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LOS ANGELES PRESS CLUB th Congratulations 49 Annual Awards for Editorial Southern California Journalism Awards Excellence in 2006 David Glovin and David Evans and Los Angeles Press Club Finalist: Magazines/Investigative A non-profit organization with 501(c)(3) status Tax ID 01-0761875 Honorary Awards “How Test Companies Fail Your Kids” 4773 Hollywood Boulevard Bloomberg Markets, December 2006 Hollywood, California 90027 for 2007 Phone: (323) 669-8081 Fax: (323) 669-8069 David Glovin and David Evans Internet: www.lapressclub.org E-mail: [email protected] THE PRESIDENT’S AWARD Finalist: Investigative Series For Impact on Media “SATs Scored in Error by Test Companies Roil Admissions Process” PRESS CLUB OFFICERS Gustavo Arellano president: Anthea Raymond “Ask a Mexican” Radio reporter/editor OC Weekly vice president: Ezra Palmer Seth Lubove Yahoo! News The Daniel Pearl Award Finalist: Entertainment Feature treasurer: Rory Johnston Freelance For Courage and Integrity in Journalism 3 “John Davis, Marvin’s Son, Feuds With Sister Over ‘Looted’ Fund” secretary: Jon Beaupre Radio/TV journalist, Educator Anna Politkovskaya

executive director: Diana Ljungaeus Journalist Chet Currier International Journalist Novaya Gazeta Finalist: Column/Commentary BOARD MEMBERS Jahan Hassan, Ekush (Bengali newspaper) The Joseph M. Quinn Award Josh Kleinbaum, Los Angeles Newspaper Group For Journalistic Excellence and Distinction Michael Collins, EnviroReporter.com Eric Longabardi, TeleMedia News Prod. Judy Woodruff Terence Lyons, Santa Monica Mirror News Reporter And all journalists recognized by the Linda Renaud, Palisadian Post PBS George White, UCLA Los Angeles Press Club Adam Wilkenfeld, CWK Network Chris Woodyard, USA Today

ADVISORY BOARD Adrienne Anderson, Maxmillion Productions Alex Ben Block, Entertainment Historian Bloomberg News Richard McKee, First Amendment Expert Patt Morrison, LA Times/KPCC

PUBLICIST Edward Headington

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SCHEDULE 7 p.m. Dinner 7:45 p.m. Silent Auction Closes

OF EVENTS 7:50 p.m. Show Begins For all finalists see Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa – welcoming remarks pages 27-31 FEATURES Print Reporter, Columnist or Editor of the Year (Newspapers under 100K)

DESIGN/LAYOUT Designer of the Year

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING Photojournalist of the Year

TRIBUTE TO CATHY SEIPP By Sandra Tsing Loh 5 NEWSCASTS TV Journalist of the Year

ENTERTAINMENT Entertainment Journalist of the Year

PRESIDENT’S AWARD: Gustavo “Ask a Mexican” Arellano

SPORTS Sports Anchor or Reporter of the Year

BUSINESS

COMMENTARY Radio Anchor or Reporter of the Year

PEARL AWARD: Anna Politkovskaya, accepted by Sergei Sokolov of Novaya Gazeta

FEATURES Health Journalist of the Year

HARD NEWS Print Reporter, Columnist of the Year (Newspapers over 100K)

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elcome to the Los Angeles Press Club’s annual gala dedicated to the top journalists in Southern California and FROM THE the efforts of reporters, photographers, editors, freelancers, designers, videographers, bloggers, producers and other PRESIDENT Wjournalists everywhere. For those not familiar with the 400-member Press Club, we are a non- profit organization that takes an active role in key issues facing working media. Currently, the club is involved in the debate about how press passes are issued by the Los Angeles Police Department. Recently, Press Club board members and I met with Police Chief Bill Bratton about the some- times-difficult process of procuring an LAPD press credential in highly competitive Los Angeles. We hope to convene a meeting that dovetails with Variety efforts by other local journalism groups to assure that the LAPD’s criteria for who qualifies as a journalist is kept as broad as possible. We also spoke out recently, in an open letter to Chief Bratton, after LAPD officers attacked proudly supports journalists at the May 1 immigration rally in MacArthur Park. Among other initiatives, the Press Club is reviving its longtime “Sun- shine” efforts to press California government entities - including the Los Angeles City Council and Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors - to embrace public transparency, open meeting rules and adherence to Cali- THE fornia’s Brown Act. Toward that end, we’re recruiting seasoned reporters 7 to help keep a watchful eye on elected bodies that fail to do their work in Anthea Raymond public as required by law. Finally, we are continuing our signature programming for journal- LOS ANGELES ists-now in its second year-at Los Feliz’s Center for Inquiry/Steve Allen The- ater (our fabulous headquarters across from Barnsdall Park on Hollywood Boulevard.) If you’ve been to a program recently, you know that our panel discussions and interview events are eye-opening evenings, and a great PRESS CLUB way to meet other journalists in sprawling Southern California. Tonight, the vibrant intellectual and cultural mix of our region is evi- dent in the special awards being given to PBS’ Judy Woodruff, OC Weekly cultural commentator and syndicated columnist Gustavo Arellano and slain Russian journalist, Anna Politkovskaya. You’ll also have a chance to rub elbows with presenters including Patt Morrison of the Los Angeles Times and KPCC-FM, Frank Stolze of KPCC-FM and Arianna Huffington of Huff- ington Post and KCRW’s Left, Right and Center. Tonight’s more than 80 first-place winners were culled from many hun- dreds of entries, thanks to working journalists in other cities who each year graciously adjudicate our contest to assure fairness. This year, the judging cities included journalists at press clubs that are listed in Michael Collins’ column. The 2007 Southern California Journalism Award Winners, whose efforts appeared in local TV, radio, print, and online media outlets in 2006, are our “raison d’etre” for gathering here tonight.

Cheers, The Year in Review 2006 – 2007 The Los Angeles Press Club continued its tradition this past year of putting on great events and engaging the public.

any and various were the Sound of No Hands Clapping.” Can “Take a gun safety class,” he said. “Carry a meetings the Press Club held journalists make it in Hollywood? Not pocket knife.” Msince last year’s Awards Gala. according to Young, but he is making An impressive array of political insiders Topics ranged from the challenges of quite a success out of failure. Long, de- plus KNBC’s Conan Nolan gathered at USC in new media, through the ethics or lack spite his best efforts, was unable to get November for an election post-mortem. So thereof of the paparazzi, street po- Young to reveal the identity of the Big- having listened to all these campaign strat- etry, immigration, the elections, and a time Hollywood Producer who prom- egists and political science professors, do backwards look at Robert Kennedy. We ised him the moon but, gee, it didn’t we feel hopeful about the future of Ameri- looked at the dangers journalists face in work out. can democracy? Hmmm. We’ll have to think covering wars abroad, and the dangers Press Club member Sandy Wells about that. they face covering education at home. was attacked when he tried to report CNN Pipeline Anchor Nicole Lapin We got a double dose of acid wit for KABC from a controversial charter brought us a look at “Embracing the ‘You’: when acerbic British commentator elementary school in El Sereno. He told The Future of Broadcast News in the Age Toby Young got together with acerbic us about it in company with former sol- of Citizen Journalism.” Lapin, who is based LAPC Publicist, Edward Headington, asks ABC News American commentator Rob Long at dier and now journalism professor Buck in Atlanta, is seeing firsthand the impact of Anchor, John Stossel, about the merits of Magnum P.I.- “Another standing-room only event with the LA Press Club.” size mustaches. the Barnsdall Gallery Theatre to plug, Tharp. Journalists need to learn to de- MySpace, YouTube and blogging on her ser- err, discuss Young’s latest book “The fend themselves, we heard from Buck. vice and the rest of the media.

8 LAPC Stalkerazzi panelists, from left to right: 9 moderator David Willis with the BBC; Allison Hope Weiner with The New York Times; Giles Harrison with London Entertainment/Splash News – Paparazzo; Blair Berk (Esq.), a Los Angeles criminal defense attorney with Tarlow & Berk; Rob Nelson with KABC-AM790 / E! Entertainment THS Investigates. Photo: Ben Simpson

Marc Maron and Denise Dador of KABC

Robert F. Kennedy panelists: Paul Schrade, Ed Guthman, Rick Tuttle with moderator Dan Black- burn.

LAPC Executive Director, Diana Ljungaeus, with Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who made the welcoming remarks.

The LAPC Stalkerazzi Panel Discussion. From left to right: Giles Harrison, Blair Berk (Esq.), Rob Nelson, Allison LA Press Club Immigration panel discussion with LA Week- CNN Pipeline anchor, Nicole Lapin, in a playful Buster Sussman, member since Hope Weiner, moderated by David Willis. Photo: Ben Simpson ly’s Daniel Hernandez and Jon Fleischman of Flash Report.\ mood with LA Observed principal, Kevin Roderick. 1948 and still active.

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She was followed by Kevin Sites who brought us harrowing detail of his one-man war reporting for Yahoo. We have been tying up with other Congratulations to all groups more and more. A joint meeting with the SPJ brought one of the biggest crowds of the year to the Steve Allen The- of this year’s nominees... atre to honor “Miss Trial,” AP court reporter Linda Deutsch. A joint gathering with the Reason Foun- dation looked at Angelinos’ favorite topic, especially those who fly Former Executive Director of LA Press Club, Alex Ben traffic. Former public transit executive Tom Block with former Board Member, Ana Garcia of KNBC Rubin told us that the new Orange Line and Producer Fred Mamoun buses actually go slower on their dedicated under our flags busways than do buses on ordinary city ### streets. At the end of the day, though, it appeared that the entire panel came to the Judea Pearl, father of slain journalist conclusion that the answer to traffic con- Daniel Pearl, speaks to the Press Club gestion is to build more freeways. There and introduces Kevin Sites, the 2006 is probably quite a lot of doubt about that Daniel Pearl Award recipient. out there. { } We also got another look at the future together with the On-Line News Associa- tion at Yahoo News headquarters in Santa Monica. Last but not least we examined Holly- Larry King and Tavis Smiley wood Ground Zero: Where Celebrity, Pa- parazzi and the First Amendment Collide. # What is News? What is Entertainment? Is # there still a line? Does it even matter any- more? Are celebrities asking for it? ... or are they victims of media mayhem run amok? And who is getting rich and who is just getting mad? Good questions all. With our sleuthing skills, we are sure to find some answers. From a panel discussion on the life and legacy of Robert F. Kennedy to EnviroReporter.com’s Michael Collins book parties with Joe Mathews and conver- and Denise Duffield. sations with solo journalist, Kevin Sites, the Press Club keeps with the times. NOMINEES FOR THE 49TH ANNUAL SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA JOURNALISM AWARDS: In a nod to the emergence of new Ruth and Judea Pearl with Quinn awardee Dave Lopez media or Web 2.0, the Press Club now has a MySpace page, posts videos of all our Journalist of the Year: Michael Collins, Los Angeles CityBeat events on YouTube and uses Slide.com for Photojournalist of the Year: Ted Soqui, Los Angeles CityBeat picture slideshows. News Feature: Dean Kuipers, Los Angeles CityBeat; Chip Jacobs, Pasadena Weekly The 500-member club is overseen by working journalist and club Executive Di- Investigative/Series: Michael Collins, Los Angeles CityBeat; Chip Jacobs, Kevin Uhrich, Pasadena Weekly rector, Diana Ljungaeus, and led by board Editorial: Kevin Uhrich, Pasadena Weekly president and award-winning radio journal- Signed Commentary: Andrew Gumbel, Los Angeles CityBeat ist, Anthea Raymond. We stand as an or- Columnist: Natalie Nichols, Los Angeles CityBeat ganization devoted to improving the spirit of journalism and journalists, raising the Entertainment Reviews/Criticism: Anthony Miller, Los Angeles CityBeat Our evening with “Miss Trial,” Linda industry’s standards, strengthening its in- Entertainment Feature: Steve Appleford, Los Angeles CityBeat; Anthony Miller, Los Angeles CityBeat Deutsch, was one of most highly at- tegrity and improving its reputation all for Photo Essay: Ted Soqui, Los Angeles CityBeat tended events of the year. Here she is the benefit of the community at large. For with volunteer, Theresa Adams. Actress Maud Adams and Doug Kriegel of KNBC more information, go to http://lapressclub. org and/or www.myspace.com/lapressclub.  PRESIDENT’S AWARD for impact on media Gustavo Arellano’s “Ask a Mexican” Column USES the PROFANE TO CREATE, EXPAND NATIONAL CONVERSATION ON RACE AND ETHNICITY

BY DEREK OLSON When colleagues arrive each morning, they usually hear a disembodied Arellano in the back- Dear Mexican: My grandparents were ground. He’s probably again ducked under his desk utside Santa Ana’s Libreria Martinez Dutch on one side and Irish on the other— to muffle his loud voice during an important inter- bookstore, a teenage girl huddles in the but they came here legally, through Ellis view. He has the uncanny ability to already be in crowded doorway. She stands on her Island. What I can’t stand are a bunch of when others arrive. tiptoes to get a look at Gustavo Arellano, fence-hopping, river-wading illegals telling At 28, Arellano’s early success can’t be ex- Owho’s just disappeared from the view of the sweaty, me I owe them a free education, health care plained away by luck. Although he graduated from anxious crowd. and transportation. Making these people Chapman University, he didn’t major in journalism “He looks so much different,” she says. “I was citizens simply because they’re here is like or get a boost from some beneficent journalism expecting him to be this big fat revolutionary guy.” letting someone keep my car just because he professor who happened to stash an internship Arellano had been signing copies of his book, already stole it. hook-up for the class suck up. Arellano just wrote “Ask A Mexican,” but the 300 copies stocked for a letter to OC Weekly and impressed former editor the event sold out. So he was running back to his Angry Gabacho Goes Really Off Will Swain so much that he was invited to free- office at the OC Weekly to get 30 from his personal lance. Arellano’s consistent and irreverent work stash. Dear AGGRO: Wake up and smell the tacos. eventually earned him a full-time gig and then a 12 Those who glimpse the author see someone a Your letter contains enough inaccuracies, mis- 13 promotion to News and Investigative Editor. little more clean-cut than the bloated, gold-toothed representations and logical fallacies to qualify as Arellano also credits Swain for putting him up bandito atop his syndicated column also called a quiz for high school rhetoric students. Prime- to doing the “Ask a Mexican” column for the first “Ask a Mexican.” His book compiles some of those ramente, you begin by saying that immigrants time. Like many genius moments, it came out of a columns. don’t bother you, then switch courses by bashing deadline driven brainstorming session after a story The character, an admitted stereotype, is just illegal immigrants. It’s fine to distinguish between fell through last minute. one of the many hats Arellano puts on each day. He the two, but don’t offer qualifiers when arguing a The first and many subsequent columns weren’t thinks of himself first as an investigative reporter point—they weaken your conclusion. Also, illegal always well received. He was blasted from the an- for the OC Weekly, but he’s also the Orange County immigrants aren’t demanding free anything—just ti-immigration front for giving a voice to Mexicans, alternative paper’s food critic. Arellano also now amnesty for millions. and called a sellout by some Mexicans for playing makes the rounds on local television and radio—as into stereotypes. well as national appearances on CNN and The Col- “I get it from all sides,” he says. “To me, that’s bert Report, among many others, and then, there’s minorities for business reasons, Arellano seems to just an indication that I’m doing my job. I’m an the book. have found an audience. He’s now syndicated in investigative reporter, so, of course, I have thick 22 publications including one in far-flung Jackson, skin.” Wyoming. The questions he answers are sometimes bla- Just needed to know the reasoning behind As he reappeared at Libreria Martinez, the tantly racist, bizarre, and even sexual in nature, the BLARING MARIACHI MUSIC AT 7 A.M. ON crowd went into a frenzy and jockeyed to get one but Arellano’s business is dispelling myths. And, A SATURDAY MORNING. I am of Spanish de- of the extra copies he’d brought back. Five minutes he’s ready to slaughter any sacred cows along the scent (my father is Puerto Rican), and I wasn’t later, all were sold out again. road. raised around such BLASTING ACCORDION Will “Ask A Mexican” last? Or will it become “I’ve never regretted anything I’ve ever said. Re- MUSIC when growing up. Just to add to this, relic of a time when Hispanic Americans were still gret is one of the worst emotions you can inflict on my father also was a professional musician struggling to find a voice? Either way, Arellano is yourself,” he says. “If you’re not prepared to deal and played Latino music. So, what is it with ready to take his popularity in stride. He’s riding with that, then you shouldn’t write.” the Mexi-tunes? Are they trying to wake up, the wave, but when it passes, he’ll still be digging However readers feel about him, they have or wake others up? through documents and university archives. overwhelmingly turned to his column each week. Boricua Baboso His next big project, due out in 2008, to be pub- As journalism professors all over the country cyni- lished by Scribner’s, is a history of Orange County. cally inform students that newspapers don’t cover In Tribute to Cathy Seipp

Cathy Seipp, 1957 – 2007 A Fond Farewell Our Girl, Cathy often did, to find out what Cathy Seipp had to say about this new By Matt Welch By Mark Steyn By Rob Long development. If she would shake he Press Club, and scores of its members, lost a dear friend this March. Well, “dear” doesn’t it off, call it “ridiculous!” ignore it, loved Cathy Seipp’s writing, even though much really do Cathy Seipp justice.... More like “acerbic” and “needlessly confrontational” and “brilliant” hese things take a while, I’m or start one of her hilarious, acid of it was in areas I usually avoid like the plague: and “more generous than any of her enemies could imagine.” told, to sink in. Cathy Seipp, feuds with it. She was smart, funny, T 1) She wrote media criticism, which is almost my longtime friend, had been uncompromising, fantastically and Seipp, who came to fame in the 1990s through her L.A. Times-skewering “Margo McGee” columns I T always the province of the indestructible ethics in the late Buzz magazine, then connected to a new generation of readers at her “Cathy’s World” fighting lung cancer for years. epically cranky—all of these things bores; weblog, was the patron saint of L.A. freelancers and Hollywood mutts Most of that time, I told her, I sort and more. 2) She wrote about hanging out in a glam- from every conceivable chunk of the political spectrum. She organized of felt sorry for the cancer—Cathy But she was also a girl. She had orous city with a bunch of vaguely cool people Press Club book parties for most of the past decade, hounded her tal- marching around to doctor’s of- wide eyes and one of those high you’ve never heard of, which grates very quickly ented slacker friends to get health insurance, and wrote with great wit fices and chemotherapy sessions foreheads that girls have in 1940s on those of us who live in obscure zip codes where and enthusiasm about politics, television, and the scourge of “Silver Lake with no-nonsense purpose; Cathy movies, and there was something nothing ever happens; dads” at her local Trader Joe’s. explaining to a Blue Cross bureau- immensely flattering to male van- 3) She wrote droll observational scenes of She was a subtle yet relentless champion of Southern California crat, with restrained irritation, that ity to talk to Cathy Seipp because everyday life, like all those leaden officially desig- journalism. Her death, after five inspirational years of battling a lung it made no sense for the insurer to she looked at you as if you were nated “humorists” in every newspaper across the cancer that should have finished her off in two, leaves a gaping hole in suddenly declare, now that a certain saying something important and land trying to wring 600 words out of the amusing our journalistic fabric, and in the lives of the hundreds of us she touched. type of chemotherapy was showing interesting. Jim Lowney aspects of barcode scanners; The following are excerpts from four of the literally hundreds of remem- some success with her cancer, that It was a trick, of course—she 4) And she wrote about the funny things her brances published in the hours and days after Cathy’s untimely passing. it was “experimental” and therefore was a brilliant, sneaky reporter. kid said, which is the kind of perilous terrain that not covered—really, truly, it looked Once, at lunch, I launched into leaves even the most well-disposed reader feeling to most of us like maybe it wasn’t some ill-considered tirade and Live, From the Blogosphere, it’s Death! like W. C. Fields. a fair fight. Cancer vs. Seipp? My looked up to see Cathy staring at But Cathy was the exception to the rule in all money was on Seipp. me with delighted, wide eyes and 14 By Sandra Tsing Loh the above and many other areas. The media criti- So when she died Wednes- a wonderful smile….and then I 15 cism was much needed in her home state, where day—slipped away, really, peace- noticed her right hand, scribbling ess than a week ago, at the note on the website the weekend be- national commentariat (at the Na- she was a welcome disruption to the entertain- fully in her sleep—I found myself away, taking it all down, without end of her battle with lung can- fore last explaining that her mother tional Review, the Wall Street Journal, ment capital’s industrial production line of the going directly to her blog, as I ever breaking eye contact with me. Lcer, I hugged my friend Cathy had been moved to Cedars-Sinai, into Salon and more), was perhaps the world’s dullest journalists. Her analyses of the Los Seipp goodbye and walked heavily, the silence of Cathy’s World the blog- only Republican living in Silver Lake. Angeles Times-servers were dead right, but my in the soul-shattering sunshine, to my gers stepped. She was well liked, not just by those favorite moments were when some stylistic quirk car in its far-flung parking lot, lost in The first tsunami of Seipp-in- she praised but by those she had not caught her eye: I almost didn’t finish reading Lo- a Cedars-Sinai maze of gray concrete, spired blog posts was rousing. As always written about kindly. (P.S. Did pez’s column today because in the opening graph he feeling betrayed by even George early as March 19, premature an- you see the lovely tribute to Cathy wrote that he “motored about” L.A. to hear what peo- Burns and Gracie Allen, whose spar- nouncements of Cathy’s death began written by … Susan Estrich ?) ple were saying about yesterday’s protests. Motored kling comedic names grace such appearing, but the bloggers did seem about? What is he now — Jeeves? grim boulevards…. sincere, and sad. Cathy, a longtime As for the hanging-out-in-LA stuff, Cathy wrote And then the phone began to ring. contrarian member of the local and (Excerpted from the Los Angeles Times) with a very unforced warmth that could make It was time to snap out of it. In almost any of her pals sound like someone you’d New Media terms, on the Cathy Seipp like to meet, even when (as with my Spectator col- story, I was already ’way, ’way behind. L.A.’s Pugilistic Core league Toby Young) you already have and wish you Understand that Cathy was hadn’t. The observational humor usually turned a blogger. For the remaining two By Andrew Breitbart up as an odd digression, as if she’d been motor- people who don’t know what that ing about and turned down a winding side street. means, for the last five years, Cathy athy Seipp was the social, spiritual, and pugilistic core of the Los An- A few years back, some guy sent her an e-mail to had been regularly posting her views geles media scene. We’re all now wondering: What next? say half-an-hour earlier he’d just recognized her on culture, politics and life on her C Before I met Cathy, I knew no one. After, I knew everyone. And her driving a gray Volvo east on Beverly Boulevard: website, Cathy’s World. Although group of friends came in every shape, size and ideology. Rich, poor, journalist, At least I didn’t attract his attention because I she did mention her cancer on her blogger, controversy starters and stoppers, rainbow- headed film reviewers, was picking my nose in the car, which people often blog, particularly as an impetus to a sex goddess, a babe named “Moxie,” and even the occasional literate Or- do while for some reason assuming they’re invisible. rail against Blue Cross, Cathy stopped thodox Jew porn connoisseur. As a pronounced conservative she was quite Sudden, horrible thought....or did I? far short of Timothy Leary, who liberal in that regard. And her bohemian Silverlake aesthetic only added to webcasted his own death. However, the package of joyful contradiction. Thank God she had a kid. (These contributions excerpted from National Review when her daughter posted a short Online) DANIEL PEARL AWARD for courage and integrity in journalism

Remembering Anna Politkovskaya

By wendy lain Russian investigative journalist that won her the trust of Chechen rebels. The hughes Anna Politkovskaya, whose bravery has Moscow bi-weekly Novaya Gazeta published her inspired journalists around the world, reports on the complicated relationship between is the sixth recipient of the Los Angeles Russia and Chechnya—a conflict over religion, SPress Club’s Daniel Pearl Award. natural resources and more than a century of bru- Receiving the posthumous award in her honor tality against the Chechen people. at the 49th Annual Southern California Journalism She was found shot to death in the elevator of Awards is Sergei Sokolov, Deputy Editor of Novaya her Moscow apartment building late last year. Six 16 Gazeta, Politkovskaya’s newspaper at the time of months after her death, in an April 2007 update 17 her death. of the story of her death first reported in October The Pearl Award is named after Daniel Pearl, 2006, the international organization Reporters the Wall Street Journal reporter who was mur- Without Borders has expressed frustration at a dered in 2002 by terrorists in Pakistan. Polit- stall in the investigation. Reporters Without Bor- ders said: “If the authorities fail to produce con- crete and conclusive evidence, the creation of an and maternity hospital in the Chechen capital of the head, in an elevator in her apartment build- international commission of enquiry or a Russian Grozny. She was arrested and held prisoner by ing in Moscow. A neighbor found her body at five parliamentary commission of enquiry could prove the FSB, formerly the KGB, for three days in 2000 o’clock p.m., and Moscow police have opened an necessary.” without food and water. investigation. Investigators suspect that the killing Politkovskaya was born in New York but edu- In 2004, on a flight from the United States to will be linked to her work. She was about to file a cated in Russia. Because her parents were diplo- help mediate a hostage crisis in Beslan, she lost story on torture in Chechnya—her computer was mats, she had access to books normally unavail- consciousness after drinking poison-laced tea. confiscated by police. able to Soviet students. She wrote for Izvestiya She once fled to Austria to avoid an assassination In Russia, journalism is a high-risk trade. The and then for an in-house publication of the state attempt. international Committee to Protect Journalists airline, Aeroflot. Because of this experience, she Anna Politkovskaya was finally silenced at age lists 29 journalists killed in Russia between 1995 was able to travel and thereby develop a perspec- 48 by two (some reports say four) bullets, one to and 2004. tive on the vast nation that spanned eleven time “There are journalists who have this fate hang- zones. ing over them. I always thought something would Under perestroika, publishers such as Novaya happen to Anya, first of all because of Chechnya,” Gazeta (“new newspaper”) were able to openly said Oleg Panifilov, director of theM oscow-based publish stories explaining the conflicts that were Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations in a taking place in the Russian population. Polit- Pravda report on Politkovskaya’s death last year. kovskaya filed detailed reports of the rapes, kid- UCLA instructor Marina Goldovskaya concurs, nappings, torture and disappearances taking place “She was my student at Moscow University in the under Russian President Putin, and the Chechen mid-1970s, and we stayed in touch. She was the Anna Politikovskaya kovskaya was chosen in consultation with the government installed in 1999. brightest, smartest, most beautiful and charm- was called Anya by her Pearl family. She survived poisoning and imprisonment ing woman,” recalls the journalism instructor. “I friends. Known to her friends as Anya, Politkovskaya and the loss of her marriage, all related to her warned her that what she was doing was danger- wrote about human rights and political contro- writing career. In 1999, the mother of two re- ous. She told me ‘I am a journalist. I have to do versies with courageous impartiality, a trademark ported on a Russian rocket attack on a market what I have to do.’” LAPressclub-full 8.5x11 6/7/07 4:36 PM Page 1

DANIEL PEARL AWARD ANNA POLITKOVSKAYA The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles

Sergei Sokolov investigations have taken him to many flash points including congratulates its finalists in the 2007 ergei Sokolov is the deputy ed- Chechnya, Afghanistan and Tajikistan. itor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, Los Angeles Press Club Southern California Swhich means “New Newspaper” Marina Goldovskaya in Russian. The paper, which is highly critical of the Russian government, arina Goldovskaya is one of was set up by former Soviet Presi- Russia’s best-known docu- Journalism Awards. dent Mikhail Gorbachev in 1993 with Mmentary filmmakers with a money from the Nobel Prize he won strong international following. She in 1990. has made 35 films, many of which Born August 26, 1967, Sokolov received top prizes (Prix Europa, COLUMNIST finished school in 1984 where he Golden Gate Award, Golden Hugo, studied the Chinese language. He Joris Ivens Award, Silver Rembrandt, Amy Klein became a student of Russian Peoples and many others) at various Interna- Friendship University the following year and graduated in 1992 tional Film Festivals. During her long with an international journalism degree. From 1983 worked career she has written, directed, pro- for Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper as a journalist. Sokolov duced and filmed documentaries for served as the correspondent of the youth affairs section of the Russian, Austrian, French, German, EDITORIALS paper from 1988 through 1993 where the main topics were and U.S. Television. In 2006 she received a Lifetime Achieve- psychology, education, teenagers’ crimes, homeless children, ment Award for the Art of Documenting History presented by Rob Eshman, “And Who Shall Die” children without families, and the effect of war on youth. In the Russian Association of Non-Fiction Film and TV. For 25 years 1993, he was promoted to deputy editor of the section, then Marina has taught documentary film and cinematography at editor of the investigations section, and now deputy edi- Moscow State University, where Anna Politkovskaya was one tor-in-chief. of her students. Presently she is running the Documentary pro- ENTERTAINMENT REVIEWS/CRITICISM/COLUMN Sokolov is the author of investigations about the activity of gram at the UCLA Film School. Her latest book “A Woman with Russian oil companies, crime in business and politics, children’s a Movie Camera: My life as a Russian Filmmaker” was published Gina Nahai, “Rushdie’s ‘Clown’ No Laughing Matter” 18 prostitution and numerous other controversial topics. These in 2006 by Texas University Press. Tom Teicholz, “Walk Like a Rock Star Mom”

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By ezra palmer udy Woodruff has been in the van­ weathercaster on Sunday evenings. Though cording kiosk in an RV, and, as they traveled, guard of American journalism for nearly it was a far cry from her ambition of political encouraged young Americans to sit down in four decades, helping to change the face reporting, she took the job to gain on-camera front of a computer and answer questions of the broadcast newsroom along the way. experience. That position paved the way for about their lives and their views. J Known for her passion for politics, her her becoming a general assignment reporter What emerged was a new and surprising 20 commitment to good journalism, and a unique in Atlanta, where she later served as one of take on young America. In fact, the experi- 21 combination of tenacity and courtesy, she the country’s first female anchors. Her cover- ence left Woodruff concerned about the news broke new ground for women. She continues age of Jimmy Carter brought her widespread media and its ability to retain its relevancy to to do so today in a career that has made her attention and helped open a path to Washing- a younger audience. “We’re not doing the job one of the most respected journalists of our ton, where she was the White House corre- we should be doing,” she says. time. spondent for NBC News from 1977 to 1982. Political coverage in particular, she says, A graduate of Duke University, Woodruff Woodruff has covered every U.S. presidential often overlooks younger voters. “We take our began her television career in Atlanta. Taking election since 1976. cues from the campaigns,” Woodruff says, the only path available to her at the time, she From 1983 to 1993, she was the DC Chief noting that campaigns tend to focus on older became a newsroom secretary. “We already Washington correspondent for the MacNeil/ people, who are more likely to vote. “We in she delivered her first son, Jeffrey, at George- have a woman reporter,” the station manager Lehrer NewsHour. For much of that decade, the media have a special responsibility to town Hospital. told her. Woodruff also anchored PBS’s award-winning make sure our coverage doesn’t overlook Woodruff is the founding co-chairwoman Her first on-air assignment was as a fill-in weekly documentary series, “Frontline with young people.” of the International Women’s Media Founda- Judy Woodruff.” During her “Frontline” tenure, When she looks back over her career, tion, an organization dedicated to promoting she also moderated the infamous Bentsen/ Woodruff is heartened by the gains women and encouraging women in the communica- Quayle vice presidential debate in 1988. have made. It is remarkable to think that, only tion industries worldwide. (In addition, she In 1993, Woodruff became a senior cor- in 1971, a network news head said, “I have serves on the boards of the Freedom Forum, “We in the media have a respondent for CNN, appearing on “Inside the strong feeling that audiences are less pre- Global Rights: Partners for Justice and the Politics” and “The World Today.” While at pared to accept news from a woman’s voice National Museum of American History. She is special responsibility to make CNN, she won a CableACE Award for best than from a man’s.” But Woodruff cautions also a member of the Knight Foundation Com- newscaster and an Emmy for coverage of the that women have not made similar strides mission on Intercollegiate Athletics.) sure our coverage doesn’t Centennial Olympic Park bombing. in management roles, and she worries that For herself, Woodruff says she would have overlook young people.” In 2005, Woodruff returned to PBS to societal pressures on women—the continued liked to have a chance to report overseas. “I’ve embark on an ambitious new project, “Gener- expectation that women will serve as principal loved covering politics—I am so blessed and —Judy Woodruff ation Next,” a multimedia attempt to por- homemakers whether or not they work—have lucky to have been able work in Washington— tray—and understand—the 42-million 16-to- capped the gains of the ’70s and ’80s. but I would have loved to have an assignment 25 year-olds in America. Woodruff and her Juggling career and family is a challenge abroad.” production team crisscrossed the country, she is intimately familiar with. On September That will have to wait for at least another profiling dozens of young Americans. Using 15, 1981, she did a live report for NBC from year, as she continues her work for PBS and technology in unique ways, they installed a re- the lawn of the White House; eight hours later gears up for the 2008 election. th 49 Annual Southern California Journalism Awards PRESENTERS

ALEX BEN BLOCK Huffington’s widely varied interests are also reflected in her during stints at The Colonial News and On November 7, 2006, Random House Alex Ben Block is Senior Columnist for eleven books, from her newest and most personal work, “On WHWH-WPST, both in New Jersey, and published her first book, “THERE’S NOTH- HollywoodToday.net, editor of an up- Becoming Fearless....in Love, Work and Life,” to more typical KHOW-AM in Colorado. She joined CBS ING IN THIS BOOK THAT I MEANT TO coming almanac of great movies for efforts like 2003’s “Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed News in 1981 and, during her nine SAY.” That same night BRAVO debuted George Lucas Books and a noted show and Political Corruption are Undermining America,” to her years with the network, covered the her new standup comedy special, “Paula business historian. Block is heard on 1988 biography, “Picasso: Creator and Destroyer.” A one-time space shuttle program, the 1988 po- Poundstone: Look What the Cat Dragged KPCC-FM’s “Call Sheet” and syndicated candidate for California governor, she is also co-host of “Left, litical conventions, and George H. W. In.” radio program, “The Advertising Show.” Right & Center,” a talk show on public radio. Bush’s presidential campaigns. She Voted the first woman to ever receive a He was the editor of two Hollywood went to work for ABC News in 1990, CableACE award for best standup comedy trades: The Hollywood Reporter and Nicole Lapin covered the 1992 Rodney King trial and special, and an American Comedy Award TelevisionWeek, as well as Associate Editor of Forbes, Edi- As the smart and friendly face of CNN ensuing riots, the 1994 Northridge earthquake and the O.J. for funniest comedienne, Paula has made

tor-in-Chief of eStar.com, a movie critic in Miami and Assistant Pipeline, Nicole Lapin has introduced Simpson criminal and civil trials, among other stories. Lange Photo George regular appearances on Garrison Keillor’s City Editor of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. Block is author more people to internet reporting than Muller is a graduate of Mary Washington College and has A Prairie Home Companion, Late Night with David Letterman, and of “OUTFOXED: The Inside Story of America’s Fourth Television perhaps any other journalist working received numerous journalism honors, including an Alfred I. The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. She has also starred in several Network,” and the bestseller “The Legend of Bruce Lee.” right now. Her broadcast reports on duPont-Columbia University Award for her “Nightline” coverage network and HBO television specials including Cats, Cops and He served for three years as Executive Director of the Los the many CNN networks and programs of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, and an Emmy Award for coverage Stuff, Paula Poundstone Goes to Harvard, A Gala for the President Angeles Press Club and remains an honorary board member. A integrate world-wide-web breadth of of the Simpson case. She has also received the Colorado Sigma at Ford’s Theatre, and The Emmy Awards. Perhaps the Chicago native of Syracuse, N.Y., and graduate of Ithaca College, coverage with easy to understand pre- Delta Chi Award and been honored by New Jersey Broadcasters Tribune said it best when it noted that “[S]he, like most great Block lives in Encino, Calif., with his wife, actress and pro- sentation. Association and the American Bar Association. stand-ups, has expertly turned the pain and turmoil of that or- ducer, Jodi Taylor. He is also the father of singer-songwriter She graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at deal into insightful, thought-provoking humor.” Hayley Taylor. Northwestern University after stints at Harvard, Columbia and JUDEA PEARL L’Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris. She worked at local TV Judea Pearl is President of The Daniel KEVIN SITES Farai Chideya stations in South Dakota and Kentucky before reporting for Pearl Foundation (www.danielpearl.org) Kevin Sites is a pioneering, multi-me- 22 If there is a media that Farai Chideya KPSP, CBS 2 in Palm Springs, which led to her position at CNN. named after his son, journalist Daniel dia journalist who often works as a 23 hasn’t worked in, it hasn’t been invented “Young People Who Rock,” her CNN interview series on Pipe- Pearl. Daniel Pearl was the South Asia one-man unit, using portable, digital yet. Her work has appeared in print, line, has drawn a whole new audience to news, and has placed Bureau Chief for the Wall Street Journal technology to report, write, edit and TV, online and radio on where in addi- CNN and Lapin at the forefront of that effort. when, in 2002, he was kidnapped and transmit his stories from conflict areas tion to her program on San Francisco’s murdered by terrorists in Karachi, Paki- around the world. He has covered war KALW-FM, she has also contributed to PATT MORRISON stan. The Daniel Pearl Foundation was zones in Latin America, Eastern Eu- NPR’s News & Notes, and publications Patt Morrison is a writer and colum- formed by Pearl’s family and friends rope, the Middle East and Central Asia. such as the New York Times, The Los nist for the Los Angeles Times, and a to continue his mission and to address the root causes of his Sites’ controversial and award-winning Angeles Times Magazine, Time, Spin, O, member of a Times reporting team that death—in the spirit, style, and principles that shaped Pearl’s war blog, www.kevinsites.net, was one of the first to combine and Essence. She is the author of the popular books Don’t Be- won two Pulitzer Prizes for coverage work and character. These include uncompromised objectivity text, digital images, and audio to provide readers with an inti- lieve the Hype: Fighting Cultural Misinformation About African of the LA riots and Northridge earth- and integrity; insightful and unconventional perspective; tol- mate, behind-the-lines look at the war in Iraq and how it was Americans—now in its eighth printing, The Color of Our Future, quake. She has written on a wide range erance and respect for people of all cultures; unshaken belief being covered. and Trust: Reaching the 100 Million Missing Voters. of topics, including the O.J. Simpson in the effectiveness of education and communication; and the His work for Yahoo! News under the banner “Kevin Sites She was born and raised in Baltimore, graduated from case, the Gulf War, Britain’s royal fam- love of music, humor, and friendship. in the Hot Zone” earned him the 2006 Daniel Pearl Award for Harvard magna cum laude, and was a Knight Fellow at Stan- ily, the Super Bowl, and the Olympics. Judea Pearl is a professor of computer scientist and statis- Courage and Integrity in Journalism. Sites has also been hon- ford. She currently serves on the Journalism Advisory Commit- Her book Rio LA: Tales from the Los Angeles River was a Times tics at UCLA, best known for his ground breaking research on ored with the Payne Award for ethics in journalism, a national tee of the Knight Foundation, and is listed in PoliticsOnline. best-seller. On television she also hosts the weekly literary pro- the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence, and in par- Emmy Award, an Edward R. Murrow Award, and the RAVE com’s worldwide survey of “25 Who Are Changing the World gram, The Book Show with Patt Morrison, produced by KCET; ticular on Bayesian networks and Causality. Award from Wired Magazine. He has a master’s degree from the of Internet and Politics.” and she is also a commentator on NPR’s Morning Edition and He has authored three books on artificial intelligence and Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. host of Patt Morrison on KPCC. She has won six Emmys and six co-edited, with his wife Ruth, “I am Jewish: Personal Reflections ARIANNA HUFFINGTON Golden Mike awards, and the Joseph M. Quinn Award from the Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl” winner of the 2004 FRANK STOLTZE Best known as co-founder of the smash Los Angeles Press Club for lifetime achievement. Morrison has National Jewish Book Award. Judea Pearl speaks and writes fre- Award-winning radio journalist Frank website, The Huffington Post, and for also served as president of the Los Angeles Press Club Board quently on Jewish-Muslim relations, the war on terror, and the Stoltze has reported on an array of Los her biting syndicated political column, of Directors. Arab-Israeli conflict. Angeles and national stories, from the Huffington has a side rarely mentioned charging and sentencing of Symbio- by fans and critics: the woman named JUDY MULLER PAULA POUNDSTONE nese Liberation Army fugitive Sara Jane in 2006 as one of Time magazine’s 100 Judy Muller is an Emmy Award-winning television news cor- Appearing on stage with a stool, a microphone, and a can of Olson to Los Angeles mayoral elections most influential people is a board mem- respondent, National Public Radio commentator, and, since Diet Pepsi, Paula Poundstone is famous for her spontaneous to the decision by the University of Cal- ber for A Place Called Home, which August 2003, an associate professor of journalism at the USC wit and off-kilter humor. Paula can be heard regularly on NPR’s ifornia Board of Regents to stop invest- works with at-risk children in South Annenberg School for Communication. popular news and information show, “Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell ing in firms that do business in Sudan. Central Los Angeles. Muller says she developed her individual reporting style Me!” Raised in Santa Barbara, where his PRESENTERS 49th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards th 49 Annual Southern California Journalism Awards JUDGING father taught him how to body surf, Stolze graduated from and has established her as one of the most vocal advocates for Southern Methodist University and started his career in San public education in Los Angeles. Luis Obispo, reporting on the Diablo Canyon nuclear contro- Her “scandalously informal guide to Los Angeles schools” versy. In 1991, he joined KLON-FM (now KKJZ) in Long Beach is available on her website: http://www.sandratsingloh.com. and covered the 1992 Los Angeles riots before becoming news director at KPFK-FM. He joined KPCC-FM in 2000, working in Antonio villaraigosa its downtown bureau. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was elected ew of the journalists gathered here unteers helped the Press Club over the last in 2005, the first Latino mayor of Los An- THE tonight probably knew what dire year, people like Sebastian Ramirez, a sol- SANDRA TSING LOH geles since 1872, when Cristóbal Aguilar Fstraights our profession would be in dier shot in Afghanistan who lost his son in Sandra Tsing Loh Is a Van Nuys-based ruled over a dusty town of 6,000. Born DANGEROUS when they dove into it years ago. Massive action in Iraq. Ramirez is now a freelance humor writer, performer, musician and Antonio Ramon Villar, he grew up in a layoffs and buyouts, plunging salaries and photographer for the Simi Valley Acorn. radio personality, whose popular seg- tough area of the Eastside, raised by a LIFE now even outsourcing are plaguing out- The last year has been one bloody and ments The Loh Down on Science and The struggling single mom, and got expelled standing reporting and threaten this most brutal one for journalists as the shocking Loh Life can be heard on KPCC-FM. from school for fighting. But with the help important cornerstone of our democracy. assassination of our Pearl Award honoree A Caltech alumna, Loh is currently a of a dedicated teacher, he eventually at- The bottom line is battering our busi- Anna Politkovskaya bears sad testimony to. contributing editor to the Opinion sec- tended community college and ultimately By Michael Collins ness. Many of us fear for our futures. But When the Russian journalist was gunned tion of the Los Angeles Times and a con- earned a UCLA degree in history. there is one line in the sand that we can’t down by an assassin in October 2006, she tributing editor for The Atlantic Monthly Dreaming of being a lawyer, he attended the People’s Col- yield on whatever the challenge—journalis- became the third Novaya Gazeta staff mem- as well as a two-time National Magazine Award nominee. lege of Law but never joined the bar, instead moving toward tic excellence. ber to be killed in six years says the Com- Her books include A Year in Van Nuys, Aliens in America, labor activism as an organizer for United Teachers Los Angeles. Too many of our colleagues worldwide mittee to Protect Journalists in a new re- Depth Takes a Holiday: Essays From Lesser Los Angeles, and a His leap into politics came in 1994 when he was elected to the have given their lives in the last year so that port, “Anya’s Paper.” novel, If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home By Now. Loh has ap- California State Assembly, becoming Speaker four years later. people can know the truth. This alone obli- CPJ has the grim distinction of report- peared on tour performing Aliens in America, a darkly comic His ability to work with both Democrats and Republicans in gates us to redouble our efforts to not just ing that 2006 was the bloodiest year for semi-autobiographical tale of growing up in a middle-class Chi- Sacramento was credited in part with his mayoral victory over resist the ill winds of change but to thrive journalists in the organization’s 26 years nese-German family in Southern California. Her most recent James Hahn, in which Villaraigosa won 59 percent of the vote and produce the best work of our lives. of collecting and analyzing the increasing 24 solo show Mother on Fire ran for seven months in Los Angeles from a broad mix of Angelenos. That’s why we’re here tonight—to murder and mayhem suffered by our col- 25 honor the best work of 2006 and recognize leagues. It isn’t surprising that Iraq heads its significance to Southern California and the list for the most dangerous place on beyond. That recognition can serve as the the planet for reporters and their support bar that journalists should strive for. staff. Last year saw 32 journalists killed in I have the distinct honor of serving as country including CBS News cameraman the chair of the Los Angeles Press Club Paul Douglas along with soundman James Judging Subcommittee, my fourth year in Brolan. The men, along with CBS News re- this pivotal position. Naturally, we don’t porter Kimberly Dozier, were embedded judge ourselves but commit to comprehen- with the U.S. Army’s 4th Infantry Division sive and thoughtful analysis of our sister and reporting from outside their Humvee clubs’ annual competition submissions. Re- when a car packed with explosives deto- ciprocal judging assures unbiased critiquing nated, killing the men as well as an Army and the devotion that we spend to judging Captain and wounding six other soldiers. others has been repaid handsomely. Dozier, who lost so much blood that her The organizations that judged us this pulse was gone, survived through transfu- year included the press clubs of New Or- sions, over 25 surgeries and literally thou- leans, Houston, Arizona, Florida, Denver, sands of stitches. Cleveland, Milwaukee, Syracuse, Delaware, Since the war began to the beginning of Alaska, the East Bay and the Colorado Press this month, 104 journalists have been killed Women. Among the press clubs we judged in Iraq, the majority of them murdered ver- were the Press Club of New Orleans as well sus death in combat crossfire, along with 39 as the press clubs of Syracuse, Omaha, New support personnel. Less than a month ago, Orleans, and Houston. two Iraqi journalists working for ABC News Our judges this year included mem- were abducted by gunmen and slain after bers of the Los Angeles Board of Directors being dragged from their car near one of including Jahan Hassan, Rory Johnston, the men’s homes. Cameraman Alaa Uldeen Josh Kleinbaum, Eric Longabardi, Terence Aziz, 33, and soundman Saif Laith You- Lyons, Ezra Palmer, Anthea Raymond, suf, were roundly praised for their bravery Linda Renaud, Buster Sussman, Adam and dedication to journalism by the shaken Wilkenfeld and Chris Woodyard. Other vol- Continued on page 28 th THE 49 Annual DANGEROUS Southern California Journalism Awards FINALISTS LIFE Continued from page 27 B2. NEWSPAPER NEWS FEA- I1. 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EDITORIAL CARTOON “Counter Intelligence: The *Greg Baumann, Gilbert and Chiu, People Magazine *Stephen Carr, Long Beach Press “Searching for the Face of Ka- *Steven Georges, Long Beach *Amy Alkon, Creators Syndicate, *Dwayne Booth, LA Weekly, “A Telegram, “Living on the edge” Restaurant Review Column by Ciminillo, TelevisionWeek, “Tele- *Seth Lubove, Bloomberg News Press Telegram, “Lakewood High “Social Stigma Against Cross- trina and a Sign of Hope” wish by Mr. Fish” * Anne Cusack, Los Angeles Jonathan Gold” vision Merger of the WB .....” *Sandra Marquez, People Maga- School” Dressers” *David Evans and David Glovin, *Steve Greenberg, Jewish Journal Times, The Odyssey of Healing *Doug Harvey, LA Weekly, Art *Andrew Harmon, LA Daily zine * Hans Gutknecht, L.A. Daily *Bennett Ramberg, Los Angeles Bloomberg News, “SATs Scored of Greater Los Angeles, “Iran’s *Rick Loomis, Los Angeles Times, Criticism Journal, “Game Maker Fights *Lyndon Stambler, Emmy Maga- News, “Los Angeles Marathon” Times/freelance, “Pyongyang 28 in Error by Test Companies Roil Nuclear ambition” “Altered Oceans” 29 *Christopher Hawthorne, Los Switcheroo ...” zine *Sarah Reingewirtz, Whittier Will Not Sacrifice Its Political Admission Process” *Lalo Lopez, LA Weekly, a.k.a. *Orly Olivier, LA Weekly, “Children Angeles Times, Christopher Daily News, “Face of a leader” Isolation to Give Up the Bomb” Lalo Alcaraz on Los Angeles’ Skid Row” A7. PHOTO JOURNALIST OF Hawthorne’s Architecture C10. NEWSPAPER ENTERTAIN- H3. NEWS BUREAUS AND COR- MENT FEATURE (Under 100K) * Wally Skalij, Los Angeles Times, *Jake Novak and Michael Cicco- THE YEAR reviews RESPONDENTS ENTERTAIN- B6. NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST * Ted Soqui, Los Angeles MENT NEWS OR FEATURE “Airborne” tello, Jewish Journal of Greater *Rick Loomis, Los Angeles Times, *Kate Sullivan, LA Weekly, “Rock & *Steve Appelford, Los Angeles (Over 100K) CityBeat/Freelance, “Mardi Gras” City Beat, “He was Wrong” *Vickie Bane and Maureen Har- Los Angeles, “The Misadven- Portfolio Roll Love Letter: Kate Sullivan’s E6. TELEVISION SPORTS *Meghan Daum, Los Angeles *Alessandra Djurklou, Long rington, People Magazine, “Bill tures of a Hollywood Studio E8. TELEVISION TALK/PUBLIC *Ted Soqui, Los Angeles CityBeat/ Music and Pop Culture Column” Damon Andrews, Ted Green and Times Beach Press-Telegram, “What Cosby Under Fire” Executive” AFFAIRS Corbis, New Orleans Celebrating *Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, Donovan Tar, KTLA, “Umpire *Nikki Finke, LA Weekly Price Ambition” *Marisa Laudaudio, People Maga- *Patrick O’Connor, L.A. Daily * Dan Blackburn, Time Warner Mark Swed on Music School” *Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times *Jim Farber, Daily Breeze/Rave, zine, “I’m Gay” News, “Patrick O’Connor” – Santa Monica, “Beyond the Tribute to Cathy Seipp *Dan Neil, Los Angeles Times “‘Over There’ Right Here” *Elizabeth Leonard, People Beltway” – presented by Sandra Tsing B9. NEWSPAPER ENTERTAIN- F6. RADIO SPORTS *Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times Magazine, “Sexiest Man Alive: I2. ONLINE COLUMN/COMMEN- * Bret Marcus, Lisa McRee, Rick Loh MENT HARD NEWS (Over 100K) *Andrew Harmon, Los Angeles *Kitty Felde, 89.3 KPCC-FM, “Grid- George Clooney” TARY/CRITICISM Wilkinson, Bob Jiminez and Jo- *Nikki Finke, LA Weekly Daily Journal, “Hollywood Labor iron Gang,” B7. NEWSPAPER EDITORIALS *Chet Currier, Bloomberg News seph Angier, CALIFORNIA CON- E1. REGULARLY SCHEDULED *Richard Rushfield and Claire Unions Want a Reality Check” *Seth Lubove, Bloomberg News, (Over 100K) *Lance Orozco, KCLU-FM “Cow- *Nick Gillespie, Reason Magazine NECTED, “ELECTION SPECIAL”. NEWSCAST (35 minutes or less) Hoffman, Los Angeles Times, *Anthony Miller, Los Angeles City “John Davis, Marvin’s Son, Feuds *Robert Greene, Los Angeles boys Hit the Trail *Bennet Kelley, Huffington Post *CBS 2 NEWS TEAM, CBS 2 News “Mystery Fuels Huge Popularity Beat, “Revolutionary Roads” with Sister Over ‘Looted’ Fund Times, “All Politics is Familial” * Bret Marcus, Lisa McRee, Angela at 11 P.M. *Jill Stewart, Wall Street Journal Shelley and Michael Bloecher, of Web’s Lonelygirl15” *Lyndon Stambler, Emmy Maga- A5. SPORTS JOURNALIST OF *Karin Klein, Los Angeles Times, California Connected, “Family *Staff, Los Angeles Times, “The I5. ONLINE ENTERTAINNMENT zine, “The Dick Van Dyke Show” THE YEAR “Karin Klein on Schools” *Rip Rense, Riprense.com E2. REGULARLY SCHEDULED Oscars” NEWS/FEATURE/COMMENTARY *Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Matters” NEWSCAST (over 35 minutes) *Alex Ben Block, HollywoodTo- J3. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL- I7. WEBLOG, GROUP * Bret Marcus, Lisa McRee, Coll * CBS 2 NEWS TEAM, CBS 2 News Times C5. NEWSPAPER SIGNED COM- B10. NEWSPAPER ENTERTAIN- day.net, “”Rocky” Underdog ISM ENTERTAINMENT NEWS OR MENTARY (Under 100K) *Mack Reed, LA Voice Metcalfe and Michael Bloecher, at 5 FEATURE *Bill Plaschke, Los AngelesTimes MENT FEATURE (Over 100K) Origin: A Studio Myth” *Amy Alkon, Creators Syndicate *Staff of Reason, Hit & Run California Connected, “THE * KCAL 9 NEWS TEAM KCBS/KCAL, *Barbara Gasser, Kleine Zeitung *Paul Cullum, LA Weekly, “Death *Nikki Finke, LA Weekly, “Blood B4. NEWSPAPER BUSINESS *John Boston, The Signal. Weblog Predator Next DoOR” KCAL News @ 10 *David Willis, BBC, “The Oscars” Race 2000” Diamond” (Over 100K) *Thomas Elias, California Focus * Val Zavala, Linda Burns, Sam * Jeff L, Wald, et al., KTLA, KTLA *Claire Hoffman, Los Angeles *Leslie Simmons, The Hollywood *Richard Boudreaux, Nancy Clee- syndicated column. I6. WEBLOG, INDIVIDUAL Louie, Roger Cooper and Vicky Morning Show Times, “Baby Give Me a Kiss” Reporter, Esq. A6. ENTERTAINMENT JOUR- land, Sam Enriquez, Carol J. Wil- *Amy Alkon, Advice Goddess Curry, KCET-TV, “Life And Times: NALIST OF THE YEAR *Andrew Gumbel, Los Angeles * Jeff L, Wald, et al., KTLA, KTLA liams, Richard C. Paddock and *Monica Corcoran, Variety.com, Women’s Shelter’s, Bolsa Chica & *Steven Kotler, LA Weekly, “The *Nikki Finke, LA Weekly Citybeat Prime News Heidi Chronicles” F5. RADIO ENTERTAINMENT Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles The Stylephile Reagan Gifts” *Patrick Goldstein, Los Angeles *Linda Renaud, Palisadian-Post REPORTING/CRITICISM Times, “The New Foreign Aid” *Marc Cooper, LA Weekly, Marc- *Chris Lee, Los Angeles Times, Times, The Big Picture I8. WEBSITE, ONLINE-ONLY “Laws for an Outlaw Culture” *Warren Olney, 89.9 KCRW-FM, *Chip Jacobs, Los Angeles Times, Cooper.com F8. RADIO TALK/PUBLIC *Michael Collins and Denise “Time’s Person of the Year is You” *Ann Powers, Los Angeles Times, C6. NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST AFFAIRS *Steven Leigh Morris, LA Weekly, “An Opening to Theft” (Under 100K) *Patricia Saperstein, EatingLA. Anne Duffield, EnviroReporter. Passionate Eclecticism *Marcos Frommer, Peter Sten- “Guerillas in Our Midst” *Patricia Nazario, 89.3 KPCC-FM. *Lisa Girion, Los Angeles Times, *Amy Alkon, syndicated colum- blogspot.com com *Leslie Simmons, The Hollywood shoel and Rob Eshman, 89.3 “Idol Tryouts,” “Lisa Girion on Healthcare” nist *J. Craig Williams, Esq. *Ted Johnson, WilshireandWash- Reporter, Esq. KPCC-FM, ”Zocalo: Meeting of *Lance Orozco, KCLU-FM, “Blow- *Tom Hennessy, Long Beach ington.com Faiths” torch Sculptor” Press-Telegram FINALISTS 49th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards

*Larry Mantle, Linda Othenin- E9. TELEVISION DOCUMENTA- robber takes girlfriend and her America, “Balancing Border Girard, Mindy Steinman, Chumi RIES daughter hostage Security” Paul, Roger Ruderick and Jackie * Bret Marcus, Lisa McRee, Jona- *Tracy Manzer, Long Beach Press- *Barbara Gasser, Cicero, “I am Not Oclaray, 89.3 KPCC-FM, “Airtalk than Dan and Michael Bloecher, Telegram ““10 Youths Charged in a Politician” – Barack Obama” KCET, KPBS, KQED, KVIEE, “Cali- Halloween Beating” *Barbara Gasser, Kleine Zeitung, *Mathew Miller, 89.9 KCRW-FM, fornia Connected”, “War Stories *Sandy Mazza, Whittier Daily “Schwarzenegger multi-part from Ward 7D” “Left Right and Center” News, “Security lax in post 9-11 series” *Warren Olney and Karen * NBC 4 News Team, “State world” *David Willis, Karen Pakos and Ja- Divided” Radziner, 89.9 KCRW-FM, “Which *Greg Mellen, Tracy Manzer, Long son Ollson, BBC, “Megan’s Law” Way L.A. – Voting for Judges” *Jeff Wald, Marcia Brandwynn, Beach Press-Telegram “two po- *Barbara Osborn and Howard Joe Russin, Scott Aulerich, lice officers shot at traffic stop” B13. NEWSPAPER HEADLINE Blume, KPFK, “Pre Election Frank Buckley, Michaela Periera, * Claude Walbert, Los Angeles (Over 100K) Special” Christie Lyn Lugo Leigh and Jim Daily Journal, “Sempra Settles *Rachel Dunn, Los Angeles Times, Lowry, KTLA, “When Disaster Antitrust Suit “ “Wombs for Rent, Cheap” B12. NEWSPAPER SPECIAL Strikes: A Survival Guide” *Libby Molyneaux, LA Weekly, SECTION (Over 100K) *Adam Wilkenfeld, Trent Ward, D1. NEWS PHOTO “What Would Jesus Do This *Staff, Los Angeles Times. Los Bobby Hall, Collin Sieda and *Noah Berger, Bloomberg News, Week?” Angeles Times, “West Magazine: Stacey Dewitt, CWK Network, “Silhouette” *Steven Mikulan, LA Weekly, The Power Issue.” “Leave me Alone” *Carolyn Cole, Los Angeles Times, “Rage Against the Sex Machine” *Staff, Los Angeles Times. Los *Adam Wilkenfeld, Trent Ward, “Lebanon Bombing” *Steven Mikulan, LA Weekly, Angeles Times, “Culture Com- Dave Engran, Bobby Hall, Collin *Diandra Jay, Long Beach Press “Tete Offensive” memorative Edition.” Siedor and Stacey DeWitt, CWK Telegram, “Long Beach Police *Jammie Salagubang, LA Daily * Staff, Los Angeles Times. Los Network, “The Teenage Brain” Officers Take Out the Trash” News, “LA May Bid a Frond Fare- Angeles Times, “Home Com- * Adam Wilkenfeld, Trent Ward, *Rick Loomis, Los Angeles Times, well” memorative Edition.” Dave Engran, Bobby Hall, Collin War Wounded Siedor and Stacey DeWitt, CWK *Staff, Los Angeles Times. Los *Rebecca Martinez, San Fernan- C13. NEWSPAPER HEADLINE Network, “The Biggest Genera- Angeles Times, “Hollywood do Valley Sun/El Sol, “Immi- (Under 100K) tion” Commemorative Edition.” grants Boycott for Equality” *Amy Alkon, The Advice Goddess, *Staff, LA Weekly, “Who We Are: “With This Ka-ching I Thee Wed” A9. HEALTH JOURNALIST OF LA People 2006.” E3. TELEVISION BREAKING *Amy Alkon, The Advice Goddess, THE YEAR NEWS “Wokking Tall” C12. NEWSPAPER SPECIAL *Kevin Sack, Los Angeles Times, *CBS 2/KCAL 9 NEWS TEAM *Todd Cunningham, Los Angeles SECTION (Under 100K) From the heart of America’s KCBS/KCAL, “Esperanza Fire” Business Journal, “Arched Rivals” *Greg Baumann, Tom Gilbert, culture war” *Robert Kovacik and Jeffrey *Pasadena Star-News, “Origami Melissa Grego, Dennis Liff and *Adams Wilkenfeld, CWK Scharping, KNBC-TV “Discovery Conference Folds Art into Sci- Jennifer Ciminillo, Television- Network, News stories about of Shooter Alvaro Williamson” ence” Week, ”Enviromental Journal- children’s health issues *Jeff L, Wald, et al., KTLA “Urban *San Gabriel Valley Tribune, “Cal ism” *Alan Zarembo,Los Angeles Farm Evictions” Poly is breeding success” *Kevin Smith, San Gabriel Valley Times, Nation organ transplant Newspaper Group, “The Sum- system. F2. RADIO BREAKING NEWS A1. PRINT JOURNALISTS OF mit” *KPCC News, “Immigrant Boy- THE YEAR (Over 100K circula- *Staff, Long Beach Press-Tele- B1. NEWSPAPER HARD NEWS cotts” tion) (Over 100K) *Christine Pelisek, LA Weekly gram, “Toyota Grand Prix of *Lance Orozco and Jim Rondeau, *Daniel Hernandez, LA Weekly, Long Beach/More Roar Than KCLU News, “Goleta Postal *Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times, Scene by Scene: Coverage of Before” Shooting” Regarding Media column *Staff, Los Angeles Daily Jour- a Series of Immigrants Rights *Kenneth R. Weiss, Los Angeles Marches naol, “Blueprints for Change” H1. NEWS BUREAUS AND Times, 5 pt series Industrial *Staff, Los Angeles Business *Daniel Hernandez, LA Weekly, CORRESPONDENTS BREAKING Society Journal, “Wealthiest Angelenos Investigation: What Doomed NEWS *David Zahniser, LA Weekly, - Philanthropy in L.A.” the South Central Farm *Jill Stewart, ,” Wall Street Journal, News Producing Machine *Josh Kun, LA Weekly, Investiga- “Stuck on Fast Foreward” F10. RADIO NEWS BUREAU tion into the Corrupt Mayor of *Jill Stewart, ,” Wall Street Journal, QUINN AWARD – Judy Warren Olney and Karen Tijuana “Attorney General Moonbeam” Woodruff Radziner, PRI/KCRW, “Verdicts” *Staff, Los Angeles Times, “Wild- *Terry Vermeulen Keith, City Warren Olney and Karen fire” News Service, “Farmer’s Market Radziner, PRI/KCRW, “9-11” Tragedy” Warren Olney and Karen C1. NEWSPAPER HARD NEWS Radziner, PRI/KCRW, “Cartoons” (Under 100K) J1. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL- *Andres Chavez, Ruby Tevar and ´ ISM HARD NEWS F9. RADIO DOCUMENTARIES Diana Martinez “Immigrants’ *Michael O’Sullivan, Voice of Jon Kalish, KCRW-FM untold stories” America, “Democrats, Republi- Lance Orozco, KCLU-FM, “Home- *Ruby Gonzales, San Gabriel cans Eye Albuquerque...” less Camp” Valley Tribune, “Suspected bank *Michael O’Sullivan, Voice of th 49 Annual Southern California entertainment SALUTES OUR Journalism Awards L.A. PRESS CLUB NOMINEES

*PRINT JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR Christine Pelisek Irina Bjorklund and Peter Fox David Zahniser Lady Lumberjack meets Moulin Rouge! *ENTERTAINMENT JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR Nikki Finke

*DESIGNER OF THE YEAR (Print or Online) John Curry *HARD NEWS Daniel Hernandez Scene by Scene: Coverage of a Series of Immigrants Rights Marches *COLUMNIST Daniel Hernandez Investigation: What Doomed the South Central Farm Nikki Finke Josh Kun Investigation into the Corrupt Mayor of Tijuana *SPECIAL SECTION Staff, “Who We Are: LA People 2006” * 32 NEWS FEATURE Judith Lewis *HEADLINE “The Lost Streams of Los Angeles” Libby Molyneaux Christine Pelisek “What Would Jesus Do This Week?” eter “The Scourge of Skid Row” Steven Mikulan Fox, “Rage Against the Sex Machine” award winning composer, music producer and musician, met *INVESTIGATIVE/SERIES Steven Mikulan Irina Bjorklund while scoring independent feature film, Red Is “Tete Offensive” PThe Color Of, in 2004. Bjorklund, who has written songs since age 7 but Jeffrey Anderson, Christine Pelisek is more known in her native Finland as one of the country’s busiest film “Broken Bridges” DESIGN Christine Pelisek actresses, was playing the lead in the film. Pushed to collaborate by di- Ryan Colditz and Shelley Leopold “The Scourge of Skid Row” rector Anne Norda, the pair ended up writing most of the songs for the “Shooting the Shit with Tenacious D” film together—and the collaboration has continued. * While Irina’s speciality is the Musical Saw, vocals and lyrics. Peter ENTERTAINMENT REVIEWS/ FEATURE PHOTO uses his versatility as a multi-instrumentalist and composer. Together CRITICISM/COLUMN Kevin Scanlon they produce a soothing multi-lingual medley that the Austin Chroni- Jonathan Gold Portrait of Ping Pong Player Ed Ball cle says would make “David Lynch drop his latte,” while the LA Weekly “Counter Intelligence: The Restaurant Review Column” promises their Pick of the Week to give you an “enchanting evening EDITORIAL CARTOON Doug Harvey with this one-of-a-kind sawteuse... you’ve never seen the precision tool Dwayne Booth Art Criticism “A Wish” by Mr. Fish used to such gorgeous and heart-stirring effect.” Kate Sullivan Lalo Alcaraz The pair was recently seen performing at the SXSW festival in Aus- “Rock & Roll Love Letter: Music and Pop Culture Column” tin, as well as as the featured band at this year’s Venla Awards (yearly PHOTO ESSAY (single topic) Finnish TV awards) in Finland. They perform monthly at the Hotel Cafe * ENTERTAINMENT HARD NEWS Orly Olivier, “Children on Los Angeles’ Skid Row” in Hollywood with a full 5-man band, and released their first album Nikki Finke, “Deadline Hollywood” Oh l’Amour in May of 2006. Currently, they are preparing the following ONLINE ENTERTAINNMENT NEWS/ album, as well as getting ready for their next Finnish tour, scheduled for *ENTERTAINMENT FEATURE late November of 2007. They are honored to be playing at the Southern FEATURE/COMMENTARY Paul Cullum Nikki Finke, “Blood Diamond” California Journalism Awards—join them in a joyful effort to bring more “Death Race 2000” love into our world with their feel-good music! Steven Kotler http://www.youtube.com/bjorklundfox “The Heidi Chronicles” WEBLOG, INDIVIDUAL Steven Leigh Morris Marc Cooper, MarcCooper.com “Guerillas in Our Midst”

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Awards Program GALA PRODUCERS Editor Diana Ljungaeus Anthea Raymond Design Director Candice Ota Anthea Raymond is a newscaster, Contributors Michael Collins, Ezra Palmer, producer, reporter and editor who has Wendy Hughes, Jill Stewart, worked for National Public Radio, the Diana Ljungaeus, Derek Olson, BBC World Service, The History Channel, Adam Wilkenfeld and a variety of local stations including KPCC, KCRW, KFWB and KOCE. Copy editing and She has received journalism awards proof reading Michael Collins, Wendy Hughes, from the Los Angeles Press Club, the Ted Johnson, Jill Stewart, Radio Television News Association, the Adam Wilkenfeld National Federation of Community Broadcasters, the National Printing: CE Graphics Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Oral History Association, the New York Association of Black Journalists and 49th Annual Southern California the Golden Mikes. Journalism Awards Gala Producers: Diana Ljungaeus, Diana Ljungaeus Anthea Raymond Diana Ljungaeus is Executive Director of Technical Director Mark Drew the Los Angeles Press Club and a veteran Additional Editing Frank Megna journalist with a broad background as 38 Sound Scott Tiffen a researcher, reporter, scriptwriter and Script Anthea Raymond media producer. She began reporting at Sales Diana Ljungaeus the tender age of 15 working in Sweden, England and, since 1996, in Los Angeles. Public Relations Edward Headington Ljungaeus is a playwright and has Audio Visual Service Jules Baker and AGF Media worked as a storyline writer for Walt Stage Manager Jaelle Dobrow Disney. She has completed her first feature film, “The Seekers,” Voice of God Alex Ben Block starring Maud Adams. This is the fourth year Ljungaeus has Narrators Tacey Adams, Rory Johnston, co-produced the awards event. Frank Megna, Anthea Raymond Photographers: Charlotte Osterdal, Diana Ljungaeus, Sebastian Ramirez, Special thanks to: Ben Simpson, Bill Sparks, Adrienne Andersen, Denise Duffield, Marina Goldovskaya, Kirstianna Urpa Jahan Hassan, Wendy Hughes, Ted Johnson, Eric Longabardi, Judging Coordinator Michael Collins Fred Mamoun, Frank Megna, Linda Renaud, Tatiana Rodzinek, Volunteers Theresa Adams, Cesar Arredondo, Irina Bjorklund and Peter Fox Timothy Carpenter, Chris Clavreul, Organizations: International Women’s Media Foundation, Genevieve Clavreul, Aaron LA36, Colbert Repor, CFI West, NBC, Yahoo! News Dobruck, Denise Duffield, Sasha Headington, Wendy Hughes, Stacy Kennedy, Bob Ladendorf, Louise Monaco, Rouslan Ovtcharov, Debruv Petrov, Sebastian Ramirez, Emmanuelle Richards, Ben Simpson, Jill Stewart, Kirsti Urpa