shelters helped force the city to change its laws. only other person to hold that distinction being humorist Robert Kovacik is an honors graduate of Brown University and Benchley in 1912. Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where he also graduated with honors. JUDEA PEARL was born in Tel Aviv and is a graduate of the Technion-Israel Institute dan lauria is a versatile stage, screen of Technology. He came to the United States and TV actor, perhaps best known for his for postgraduate work in 1960 and received role on “The Wonder Years” as Jack Arnold. his master’s degree in physics from Rutgers He also starred on TV most recently as a University and his Ph.D. degree in 1965 baseball manager in “Pitch” and as Sullivan from the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. on “Sullivan and Son.” On stage, he Dr. Pearl joined the faculty of UCLA in wrote and played a leading role in the Off 1969, where he is currently a professor Broadway satirical Mafia comedy,Dinner of computer science and director of the Cognitive Systems with the Boys. His vast theatrical experience Laboratory. He is known internationally for his contributions included playing legendary football coach Vince Lombardi in to artificial intelligence, human reasoning and philosophy of the Broadway hit Lombardi. Lauria has also been a key player in science. reviving the classic PBS show “Steve Allen’s Meeting of Minds” Dr. Pearl is the father of slain Wall Street Journal reporter as live theater featuring some of the best actors in town. Daniel Pearl and president of the Daniel Pearl Foundation (dan- A Brooklyn native and Marine Corps Vietnam veteran, Lauria ielpearl.org), which he co-founded in April 2002 “to continue got his start in acting at Southern Connecticut State University Daniel’s life-work of dialogue and understanding and to address while attending on a football scholarship. Other many TV credits the root causes of his tragedy.”

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M1. COLLEGE NEWSPAPER (Student) M6. NEWS WRITING – PRINT or ONLINE Cole Sullivan, Annenberg Media, “‘I Never “’Like That, Salma Hayek Killed My Hard-On’” Kathy Perez and George Redfox, Downey J.D. Long-Garcia, Angelus News, “Stuck: California State University Fullerton, The Daily (Student) Thought it Would Happen:’ USC Students Jenelle Riley, Variety, “Tom Hiddleston Soars Patriot, “Preservationists Hunt for Downey’s Thousands of Haitians Await Their Fate in Titan Micah Augimeri-Lee and Breanna Vasquez, Share Stories of Sexual Assault” With a Busy Career, Smart Fan Base and Cinderella Home” Tijuana” California State University Long Beach, The Daily Titan, “Body Found in Newport ID’d as Daring Choices” Ashley Powers, The California Sunday 49er Missing CSUF Student” FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS $1000 Tatiana Siegel, The Hollywood Reporter, “‘I Was E1. NEWS FEATURE (Newspapers over 50K) Magazine, “The Man in the Woods” Clinton Cameron, Los Angeles Collegian, Scholarship Raffle California State University Northridge, The Dazed, Confused and Deafened by the Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, “Nearly “Disabled Students: Campus Unsafe for Jeff Ballou, President of the National Press Sundial Boos’” 1 in 4 Students at this L.A. High School L2. FEATURE (Foreign Correspondents) Blind and the Visually Impaired” Club Migrated From Central America—Many Los Angeles City College, The Collegian Robby Soave, Reason, “Zoning and Zen” Jon Boon, Daily Mail, “George Harrison’s Sister Ariana Sawyer, Kevin Flores, Greg Diaz, Daily Kristopher Tapley, Variety, “From ‘Birth’ to Without Their Parents” Talks About Launching The Beatles in the University of California Los Angeles, Daily X1. HUMOR/SATIRE WRITING (all plat- 49er, “The Immigration Wall” ‘Zootopia,’ Awards Contenders Tap Into Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, “Life US” Bruin forms) Maral Tavitian, Annenberg Media, “USC Zeitgeist” Interrupted” Austin Bragg, Meredith Bragg, Andrew Rachel Dyer, Darren Curtis, and Timothy Community Mourns Loss of Bosco Tjan, Louise Radnofsky, Zusha Elinson, John R. Myers, Channel 9 Australia, “Ghost Cats of M2. HIGH SCHOOL NEWSPAPER (Student) Heaton, Reason, “Star Trek: The Libertarian Beloved Professor and Expert in How We J5. LIFESTYLE FEATURE (online) Emshwiller, Gary Fields, The Wall Street Los Angeles” The Accolade, Sunny Hills High School Edition” See and Perceive” Susan Bell, USC Dornsife, “From Free Love to Journal, “Why Some Problem Cops Don’t Mary O’Hara, The Guardian and Mosaic Fullerton, “Elections Issue” Devra Maza, The Huffington Post, “Are You James Tyner, Annenberg Media, “Forced to Well-Set Table” Lose Their Badges” Science, “A Revolution in the Treatment of The Pearl Post, Daniel Pearl Magnet High Christian Grey? Take the Fifty Shades Test” Leave: When Financial Aid Falls Short” Amy DePaul, Narratively, “The Thrill-Seeking Teresa Strasser, The Jewish Journal, “Can You Parkinson’s Disease Psychosis” School Los Angeles, “November 8, 2016 Sandro Monetti, Entity, “Brad Pitt’s New Girl- Bodysurfers of California’s Most Terrifying Rest in Peace While Your Stuff Rests in a Tom Walters, John Mees and Will Dugan, CTV Issue” friend: Will It Be Swifflepitt or PitaBrad?” M7. FEATURE WRITING – PRINT or ONLINE Wave” Dumpster?” - Canadian Television, “Sour Note” (Student) Blake Pinto, The Edge, “The Beautifully Angry John Koopman, Capital & Main, “Uber Angst: Jennifer Swann, L.A. Weekly, “Why Is It So Hard Kerstin Zilm, Deutschlandradio, “Police M3. NEWS WEBSITE (Student) Shreya Aiyar, Miriam Bribiesca, Daniel Alcazar, Poet” A Driver’s Nights Behind the Wheel” to Catch Drink-Drugging Assholes?” Officers Also Know Fear” Dailytitan.com, California State University Daily Bruin, “Caring for the Caregivers” Gwynedd Stuart, L.A. Weekly, “No One Shows Stephanie Rivera, Long Beach Post, “How Fullerton Up at Opening of L.A.’s Museum of Broken Clinton Cameron and Lynn James, Los One Local Foodie is Helping Expose Long X13. TRAVEL REPORTING (All platforms) Plans” J3. HARD NEWS FEATURE (Online) Daily49er.com, California State University Long Angeles Collegian, “Alperts Give Millions for Beach’s Culinary Growth to Visitors” Brad A. Johnson, Bradajohnson.net, “Trout Music” Hillel Aron, L.A. Weekly, “Boyle Heights Beach Jennifer Swann, Curbed, “The Last Artists’ Fishing and the Yearning for Peace in J4. SOFT NEWS FEATURE (online) Activists Demand That All Art Galleries Get Sundial.csun.edu, California State University Jamie Carragher, USC Annenberg Media Haven in Los Angeles” Kashmir” Jessica Ogilvie, BuzzFeed, “The Revolutionary the Hell Out of Their Neighborhood” Northridge Ampersand, “Five Awful People You Meet Todd Krainin, Reason, “Gurgaon: India’s Routine of Life as a Female Trucker” Anthony L. Fisher, Reason, “Why It’s So Hard Thepearlpost.com, Daniel Pearl Magnet High At The Q&A” I4. LIFESTYLE FEATURE (radio) Private City” Jason Ruiz, Long Beach Post, “After Years of to Stop Bad Cops From Getting New Police School Tehya Faulk, Daily Bruin, “Dancing to Heal” R. H. Greene, KPCC, “A Day in the Life of Little Lisa Niver, Mountain Travel Sobek, “Mongolia: Static, Low-Power FM Radio Inching Its Jobs” Dailybruin.com, University of California Los Ande Richards, Collegian Times, “An Oasis in Arabia” Land of Dunes & Moonrises” Way Back to Long Beach” Daniel Heimpel, The Chronicle of Social Angeles San Dimas” Paola Mardo, USC Annenberg Media/Amper- Gwynedd Stuart, L.A. Weekly, “How to Go to Thy Vo, Voice of OC, “Viet LGBT Struggle For Change, “L.A.’s One-and-Only Native sand, “Why Tiki? A Deep Dive into America’s Disneyland as an Adult and Not Want to Die” American Foster Mom” M8. PERSONALITY PROFILE – ANY PLAT- Understanding” M4. NEWS PHOTO (Student) Fascination with Tiki Bars, Tropical Drinks Susan Valot, KCRW, “For the Curious: A Visit to FORM (Student) Thy Vo, Voice of OC, “End of Life Care in Ethnic Jason Islas, Santa Monica Next, “Fake News: Micah Augimeri-Lee, Daily Titan, “Thousands and the South Pacific” the Oldest Juniper Tree in America” Sarah Collins, Annenberg Media, “From South Communities” Santa Monica Edition” Flood Streets of LA and OC to Denounce Jennifer Rice, KCRW, “Growing up Zorthian” Philly to USC: Lypheng Kim overcame Taylor Weik, Michael Chin, Traci G. Lee, Piper McDaniel, Capital & Main, “High Times: Trump Win” Anna Scott, KCRW, “Day in the Life: Homeless X9. MINORIITY/IMMIGRATION REPORTING Poverty and Violence to Attend College” Charles Lam, NBC News, “Behind Barbed The Hidden Poverty in Marijuana’s Black on Skid Row” (all platforms) Kelly Ma, Daily Bruin, “Vigils help UCLA Mike Frenes, Los Angeles Collegian, “Retired Wire: Remembering America’s Largest Market” Community Commemorate Lives Lost to Judo Champ Shares Life Lessons Growing Internment Camp” David Bacon, Capital & Main, “Aging in the H8. LIFESTYLE FEATURE (TV) Gun Violence” Up” Fields: No Alternative But to Keep Working” I2. NEWS/FEATURE (Radio) Cher Calvin, Marcus Wilson-Smith, Phil Ige, Curtis Sabir, Los Angeles Collegian, “Trump Matthew Joye, Daily Bruin, “Paralympian H7. HUMAN INTEREST FEATURE (TV) Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, “Raised in Ben Bergman, KPCC, “Why Vin Scully Is Unique KTLA 5 News, “LA Pride Parade” Election Ignites Trauma” Blake Leeper Forges Path to Rio on Drake Mike Amor, Luke Blair, Arron Hage, Jorge the U.S. Without Legal Status, He Attains Among Sports Announcers” Kacey Montoya and Kimberly Cornell, KTLA 5 Blaise Scemama, The Sundial, “Man with Stadium Track” Lebrija, 7 Network Australia, “Bravest Man the American Dream—in Mexico” Deepa Fernandes, KPCC, “Environmental News, “Beauty Bias” Shikha Dalmia, Reason, “Muslim in America: Sledgehammer Threatens Students and Sean Myers, Annenberg Media, “Muslim, in Mexico” Lessons in The Forest” Cara Santa Maria, Lata Pandya, Michael A Trip to Two of the Most Islamic Cities in Damages Property near Matador Walk” Feminist and Proud: Noorhan Maamoon Courtney Friel, KTLA 5 News, “Dare to Dance: Deepa Fernandes, KPCC, “When Deportation Bloecher, KCET, “SoCal Connected – Bring- The U.S.” Anwar Torres, Los Angeles Collegian, Embraces Visibility that Comes with Her Corona Family Starts Online Video Fears Trickle Down To Preschool” ing Conversations About Death to Life” “Homeless Seek Shelter in Unused Religion” Campaign for Girl, 2, With Cerebral Palsy” Daniel Heimpel, The Chronicle of Social Saul Gonzalez and Jonathan Bastian, KCRW, Antonio Valverde, KMEX Univision, “Mexicanos Change, “L.A.’s One-and-Only Native Building” Intisar Seraaj, Annenberg Media, “White is not Justin Monticello, Alex Manning, Zach “Will $15 an Hour Wages Help or Hurt y Musulmanes” American Foster Mom” Always Right in the Dental Industry” Weissmueller, Reason, “This L.A. Musician California?” M5. FEATURE PHOTO (Student) Built $1,200 Tiny Houses for the Homeless. Sahra Vang Nguyen, NBC News, “Self-Starters: Roxana Kopetman, Orange County Register, Ciara Lunger, USC Annenberg Media, “Virtual Katie Albertson, Daily Titan, “Hispanic M9. REPORTING – BROADCAST, PODCAST Then the City Seized Them.” HLZBLZ” “Presidential Election Sparks a Rise in Technology Helps People with Autism” Heritage Celebrated” or STREAM (Student) Derrick Shore and Michael Bloecher, KCET, Campus Unrest” Patrick Do, Daily Titan, “Runners Dyed to Collegian Wired Staff, Collegian Wired, “Artists “SoCal Connected – Kids, Cancer and F1. NEWS FEATURE (Newspapers under H6. NEWS FEATURE (TV) 50K) Raise Money” Trump Fear” Cameras” G4. FEATURE, over 1,000 words Nic Cha Kim, Robert McDonnell, Michael Andre Coleman, Pasadena Weekly, “Old Pas Shannon Godly, Los Angeles Collegian, “Photo Nikki Harris, Joseph Palomo, Amanda Audrey Cleo Yap, NBC News, ”‘Make It (Magazines) Bloecher, KCET, “SoCal Connected - Safe Parking Probe” Focus: Washington, D.C.” Rubalcava, Marisa Piceno, Daily Bruin, Possible’: Amputee Dani Burt Is Surfing Her Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, Parking for the Homeless” Kristin Marguerite Doidge, Los Angeles Busi- Curtis Sabir, Collegian Times, “Thai Town” “Under The Gun” Way To Championship Titles” “Little People, Big Woes” Rachael Dyer, Darren Curtis, Timothy Myers, ness Journal, “Right Hook” Aubrey Yeo, Daily Bruin, “Alex Roelse Returns Darcel Hoover and Dave Martin, Collegian David S. Cohen, Variety, “Artisans So White/ Channel 9 Australia, “Ghost Cats of Los Carol Lawrence, San Fernando Valley Business From Rio, Brings Olympic Experience to Wired, “Red Velvet” G5. FEATURE, under 1,000 words Bias Below the Line” Angeles” Journal, “Freaky Farm” Westwood” Dede Ogbueze, The Sundial, “The (Magazines) Gordon Cox, Variety, “‘Hamilton’ Star Lin- Phil Goyen, Nine Network Australia, “Divided Henry Meier, Los Angeles Business Journal, Countdown” Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, Manuel Miranda Is Ready for His Next States of America” “Competitors Raise Stink Over Garlic” Coup”

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Derrick Shore, Lata Pandya, Michael Bloecher, G7B. PERSONALITY PROFILE—Politics/ H10. PERSONALITY PROFILE/INTERVIEW KCET, “SoCal Connected – LA’s Public Business/The Arts (Television) Housing Problem” Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, “Wang Phil Goyen, Nine Network Australia, “Being Ernesto Torres and Angie Crouch, KNBC TV 4, Jianlin: The Chairman Will See You Now” Barbra” “Renaissance Scholars” Jesse Walker, Reason, “Before Trump, There Natalie Heltzel, Victor Klaus, Stephanie Fisch- Was Pappy” ette, The Hollywood Reporter, “Frank Miller” D2. FEATURE PHOTO Ted Johnson, Variety, “Michelle Obama Nic Cha Kim, Val Zavala, Michael Bloecher, Gary Leonard, Los Angeles Downtown News, Interview: How FLOTUS Used Pop Culture KCET, “SoCal Connected -- A Tiny House Is a “The Wilshire Grand Topping-out Crew” Stardom to Make an Impact” Work of Art” Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times, “’El Titan de Jessica P. Ogilvie and Erik Lundegaard, Super Mary Beth McDade, KTLA 5 News, “Only Bronce (The Bronze Titan)’” Lawyers Magazine, “Kindred Spirits” Known Survivor of The Grim Sleeper Francine Orr, Los Angeles Times, “Taken By James Rainey, Variety, “Bob Iger on Shanghai Speaks Out” Storm” Disney, Parting With His Chosen Successor, Christina Pascucci and Kimberly Cornell, KTLA Allen Schaben, Los Angeles Times, “Big Wave and His Pursuit of Perfection” 5 News, “Journey With The Dalai Lama” Wipeout” Ted Soqui, Freelance, “Supermoon” L3. PERSONALITY PROFILE (Foreign D3. PORTRAIT PHOTO Correspondent) Jay L. Clendenin, Los Angeles Times, “The Rock” Mike Amor, et. al., 7 Network Australia, “Bravest Ada Guerin and Elisabeth Caren, TheWrap, F3. PERSONALITY PROFILE (Newspapers Man in Mexico” under 50K) “Iggy Pop Portrait” Chrissy Iley, UK Sunday Times Magazine, Shanti Marlar, Jennifer Laski, Carrie Smith, Helen Floersh, San Fernando Valley Business “The Resurrection of Mel Gibson: Drink, Journal, “The 24/7 Extrovert” Kate Pappa, We Are The Roahds, The Anger, Madness and The Mother of All Hollywood Reporter, “Rachel McAdams” Janet R. Nepales, Manila Bulletin, “Tim Burton Comebacks” on Feeling ‘Peculiar’ as a Kid” Chris Mihal, Bailey Franklin, Bryce Duffy, Chrissy Iley, UK Sunday Times Magazine, “The Gabriel San Román, OC Weekly, “For the Past Variety, “Aziz Ansari – Actors on Actors” Way We Were—Barbra Streisand on Her Francine Orr, Los Angeles Times, “Artist Bathing” 20 Years, a Santa Ana Man Has Kept the Extraordinary Life and Lovers” Language of the Aztecs Alive” Alessandra Mattanza, Natural, “Rachel Daina Beth Solomon, Los Angeles Business X2A. OBITUARY/IN APPRECIATION—Artists Weisz—Ho Imparato ad Apprezzare Quello (All platforms) Journal, “Peter Guber: Running Up Big Che Ho” Scores” Owen Gleiberman, Variety, “Curtis Hanson: A Adam Tanswell, Radio Times, “David Craftsman Who, in Two Movies, Touched Tom Tugend, The Jewish Journal, “Looking Duchovny: “We Both Went A Little Nuts” Greatness” Back at War on Memorial Day” Owen Gleiberman, Variety, “Michael Cimino: A J6. PERSONALITY PROFILE (Online) Filmmaker Who Dared to Dream Big” E3. PERSONALITY PROFILE (Newspapers Natasha Hakimi Zapata, Truthdig, “Truthdigger Rubén Martínez, KCET, “How Juan Gabriel’s over 50K) of the Week: The Late Daniel Berrigan, 1993 Rose Bowl Performance Was Ground- Danielle Berrin, The Jewish Journal, “Joseph Lifelong Activist for Peace” breaking in Conservative California” Sanberg: A One-Man Army Against Chrissy Iley, UK Daily Mail, “Billy Joel Talks Tom Teicholz, Forbes.com, “Zsa Zsa Gabor Poverty” About His Three Divorces and the Woman Dead—The Last Hungarian Actress of Her Anh Do, Los Angeles Times, “From Vietnam Who Saved Him” Generation” to LA: Photographer who Captured Iconic Asia Morris, Long Beach Post, “Emerging Artist Jesse Walker, Reason, “Merle Haggard, RIP: A Image on One Road Sees End of Another” Shane Sun Abides by Nothing But Nature” Great American Voice Has Died” Michael Idato, The Sydney Morning Herald and Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, “John Sun-Herald, “Jodie Foster: Mistress of Her Candy Remembered: His Children Share Destiny” X2B. OBITUARY/IN APPRECIATION—Others New Stories About Their Late Father On the (All platforms) Gerrick D. Kennedy, Los Angeles Times, “Prince Eve of His Birthday” Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times, “Appreciation: Michael Jackson Can’t Sing or Dance. How Art Tavana, L.A. Weekly, “Where’s Izzy: He’s still Following in His Father’s Footsteps” George Martin’s Indispensable Role With Searching for the GNR Reunion’s Missing the Beatles” Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, “Garrison Person” Keillor Reflects at the Hollywood Bowl, Tom Tugend, The Jewish Journal, “A Friend of 7 Decades Recalls a Young Elie Wiesel” Rehearsing for Final Show: ‘I Just Want it to I5. PERSONALITY PROFILE/INTERVIEW Be Good’” (Radio) Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, “Art World A-Listers Celebrate the Woman Who Rico Gagliano, The Dinner Party Download, Brought Them Together—and Helped Put G7A. PERSONALITY PROFILE—Film/TV “Monsters and Misanthropes with L.A. on the Art Map” Michelle Boston, USC Dornsife Magazine, “The Guillermo Del Toro” Tom Walters and Liam Hyland, CTV - Canadian Craftsman” Michael Radcliffe, USC Annenberg Media, Television, “Harper Lee” Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, “The “Portrait of an Artist on Skid Row” Steve Wasserman, Truthdig, “Reflections on Rabbi Who Can Bless Your Movie” Kristopher Tapley, Variety, “Viola Davis on the Death of Fidel” Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, “The ‘Fences,’ ‘Suicide Squad’ and Feminine Last Living Silent Star” ‘Badassery’” G8. IN-HOUSE or CORPORATE Michael Goldstein, American Way, “Q & A: Kristopher Tapley, Variety, “Mel Gibson on PUBLICATION Voice Recognition (Tom Kenny)” ‘Hacksaw Ridge’ and Being Defined by Dark Los Angeles City College, Collegian Times, Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, “Kristen Stewart Lets Chapters” “Seek Refuge” Down Her Guard: Inside Her Reinvention” David Weinberg, KCRW, “Meet Mr. Fries Man”

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Internet Law Center, Cyber Report, “Ten Things Chris Mihal, Variety, “Cannes Film Festival / Yoonj Kim, Playboy, “Standing Rock: Prophecy in Tech You Need to Know” Kristen Stewart” of the 7th Generation” San Fernando Valley Bar Assocation, Valley Karen Villalpando, Michael Villalpando, Justin Monticello, Alex Manning, Zach Weiss- Lawyer, “April 2016 Edition” Gregory Cornfield, Edwin Folven, Andy mueller, Reason, “This L.A. Musician Built USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Kitchen, Park LaBrea News/Beverly Press, $1,200 Tiny Houses for the Homeless. Then Sciences, USC Dornsife Magazine, “The “’Our People, Our Places’ 70th Anniversary the City Seized Them.” Identity Issue (Spring/Summer 2016)” Special Issue” Derrick Shore, Jon Kaplan, Amanda Garcia, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Michael Bloecher, KCET, “SoCal Connected Sciences, USC Dornsife Magazine, “The X4A. PUBLIC SERVICE NEWS or FEATURE – Porter Ranch Gas Leak Aftermath” Politics Issue (Fall 2016/Winter 2017)” (Print/Online) Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, “Actors: I11. DOCUMENTARY (Radio) ‘It’s So Easy to Exploit Them’” B2. HEADLINE (Print) Bob Carlson, KCRW, “Terri and Clifford” Susan Bell, USC Dornsife, “USC Dornsife’s Olu Tom Hicks, Los Angeles Business Journal, “Can Deepa Fernandes, BBC World Service, Orange Wins Class-Action Victory on L.A.’s Paper Bag Billionaire?” “Candela: Cuban Women 20 Years Later” Unconstitutional Gang Injunctions” Tom Hicks, Los Angeles Business Journal, R. H. Greene, KPCC, “ELEVATIONS: Frank Lloyd C.J. Ciaramella, Reason, “Why Are Detroit “Smoked Out” Wright Sr. and Jr. in California’s New Age” Cops Killing So Many Dogs?” Christopher Palmeri and Rob Golum, Bloom- Michael Sullivan, KCRW, “Shoot First” Judith Lewis Mernit, Capital & Main, “High berg News, “For Best Party Ever, Trump’s David Weinberg and Nick White, KCRW, “We Times: Marijuana Growing, and the Calling on Billionaire Casino Pals” Are Not Alone” Environment” Glenn Rabinowitz, Pacific Coast Business Laura Paisley, USC Dornsife, “USC Dornsife Times, “Entrepreneurs High on Marijuana” H13. FEATURE DOCUMENTARY (TV) Faculty Help Former Prisoners Find Their Joel Russell, San Fernando Valley Business Voice” Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, innerLens Productions, Journal, “Gas Leak Yields Windfall of Work” “Sands Of Silence: Waves of Courage” X4B. PUBLIC SERVICE NEWS or FEATURE Mike Amor, Luke Blair, Arron Hage, Emma D8. ILLUSTRATION or GRAPHIC (Broadcast) Dallimore, Mark Llewellyn, 7 Network Aus- Dwayne Booth a.k.a. Mr. Fish, Truthdig, “Kiss Annie Gilbertson and Aaron Mendelson, tralia, “In Cold Blood - The Chris Lane Story” of Death” KPCC, “Officer Involved Shooting at Juan Devis, Christine Yuan, Matthew Crotty, Jason Keislinger, Reason, “Should the U.S. Suspects in Cars is Dangerous” Austin Simons, KCET, “MOCA: Beyond The Government Build a Death Star?” Saul Gonzalez, KCRW, “Evicted: How the 1985 Museum Walls” Edward Locke, Los Angeles Collegian, “Alperts Ellis Act Can be Used to Kick You Out of John Maxwell, Dan Matthews, Traci G. Lee, Give Millions for Music” Your Rent Controlled Apartment” NBC News, “AKA Seoul” Chris Mihal and Anita Kunz, Variety, “Media Jason Kandel, Lolita Lopez, Jorge Diaz, NBC4, Timothy Myers, Matthew Hill, Regan Morris, Monster” “A Mess in Maywood” Hilary Andersson, BBC, “Angry America” Chris Mihal and Rui Ricardo, Variety, “Michael Telemundo 52 Responde, KVEA Telemundo Moore in TrumpLand” Los Angeles, “Western Union Complaint” I10. TALK/PUBLIC AFFAIRS (Radio) Chris Wolfe, KTLA 5 News, “Boy With Rare Madeleine Brand, KCRW Press Play, “Your I9. USE OF SOUND (Radio) Genetic Disorder Becomes Swat Deputy Questions about How Trump Won, What it Eric Drachman, KCRW, “SoundsLA” for A Day” Means, What’s Next” Priska Neely, KPCC, “The Art of Transformation Meghan Coyle, Alana Bracken, Ian Hurley, at a Watts Elementary School” X7. EDUCATIONAL REPORTING (All plat- USC Annenberg Media, “From Where We Susan Valot, KCRW, “When Science Sounds forms) Are” Like Band Practice” Jim Epstein, Reason, “Brownstone Brooklyn’s Deadline LA with Howard Blume and Gale David Weinberg, Nick White, KCRW, “We Are Racial Divide: Why Are the Schools So Holland, KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles, “The Not Alone” Segregated?” Inside History of Tap Dancing” Mike Reicher, Brenda Gazzar, Dana Larry Mantle, Lauren Osen, Fiona Ng, Matt C2. PAGE DESIGN (Newspapers) Bartholomew, Los Angeles Daily News, “El Dangelantonio, Jasmin Tuffaha, KPCC, Sally Jones, Kristin Skaggs-Kirby, Jennifer Camino Real Charter School” “Across the Divide: Clinton and Trump Rzepka, San Fernando Valley Business Jour- Marc Sallinger, Annenberg Media, “Haddon Supporters #AirTalkItOut After the nal, “Soundstage Scarcity” Mariachi” Election” Alexis Rawlins and Yumi Kanegawa, Los Kyle Stokes and Aaron Mendelson, KPCC, Chris Sedens, Charles Feldman, Laraine Angeles Downtown News, “40 for the Fall” “How Charter Schools Became Top Spend- Herman, Ken Charles, KNX AM, “KNX Kristin Skaggs-Kirby, Los Angeles Business ers in State Political Races” Indepth: Opioids—Overused and Journal, “Immigrant Entrepreneurs” Robin Urevich, Capital & Main, “Debacle: How Overdosed” a Promising Charter School Failed” G9. DESIGN (Magazines) H12. TALK/PUBLIC AFFAIRS (TV) Dan Knapp and Letty Avila, USC Dornsife H14. DOCUMENTARY, short (TV) Enfoque Los Angeles Team, Enfoque Los Magazine, “Make Em Laugh” Joris Debeij, David Weiner, Marieke Oudejans, Angeles, “Special Edition November 24, 2016” Richard Martinez, Collegian Times, “Collegian Nate Hurtsellers, Michael Smith, New York Times: Seek Refuge” Times Op-Docs, “Perfectly Normal” Sonali Kolhatkar, Free Speech TV, “North Dakota Charges Pipeline Protesters With Gary Metzker, The Edge, “He’s Got His Finger- Jim Epstein, Reason, “How Brazil’s Libertarian Felonies” prints All Over Long Beach” Movement Helped Bring Down a President” Drew Sugars, Peter Musurlian, Colleen

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COMMENTARY (Newspapers under Patricia Bunin, Southern California News 50K) J7B. POLITICAL COLUMN/COMMENTARY Congratulations Group, “When Nothing Special Moments Amy Alkon, Syndicated Columnist, “Unzipping (Online) Are Everything” Your Genes” Bill Blum, Truthdig, “The Right-Wing Legacy of Tom Hoffarth, Los Angeles Daily News, “Vin Gustavo Arellano, OC Weekly, “It’s Not Only OK Justice Lewis Powell, and What It Means for to all the honorees of the SoCal Journalism Awards Scully’s Final Call” for Activists to Wave the Mexican Flag at the Supreme Court Today” Lisa Niver, The Jewish Journal, “A Journey to Protests—It’s Necessary” Natasha Hakimi Zapata, Truthdig, “‘Free to Be and the L.A. Press Club for supporting quality journalism. Freedom Over Three Passovers” Ben Dickow, Downey Patriot, “The Importance a Fool’: Behind the Scenes at the British Jon Regardie, Los Angeles Downtown News, of Open Access to Downey’s Space Center” Parliament’s Debate on Banning Trump” “David Without a Slingshot (Yet)” Thomas Elias, Syndicated Columnist, “Opinion: Chris Hedges, Truthdig, “The Mafia State” Sharon Smith, Downey Patriot, The Problem Bad Energy Commission Choices Haunt Joshua Preven, CitywatchLA.com, “It’s Time With Senior Housing” Hydrogen Highway” to End LA’s Secret Meetings: What Do City SAGAFTRA.org Mario Guerra, Downey Patriot, “Que Viva Cuba Council Members and LA’s County Supervi- E7. COLUMN (Newspapers over 50K) Libre” sors Have to Hide?” Amy Alkon, Syndicated Columnist, “Unzipping Tom Teicholz, The Jewish Journal, “Jews are Your Genes” E6. COMMENTARY (Newspapers over 50K) not White People, or Why Jews Support the Danielle Berrin, The Jewish Journal, “Huma Amy Alkon, Syndicated Columnist, Left (a Response to Dennis Prager)” Abedin and the Real Housewives of “Mothership Of Fools” Politics” Thomas Elias, Los Angeles Daily News, “Bad J8. NON-POLITICAL COLUMN/ ad_LAPressClub2017_v2_FINAL.indd 1 6/13/17 4:44 PM Patricia Bunin, Southern California News Energy Commission Choices Haunt COMMENTARY (Online) Group, “Goodbye To Our Car, Old Blue” Hydrogen Highway” Ilana Angel, The Jewish Journal, “Breasts & Marty Kaplan, The Jewish Journal, “Is Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times, “Reporter’s Fruit” Campaign News Necessary?” Notebook: Enough Ageist Cracks About Alissa Quart, Capital & Main, “Is the Middle Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times, “1966 Could ‘Old-chella,’ OK?” Class Being ‘Disrupted’ Into Extinction?” be Rock ‘N’ Roll’s Most Revolutionary Year, Henry Rollins, L.A. Weekly, “White America Sahra Sulaiman, Streetsblog LA, “Equity 101: Thanks to the Beatles, Dylan and the Beach Couldn’t Handle What Black America Deals Bikes v. Bodies on Bikes” Boys” With Every Day” Andrew Wallenstein, Variety, “Take Offense to Raphael Sonnenshein, The Jewish Journal, Roger Ailes’ Defenders” G3. COLUMN (Magazines) “Terror and the Election: What Does It Andrew Wallenstein, Variety, “The Hip-Hop Ronald Bailey, Reason, “Poverty Is Deadly: Mean?” Case the Supreme Court Should Reject” Why is the Death Rate for Young White Americans Rising?” G2. COMMENTARY (Magazines) B4. EDITORIALS (Print) Jared Birdsong, Collegian Times, “Prodigy, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, The Hollywood Hannah Deitch, USC Annenberg Media, “How Anti-Hero, Iconoclast: Kobe Bryant’s Reign Reporter, “Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Why Does This Story End?” Comes to an End” Black People Are “Invisible” to Oscar Voters Jonathan Diamond, Los Angeles Business Ande Richards, Collegian Times, “It was a (Guest Column)” Journal, “Guns, Responsibility and Liability” Saturday Night, I guess that Makes it All Katherine Mangu-Ward, Reason, “Trump vs. Jon Regardie and Sue Laris, Los Angeles Right” Clinton vs. Everything Good” Downtown News, “Thankful for the Right to Veronique de Rugy, Reason, “Marco Rubio’s Malina Saval, Variety, “TV Is Addicted to Protest” Sweet Protectionism” Addicts, But Does It Get Dependence Ande Richards, Los Angeles Colllegian, “Drop Kristopher Tapley, Variety, “Ready or Not, the Right?” Stitch: Complacency Holds Women Back” Academy Is Ripe for a Shake-up” Matt Welch, Reason, “Trump Is Not the Peace George Summers, Los Angeles Collegian, “So Candidate” Weed is Legal Now, Yay?” L5. COLUMNIST or CRITIC (Foreign Cor- Michael Wolff, The Hollywood Reporter, respondents) “Ringside With Steve Bannon at Trump D7. EDITORIAL CARTOON Natasha Hakimi Zapata, Truthdig, “A Tower as the President-Elect’s Strategist Leslie Agan, OC Weekly, “Santa Ana River Progressive American in London: My Plots ‘An Entirely New Political Movement’” Thoughts on Brexit and the Revolt Against Pastoral” Jeremy Corbyn” Lalo Alcaraz, Freelance Cartoonist, “Princess J7A. POLITICAL COLUMN/COMMENTARY, Death Star” Election (Online) Dwayne Booth a.k.a. Mr. Fish, Truthdig, Itay Hod, TheWrap, “Are Hitler-Trump “Nothing to See Here”

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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS or FEATURE Donna Balancia, CaliforniaRocker.com, David Nusbaum, Los Angeles Business Journal, (Newspapers under 50K) “Leapin’ Lizards: Smashmouth Packs The “Team Tackles New Deals” Kristin Marguerite Doidge, Los Angeles Canyon Club” Business Journal, “Studio Hopes to Ride Rachael Dyer, Channel 9 Australia, “Behind the D4. SPORTS PHOTO Hero Capes” Scenes at the 88th Academy Awards” Thomas R. Cordova, Daily Breeze, “Eye on The Kristin Marguerite Doidge, Los Angeles Gigi Graciette, KTTV - FOX 11 News, “Erskine Ball” Business Journal, “Trade Wars” Fire 2016—Personalizing TV News Thru Chris Mihal, Bailey Franklin, Dylan Coulter, Eddie Kim, Los Angeles Downtown News, “The Social Media” Variety, “Ready for Rio” L.A. Phil’s Rising Star” Jenelle Riley, Variety, “Facebook Live Q&A Allen Schaben, Los Angeles Times, “Olympic Carl Kozlowski, Pasadena Weekly, “Mr. Big” With Tom Hiddleston” Celebration” Mark Madler, San Fernando Valley Business Journal, “Keeping the Crowd Spell-Bound” K2. BEST USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA (Organization) J9. SPORTS NEWS/ FEATURE/ Sarah Gidick and Carol McColgin, The COMMENTARY (online) E2. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS or FEATURE Hollywood Reporter, “The 25 Most Powerful Eric Boehm, Reason, “The New Vikings (Newspapers over 50K) Stylists in Hollywood” Stadium Is a Broken Window Metaphor Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times, “How Jennifer Liles and Christina Schoellkopf, The Come to Life” Vasquez Rocks, L.A.’s Onetime Outlaw Hollywood Reporter, “Creative Until You Die” Michael Duarte, NBC4, “From Bagging Hideout, Became ‘Star Trek’s’ Favorite Alien Landscape” Heather Navarro, Mike Bebernes, Megan Groceries to Hitting Grand Slams, Dodgers’ Moureaux, NBC4, “Election Night on Social Andrew Toles Proves Hard Work Pays Off” Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, “The Media” Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, Troubled Past and Questionable Benefits of Hollywood’s Oldest Awards Show for Kids” Melody Soto, Sheri Candler, Zoe Montano, “Mike Francesa, King of New York Sports KCET Artbound, “Artists Recreate the 1821 Radio for 30 Years, Prepares to Abdicate His Gustavo Turner, L.A. Weekly, “The Story U.S.-Mexico Border” Throne” Behind the Planet’s Most Influential Road Map of ‘Weird Music’” Melody Soto, Zoe Montano, Marq Massen­ Eric Ortiz, Truthdig, “Brave Like Kap” gale, KCET Artbound, “Championing Arts Aitana Vargas, Agencia EFE, “La Natación Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, “Karon Education: Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers” Estadounidense, una Élite Mundial Davis’ ‘Pain Management’ Plumbs Loss Escasamente Diversa” and Love in a Tribute to her Late Husband, Noah Davis” J15. BLOG (Individual) April Wolfe, L.A. Weekly, “How Bruce Lee’s Brian Addison, LongBeachize.com H11. SPORTS (TV) Daughter Is Sharing His Philosophies With Donna Balancia, CaliforniaRocker.com Phil Goyen, Nine Network Australia, “The Long the Digital Generation” Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, “The Road Ahead” Race” Derrin Horton, Phil Ige, Eddy Montiel, KTLA 5 News, “LA Sports Leaders: ‘The Real Players’” G6. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS or FEATURE Bennet Kelley, Today Past (Magazines) Todd Krainin, Reason, “Another Troubled City, Kristopher Tapley, Variety, “In Contention” Gary Baum and Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Another Subsidized Stadium to the Reporter, “Bang Bang! Hollywood and Rescue” J16. BLOG (Group) Guns” KVEA News Team, KVEA News, “Yarda 50” Aaron Couch, Borys Kit, Graeme McMillan, Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, “HBO’s Andres Pruna, KMEX, “Ser del Mar” The Hollywood Reporter, “Heat Vision” High-Class Problems” Eriq Gardner and Ashley Cullins, The James Rainey and Tim Gray, Variety, “Failure Hollywood Reporter, “THR, Esq.” PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD – Jaime Jarrín of Inclusion Plagues the Industry” Nick Gillespie, Reason, “Hit & Run” introduced by Jorge Jarrín Jenelle Riley, Variety, “Will Ferrell and Adam Lesley Goldberg, Kate Stanhope, Michael McKay Celebrate a Decade of Gary O’Connell, Bryn Elise Sandberg, The Sanchez Productions” Hollywood Reporter, “Live Feed” J11. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS (Online) Rebecca Sun and Ashley Lee, The Hollywood Booth Moore, Stephanie Chan, Samantha Kasia Anderson, Truthdig, “Friends of Abe, Reporter, “Tragedy Behind the ‘Killing Reed, Sarah Gidick, Carol McColgin, Jane Hollywood Conservatives’ Secret Society, Is Fields’ Star Who Won a Supporting Actor Carlson, Jeanie Pyun, The Hollywood Calling It Quits (Exclusive)” Oscar” Reporter, “Pret-a-Reporter” Matt Donnelly and Sharon Waxman, TheWrap, “Sony Entertainment ‘Leadership Vacuum,’ Poor Studio Results Create Tension”

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CRITICISM on Food/Culture on Hollywood’s Relations With China” Carter and Harvey Weinstein, introduced “Game of Thrones VFX: Inside Battle of the Owen Gleiberman, Variety, “Jason Bourne: Thom Geier, TheWrap, “Thom Geier Theater Rob Eshman, The Jewish Journal, “I’ll Have by Tamron Hall Adam Tanswell, SciFiNow, “The X-Files Reborn” Bastards” More Than a Rerun, Because He’s Never Reviews” What Phil Rosenthal’s Having” Tom Walters, CTV-Canadian Television, “Sour Phil Goyen, Nine Network Australia, “House Been More Relevant” Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times, “Bob Dylan: Rob Eshman, The Jewish Journal, “Jonathan Note” Proud” Christopher Palmeri, Bloomberg News, “Steve ‘The Homer of Our Time’” Gold on Eating Your Entire City” X3. ACTIVIST JOURNALISM (All platforms) Tom Walters, CTV-Canadian Television, “Zsa George Pennacchio and Cheryl Diano, Jobs Was in Trouble. His Hero? Chief Jordan Riefe, Truthdig, “A Racist Mecca, a Brad A. 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Weekly, “Andy Ricker Brings Sonali Kolhatkar, Truthdig, “Racism Fueled How Politicians and Mainstream Media Fail Star Trek Fan Film CBS Wants to Stop” Andrew Wallenstein, Variety, “Trump Connects David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, “‘Long Pok Pok to L.A., for Better or Worse” Outrage Over Cincinnati Gorilla Killing” Rural America” With Middle America. Does Hollywood?” Day’s Journey Into Night’: Theater Review” Blake Pinto, The Edge, “The Beautifully Angry Lucas Shaw, Bloomberg News, “Vice’s New I7. ENTERTAINMENT REPORTING/ D5. ENTERTAINMENT PHOTO Poet” Cable Network Is More Popular on YouTube CRITICISM (Radio) X14. CRITICISM on TV/Film X16. 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SCIENCE/HEALTH/TECHNOLOGY Late Night Voice” Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, “Patt La Land’” Jonathan Kirsch, The Jewish Journal, “Shock Is Hollywood Reporter, “Comedy Actors REPORTING (All platforms) Kristopher Tapley, Variety, “From Shoestring Morrison Asks Rebecca Traister” Simi Horwitz, Film Journal International, Followed by Awe over Foer’s New Novel” Roundtable” Sasha Abramsky, Capital & Main, “Uncovered Budgets to Studio Sci-Fi, Jeff Nichols and Susan Valot, KCRW, “Finding Friendship and “’Mother’s Day’ Confronts the New Normal Christopher Palmeri, Bloomberg News, “Steve Chris Mihal, Bailey Franklin, Guido Vitti, California: Community College Students’ Michael Shannon Keep an Even Keel” Art at the Annual Pageant of the Masters” in a Trio of Films” Jobs Was in Trouble. His Hero? Chief Variety, “Billions” Quest for Mental Health Services” Matt Wake, L.A. Weekly, “Inside the Strange, Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, Financial Officer Man!” Chris Mihal, Bailey Franklin, Tom Munro, Jon Kaplan, Nic Cha Kim, Michael Bloecher, Hidden World of Offstage Touring “’Florence Foster Jenkins’ Movie Review” Variety, “Justin Timberlake—Unstoppable” KCET, “SoCal Connected – Hyperloop: Tube Musicians” Travel at Near Supersonic Speed”

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HARD NEWS (Print) Sonali Kolhatkar, Free Speech Ringo Chiu, Los Angeles Business Shares Transgender Journey” Eitan Arom, The Jewish Journal, TV, “Grappling With Nazism Journal “The Complex, Secret Path to and White Nationalism” Allen J. Schaben, Los Angeles Sonali Kolhatkar, Free Speech Times PRESIDENTS AWARD—Jake Becoming an Orthodox Jew” TV, “Trump’s Victory Is a Vote Tapper introduced by Conan Gary Metzker and Kevin Flores, For White Privilege” A4. RADIO JOURNALIST O’Brien The Edge, “Pot in the Pan: Chef Nugs’ Recipe for Success” Micah Ohlman, Cher Calvin, Madeleine Brand, KCRW Tatiana Siegel and Ashley Glen Walker, Marcus Smith, Deepa Fernandes, KPCC D1. NEWS PHOTO Cullins, The Hollywood Mazen Hafez, Christine Gina Ferazzi, Los Angeles Times, Reporter, “’Birth of a Nation Miceli, Kristen Nunez, KTLA A3. TELEVISION JOURNALIST “Year of Deadly Violence” Blowback:’ What Happens at 5 News, “KTLA 5 News at 10 Mike Amor, 7 Network Australia Chris Mihal, Bailey Franklin, Festivals Now” Election Night 2016” Kimberly Cheng, KTLA 5 News Michael Buckner, Variety, “88th Jim Epstein, Reason Academy Awards - Scenes H4. BREAKING NEWS (TV) J17. WEBSITE, NEWS Ernesto Torres, KNBC TV4 Nominated for Press From Backstage” ORGANIZATION EXCLUSIVE Angie Crouch and Bobbie Eng, TO THE INTERNET Antonio Valverde, KMEX Allen Schaben, Los Angeles KNBC TV, “UCLA Shooting” Times, “Vigil Against Hatred Capital & Main Staff, Capital & FOrward Cheryl Diano and Cari Skill- Main A2. PRINT under 50,000 and Violence” man, KABC-TV, “The Death Of circulation Daniel Heimpel, Christie Renick, Allen Schaben, Los Angeles Prince” Brian Hews, Los Cerritos Journalists in Los Angeles need a place Times, “Wet Your Whistle” John Kelly, Jeremy Louden- Steve Kuzj, KTLA 5 News, “Police back, Holden Slattery, The Community News 17 where they can be heard, meet and Ted Soqui, L.A. Weekly, “City of Shooting Outcry” Brent Lang, Variety Southern California Smoke” Chronicle of Social Change network with other journalists, and prepare Ernesto Torres, KNBC TV 4, “I See Zuade Kaufman and Robert Henry Meier, Los Angeles Journalism Awards for the chal­lenges that lie ahead. Big Fire and Smoke” Scheer, Truthdig Business Journal L1. NEWS (Foreign Kareen Wynter, KTLA 5 News, Correspondents) Norberto Santana, Voice of OC Jon Regardie, Los Angeles “Dangerous Flash Floods and Downtown News Mike Amor and Arron Hage, 7 Sharon Waxman, Tim Molloy, that place exists. Heavy Rain Forces Closures” Network Australia, “Zika” Thom Geier, TheWrap Daina Beth Solomon, Los It is the Los Angeles Press Club. Angeles Business Journal Mike Amor, Alex Hart, Emma H3. VIDEOGRAPHER (TV) Dallimore, Ben Shaw, Duncan J18. WEBSITE, TRADITIONAL Arron Hage, 7 Network Australia, A1. PRINT, over 50,000 McLeod, 7 Network Australia, NEWS ORGANIZATION join and become a member of “In Cold Blood - The Chris circulation “Nightclub Massacre” Janice Min, Matthew Belloni, the Club that has represented Lane Story” Tom Seeley, The Hollywood Hillel Aron, L.A. Weekly Jon Boon, Daily Mail, “Shia journalists in Los Angeles since 1913. Arron Hage, 7 Network Australia, Reporter, THR.com Gary Baum, The Hollywood LaBeouf’s Father On The Run “Bravest Man in Mexico” Reporter From Cops & Tracked Down In Nick Gillespie, Reason, Reason. Ryan Heraly, The Hollywood Danielle Berrin, The Jewish Costa Rica” com Reporter, “THR Eats” Journal Janet R. 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LA 54 PC LA 55 PC How the Southern California Journalism Awards Are Judged Like Many Press Clubs, We Get by With a Little Help From Our Friends

he Los Angeles Press Club does not judge its own awards competition. Congratulations TInstead, our awards are decided by to our nominees volunteer journalists representing press organizations from across the country. In return, our press club judges other organi- zations’ competitions. Each spring, press clubs exchange Journalists of the Year Danielle berrin contest entries with one another, sharing a mutual commitment to honoring journal- istic achievement. The reciprocal judging oBituarY/in aPPreCiation—others process ensures fair and impartial judging. Tom TugenD “a Friend of 7 Decades recalls a Young elie Wiesel” Among the organizations across the country helping us to judge this competition CritiCisM on Books/art/architecture/Design are: Cleveland Press Club, Florida Press JonaThan Kirsch “shock is Followed by awe over Foer’s new novel” Club, Lone Star Press Club, Kansas Press Club, Milwaukee Press Club, New CritiCisM on food/Culture Orleans Press Club, Press Club of West rob eshman “i’ll have What Phil rosenthal’s having” Pennsylvania, Southeast Texas Press Club, rob eshman “Jonathan gold on eating Your entire city” Syracuse Press Club, The National Press Club and SPJ Florida. harD neWs eiTan arom “The complex, secret Path to becoming an orthodox Jew”

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After 12 years at the same location, mission we need our ColuMn the LA Press Club is losing its home. own home. Having our Danielle berrin “huma abedin and the real housewives of Politics” Unfortunately, the building has been sold and own home assures marTY KaPlan “is campaign news necessary?”

will be demolished to make room for condos. that every journalist PersonalitY Profile has a support Tom TugenD “looking back at War on memorial Day” Our non-profit organization has grown center and can rely exponentially in the past decade—not merely on a coalition of PolitiCal ColuMn/CoMMentarY in size but in respect and prominence. The colleagues defending Tom Teicholz “Jews are not White People, or Why Jews support the left (a response to Dennis Prager)” raPhael sonnenshein “Terror and the election: What Does it mean?” LAPC has been in the forefront both free speech and of defending the highest journalistic integrity. non-PolitiCal ColuMn/CoMMentarY standards and ethics of ilana angel “breasts & Fruit” true journalism. Please help us defend the Free Press. It's lisa niver “a Journey to Freedom over Three Passovers” the pillar of Democracy. eDitorial Cartoon In these difficult sTeve greenberg “Trump’s inauguration” times of constant Get your name on our “new" building and attacks on the media become a Patron of The First Amendment! and journalists in particular, it's fairly If you can help in any way, contact obvious that in order Executive Director Diana Ljungaeus at JEWISH JOURNAL to continue our [email protected] or 323.669.8081 Connect. Inform. Inspire.

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LOS ANGELES PRESS CLUB NAEJ 2017 Call for Entries Starts in August! If you produced exceptional work in the field of arts and entertainment reporting in 2016-2017, we'd like to see it! Enter our 10th Annual Awards Gala!

Past honorees have been recognized with these awards: The Visionary Award For Humanitarian Work The Luminary Award For Career Achievement The Legend Award Lifetime Achievements and Contributions to Society

Sunday, December 3, 2017 • Crystal Ballroom, Millennium Biltmore Hotel