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ood evening and welcome to the 61st annual 56 Southern California Journalism awards. GI can’t tell you how happy I am to be serving as president of a press organization that is setting records in 2019. We did it again, Los Angeles with more than 1,700 entries to the Southern California Journalism KCET President & CEO Michael Riley and CCO Juan Devis invite you to join us in Awards this year. To put that in perspective, when our Executive Director Diana Press Club Ljungaeus took over we were averaging about 300 entries annually. Hats off to Diana and her amazing team who do such a great job JournalismSHINING A LIGHT every year putting together the ceremony. You can see in the categories and the nominees the changing Award Chris Palmeri nature of our industry. As brilliant as the individual work we are ON L.A. honoring today is, the fact is that what we do has never been nominations! more ubiquitous, nor more important in Southern California and Help celebrate the launch of new seasons of KCET Original around the world. Series SoCal Connected, Town Hall Los Angeles and Lost L.A. Our Club and our members have had a strong start to 2019 More than any local through events such as the private tour of the Ruth Bader Ginsberg exhibit at the Skirball Cultural Center we organized in January, L.A. broadcaster and the presentation of the Veritas Award, which featured a Q&A with Nick Vallelonga, the soon-to-be Oscar winning producer and writer of Green Book. And let’s not forget our first graduating class OCTOBER 2 of LA Press Club Fellows. These are young people who have been 7PM–9PM mentored for several months by experienced journalists, and we hope they will find a place in our ever-changing and ever-vital profession. Blossom Ballroom 7PM Reception with light hors d’oeuvres 7000 Hollywood Boulevard 8PM Program with a sneak peek of upcoming series I’m pleased you have joined us tonight, and hope you’ll stay Los Angeles, CA 90028 involved with the Club and work with us on our mission of $20 Valet or self parking on N. Orange Grove Drive advocating for journalists everywhere. Cocktail Attire Yours truly,

Chris Palmeri kcet.org

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PRESIDENT Chris Palmeri, Bureau Chief, IS PROUD TO SUPPORT THE Bloomberg News Awards for Editorial Excellence in 2018 and VICE PRESIDENT Cher Calvin, Anchor/Reporter, Honorary Awards for 2019 KTLA, Los Angeles LOS ANGELES TREASURER Lisa Richwine, West Coast Media Reporter, Reuters PRESS CLUB THE PRESIDENT’S AWARD For Impact on Media AND CONGRATULATES “Surviving R. Kelly” Creative Team Lifetime Network HENRY SECRETARY Adam J. Rose, Senior Editorial The Daniel Pearl Award Producer, CBS Interactive For Courage and Integrity in Journalism EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Diana Ljungaeus WINKLER Nima Elbagir CNN board membERS FOR RECEIVING THE The Joseph M. Quinn Award BILL ROSENDAHL For Lifetime Achievement Jim Hill PUBLIC SERVICE CBS/KCAL9 GERRI SHAFTEL CONSTANT, Producer, CBS AWARD scott feinberg, Awards Columnist, The THE BILL ROSENDAHL PUBLIC SERVICE Hollywood Reporter DEEPA FERNANDES, Reporter, PRI (Public Radio AWARD International) For Journalistic Contributions to Civic Life Henry Winkler

PEGGY HOLTer, Independent TV Producer nic cha kim, Spectrum News1 george pennacchio, Entertainment Reporter, ABC7 Eyewitness News

Sunday, June 30, 2019 The Crystal Ballroom, Millennium Biltmore Hotel 506 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

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4:30 p.m. red carpet SCHEDULE 5:00 p.m. COCKTAILS AND SILENT AUCTION OF EVENTS 6:00 p.m. DINNER and program—SILENT AUCTION CLOSES AT 7:00 p.m. For all finalists see Welcome: Chris Palmeri pages 46-64 Los Angeles Press Club Fellows Graduation Proud to support the Presenters Cher Calvin and Robert Kovacik

STUDENT Frontier Communications $1,000 Scholarship Raffle FEATURE Gregg Kilday Citation PUBLIC AFFAIRS/PUBLIC SERVICE THE PRESIDENT’S AWARD: The Creative Team behind “Surviving R. Kelly”, Los introduced by Beverly White Presenters Robert Kovacik and Andrea González

COMMENTARY SOCIAL MEDIA/BLOGS SporTS NEWS ENTERTAINMENT: Comic Alonzo Bodden Angeles Presenters Dr. Wendy Walsh and George Pennacchio DESIGN/LAYOUT ENTERTAINMENT DANIEL PEARL AWARD: Nima Elbagir, introduced by Judea Pearl Presenters Pat Harvey and Dan Lauria INVESTIGATIVE/BUSINESS Press THE JOSEPH M. QUINN AWARD—Jim Hill, introduced by Earvin “Magic” Johnson Presenters Dr. Wendy Walsh and Robert Kovacik website Journalists of the Year BILL ROSENDAHL PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD: Henry Winkler, introduced by Bill Hader Club Don’t forget to pick up your certificates and silent auction goods on your way out. Congratulations to the Bloomberg finalists.

Los Angeles 4 Press CLub Meet the Advisory Board Frontier Communications proudly supports The Los Angeles Press Club 61st Annual Southern California Journalism Awards

ELI BROAD RICK J. CARUSO MADELINE DI DAVID W. FLEMING Bill imada sabrina kay Founder, The Broad Founder & CEO NONNO Counsel, Latham & Chairman & Chief Chancellor & CEO, Foundations Caruso Affiliated CEO, Geena Davis Watkins LLP Collaboration Fremont College Institute on Gender Officer, IW Group, and Fremont Private in Media Inc. Investments

kat kramer SHERRY LANSING GEORGE E. MOSS CONSTANCE L. RICE HON. RICHARD J. ANGELICA SALAS Actress, singer, CEO, The Sherry Chairman Co-Director, RIORDAN Director, Coalition producer Lansing Foundation Moss Group Advancement Former Mayor of for Humane Project Los Angeles Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles

CAROL E. SCHATZ GARY L. TOEBBEN MATT TOLEDO STUART WALDMAN President & CEO President & CEO, President & President, Valley Downtown Center Los Angeles Publisher, Los Industry & Business Improve­ Area Chamber of Angeles Business Commerce Congratulations to 2019 honorees ment District Commerce Journal Association Jim Hill, Nima Elbagir, Henry Winkler and the Creative Team; the nalists and winners of 2018 Awards for Editorial Excellence; and the winner of the 2019 Frontier Communications Press Club Scholarship A Free Press is the Pillar of Democracy #NotTheEnemy #MakingaDifference The Year in Review 2018 – 2019 Yet Another Big Year Southern California Journalism Awards Is Only One Event on a Packed L.A. Press Club Calendar

onight’s 61st Southern California Journal- the Bill Rosendahl Public Service Award for Con- ism Awards is the most prominent event tributions to Civic Life. Although known primar- Ton the Los Angeles Press Club’s annual cal- ily for her music, Parton was honored for found- endar, but it’s far from the only highlight. In the ing the Imagination Library, which has given past year the Club has hosted a packed National more than 100 million free books to pre-school Arts & Entertainment Journalism show, complete kids. Additionally, NBC News anchor Lester Holt with a hilarious Carol Burnett being honored, a received the Joseph M. Quinn Award for Lifetime non-fiction film award that foretold the Oscar Achievement; Kimi Yoshino, Los Angeles Times Best Picture winner, a new campaign to mentor Business Editor, accepted the President’s Award again, this time across the street to a home on A large crowd was on hand for the young journalists, and more. for Impact on Media; and the Daniel Pearl Award the eighth floor of the 6464 Sunset Blvd. build- awards program; Michael Connelly examines the ad featuring his Last June, a sellout crowd attended the 60th for Courage and Integrity in Journalism went to ing—the same building where it had offices in character while accepting the annual Southern California Journalism Awards, Raif Badawi, the imprisoned Saudi human rights the past! Distinguished Storyteller Award; Jeff again at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel, where activist (it was accepted by his wife). In December, the 11th annual National Arts Ross introduced George Pennacchio the highlights included Dolly Parton receiving In the fall, the LA Press Club moved its offices and Entertainment Journalism Awards drew a who received The Luminary Award.

Luminary Award winner, George Pennacchio, served as host to Carol Burnett during the sit- down interview. NBC4 news reporter, Beverly White takes a selfie with Joseph M. Quinn Awardee, Lester Holt.

Above, clockwise: Lester Holt, accepted his Joseph M. Quinn Award, with Josh Mankiewicz and Robert Kovacik; Dolly Parton, recipient of the Bill Rosendahl Public Service Award; Patt Morrison provided translation for Ensaf Haidar, wife of imprisoned Daniel Pearl Awardee, Raif Badawi; Andrea Chang (right), introduced Kimi Yoshino, the President’s Award winner. From left: Comic Alonzo Bodden; Distinguished Storyteller, Michael Connelly, joins Legend Awardee, Carol Burnett, Titus Welliver, who stars as Connelly’s character, Bosch on TV, and George Pennacchio, Luminary Awardee; Peter Meehan introduced Laurie Ochoa who accepted The Impact Award for husband, Jonathan Gold.

Los Angeles 8 Press CLub Southern California 9 Journalism Awards Nick Vallelonga flanked by crew members including Paul Sloan, Mike Hatton and Joe Cortese. An ongoing oil painting workshop, co-sponsored by Reuters, is taught Press Club members had a private tour of the Ruth Bader Ginsberg by former journalist, exhibit at the Skirball Center, where one could don a gown and collar to now artist, Leah get a photo taken with a Supreme Court background. Kohlenberg. It is available to members to lessen stress and large crowd and a record 700 entries, a whop- guished Storyteller Award for Excellence in Sto- free their creative ping 40% increase over 2017. Burnett received rytelling Outside Journalism; L.A. broadcaster minds. the Legend Award for Lifetime Achievement George Pennacchio, given the Luminary Award and Contributions to Society, and regaled the for Career Achievement; and the late food crowd during an interview with stories from guru Jonathan Gold, honored with the Impact her decades-long career. Also honored were Award for Journalism That Makes a Difference. former journalist and now L.A. crime author Other highlights during the year included Book (see sidebar). The Club also sponsored numerous Michael Connelly, who received the Distin- the February Veritas Award, presented to Green events for journalists, including a private tour of the Ruth Bader Ginsberg exhibition at the Skirball Center; a dinner reception at the residence of the Belgian Consul General; an online harassment workshop; a networking event for the Club’s Fellows; and an oil painting workshop for stressed- Celebrating the Star Power Of True Stories out journalists. StateFarm The Veritas Award Has Become a Fêted Fixture on the LA Press Club’s Schedule. With membership increasing to more than 600 journal- ists, the LA Press Club continues to impact journalism in the t all started with Spotlight, The Post set the film apart from city, the country and beyond. Expect the Club to be at the is proud to support about the Boston Globe’s epon- the field. center of the proceedings during the year to come. Iymous investigative reporting Movies based on true events If you’re not yet a member, visit lapressclub.org. Informa- the Los Angeles team. It was the first movie to have become increasingly popular tion on how to join is on the homepage. receive the LA Press Club’s Veritas and commercially successful in Award honoring films based on recent years. With the Veritas historic events and true stories. Award, the L.A. Press Club seeks Press Club Only weeks after taking home to honor filmmakers working to the Veritas Award (voted on by better our world and widen our Club members) in 2016, Spotlight horizons. Every year there is no won the Best Picture Oscar. It also shortage of options. won the Oscar for Best Adapted The 2019 Veritas Award winner, Screenplay. Green Book, was another dark In 2017, the club’s members horse chosen by the Club and selected Hidden Figures, celebrat- announced three weeks before the ing female empowerment with a Oscars. Again, the Club proved true story of three brilliant Afri- prescient, as Green Book surprised can-American women pushing the envelope at NASA almost everyone by capturing the Oscar for Best Picture. in the 1960s. Last year Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks’ Maybe it’s time Hollywood started paying attention performances as Katharine Graham and Ben Bradlee in to the Veritas Award. Press Club members were invited to a dinner reception at the Belgian Consul General’s residence, where he addressed the group.

Los Angeles 10 Press CLub Southern California 11 Journalism Awards Meet the Future of Journalism A Look at the LA Press Club’s Inaugural Fellows

e all started our journalism A REAL HERO careers with dreams, passion Wand a hunger to tell stories. The inaugural class of LA Press Club WARM CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR FRIEND Fellows epitomizes this. Their experi- ences, talent and hunger remind us that journalism has a bright future. Take Brett Hernandez. When he returned from serving in Iraq, he had witnessed so much. Taking photos was a way to process everything he saw, so he began studying photojournalism. Kalaisha Totty’s first major assignment was to interview victims of war in Turkey, and HBO she hadn’t even fin- ished college. Despite language challenges, threats of terrorism and sources cancel- ing, she persisted, and caught the foreign cor- respondent bug. Lillian Kalish’s first job as a reporter was covering arts and culture in Myanmar Top, clockwise: Kalaisha caught the foreign correspondent bug; board member Nic Cha Kim, Spectrum News1, speaks during a HENRY for the major English group discussion; board member Malina Saval, Variety, chats language daily. They with Imani (right); Tomás (right), listens to Tracy Boucher, Los witnessed firsthand in Angeles Times; Brett (left) talks to Joe Piasecki, The Argonaut. the newsroom what censorship looks like, eration, to change this, and wants our field to and how journalists Imani look more like our city. need courage just to made her Our inaugural Fellows were con- do their job. own You- nected with industry veterans who Tomás Rodríguez Tube talk know how to open doors. Ashley never thought he would become a shows, won awards and has proven the Alvarado (KPCC), Joanne Griffith journalist, but as the first in his family worth of her aunt’s early investment. (“Marketplace”), Gerri Shaftel Con- WINKLER to get a college education, he realized In the effort to nurture this type of stant (CBS), Sara Catania (Solutions it was his own community’s stories talent, the LA Press Club established Journalism and USC) and Deepa Fer- that needed to be told. His early work a Fellowship program, a support club nandes (freelance) were mentors to the has already received acclaim from the in which veteran journalists help these Fellows, giving advice, sharing contacts THE BILL ROSENDAHL Society of Professional Journalists, and young individuals get a “foot in the and doing many other things. he has received other prestigious fel- door.” With the guidance and contacts of PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD RECIPIENT lowships and internships. Journalism is a hard field to crack, the mentors and the LA Press Club When Imani Crenshaw was in high even when one has talent and per- Board, our Fellows have worked with school she received a gift from her severance. When you come from a new editors and published articles and aunt: a membership to the National community that has been historically photos. They have met industry vet- AND ALL OF TONIGHT’S HONOREES Association of Black Journalists. excluded from those who report the erans and hiring managers, and have Imani had a talent for communicat- news, you likely don’t have someone applied for new opportunities. ing, and Aunty Joyce believed her to vouch for you, to make a call or We are excited to see where they niece belonged squarely in the field of send an email to the hiring editor on land. Come meet them — they are the journalism. A product of the DIY gen- your behalf. The LA Press Club wants future of journalism. ® & ©2019 Home Box Offi ce, Inc. All rights reserved.

Los Angeles 12 Press CLub Honoring a Legend in LA Press Club Gives a Special Press Club Launches Charles Rappleye Citation to Gregg Kilday and Investigative Journalism Award Hollywood Reporting His 50 Years in Journalism harles Rappleye was a tenacious investigative reporter uments. He played the long game f there was a Mount Rushmore of Holly- only on his own stories to serving selflessly as who quarterbacked the LA Weekly’s news desk at the of finding sources and drawing out wood correspondents, Gregg Kilday’s bespec- an editor, which, in the era of around-the-clock Cheight of its news-breaking days in the late 1990s and their stories. He knew that these Itacled, goateed and kindly face would surely news, subjected him to a daily bombardment early 2000s. As an editor, he brought new voices to the paper things took time, and money. be on it. For nearly a half-century, he has covered of breaking stories, many of which he would and shepherded a community of journalists who broke sto- The Charles Rappleye Award the entertainment industry for a string of top report himself, and others that he needed to ries and stirred the pot. As a writer, he won two Los Angeles will include a grant to fund and publications. vet before they could be shared with the world. Press Club awards, in 1996 for Criticism on the media’s treat- support next-level investigation Tonight, the Los Angeles Press Club recog- It was often frantic work, but he handled it ment of journalist Gary Webb, and in 2001, the first-place and research efforts for ongoing projects—money to pay for nizes Kilday with a special Citation, honoring almost always with the calm of an air traffic award in Investigative Journalism for his deep dive into an a research trip, access to databases and other investigative his service to local journalism. It comes as he controller. LAPD brutality case in-house inquiry. tools and resources, or just more time to keep digging. recently decided to step away from the daily Hollywood Reporter Patey/The Christopher Kilday has seen and experienced incredi- Rappleye was also a key player in the revival and expan- Rappleye was also committed to the journalism commu- grind of covering Hollywood, leaving The Hol- ble things through his work. He visited the sion of the LA Press Club during that era. He was recruited to nity in Los Angeles and to using journalism to explore the lywood Reporter, his home for the last 18 years. set of Jaws. He was a regular at Cannes. He the Club board by then-President Bill Rosendahl in the late city and state that was his adopted home for more than 30 Kilday started an intern at the Los Angeles Times 49 years attended the Oscars. He interviewed everyone from Tom 1990s to bring a new generation of leadership into the Club years. Preference for the grant will be given to journalists liv- ago. He later wrote for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Enter- Wolfe to John Houseman to Robert Mitchum to Bernardo and expand its programs, outreach and membership. He ing and working in Southern California and who share Rap- tainment Weekly, Premiere and Variety. At the Reporter he served Bertolucci to Michael Moore. And he wrote about every pushed for stronger Sunshine laws in California and revived pleye’s mission of telling the stories of its people. as Film Editor. aspect of a complex business in a way that made them under- the Club’s newsletter, hired an executive director, instituted Additional information on the Charles Rappleye Investi- Kilday is a brilliant thinker, a quiet and humble man (he standable and interesting to insiders and outsiders alike. monthly socials and found the Club a home. gative Journalism Award, including guidelines and submis- instrumentally contributed to countless articles without tak- Kilday is now catching his breath and spending more of Charles Rappleye died last year at 62, of cancer. sion requirements, will be posted on the Press Club’s web- ing a byline), a tireless worker and a role model. his time in Palm Springs with his beloved dog Skipper. Here This year, the Los Angeles Press Club is inaugurating the site, lapressclub.org. Above all, though, he is a survivor. He navigated the tran- in Los Angeles, his influence and legacy lives on in the work Charles Rappleye Investigative Journalism Award. To contribute to the fund, or to get involved, contact sition from typewriters to computers, and eventually the of the untold number of journalists he taught, edited and As a journalist, Rappleye’s hallmark was deeply researched, the LA Press Club or David Cogan at (310) 452-0959 or Internet. He made the jump from dailies to weeklies. mentored. The LA Press Club is proud to honor this titan of long-form articles that told a story in full. He believed in dig- [email protected]. The first awards/grants will be Additionally, Kilday morphed from being a writer focused local reporting. By Scott Feinberg ging hard into the archives and building a story through doc- announced in 2020.

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Los Angeles 14 Press CLub Southern California 15 Journalism Awards ad_LA Press Club_v4_FINAL.indd 1 6/17/19 8:56 AM A Dangerous World for Journalists 66 Killed Over Past Year, While 250 and Media Workers Remain Imprisoned and 63 Are Missing

hile the number of journalists and media work- Another brutal attack at the Capital Gazette newspaper in ers killed in the line of duty from late June 2018 Annapolis, Maryland, killed five a year ago.O verseas, jour- W– June 2019 is down from the previous period, the nalists and media workers were regularly assassinated or dangers facing them are as great, or greater, than in the past. bombed. The LA Press Club compiles the list to keep its members and Not only do courageous journalists face the threat of the public aware of the dangers faced by print, TV, radio and death daily, but also many face imprisonment or kidnapping online journalists and their staffs. for their attempts to bring the truth to their people. Accord- Most of the deaths of journalists occur as they investigate ing to the Committee to Protect Journalists, an independent and expose corruption and political misdeeds or are covering non-profit organization that promotes press freedom, some wars worldwide. 250 journalists remain imprisoned worldwide, and another The most famous, and perhaps most brutal, death in the 63 remain missing, as of the end of 2018. past year was that of Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post Once again, we honor the journalists and staff members columnist who was killed and dismembered while visiting who between June 2018 and June 2019 were targeted and the Saudi consulate in Turkey. This 61st annual SoCal Journal- killed by sick minds, caught in the crossfire, or were the casu- ism Awards show is dedicated to the memory of Khashoggi. alty of corruption: (See sidebar story.) by bob ladendorf

AFGHANISTAN COLOMBIA LIBYA Mohammad Salim Angaar, cameraman, Two journalists killed in Suárez on August 13, Mohamed Ben Khalifa, freelance photogra- Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA) 2018 pher, October 18, 2018, in Kandahar Jairo Alberto Calderón Plazas, journalist, January 19, 2019, in Tripoli Contacto, Musa Abdul Kareem, editor and photojour- Two killed in Kabul on September 5, 2018 Valentín Rúa Tezada, radio journalist, Salva- nalist, Fasanea, Ramiz Ahmadi, cameraman, Tolo News, and jana Estéreo July 31, 2018, in Sabha Samim Faramarz, broadcast reporter, Tolo News FRANCE MEXICO Antonio Megalizzi, radio journalist, Süd Tirol, Norma Sarabia, reporter, Diario Presente and Mohammad Dawood, media technician, December 14, 2018, in Strasbourg Tabasco HOY, Ghazni TV and Radio, June 11, 2019, in Tabasco August 10, 2018, in Ghazni cityMyriad Pro GHANA Mohammad Akhtar, driver, Agence France- Francisco Romero Diaz, reporter, Quintana Presse (AFP), Ahmed Hussein-Suale Divela, broadcast Roo Hoy, Occurió Aqui, Quinta Fuerza, July 22, 2018, in Kabul reporter, Tiger Eye Private Investigations, may 16, 2019, in Playa del Carmen, January 16, 2019, in Accra Quintana Roo BRAZIL Telésforo Santiago Enriquez, radio host, Marlon de Carvalho Araújo, radio journalist, HAITI Estéro Cafetal, Radio Gazeta and Jacuípe, Pétion Respide, anchor, Radio Sans Fin, May 2, 2019, in Oaxaca August 30, 2018, in Riachâo de Jacuipe, June 10, 2019, in Port-au-Prince Bahia Santiago Barroso Alfaro, radio and online Jairo Sousa, radio journalist, Rádio Pérola FM, journalist, Semanario Contraseña, HONDURAS June 21, 2018, in Bragança March 15, 2019, in Sonora Leonardo Gabriel Hernandez, broadcast Samir Flores Soberanes, community radio reporter, Valle TV, bulgaria producer, March 17, 2019, in Nacaome Victoria Marinova, journalist, Channel TVN, February 20, 2019, in Amilcingo October 8, 2018, in Ruse INDIA Jesús Ramos Rodriquez, radio journalist, Radio Oye 99.9 FM, central african republic Chandan Tiwari, journalist, Aj News, February 9, 2019, in Tabasco Three journalists killed in Kémo during attack on October 30, 2018, in Chatra their vehicle on July 30, 2018: Achyutananda Sahu, cameraman, Doordar- Rafael Murúa Manríquez, publisher/owner, Alexander Rastorguyev, editor, and shan TV, Radiokoshana FM, Orkhan Dzhemal, reporter, and October 30, 2018, in Chhattisgarh January 20, 2019, in Mulegé Karill Radchenko, cameraman, Investigations Management Centre (TsUR), A journalist and two security officers were killed Gabriel Soriano, producer and radio host, in Srinagar city on June 14, 2018: Radio and TV Guerrero (RTG), October 24, 2018, in Acapulco chad Shujaat Bukhari, editor, Rising Kashmir, and Rubén Pat, online journalist, Semanario Playa Obed Nangbatna, broadcast reporter, Télê Mumtaz Awan, security officer, and Abdul Hamid Tunch, security officer News, Tchad, September 27, 2018, in Quintana Roo May 25, 2019, near N’Gouboua

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Mario Leonel Gómez Sánchez, reporter, El PAKISTAN Sohail Khan, journalist, K2 Times, Heraldo de Chiapas, Aman Ullah Gharro, journalist, Janbaz (TV) October 16, 2018, in Haripur September 21, 2018, in Yajalón and Meezan-e-Adal, Muhammad Abid, correspondent, Daily Javier Enrique Rodriquez Valladares, cam- April 30, 2019, in Khyber, Pakhtunkhwa Sagemail newspaper, eraman, Canal 10, province August 23, 2018, in Punjab August 29, 2018, in Cancún Noor ul Hassan, journalist, Royal News TV, Luis Pérez Garcia, magazine editor, Encuesta December 3, 2018, in north- PHILLIPINES de Hoy, western Pakistan Joey Llama, presenter, dwZR Radio, July 9, 2018, in Mexico City July 20, 2018, in the Philippines SoCal Journalism Awards in Memory of Jamal Khashoggi

he 61st SoCal Journal- ism Awards tonight are T being held in memory of Jamal Khashoggi, the influential Saudi-born journalist who was assassinated on Oct. 2, 2018, just days before what would have been his 61st birthday. Khashoggi was born and raised in Medina before leaving in the late 1970s for the United States, where he attended Indiana State University. After graduating in 1982, he returned to Saudi Arabia and spent the next three decades as a top newspaper editor, TV network chief and media consultant. His progressive bent and outspoken criticism of many cannot. I want you to know that Saudi Arabia has the House of Saud did not endear him to the king- not always been as it is now. We Saudis deserve better.” dom’s hardline conservatives, least of all Mohammad Just over a year later, Khashoggi walked into the bin Salman (also known as MbS), who the aging King Saudi consulate in Istanbul, seeking documentation Salman appointed crown prince in June 2017, and who, substantiating his divorce from his first wife so that Khashoggi would later write, practiced “a new radical- he could remarry—but he did not walk out. The CIA ism that, while seemingly more liberal and appealing to has concluded, with “high” confidence, that as part of the West, is just as intolerant of dissent.” a premeditated plan, Khashoggi was brutally tortured, Indeed, as part of a larger crackdown on journalists murdered and disposed of by Saudi agents acting on the who crossed MbS, Khashoggi’s newspaper column was orders of MbS. canceled, he was banned from Twitter (he had a massive The reprisal killings of journalists nearly doubled following) and he was robbed of any meaningful outlet between 2017 and 2018, according to the Committee to for his views. In September 2017, as an increasing Protect Journalists, with at least 53 killed worldwide, number of fellow journalists were being jailed, he fled including Khashoggi. The Los Angeles Press Club is for the U.S., where he was quickly hired as a columnist adamant that journalists around the world be able to for the Washington Post. practice their profession without fear of retribution Khashoggi rejected the label “dissident,” insisting from their government or anyone else, and that our own instead, “I am an independent journalist using his pen government should do considerably more than it has for the good of his country.” In his firstPost column, he in the wake of Khashoggi’s murder to sanction other wrote, “I have left my home, my family and my job, and nations that turn a blind eye to—or themselves carry out I am raising my voice. To do otherwise would betray —violence against journalists. those who languish in prison. I can speak when so By Scott Feinberg

Los Angeles 18 Press CLub A Dangerous World for Journalists and Media Workers , Dennis Denora, publisher, Trends and Times, TURN TO THESE FOUR June 7, 2018, in Panabo city SOMALIA BEFORE TURNING IN FOR THE NIGHT Four killed in bomb attacks in Mogadishu on Dec. 22, 2018: Awil Dahir Salad, broadcast journalist, Universal TV, and Abdiqadir Hassan Yusuf, driver, and Mohamed Dubad Gajaow, security officer, and Ibrahim Mohayadin Ahmed, security officer

Abdullahi Mire Hashi, radio producer, Darul Sunnah, October 27, 2018, in Elasha Bihaya Abdirizak Sáid Osman, reporter, Radio Voice of Peace, September 18, 2018, in Galkayo Abdirisak Kasim Iman, broadcast journalist, Somali Broadcasting Services, July 26, 2018, in Mogadishu

SYRIA Two journalists killed in Kafranbel on November 23, 2018: Hamoud al-Jnaid, photojournalist, Radio Fresh, and Raed Fares, journalist, Radio Fresh

Ahmed Azize, photojournalist, Aleppo News Network, August 10, 2018, in Urum al-Kubra Mustafa Salamah, broadcast reporter, Sama TV, July 16, 2018, in Mashara

TURKEY Jamal Kashoggi, columnist, Washington Post, October 2, 2018, in Saudi consulate, Istanbul

UNITED KINGDOM FRITZ COLEMAN CHUCK HENRY COLLEEN WILLIAMS FRED ROGGIN Lyra McKee, freelance journalist, April 18, 2019, in Londonderry (Derry)

UNITED STATES Five killed at Capital Gazette by gunman in Annapolis, Maryland, on June 28, 2018: Wendi Winters, journalist, and Robert Hiaasen, assistant editor, and Gerald Fischman, editorial writer, and NBC4 NEWS AT 11PM John McNamara, reporter, and Rebecca Smith, sales assistant

YEMEN Ziad al-Sharaabi, cameraman, Abu Dhabi TV, January 28, 2019, in Mokha Zaki al-Saqaldi, reporter, Al-Masdar, October 8, 2018, in Dhala city

Three killed in coalition airstrike that hit the Al-Maraweah Radio Broad- casting Center in Al-Maraweah district on September 16, 2018: Omar Ezzi Mohammad, technician, and Ali Aish Mohammad Youssef, security officer, and Jamaie Abdullah Mosib, security officer

[NOTE ON SOURCES: Thanks to the Committee to Protect Journalists, the International Federation of Journalists, Reporters Without Borders, UNESCO, and other publications for providing information about those killed. While there are discrepancies in names, titles, and dates of death among these various sources, the LA Press Club has done its best to deter- mine and provide the best available information about the individuals.]

Los Angeles 20 Press CLub presidenT’S award 2019 for Impact on Media The Success of surviving R. Kelly Creators of Lifetime Documentary Series Receive President’s Award for Impact on Media By Lisa Richwine

llegations that musician R. Kelly was Daniels, Dream Hampton and Joel Karsberg. abusing teenage girls and young women “The Surviving R. Kelly team has done what Awere well known for years. Yet the singer every journalist aspires to do: tell a compelling continued releasing records, staging live shows story that prompts change and that also speaks and living a rock-star life. to a broader issue which needs to be addressed,” That abruptly changed after the Lifetime LA Press Club President Chris Palmeri said. channel in January 2019 aired the documen- Karsberg and Daniels, producers at Kreativ tary series Surviving R. Kelly, in which multiple Inc., began exploring a documentary about women detailed harrowing stories of sexual Kelly in 2017 after Buzzfeed and Rolling Stone misconduct and abuse at the hands of the enter- wrote about new allegations of abuse by Kelly. tainer. Within weeks, the Grammy-winning art- Those followed the proceedings of 2008, when ist known for the hit song “I Believe I Can Fly” the singer was tried and acquitted on child por- was dropped by his record label and indicted nography charges in his hometown of Chicago. for aggravated sexual assault of four people, He continued selling music and drawing crowds including three teenage girls. to his concerts. told in a documentary format. sought to use television to bring the matter to Survivors, clockwise from Tonight, the Los Angeles Press Club is honor- Karsberg and Daniels wondered why the The pair joined up with Simmons and began a wide audience and demonstrate a pattern of top left: The Clary family is trying to convince ing the creative team behind Surviving R. Kelly stories kept emerging and yet Kelly’s career by reaching out to an Atlanta couple who had behavior, Daniels said. their daughter to return, with the President’s Award for Impact on Media. kept going. They looked into various cases gone public with accusations that Kelly was “We realized that, while there has been some Sparkle, AK, Jovante, It is being accepted by series executive produc- and started to hear similar stories that they felt holding their daughter captive in Chicago. Oth- incredible journalism here, maybe through the Lizzette, and Lisa. ers Tamra Simmons, Brie Miranda Bryant, Jesse established a pattern of behavior that could be ers began sharing similar stories, and the team power of a documentary, the power of TV, in a bigger way, we may be able to make a difference,” he said. From far left, executive Meanwhile, Bryant had just producers: Jesse Daniels, taken a job as senior vice presi- Tamra Simmons, Joel Karsberg, Brie Miranda dent of unscripted development Bryant, and Dream and programming at Lifetime, Hampton. and the channel was looking to join the conversation around the burgeoning #MeToo movement against sexual harassment. The project was pitched to Bry- ant, who believed it would play well on Lifetime even though the network had done few documen- taries in the past. Over two years, the team inter-

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Above: The Savages LOS ANGELES viewed more than 50 people, includ- were among the parents ing parents who say Kelly abused their who came out to warn against R. Kelly, believing daughters, former managers and produc- their daughter has been ers, an ex-wife, and others once close to brainwashed into staying the singer. Seven women said on camera with him. that they were victims of sexual or emo- Clockwise, above, right: tional abuse by Kelly, some when they Survivors Michelle, Kitti, Faith and Jerhonda. were underage. In some cases, accord- ing to the accounts, Kelly kept women from contacting family members and controlled when they could eat or use PRESS CLUB the bathroom. The documentary also explored issues of race and criminal justice, highlighting a history where accounts from black girls or Records dropped the singer. and all of this year’s Southern California women were often dismissed, and where Kelly’s In Chicago, a prosecutor called for anyone fans argued he was a victim of a system biased who felt they had been abused by the singer to against black men. come forward. In February, he was charged with Journalism Awards honorees. Surviving R. Kelly aired in six hours over three 10 counts of sexual abuse. Kelly has pleaded not nights. It broke viewership records for Lifetime guilty and is free on bond. and ignited conversations on social media and “I feel like the world heard them,” Simmons at in-person screenings. Calls to sexual abuse said of the women who told their stories. hotlines increased. Hampton noted that not everyone reacted the The documentary generated coverage from way the team had hoped. Before Kelly’s music news outlets around the world. Bryant said she was pulled, streaming services saw a spike in received articles about it in Mandarin, and also interest in his songs. The day after the documen- heard men discussing the series and how they tary finished airing, his songs were streamed 4.3 Jim Hill Nima Elbagir Henry Winkler Surviving R. Kelly had been sexually abused as children. million times, according to Billboard. CBS2 / KCAL9 CNN Civic Life LIFETIME “They said it without shame, and they were There were other, more serious develop- heard without judgment,” Bryant said. “I have ments. never seen anybody talk about such a topic so “I was early on seeing a lot of the victims publicly like that. For me, that moment was were being trolled and blamed, seeing that the extremely impactful and I realized what we were parents were being blamed. I saw that a lot of able to do by giving survivors this platform.” people were looking to blame anyone but R. The series also added fuel to the social media Kelly,” Hampton said. “I didn’t expect it to be movement #MuteRKelly, which was launched easy, and it wasn’t.” in late 2017 to pressure record companies, con- Still, she said she was gratified by discussions cert promoters and others to cut ties with the she saw on social media, particularly among artist. In the wake of the documentary, radio sta- black women who were speaking up about sex- tions stopped playing Kelly’s music, streaming ual violence and fighting any suggestions that services removed his songs and the label RCA victims could be at fault. ©2019 A&E TELEVISION NETWORKS, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 1560. Los Angeles 24 Press CLub daniel pearl award 2019 for Courage and Integrity in Journalism Opening Eyes in Powerful Ways Nima Elbagir, Recipient of the Daniel Pearl Award, Shines a Spotlight on the Darkest Aspects of Society By Claudia Oberst

ima Elbagir jumps off a bus heading from Nigeria to Libya in the dead of Nnight. “We are safe,” she says, meaning safe from repeatedly being assaulted, abused and raped. up, and it looked like such a meaningful way Left and above: In It is early 2018 and Elbagir just finished her to contribute to the world,” she told The Every- Yemen, she found latest undercover assignment: reporting on the mom in an interview last year. “In spite of all evidence of U.S. weapons being dark side of migration by posing as a wealthy that they went through, trying to maintain jour- smuggled to terrorists. Nigerian woman eager to flee to Europe. The nalistic integrity under the Islamist dictatorship human trafficker she hired as part of her inves- in Sudan, it never seemed anything less than a Left, below: Elbagir and tigation told her to bring contraceptives—and powerful and meaningful way to make a living.” her team used concealed cameras while attending not to struggle if she was raped. “Trust in God,” Elbagir, a graduate of the London School of a slave auction in Libya he told her. Economics, has focused her reporting on war and witnessing men held Elbagir is relieved the journey is over. At least zones and civil rights stories. She was the only captive. for her and her producer. “It is unimaginable that Western journalist reporting from Mogadishu people are willing to take these risks to make it to during the U.S. bombing of Somalia in 2007. Europe,” she says before passing the evidence she She broadcast the first televised evidence of discovered on to Nigerian authorities. Iranian weaponry smuggled to the Taliban in Elbagir is a senior international correspon- 2009, and was the first international journalist dent for CNN based in London. For almost two to report from Chibok, the northern Nigerian decades, she has reported on conflict and human village where more than 250 schoolgirls were rights abuses in some of the world’s most dan- kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram gerous regions, often at immense personal risk. in 2014. Elbagir’s reporting is fearless. It turns head- Nima Elbagir, above right, with her father lines into human stories and puts a spotlight and below with her on exploitation and corruption. She is aware of mother; both parents her responsibility to her protagonists and her were involved with The Los Angeles Press Club is honoring her sources. journalism. tonight with the Daniel Pearl Award for Cour- “It’s a privilege to be trusted by the people you age and Integrity in Journalism. meet to tell their stories, and when you get that Elbagir has journalism in her blood. Her right and it impacts their lives for the better, it’s father founded the Sudanese newspaper AlKhar- an amazing thing,” she said last year. toum. Her mother was the first female publisher Yet for all her accomplishments, Elbagir in Sudanese history. Elbagir, who was born in knows the job isn’t done when her reporting Sudan and spent her youth between her native is finished. She uses the material she gathers to Africa and London, knew from a young age that push for political and social change. Her work on she wanted to follow in their footsteps. Yehya Ibrahim, a Sudanese woman sentenced to “I watched my parents while I was growing death for committing apostasy, brought world-

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Above: Elbagir investi­ wide attention to Ibrahim’s plight, helping to gated cobalt mines in generate the political pressure that eventually led the Democratic Republic the Sudanese government to grant her a reprieve. of the Congo where children are often used When Elbagir travelled to Libya in 2017 to for labor. Currently, report on the migrant slave trade, she and her ongoing efforts struggle team used concealed cameras to record a slave to ensure children are not used, but regulating auction where people were sold for as little as artisanal mines is $400. Following CNN’s broadcast of the foot- difficult. age, Libyan authorities launched an investiga- tion into slave auctions, protests were organized in cities around the world, and celebrities from the entertainment and music industries spoke out. The UN Security Council, in an unprece- work that even Donald Trump’s administration dented step, even imposed sanctions on six men has been forced to act to recognize, and when who had allegedly made fortunes from buying he discredits us for his own personal reasons, and selling humans. The piece won numerous it’s discrediting more than just people who write accolades, including a Polk Award. about him.” Elbagir often focuses on the weakest members Elbagir knows that despite her best efforts, of society, those who lack a voice or whose cries her reporting too often does not lead to real, for help go unnoticed. She investigated the use impactful change. Referring to the migrant situ- of child labor in cobalt mines in the Democratic ation in Africa, she told the Columbia Journalism Republic of the Congo. She covered child mar- Review that there had been “minimal changes.” riage in Sudan and interviewed an 11-year-old That doesn’t mean that she’s discouraged. She girl seeking a divorce. She also reported from knows that the only way to better society is to Sudan on the case of Noura Hussein, the Suda- keep pointing out human rights abuses, injus- nese teenager who was sentenced to death for tices and maladministration. killing her rapist husband. Following CNN’s “If we keep reminding people to care, ulti- reporting of Hussein’s first-hand account, a mately, they will be forced to do something,” Sudanese court overturned her death sentence. she told “The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah Elbagir says she has developed coping mecha- last year. nisms for dealing with the psychological toll of Persistence is part of her DNA. Talking about her reporting. her newspaper-owner father, who was exiled and “I think anger is a good one,” she told the jailed several times when Elbagir was growing Columbia Journalism Review last year. up, she said, “For me that was a lesson in the CNN’s Jake Tapper, who called Elbagir “a power we wield. When people want to estab- great reporter” in a speech last June, pointed lish that we are not to be believed and we are out the dangerous implications of “fake news” not to be trusted, it’s because they know we are allegations for reporters such as Elbagir. He said, capable of changing the climate and the culture, “There are journalists out there in dangerous and opening people’s eyes in really powerful places doing really good work, and important ways.”

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jim hill delivers sideline-to-sideline coverage Jim Hill, Recipient of the Quinn Award for Lifetime Achievement, Has Made an Indelible Mark on the Los Angeles Sports Media Scene By adam rose

ports pundits love to debate Mt. Rushmore. Not the one in South Dakota, but a hypo- Sthetical tribute to the leading sports icons of a city or franchise. Imagine if you can only choose four names and they’ll be set in stone. It’s hard to picture a Lakers Mt. Rushmore with- out Magic Johnson. It’s impossible to construct a Dodgers Mt. Rushmore without Sandy Koufax. If L.A. sports media had a Mt. Rushmore, could you build it without Jim Hill? The answer is a clear “No,” and it’s part of why Hill tonight is receiving the Los Angeles Press Club’s 2019 Joseph M. Quinn Award for Lifetime Achievement. Hill tirelessly works stadium sidelines and work ethic. That’s evident during any press con- South Bay Daily Breeze. The list became an annual studio desks as the lead sports anchor and ference: Hill always gets to ask the first question. tradition for two decades, with Hill reliably hov- sports director at CBS2/KCAL9. Audiences And he never seems to miss an opportunity. ering at the top. Hoffarth called Hill the most look for him during the weekday newscasts at 6 “His energy is astounding,” notes Sam Farmer, visible sportscaster in L.A., but also pointed to and 11 p.m., plus weekend editions of “Sports the NFL writer for the Los Angeles Times who joins important aspects of his work that didn’t appear Central.” Hill every Thursday during the football season on camera. Like many broadcasters, Hill started off in a on CBS2. “He’s ageless, and it’s as if he’s been “I spent a lot of hours with him in press boxes small market. He was only on air part time with cloned; he is everywhere around Los Angeles, talking not just about the business, but on how to Everyone wants to Wisconsin’s WBAY in 1972. Unlike any other and beyond. I’m at a restaurant in New Orleans, treat people, things that should be reported and join in celebrating broadcaster, his day job was playing defensive and in walks Jim Hill. I’m in London for the other things that are best kept private.” Jim Hill’s star on the Hollywood Walk of back for the Green Bay Packers. Rams, and of course, Jim Hill is there asking the Hill has been recognized by media critics far Fame in 2006. “My teammates used to tease me,” Hill once first question.” and wide, including when USA Today named him recalled in an interview about his early days on “Through the years, Jim Hill was always the best sports anchor in Los Angeles. television. “But I was preparing for my future.” man in town as far as being here, there and “Jim is not only the best dressed sports Hill’s multi-year NFL career included a tour everywhere,” says Tom Hoffarth, an L.A. sports announcer in television in America (if not the with the San Diego Chargers. He first joined the media newspaper columnist for the last 30 years world!), he’s also the hardest working,” affirms CBS2/KCAL9 team in 1976 and also served a now with the Times. Mychal Thompson, a broadcaster with Spectrum stint with KABC. Today, he is respected through- Hoffarth began ranking the best L.A. sports SportsNet and ESPN Los Angeles. out the sports media industry for his relentless media personalities in a 1991 column for the Thompson understands the value of being a

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professional athlete before moving into journal- “We always looked at him as one of the guys, ism, considering he picked up two NBA cham- because he always makes athletes feel so comfort- pionships playing with the Lakers during the able around him. Guys are willing to talk to him Showtime era. That experience has an impact in and bare their souls to him, because they know a broadcasting career. that Jim understands what they’re going through.” “The thing players respect about [Hill] is that Hill’s ability to understand and relate to his he played at the highest level,” says Thompson. subjects explains why he regularly lands inter- views with the biggest names in sports. “He’s hugely respected by owners, commis- sioners, coaches and athletes,” confirms Farmer. “And yet he’s got the humility of a guy just start- ing out in the business. He might be a Los Ange- les legend, but he certainly doesn’t act like one.” Hill’s status as a legend was further cemented— gary klein, los angeles literally—in 2006, when he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Fittingly, he has also as well as an honorary role supporting youth been an adjunct college professor. Left: 1969 San Diego outreach and sports fitness programs as spokes- “He always has time to give advice to my stu- Chargers, Lance appeared in a number of movies and TV shows, Alworth, Jim Hill and often playing himself. He was inducted into the person for the City of Los Angeles Department of dents, who are just as appreciative as I was when Chris Fletcher, prepare Southern California Sports Broadcasters Hall of Recreation and Parks. Jim took time out to talk to me as a student,” he to sing on the Holiday Fame in 2010, and has been previously recog- Hill has worked to support future generations recalls. “He’s someone I looked up to growing up Halftime Record. nized by the Los Angeles Press Club, the Academy through informal channels, too, often with a in L.A. and someone I’m proud and honored to Above: Rams press kind word offered to up-and-comers in sports call a friend and colleague now.” availability does not of Television Arts & Sciences, Associated Press start for more than and United Press International. media. He’s known for encouraging students Of course, Markazi also pointed to the exam- an hour but Jim Hill is His public service includes roles on the board breaking into the business. ple that Hill’s been setting for decades. ready. of directors of the Los Angeles Urban League and One of those was Arash Markazi, now a Los “Nobody in Los Angeles works harder than the advisory board for the Boy Scouts of America, Angeles Times sports columnist, who has also Jim Hill.”

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Los Angeles 34 Press CLub Southern California 35 Journalism Awards LOS ANGELES LAKERS ARE PROUD TO SUPPORT LOS ANGELES PRESS CLUB CONGRATULATIONS TO JIM HILL LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD & TONIGHT’S HONOREES bill rosendahl public service award 2019 for Contributions to the Public Good henry winkler’s coolest role is helping kids The Award-Winning Star of ‘Happy Days’ and ‘Barry’ Receives the Rosendahl Public Service fly Award for His Children’s Books By Alex Ben Block

ifty years ago, Henry Winkler exploded as the hottest star on American TV by Shawn Miller Fplaying the super cool Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli on “Happy Days”—for which he won two Golden Globes. This past September, he won his first Emmy, for his role on the HBO show “Barry.” At age 73, Winkler is enjoying a career renais- sance, with critics applauding his perfor- mance as the complicated, tortured acting teacher Gene Cousineau. Starting with his first screen appearances in 1974’s Crazy Joe and The Lords of Flatbush, Winkler has been part of America’s cultural wife Stacey for more than 40 years, having consciousness. He appeared in three Adam three children and five grandkids—is being Sandler films including playing Coach Klein the co-author of 34 children’s books, with in the ever popular The Waterboy and he more on the way. directed Billy Crystal in Memories of Me. He This commitment to books and children starred opposite Michael Keaton in his first has prompted the Los Angeles Press Club to calls, “a direct line to the reluctant reader.” “I’m not a professional,” he explains. “But Top, reading at a book festival in film role in Ron Howard’s cult classic Night present Winkler tonight with the Bill Rosen- He works with a partner on the books, Lin in my way I support the child who learns 2016; Henry Winkler stands with the Shift. dahl Public Service Award for Contributions Oliver, but provides the vision and the voice. differently and talk to children who don’t Left, a discussion with his books partner, Lin Oliver; statue of the Fonz in Milwaukee. Winkler’s friendship with Howard goes to Civic Life. “This is a story I understood,” says Win- have learning challenges and say, ‘Your life Above, An avid fly fisherman in Winkler has maintained a close way beyond the typical showbiz relationship. What makes the award special to Winkler kler. “It was a story I knew and it was easy will be so much better when you see a kid Idaho. relationship with actor and director Winkler is godfather to Howard’s children is that he never imagined he could write any to get into the 8-year-old who failed all the in your class who’s got a problem you know Ron Howard, whom he starred with on “Happy Days.” and the director had this to say about this book. Winkler is dyslexic, something he dis- time. Even now at 70 plus, I was able to you can solve, and you help him.’ That kid evening’s honoree: “You’re a friend to the covered at age 31, during his fourth year on access that.” feels good. You feel good. It’s a win-win.” world. A world class friend. I love ya, man.” “Happy Days,” after his son was diagnosed. His books carry a positive message to Winkler started traveling the world to sell Yet despite the accolades, and the stints All three of his children suffered from learn- challenged children that there is greatness books by telling his personal story. Instead, directing, writing and producing (the TV ing disabilities, and all are now grown and inside each and every one of them. When it changed his life. He recalls one of his hit “MacGyver” is among his many cred- functional adults. children tell him their stories of dealing first promo trips, to Lancaster, Penn., when its), Winkler considers his greatest achieve- In his books for elementary age children, with learning disabilities, Winkler relates to he was accompanied by his wife. Winkler ment—aside from staying married to his Winkler uses comedy to provide what he what they face. remembers arriving for the night.

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Above: Directing “All the Kids Do It,” “We get out of the car and go into the with disabilities. on the an after school special on drinking and driving that earned Winkler an hotel,” says Winkler, “and the bellman who “Winkler has gone on reading tours of Emmy. was about 20 comes flying out from behind schools and donated books to the needy, Right: Getting his star on the his desk and says, ‘Oh, I read every one of among the many charitable efforts he has Public Service Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1981, your books. They got me through.’” made,” adds Palmeri. with wife, Stacey. “That happens more and more to me His Emmy-winning co-star on “Barry,” now,” continues Winkler. “I meet these chil- Bill Hader (who also co-created, writes and Award for dren and young adults who tell me that ours produces the hit show), plays a conflicted hit was the first book they ever read.” man studying acting with Cousineau. Hader “Henry doesn’t just dabble in do-good- says his co-star lives the life he preaches. Contributions ing,” says Chris Palmeri, president of the Los “He’s just a very selfless person,” says Angeles Press Club. “He puts serious and Hader, who is presenting the award to Win- creative time into ways to support people kler tonight, “He really does live by—and I to Civic Life

congratulates our client Your work for children is an inspiration HENRY WINKLER to us all. The Bill Rosendahl Public Service Award Honoree

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CHER CALVIN is a five-time Emmy Award Starring in such films as Trainwreck, Superbad, Pineapple winner who co-anchors the KTLA 5 News Express and Tropic Thunder, he segued to a dramatic role in at 6,10 and 11 p.m. weeknights alongside 2014’s critically-acclaimed The Skeleton Twins opposite his Micah Ohlman. She joined KTLA in 2005 former SNL castmate, Kristen Wiig. He will next be seen in and is currently Vice President of the Los It Chapter Two, the sequel to the 2017 hit It, which will be Angeles Press Club. released in September. With a deep connection to her commu- nity in Los Angeles, she serves as Mistress PAT HARVEY is the co-anchor of CBS 2’s of Ceremonies for the annual YWCA Pasa- weekday 5 and 11 p.m. newscasts. She dena Foothill Valley Women for Racial Justice Awards, which joined CBS 2 following 20 years with sister creates a venue for women fighting for racial justice to discuss station KCAL 9 as one of the original how they work to eliminate racism. Calvin also hosts the anchors of the nation’s first nightly three- annual Miss Philippines USA pageant in Los Angeles, giving hour primetime newscast. Harvey, who young Filipino-American women the confidence and commu- received the Joseph M. Quinn Award for nity support they need to advance themselves and give them a Lifetime Achievement from the Press Club voice. An avid traveler, she has visited more than 45 countries. in 2004, regularly reports on issues of con- In the last six months her travels have brought her to Japan, cern to Southern California and the world. Left, above: Bill Hader and Henry Winkler with their Emmy awards for their roles on Philippines, Cuba and China. Her reporting has ranged from filing live reports at the inau- HBO’s show, “Barry.” guration of President Barack Obama to following the story of Left: Winkler has appeared in three movies with Adam Sandler. Mexico City native, Andrea gonzÁlez a homeless painter from the streets of Los Angeles to a gallery Above, left to right: Henry’s family — Stepson Jed Weitzman, wife Amanda, younger is an award-winning news anchor for Uni- in Paris. Harvey is a 22-time Emmy winner, the most recent daughter Lulu; Henry with Jules, son of daughter Zoe, who holds son August, and vision 34 at 6 and 11 p.m. for Outstanding Feature Reporter. Other awards include being husband Rob (behind her) with Ace; Henry’s wife, Stacey; Weitzmans’ daughter Indya; González began hosting TV Azteca Nor- named Best News Anchor by the Associated Press and seven and son Max. este’s morning news, in Monterrey, Mex- Golden Mikes. ico, in 2009. She wrote for “Weekly Info7” know it sounds corny—but he likes to bring a lot of hap- and hosted the “Mujeres de Éxito” segment EARVIN “MAGIC” JOHNSON has success- piness into the world. (Women of Success), which earned her fully parlayed his skills and tenacity from “His kind of preset is compassion and a lot of heart,” two journalism awards. After returning to the basketball court into the business Bills & Stoll LLP adds Hader. “He’s just very genuine and he kind of radi- Mexico City to become an Univision news correspondent, in world as Chairman and CEO of Magic ates it.” 2016, González became the news anchor at Noticias Univi- Johnson Enterprises (MJE). MJE provides congratulates Hader believes that comes through in Winkler’s perfor- sion 34 in Los Angeles, where she started a special segment, high-quality products and services that mance on “Barry.” “Latinas de Éxito”, featuring interviews with successful Latinas focuses on ethnically diverse and under- our dear friend and client “On our show he has to play kind of a bad person, but in California. In 2018, her interview with Tamara Mena was served urban communities. he can’t help but infuse that guy with some sort of com- nominated for a Southern California Journalism Award. In 2012, Johnson made history by passion and something that makes you feel for him,” said In July 2018, the 11:00 p.m. edition of Univision Los Ange- becoming co-owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers. He also co- Henry Winkler Hader. “You can’t teach that.” les won the Emmy Award for Best Nightly News in Southern owns the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women’s National Basket- Winkler continues working to overcome his disability. California. ball Association, Major League Soccer’s Los Angeles Football Honoree, The Bill Rosendahl Even on “Barry,” his challenges are obvious at times, par- Club, and eSports franchise Team Liquid. His many businesses ticularly during the first read through of a script. BILL HADER made the switch from being include: EquiTrust Life Insurance Company, ASPiRE, an Afri- Public Service Award “At table reads,” says Hader, “he has to take his time. a master impressionist on “Saturday Night can-American television network and SodexoMAGIC, a food for Contributions to Civic Life We’re reading the script and he has to memorize while the Live” to creating, directing, writing, pro- service and facilities management company. rest of us are just reading, so it’s harder for him to cold ducing and starring as a burned-out assas- The Lansing, Michigan, native remains relevant in a dynamic and salutes read stuff. sin trying to break into the LA theater digital age: Johnson is investing in infrastructure improvement scene in HBO’s “Barry.” in the U.S. and is one of the leading investors in a number “He is always apologizing like, ‘Hey, I’m really sorry. I all of the nominees and honorees at the In 2018’s first season, the series received of minority-owned technology companies. Uncharted Power know I’m slow. I messed this up or whatever,’” says Hader. 13 Emmy nominations, including victo- uses their renewable kinetic energy solutions to generate clean, “And we’re like, ‘Henry, you’re dyslexic. Don’t worry about Los Angeles Press Club’s ries for Best Actor and co-star Henry Win- consistent, and cost-efficient power for communities, facilities, 61st Annual Southern California it. You’re fine.’ But he puts a ton of work into it.” kler for Best Supporting Actor. By the recently concluded and the Internet of Things; ShotTracker makes wearable tech- Along with helping children from all over the globe, second season, “Barry” only got darker, funnier and more nology for basketball players that helps track player and ball Journalism Awards Dinner Winkler was also able to help his own children with the addictive. “Barry” also received an AFI Award and a Peabody movement; Jopwell is a diversity and hiring recruiting plat- advice that he has learned to live by, and has shared so Award as well. Hader is a member of the unofficial “Four Guild form; Walker & Company Brands develops health and beauty many times. Club” (actor, writer, director and producer guilds), receiving products for people of color; and the Latino-fueled media “I said, as long as you try, what grade you bring home nominations or awards in each one. brand and digital network, MiTú, connects Latin content cre- doesn’t matter,” says Winkler. “Here’s what I’ve learned as Hader is co-creator of IFC’s “Documentary Now!” named ators with viewers around the world. a parent and from meeting all these wonderful children: one of the best TV shows of 2015 by the New York Times. Hader Their destiny is already inside them. Our job is to help spent eight seasons on “Saturday Night Live” for which he ROBERT KOVACIK is the past three-term President of the Los them fly.” received four Emmy Award nominations. Angeles Press Club. He is an Anchor/Reporter for NBC4

Los Angeles 42 Press CLub Southern California 43 Journalism Awards 2019 presenterS Congratulations to Southern California, joining NBC in 2004. JUDEA PEARL is the father of slain Wall beverly white is an accomplished jour- Kovacik is known for bringing viewers in- Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and nalist with nearly 40 years of experience, tonight’s winners. depth coverage of international events president of the Daniel Pearl Foundation covering breaking local and national sto- from a local perspective, most recently the (danielpearl.org), which he co-founded in ries for NBC4. royal wedding in Windsor that included an April 2002 “to continue Daniel’s life-work White received the 2018 National Asso- impromptu meeting with Prince Harry. of dialogue and understanding and to ciation of Black Journalists (NABJ) Chuck Kovacik was NBC4’s correspondent for address the root causes of his tragedy.” Stone Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2013 Papal Conclave at the Vatican and Dr. Pearl was born in Tel Aviv and is a has been recognized by the Los Angeles the Summer Olympics in London; both graduate of the Technion-Israel Institute County Board of Supervisors for her dis- being a journalist assignments recognized with Emmy Awards. of Technology. He came to the United States for postgradu- tinguished career, and the NABJ’s Los Angeles chapter honored One of his most compelling live shots occurred during an ate work in 1960 and received his master’s degree in physics White in 2017 for her 25 years with NBC4. extensive manhunt for an alleged murderer. The suspect sud- from Rutgers University and his Ph.D. degree in 1965 from the White holds a broadcast journalism degree from the Uni- is tough. denly appeared and surrendered to Kovacik live on air. Kovacik’s Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Pearl joined the faculty of versity of Texas, Austin. As a reporter at WTVJ, an NBC affiliate exclusive investigation into the Los Angeles Fire Department’s UCLA in 1969, where he is currently a professor of computer in Miami, she was on the 1992 Peabody Award-winning team 911 response times prompted the Mayor to demand an audit, science and director of the Cognitive Systems Laboratory. He is that covered Hurricane Andrew; previously, she anchored the and his groundbreaking exposé into overcrowded L.A. animal known internationally for his contributions to artificial intel- morning weekday newscast for WKRC-TV in Cincinnati. Her We Can helP! shelters helped force the city to change its laws. ligence, human reasoning and philosophy of science. career began in Texas at KCEN-TV, an NBC affiliate in Temple/ Kovacik is an honors graduate of Brown University and Waco, and KENS-TV in San Antonio. Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where george pennacchio is the entertain- White shares her experience with colleges and community he also graduated with honors. ment reporter for ABC7 Eyewitness News and civic groups. A member of the NABJ, she was the past He was named Television Journalist of the Year at the 55th and hosts the station’s Oscars specials. He president of the local affiliate chapter, the Black Journalists Southern California Journalism Awards. joined ABC7 in 1996. Association of Southern California. During his broadcasting career, George dan lauria is a versatile stage, screen and has won three Emmy Awards; honored TV actor, perhaps best known for his role with The Press Award by The Publicists and GUEST on “The Wonder Years” as Jack Arnold. He Guild of America for his coverage of the also starred on TV most recently in “This is entertainment industry; and is one of four Alonzo Bodden’s first big comedy Us,” “Shameless,” “Pitch,” and “Sullivan journalists who have received The Critics’ Critic Award from break came when he appeared on the and Son.” On stage, he wrote and played a The Broadcast Film Critics Association, North America’s larg- “New Faces of Comedy” showcase at Just leading role in the Off Broadway satirical est critics group. for Laughs in Montreal, and he has Mafia comedy,Dinner with the Boys. His While on assignment in South Africa in 2007 to cover the appeared at that comedy festival for 15 vast theatrical experience included playing opening of “The Lion King” on stage in its homeland, George years. Last year, he hosted the Just for legendary football coach Vince Lombardi in the Broadway hit did a series of reports involving entertainment, health and Laughs Comedy Awards. Bodden, who was Lombardi. Lauria has also been a key player in reviving the social programs that empower the women of South Africa with introduced to America on NBC’s “Last classic PBS show “Steve Allen’s Meeting of Minds” as live connections here in Southern California. Comic Standing,” winning season 3, is “Thank you from the bottom of my heart for theater featuring some of the best actors in town. George serves on the board of the charity group, The known for his social and political commentary. He starred in that incredible gift. It’s not just money you’re A Brooklyn native and Marine Corps Vietnam veteran, Thalians, which raises money for the maintenance of the his second Showtime comedy special, “Historically Incorrect,” giving. It’s a roof over my head, food, and some Lauria got his start in acting at Southern Connecticut State Thalians Mental Health Center at Cedar-Sinai Medical Center. in February 2016, taping at The Vic Theatre in Chicago. In peace. The work that you do is invaluable and University while attending on a football scholarship. Other He and his wife, Erin, also support va rious greyhound chari- 2011, he starred in his first Showtime special, “Who’s Paying many TV credits include “Criminal Minds,” “The Mentalist,” ties devoted to saving the dogs once their racing days are over. Attention,” and currently hosts a podcast of the same name. life-impacting.” —from a 2019 grant recipient and “Nurse Jackie.” His extensive film work includes roles in Bodden is a regular panelist on NPR’s “Wait Wait… Don’t Stakeout, Independence Day and The Spirit. DR. wendy walsh is a Canadian-born Tell Me. He’s also a jazz enthusiast, serving as the “comedian- psychotherapist, author, lecturer, radio in-residence” for the annual Smooth Jazz Cruise. If you’re a Los Angeles journalist CHRIS PALMERI is the current Los Angeles host, and TV commentator who has lived A gearhead, car and motorcycle lover and expert, Bod- Press Club President. He was named in Los Angeles since graduating from Ryer- den hosted Speed Channel’s “101 Cars You Must Drive” and and need help with a financial bureau chief for Bloomberg News in Los son University with a BA in Journalism. “America’s Worst Driver” on the Travel Channel. He’s made emergency, or if you can help with a Angeles in February 2016. Bloomberg’s Los She later received her MA in Psychology numerous appearances on CNBC’s “Leno’s Garage” with Jay donation, visit our website. Angeles office consists of 14 reporters and and Ph.D in Clinical Psychology from the Leno and was one of the hosts of the Science Channel’s 2016 editors, covering entertainment as well as California Graduate Institute. series “How to Build Everything.” He also has performed on real estate, finance and politics. Walsh’s career began in L.A. in the early “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” “Late Night with Conan Chris joined Bloomberg in 2009 and ‘90s, working for the UPN affiliate and for NBC’s “Weekend O’Brien” and was a guest panelist on Comedy Central’s “The has covered the entertainment industry for Today” show. She has worked for numerous entertainment Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore.” www.8BallFoundation.com six years. Prior to that he worked for Forbes magazine in New news programs, hosts her own show on KFI-AM and a podcast While his movie career has consisted mainly of playing York, Chicago and Houston and for BusinessWeek magazine called “Mating Matters,” and has published several books on security guards, he has protected the best, including Steve Mar- in Los Angeles. He's the recipient of four awards from the gender and relationships science. In 2017, she was named one tin and Queen Latifah in Bringing Down The House and Leslie The 8-Ball Welfare Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)3 Los Angeles Press Club for breaking news, headline writing, of Time Magazine’s Persons of the Year. Nielsen in Scary Movie 4. He was also the voice of Thunderon private foundation as described under section 509(a) of consumer and investigative reporting. He holds a BA in Eco- Walsh appeared in numerous films, including Heat and The in Power Rangers Lightspeed. the IRS code. The IRS lists us as: “Greater Los Angeles nomics and Journalism from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Day After Tomorrow, often as a print or TV journalist. She is a Bodden has traveled around the world, entertaining USO Press Club Eight Ball Welfare Foundation.” Pennsylvania. Cal State-Channel Islands lecturer in Psychology. troops from Iraq to Greenland and everywhere in between.

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BEST RADIO or PODCAST – STUDENT Living Push Millennials Into a Generation vouchers are keeping homeless families off History, PRINT over 50K Student Life, “The Student Life: Vol. CXXXI, James Chow, Daily 49er, “LBSU opts to move MEDIA War With Baby Boomers?” the streets” Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, “In No. 10” Prospector Pete statue and get a new James Chow, Daily 49er, “Beach Weekly, Edvard Pettersson, Bloomberg News, “Did the Lori Galarreta, Austin Cross and Megan California’s rural, conservative north, there Staff, Los Angeles Collegian, “Los Angeles mascot” Episode 2” Baron Know His Pissarro Masterpiece Was Larson, KPCC, “This LA bike tour serves up are big dreams for cleaving the state” Collegian October, 2018” Tanya Flowers and Melissa Crumby, Los Megan Manata, USC Annenberg Radio News, Stolen by Nazis?” Boyle Heights history — and tacos” Kelly Hartog, The Jewish Journal of Greater Staff, Los Angeles Collegian, “Los Angeles Angeles Collegian, “Going, Going, Gone - “Animals displaced by fires find shelter in Debra Greene, KCLU AM/FM, “South Coast Los Angeles, “Pittsburgh Community Comes Collegian September, 2018” Placement Tests, Remedial Courses Under animal sanctuaries” I8. HUMAN INTEREST FEATURE, over 5 Library Checks Out Books, And Seeds” Together in Wake of Synagogue Shooting” Dalton Turner and Ewan McNeil, The Sundial, the Knife” Jon Reed, Ampersand, Annenberg Media, minutes, TELEVISION Marcela Valdivia, USC Annenberg Radio News, Maria L. LaGanga, Los Angeles Times, “If you “Sundial Borderline print edition” Julia Frankel, The Student Life, “Students voice “Between Music and Movies: How a Film Francine Brokaw, Village Television, “An inter- “Where Vendors Sell Together” stay, you’re dead. How a Paradise nursing concerns about Pomona Dean of Wellness Composer Works” esting discussion with journalist Ivor Davis home evacuated” N2. BEST HIGH SCHOOL NEWSPAPER Jan Collins-Eaglin” Marcela Valdivia, USC Annenberg Radio who has had a front row seat to history” K8. LIFESTYLE FEATURE, ONLINE Kurtis Lee, Los Angeles Times, ” In Detroit’s Carlos Carrillo and Jennifer Cheung, The Itzel Luna and Casey Wanatick, The Pearl Post, News, “Día de Los Muertos celebration at Valerie Defert, France 24, “Child marriage still Carribean Fragoza, KCET, “La Raza: The busiest ER, a man with his own dark past Matador, “The Matador: Volume 63, Issue 5, “BCCHS coach faces molestation charges” Hollywood Forever Cemetery” legal in United States” Community Newspaper That Became a tries to halt a cycle of violence” January 24, 2018” Ruby Yuan, Annenberg Media at USC, “Woman Robert Tyler Walker, USC Annenberg Radio Lindsay Flader, Stephen Galloway, Jennifer Political Platform” Erika I. Ritchie, Southern California News Carlos Carrillo and Jennifer Cheung, The Sentenced to Life in Beating Death” News, “Pointed in the right direction” Laski, Stephanie Fischette and Laela Esther Kang, Long Beach Post, “Queer Group, “Female Marines train for battle Matador, “The Matador: Volume 63, Issue 7, Zadeh, The Hollywood Reporter, “Women In Mondays is the all-inclusive night Long alongside men for first time in history of March 15, 2018” N7. BEST FEATURE WRITING – PRINT or Entertainment Mentorship Program” Scholarship Raffle Beach’s LGBTQ scene needs” Camp Pendleton” Kirsten Cintigo, The Pearl Post, “December, ONLINE, STUDENT MEDIA Karen Foshay, Vince Beiser, David Egen and Elina Shatkin, LAist, “Why Are People So 2018” Tessa Flores, Collegian Times, “#MeToo, No Dan Leonard, KCET, “Out of Bounds” Obsessed With LAUSD’s Coffee Cake?” B15. TRAVEL REPORTING, ALL MEDIA Kenny Lam and Eileen Ong, The Matador, San Really, #MeToo” B1. HUMOR/SATIRE WRITING, ALL MEDIA Andres Pruna, Oswaldo Borraez, Milli Jean Trinh, KCET, “The Decades-Long PLATFORMS Gabriel High School, “The Matador: Volume Lu June Lin, The Matador, San Gabriel High PLATFORMS Delgado, Stephanie Martinez, Chris Cabezas Evolution of Thai Cuisine in Los Angeles” Zoe Buck, Rosey Alvero, Bijan Rezvani, 64, Issue 3, November, 9, 2018” School, “Kristianne Cordova’s Abusive Austin Bragg, Meredith Bragg and Andrew and Marco Flores, KMEX/Univision34, Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil and Audrey Cleo Yap, Justin Cram and Juan Devis, KCET, “SoCal Noah Somphone, The Accolade, “New Relationship” Heaton, ReasonTV, “Groundhog Day: 2018” “Somos Mas” NBC News, “How a Sikh tradition inspired Wanderer - Anacapa to Ojai” Perspectives: October 26, 2018” Mirabella McDowell, Ampersand, USC Ryan Gajewski, Playboy Winter Issue, a program that gives 1,000 burritos to the LAist and Leo Duran, LAist, “We’re Exploring Annenberg media, ”Two sisters: One year “Celebrities Are Super Cool” I9. HUMAN INTEREST FEATURE, under 5 homeless each week” LA County’s 88 Cities. Here’s Your Guide To N3. BEST NEWS WEBSITE, STUDENT MEDIA after the Las Vegas shooting” David Jerome, Orange County Register, “2018: minutes, TELEVISION Arcadia: ‘Chinese Beverly Hills’” Meghan Bobrowsky, Ariel So, Hank Snowdon, Sean Ogami, The Student Life, “’Cage at My End of the Year Clean-Up Project” Christopher Lam, Quyen Lovrich and Traci I10. LIFESTYLE FEATURE, TELEVISION Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, Kellen Browning and Meghan Joyce, The Claremont’ celebrates the work and life of Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, “Do you think Lee, NBC News, “At Koda Farms, a legacy Zoe Buck, Rosey Alvero, Bijan Rezvani, “Mexico City for beginners” Student Life, The Student Life renowned composer John Cage” ‘A Star Is Born’ Should win best picture?” endures beyond exclusion, internment” Justin Cram and Juan Devis, KCET, “SoCal James Rickman, Playboy’s Nov/Dec 2018 print Michael Chidbachian, The Pearl Post Online Ande Richards, Los Angeles Collegian, “It’s the Chris Willman, Variety, “Fergie Sexes Up Dave Mecham and Paul Sanchez, KTLA, “Con- Wanderer - Anacapa to Ojai” issue, “Rebirth in Bethlehem” Devika Girish and Vivian Medithi, Ampersand, Principle of the Thing” National Anthem at NBA All-Star Game and struction on Kagel Canyon Home Leads to Antonio Diaz, Stef Ferrari, Jacqueline Reyno, Tom Teicholz, Medium, “Astana Days: USC Annenberg Media, AMPERSAND America Isn’t Having It” ‘Nuts’ Discovery Hidden in the Walls” James Mann and Matthew Crotty, KCET, Kazakhstan’s Excellent Financial Adventure” Staff, Daily 49er N8. BEST PERSONALITY PROFILE – ANY Staff, NBC4, “NBC4 Clears the Shelters” “The Migrant Kitchen” The Sundial 2018 staff, The Sundial, The Sundial PLATFORM, STUDENT MEDIA K7a. SOFT NEWS FEATURE – Culture/ Lizzie Pearl and Adam Bovino, Nine Network Victoria McKillop, Francine Nazario, Ryan C3. MINORITY/IMMIGRATION REPORTING, Torrey Hart, The Student Life, “From Walk-On To Entertainment, ONLINE Australia, “Time ticks on California’s Salton Heraly, Vince Patrick and Minh Bui, The PRINT N4. BEST NEWS PHOTO, STUDENT MEDIA National Champion: Tyra Abraham On Her C.J. Ciaramella, Reason, “The Radical Freedom Sea” Hollywood Reporter, “Where Hollywood Eats: Esmeralda Bermudez, Los Angeles Times, “‘I’m Alexandra Apatiga, Daily 49er, “When voices Running Career That Almost Wasn’t” of Dungeons & Dragons” Antonio Valverde, KMEX Univision, “Trilingual New Orleans – Compere Lapin” here. I’m here.’ Father reunited with son clash” JOVRNALISM Staff, JOVRNALISM, “Destinee: A Agnes Constante, NBC News, “Hollywood is little girl” Lisa Niver, KTLA, “Money Smart: Ogden Ski amid tears, relief and fear of what’s next.” Talia Bernstein, The Student Life, “5C students daughter left behind” having a #MeToo moment. Women of color Getaway Giveaway Package” Shikha Dalmia, Reason, “Sanctuary Churches protest confirmation of Justice Kavanaugh, Hunter Lee, Daily 49er, “Lourdes Flores have fought this battle for decades.” G6. FEATURE, under 1,000 words, Gina Pollack, Andy Viner, Michael Ray, Tori Take in Immigrants and Take on Trump” march through campuses” illuminates the darkness” Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, MAGAZINES Edgar and Helki Frantzen, KCET, “Under the Roxana Kopetman, Orange County Register/ Delane Ly, El Camino Real, “National School Trevor Sochocki, Annenberg Media at USC, “Los “How ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Wants to Change the Scott Johnson and Bryn Sandberg, The Influence” Southern California News Group, “For Walkout students holding signs” Angeles Artist” Portrayal of Trans Characters on TV” Hollywood Reporter, “Wildfire Devastation immigrant families without biological Adriana Ramirez, Daily 49er, “Long Beach State Anwar Torres, Collegian Times, “Chuck the Itay Hod and Sharon Waxman, TheWrap, Forces Hollywood Productions to Scramble” F1. NEWS FEATURE, PRINT under 50K parents, separation might be permanent” men win national championship” Condor Takes Flight” “#AfterMeToo: 12 Accusers Share What Alan Ohnsman, Forbes, “The End Of Parking Michelle “Katie” Licari, Daily Pilot, “1,000 J.D. Long-Garcia, America Media, “Along the Leo Yue, El Camino Real, “Prom Preview Happened Next, From Firing to More Lots As We Know Them: Designing For A umbrellas light up Laguna’s Main Beach for Wall: Life on the U.S.-Mexico border” Assembly” N9a. BEST TV REPORTING – STUDENT Trauma” Driverless Future” artists ‘Shoreline Project’” Sarah Parvini, Los Angeles Times, “In the fight MEDIA Morgan Sung, Mashable, “The queen is back” Malina Saval, Variety, “How ‘Speechless,’ Gabriel San Roman, OC Weekly, “Orange for immigrants, Mahony works out of the N5. 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JOVRNALISM staff, JOVRNALISM, “The Australia, “The Chicago nun fighting gun Kacey Montoya and Paul Sanchez, KTLA, Deported: Life Beyond the Border” violence and saving lives” “Inmates, Shelter Dogs Seek Mutual Peter Masurlian, Roupen Berberian and Tom Walters and Liam Hyland, CTV – Canadian Rehabilitation” Maggie Goshin, Globalist Films, “Armenian- Television, “Sofia’s Heart” Lizzie Pearl and Richard Moran, Nine Network Americans in Politics” Kerstin Zilm, Ellen Haering and Eberhard Australia, “Trouble on the US-Mexico Tom Walters and Brian Miller, CTV - Canadian Schade, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, “Trump and border” Television, “The Chilling Effect of ICE” The Dreamers” Andres Pruna and Fritz Coleman, KNBC 4, “Sea Levels and Los Angeles” K10. MINORITY/IMMIGRATION REPORTING, J4. NEWS FEATURE, RADIO ONLINE Saul Gonzalez, KCRW, “Robert Kennedy and Agnes Constante, NBC News, “They came here California’s Farm Labor Movement” Citation for Gregg Kilday, The Hollywood as refugees. Now the U.S. may be deporting Debra Greene, KCLU AM/FM, “Birds Take Over Reporter some Vietnamese nationals.” Work Of Pesticides In Stopping Rodent JOVRNALISM Staff, Jovrnalism, “The Deported: Attacks On Levees” Life Beyond the Border” Tena Rubio and Danny Bringer, KSJV Radio D2. FEATURE PHOTO Roxana Kopetman, Orange County Register/ Bilingue, “Singing in Corrections” Ringo Chiu, Associated Press, “Firefighters Save Southern California News Group, “For some Anna Scott, KCRW, “Renting out an apartment the Mustang” caravan migrant moms, and babies, the – Airbnb style” Jay L. Clendenin, Los Angeles Times, “SoCal future might be Mexico” Caleigh Wells, KPCC, “Why this house is still Sledders” Sahra Sulaiman, StreetsblogLA, “Teen Hauled standing among the ruins of the Woolsey Lucy Nicholson, Reuters, “Deadly crossing Off Metro Train, Cuffed for Putting Her Feet fire” ends American Dream for Guatemalan Up” migrant” Robin Urevich, Capital & Main, “Deadly K6. HARD NEWS FEATURE, ONLINE Osceola Refetoff , KCETlink, “Boarded Up Detention: Self-Portrait of a Tragedy” Alleen Brown, Eric Preven and Joshua Preven, Farmhouse” The Intercept, “Los Angeles Blames Wildfire Allen J. Schaben, Los Angeles Times, “Surfer G4. FEATURE – Business/Government, over on Homeless, But Evicting Them Won’t and Super Blue Blood Moon” 1,000 words, MAGAZINES Solve The Real Problems: Climate Change Linda Bloodworth Thomason, The Hollywood and Urban Sprawl” F3. 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Nepales, Manila Bulletin, ”Sandra Oh Brutal Layoffs” Musk’s Tunnel Vision for Los Angeles” Breaks Barriers” Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, “Kenya Joe Rubin, Capital & Main, “Battery Blood: George Toshio Johnston, Pacific Citizen, Barris: A Showrunner’s Fight to Stay ‘Loud, How California Health Agencies Failed Exide “Still Hovering: Ex-Door Gunner’s Vietnam Bold and Unapologetic’” Workers” Memories Never Far Away” Anousha Sakoui, Bloomberg Businessweek, “Hollywood Braces for Collateral Damage I6. NEWS FEATURE, over 5 minutes, E4. PERSONALITY PROFILE, PRINT over 50K From Trade War With China” TELEVISION Alexander Hamilton Cherin, OC Weekly, “The Jessica Q. Chen, Los Angeles Times, “Beautiful Mighty 690” G5. FEATURE – Culture/Arts, over 1,000 City” Michael Idato, The Sydney Morning Herald and words, MAGAZINES Katie Cooper, Karen Foshay, Eduardo Gil de Melbourne Age, “The Fonda Effect: Why Life Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, “They Montes, Michael Ray and Tori Edgar, KCET, at 80 Is Better Than Ever” Got the Wrong Envelope” “Blood Money” Shana Nys Dambrot, LA Weekly, “Viggo Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, Karen Foshay, Andy Viner and David Egen, Mortensen: The Book of Viggo” “Young Harvey Weinstein” KCET, “The News Blues” Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, “MacArthur Tatiana Siegel, The Hollywood Reporter, “The Andrea Gonzales and Andres Pruna, KMEX fellow Vijay Gupta is sparking change on Ultimate Vulnerability” Univision, “Hollywood: The Sign That skid row with his Street Symphony” Brad Wieners, The Red Bulletin, “The Art of Changed The History” Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, “Nicole Disruption” Zach Weissmueller, ReasonTV, “Trump, Ryan, Kidman almost gave up acting. She stars in Chris Willman, Variety, “Country Music’s New and Walker Want to Seize Wisconsin Homes three movies this month” Leaders Struggle to Get On the Right Side to Build a Foxconn Plant” of History” G8. PERSONALITY PROFILE – TV/Film I7. NEWS FEATURE, under 5 minutes, Personalities, MAGAZINES M2. FEATURE, FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS TELEVISION Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, Aviva Fried and Christèle Jaime, Radio Amelia Brace and Duncan McLeod, Seven “Kathy Griffin: Can a Comic in Exile Come Télévision Suisse, “Jailhouse Horse” Network Australia, “Yosemite: America’s Back?” Gunnar Nordstrom, Expressen Sweden, Deadliest Selfie Site?” Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, “Woody “Fighting the Darkness” Karen Foshay, Michael Ray and Tori Edgar, Allen’s ’Manhattan’ Muse Isn’t Sure What to Lizzie Pearl and Richard Moran, Nine Network KCET, “What Happened to ‘LA Weekly’?” Think”

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Claudia Eller, Variety, “Cate Blanchett: Why Kim Masters and Kaitlin Parker, KCRW, “Ethan Michelle Ho, El Camino Real, “Take a Second ‘We’re Not Going Back to Ground Zero’ on Hawke on following his heart and his new Look: Alyssa Bao” Women’s Rights” movie ‘Blaze’” Jennifer Laski, Shanti Marlar, Michelle Stark Brent Lang, Variety, “Viola Davis Knows What’s Jenelle Riley, Variety, “Stagecraft Special and Austin Hargrave, The Hollywood Wrong With Hollywood… and How to Fix It” Edition: Tom Hiddleston Talks Shakespeare, Reporter, “Jim Carrey” Gino Terrell, #In-Depth/MCXV, “Enter the ‘Avengers’” Corey Nickols and Ada Guerin, TheWrap, “Ted ‘Kimpire’: Creating a lifestyle out of creating Micheal Silverblatt, KCRW, “Víctor Terán Danson Trolls Viewer” hairstyles” and David Shook: Like A New Sun: New Matt Sayles and Ada Guerin, TheWrap, “Spike Indigenous Mexican Poetry” Lee” G9. PERSONALITY PROFILE – Politics/ Amy Ta and Madeleine Brand, KCRW, Business/Arts Personalities, MAGAZINES “MacArthur ‘Genius’ Vijay Gupta on a B2. OBITUARY/IN APPRECIATION – TV/Film Jem Aswad, Variety, “From Vine to VMAs: How traumatic childhood and finally being ‘seen’” Personalities, ALL MEDIA PLATFORMS Shawn Mendes Beat the One-Hit-Wonder Brian Addison, Long Beach Post, “The pain and Curse” J7. PERSONALITY PROFILE/INTERVIEW, beauty of being humble: Friends and family Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, “Holly­ under 20 minutes, RADIO mourn Ron Sararana, aka DJ Efechto” wood Royalty (No Actual Nobility Included)” Frances Anderton and Avishay Artsy, KCRW, Steven Gaydos, Variety, “Ermanno Olmi Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, “Ellen “Jim Carrey takes up political cartooning” Appreciation: An Art-House Giant Who Pompeo, TV’s $20 Million Woman, Reveals Rico Gagliano, KCRW - Press Play, “83-Year- Deserved More Attention” Her Behind-The-Scenes Fight for ‘What I Old Almond Seller At Hollywood Farmers’ Owen Gleiberman, Variety, “Burt Reynolds: A Deserve’” Market Has a Rich Musical History” Movie Star Who Refused to Take Stardom Matt Welch, Reason, “Jordan Peterson Is Not Kim Masters and Kaitlin Parker, KCRW, Seriously” the Second Coming” “Comedian Kathy Griffin on her self-funded Todd Krainin, ReasonTV, “Travel Shows Michael D. White, San Fernando Valley Bar world tour” Were Boring as F*ck. Then Came Anthony Association, “Blazing a Legal Trail” Sarah Sweeney and Madeleine Brand, KCRW, Bourdain” “LA’s Gavlyn and Reverie, female rappers Richard Stellar, TheWrap, “Chris Burrous M3. PERSONALITY PROFILE, FOREIGN trying to make it in a man’s hip-hop world” Appreciation: Why I’ll Miss KTLA’s Citizen CORRESPONDENTS Journalist” Kjersti Flaa, KK and Dagbladet, “Jane Fonda I12. ENTERTAINMENT PERSONALITY profile: ’I never felt like a sex symbol’” PROFILE/INTERVIEW, TELEVISION B3. OBITUARY/IN APPRECIATION – Politics/ Chrissy Iley, Sunday Times Magazine, Juan Devis, Matthew Crotty, Adebukola Business/Arts, ALL MEDIA PLATFORMS “Exclusive U2 interview: Chrissy Iley meets Bodunrin, Angela Boisvert and Matt Bass, Natasha Hakimi Zapata, Truthdig, “The Late, the band on tour to talk RSI, clean eating KCET, ”Open Your Eyes: Lula Washington Great Ursula K. 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Andy Nguyen, Glendale News-Press, “‘They Celebrate World Series Win” Moment” want to be seen and heard:’ Volunteers help Rudi Uebelhoer, Joe Pugliese, Peter Flax Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/ track Glendale’s homeless in annual count” 61st Annual Southern California and Cheryl Angelheart, The Red Bulletin Southern California News Group, “Fighting Magazine, “Life and Limb” the Fire” K3. HARD NEWS – General, ONLINE Allen J. Schaben, Los Angeles Times, “Fishing Gustavo Arellano, Capital & Main, “Feds Journalism Awards and K18. SPORTS NEWS or FEATURE, ONLINE While Holy Fire Burns” Charge Violent Neo-Nazis — But Orange Mirin Fader, Bleacher Report, “The LaMelo County D.A. Only Charges One of Their congratulates tonight’s honorees! Show” M1. NEWS, FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS Victims” JJ Fiddler and Mike Guardabascio, The 562. Mike Amor and Duncan McLeod, 7 Network Spencer Custodio, Voice of OC, “Armory org, “’10 fingers are overrated’: Cabrillo High Australia, “Kilauea’s Fury” Homeless Shelters Close, Many Unsure basketball player leads team in scoring Aviva Fried and Christèle Jaime, Radio What’s Next” despite disability” Télévision Suisse, “The Rebirth of a City” Jeremiah Dobruck, Long Beach Post, Elizabeth Islas, Annenberg Media at the Michaela Haas, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, “Bandmate killed woman holding toddler University of Southern California, “Youth “Die Lösung für Alles/The Solution For after teasing over politics, witnesses say” lacrosse in South LA” Everything” Jacquelyn Ryan, CoStar News, “Mall of America Congratulations to our HFPA nominees: JOVRNALISM Staff, JOVRNALISM, “Immersed Valentina Martelli, Rai Italian National TV, Owner Looking to Buy Former Rocketdyne in the Winter Games” “California In Flame – California Is On Fire” Site in LA’s West Valley” Brian Steinberg, Variety, “NFL Tackles TV’s Tom Walters and Liam Hyland, CTV - Canadian Elizabeth Wagmeister and Ramin Setoodeh, ‘Billboard’ Ads as Fans Demand Fewer Game Television, “The Woolsey Fire” Variety, “Tom Brokaw Accused of Sexual Breaks” Harassment By Former NBC Anchor” K1. NEWS – Government/Politics, ONLINE Barbara Gasser K19. SPORTS COMMENTARY, ONLINE Valerie Osier, Long Beach Post, “He was shot 9 J2. NEWS or FEATURE — Short form, RADIO Eric Boehm, Reason, “Curling Is the Closest the times at a crowded park; his family wonders Craig Fiegener, KNX AM, “Toe to Toe with Dana Olympics Ever Get to Anarchy” why there aren’t more witnesses” Rohrabacher” Janet Nepales Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, “The Stories Joe Rubin, Capital & Main, “Battery Blood: Emily Guerin, KPCC, “LA Football Club Hiding in Plain Sight” How California Health Agencies Failed Exide diehards wanted a stadium that was loud, Aitana Vargas, Hoy, “La leyenda de Nadal Workers” intimidating and never let you sit down” se agranda y ensombrece a Thiem en 5 Colleen Shalby and Priya Krishnakumar, Los Ruben Nepales apoteósicos sets” Angeles Times, “For many women across the J3. BREAKING NEWS, RADIO U.S., it’s already a post-Roe vs. Wade reality” KNX News Team, KNX AM, “SoCal Fires” J10. SPORTS, RADIO Jacob Sugarman, Truthdig, “‘The G-20 Is Lance Orozco, KCLU AM/FM, “Ventura County Adam Tanswell Frances Anderton and Avishay Artsy, KCRW, Death,’ and Other Lessons in Global Hit By Simultaneous Disasters” “Designing a soccer stadium, with help Capitalism” from fans” Sahra Sulaiman, Streetsblog LA, “Rallygoers I4. BREAKING NEWS, TELEVISION Susan Valot, NPR’s ‘Only A Game,’ “The Judo Demanding Justice for Hit-and-Run Victim Gigi Graciette and Tony Buttina, KTTV Fox 11 Tournaments That Brought LA Kids To A Frederick “Woon” Frazier Crash Community News, “The Woolsey Fire: Amidst The Loss A Japanese Internment Camp” Meeting on Safe Streets” Sign of Hope” Susan Valot, NPR’s ‘Only A Game,’ “The Story Steve Kuzj, KTLA 5 News, “Racing to Find Of The First Climbers To Scale Yosemite’s El K2. NEWS – Culture, ONLINE Survivors: The Deadly Montecito Mudslide” Capitan” Gustavo Arellano, Capital & Main, “Orange George Pennacchio and Cheryl Diano, KABC – We are proud of you! County Parents: Change Name of School TV, “Goodbye to The Queen of Soul” I14. SPORTS, TELEVISION That Honors Klan Member” Ernesto Torres and Tony Shin, KNBC TV 4, “The Jessica Q. Chen and Claire Hannah Collins, Carol Mithers, Capital & Main, “Los Angeles fire is erupting” Los Angeles Times, “Caroline Marks makes Renters Fight Back to Keep Their Pets — and Antonio R. Valverde, KMEX Univision, “Anaheim surfing history” Homes” Fires”

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ALONZO BODDEN Al Kamalizad, Mother Jones Magazine, “Down Angelheart, The Red Bulletin Magazine, “All Is Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, son says she doesn’t want anything to do D5. ENTERTAINMENT PHOTO the Line” Not Lost” “MacArthur fellow Vijay Gupta is sparking with her old family as a musical celebrating Donna Balancia, CaliforniaRocker, “Erykah Swetha Kannan, Los Angeles Times, “Vote- change on skid row with his Street soul legend’s turbulent life rocks the West Badu Exudes Happiness on Stage in SoCal” G10. IN-HOUSE or CORPORATE by-mail Will Keep Us From Knowing Voter G11. DESIGN, MAGAZINES Symphony” End” Elisabeth Caren and Ada Guerin, TheWrap, PUBLICATION, MAGAZINES Turnout For Days” Beatrice Alcala, Collegian Times, “Collegian Barbara Gasser, Maxima, “Cultural Revolution - “The Stars of ‘The Assasination of Gianni Rosie Soto Cohen, Michael D. White and Dennis Nishi, KCET, “SoCal Connected” Times” G7. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS or FEATURE, Hollywood after Weinstein” Versace’” Marina Senderov, San Fernando Valley Bar Robert Festino and Jennie Chang, Variety, MAGAZINES Janet R. Nepales, Manila Bulletin, “Regrets of Jay L. Clendenin, Los Angeles Times, “Tracy’s Association, “Valley Lawyer Magazine” D11. COVER ART “Variety Music Mogul of the Year Issue” Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, and advice from Angela Lansbury” Back!” Collegian Times Staff, Collegian Times, “The Letty Avila, USC Dornsife Magazine, “The Los Shanti Marlar, Peter Cury and Kelsey “Lines Got Blurred”: Jeffrey Tambor and an Ruben V. Nepales, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Jennifer Laski, Shanti Marlar, Kate Pappa and June 1st Issue” Angeles Issue” Stefanson, The Hollywood Reporter, “Anxiety Up-Close Look at Harassment Claims on “Alfonso Cuaron on his ‘Roma,’ which took Ramona Rosales, The Hollywood Reporter, Peter Flax, Nora O’Donnell, Tara Thompson, Robert Festino and Jennifer Dorn, Variety, Issue” ‘Transparent’” me back to my childhood, hometown” “Crazy Rich Asians” Rudi Uebelhoer and Cheryl Angelheart, The “Variety Magazine Power of Women- Lena Staff, USC Annenberg School for Peter Flax, Steve Friedman, Nora O’Donnell, Adam Tanswell, SciFiNow, “Avengers Set Visit” Allen J. Schaben, Los Angeles Times, “Garth Red Bulletin Magazine, “The Social Impact Waithe Cover” Communication and Journalism, “USC Tara Thompson and Cheryl Angelheart, The Brooks” Issue” Robert Festino and Richard Maltz, Variety, Annenberg Magazine” Red Bulletin Magazine, “An Unlikely Savior” K4. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS OR FEATURE, Lance Ignon, Letty Avila and Dennis Lan, USC “Variety Jordan Peele Cover” Karen and Michael Villalpando, Beverly Press/ Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, ONLINE I11. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS or FEATURE, Dornsife Magazine, “The Los Angeles Issue” Robert Festino and Richard Maltz, Variety, Park LaBrea News, “See Sip Savor - Dining + “L.A.’s Housing Crisis Hits Hollywood: The Jem Aswad, Variety, “Why Isn’t Post Malone Up TELEVISION USC Annenberg School for Communication “Variety Emmy Preview Cover” Entertainment” Entertainment Workers Living in Their Cars” for the Best New Artist Grammy?” Steve Appleford, Revolver, “Nick Oliveri: “Rock and Journalism, USC Annenberg Magazine, Ada Guerin and Shayan Asgharnia, TheWrap, Evelyn McDonnell, Billboard, “The Role Thania Garcia, The Sundial, “John Murdy talks & Roll Komodo Dragon” of Kyuss, Queens of “October 1st Issue” “Rami Malek cover” K9. ENTERTAINMENT FEATURE, ONLINE of Struggle In Aretha Franklin’s Path to about ‘Stranger Things’ maze at Halloween the Stone Age” Charles Davis, Capital & Main, “Freeway Greatness” Horror Nights” Debra Birnbaum, Stuart Oldham, Preston C2. HEADLINE, PRINT J11. USE OF SOUND, RADIO Robbery: Confronting Hollywood’s Wage- Brian Steinberg, Variety, “Can a New President Tim Molloy, TheWrap, “Inside the ‘NCIS’ Mess: Northrop and Meredith Woerner, Variety, Steven Eames, Los Angeles Times, “State’s Frances Anderton and Avishay Artsy, KCRW, Theft Culture” and Streaming Service Help ESPN Win How a Dog Bite Kept Pauley Perrette and “Women Directors on Breaking Down dairies getting creamed in trade war” “Bridges and Walls: LA River, part 1” Makeda Easter, Los Angeles Times, “The black Again?” Mark Harmon Apart on Set” Barriers” Steve Horn, Los Angeles Times, “Unrelievable” Carla Javier and Kyle Stokes, KPCC, “LA’s hair revolution is happening now on a Mike Roe, LAist, “30 Rock’s Werewolf Bar Juan Devis, Matthew Crotty, Nathan Masters, Kevin Leung, Los Angeles Times, “Say aloha to notorious Locke High School is improving. Is screen near you” M4. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS or FEATURE, Mitzvah: An Oral History” Hugh McHarg and Catherine Quinlan, KCET, FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS their little friends” it still ‘failing’?” Simi Horwitz, The Hollywood Reporter, Brian Steinberg, Variety, “Trump and “Lost L.A. – Fantasyland” Scott Johnson and Stephen Galloway, The Megan Manata, USC Annenberg Radio News, “Veterans Who Act: The Theater of War” Hugo Daniel, The Mail On Sunday, “‘Tina Technology Force TV News Shake Up” Natalie Heltzel, Victoria McKillop, Leslie Hollywood Reporter, “The Making of a “Synthesizer sound bath turns up the Asia Morris, Long Beach Post, “Oaxaca-born turned her back on me:’ Singer’s adopted Bumgarner, Alfred Aquino, Jeanie Pyun Monster” volume for a vibrating meditation” artist paints life in the fields in first solo Jared Servantez, Los Angeles Times, “Coyotes Lance Orozco, KCLU AM/FM, “The Violin Maker” exhibition at Long Beach museum” spill their guts” Tena Rubio and Danny Bringer, KSJV Radio Steve Pond, TheWrap, “How Alfonso Cuarón Bilingue, “Drumming in Corrections” Brought His Memories to Life in ‘Roma’” D8. ILLUSTRATION Cat Auer, Playboy Winter Issue, “Playboy B14. MULTIMEDIA PACKAGE — ALL MEDIA F2. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS or FEATURE, Fiction: The Modern Era” PLATFORMS PRINT under 50K Jeremy Enecio and Nicholas Brawley, The Itay Hod and Sharon Waxman, TheWrap, Christina Campodonico, The Argonaut, “A Hollywood Reporter, “Stan Lee’s New Villains” “#AfterMeToo: 12 Accusers Share What Place to Play: 50 Years of the Boys & Girls Jason Hill, The Argonaut, “Venice Fashion Happened Next, From Firing to More Clubs of Venice” Throughout the Ages” Trauma” Alexander Hamilton Cherin, OC Weekly, “The CONGRATULATIONS Sarah Hofstedt, The Sundial, “English depart­ Chris Gardner, Rebecca Sun, Lindsay Mighty 690” ment introduces Pop Culture as new minor” Weinberg, Joelle Goldstein and Bryan White, Janet R. Nepales, Manila Bulletin, “Charlize Brian Stauffer and Shanti Marlar, The The Hollywood Reporter, “21 Transgender Theron on Women Finding Their Voices” TO JIM HILL ON Hollywood Reporter, “I’m a Sex Assault Stars, Creators Sound Off on Hollywood: “I Sean P. Thomas, Los Angeles Downtown News, Accuser and I’m Anonymous. Here’s Why” Want to Portray These Characters, and I’m “Bidding Farewell to the Puppet Palace” Ready” Priscella Vega, Daily Pilot, “Feast of Our Lady RECEIVING THE D9. GRAPHIC JOVRNALISM staff, JOVRNALISM, “Homeless of Guadalupe tradition lives on in H.B. Nick Gerda and Sonya Quick, Voice of OC, Realities” neighborhood despite death of mother “Millions in ‘Dark Money’ Flowing to OC KPCC & LAist, @KPCC, “Voter Game Plan” who inspired it” JOSEPH M. QUINN Congressional Races” Elizabeth Wagmeister and Ramin Setoodeh, Priya Krishnakumar, Maloy Moore, Ryan Variety, “Tom Brokaw Accused of Sexual E3. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS or FEATURE, Menezes and Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Harassment By Former NBC Anchor” PRINT over 50K AWARD FOR LIFETIME Times, “Gavin Newsom’s Loyal Supporters” Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, “Want your Sonya Quick, Voice of OC, “OC 2018 Congres­ G12. PAGE DESIGN, MAGAZINES own Dumbo from Disneyland? An authentic sional Races – Election Counts Over Time” Cat Auer, Playboy Magazine Nov/Dec 2018, Skyway car? Why park history is headed to ACHIEVEMENT Matt Stiles, Ryan Menezes and Jon Schleuss, “James Bond Origin: A Train to Catch” auction” Los Angeles Times, “A century of Malibu Letty Avila and Dennis Lan, Dornsife Magazine, Zoe Hewitt, Variety, “To Film in High-Risk and all the 61 ST SoCal Journalism Awards wildfires” “Talk the Talk” Areas, Hollywood Studios Hire Gang Angie Wang, Eater, “In Search of Water-Boiled Robert Festino and Jennie Chang, Variety, Members as Crew” winners and honorees. LAFC is proud to support Fish” “Lady Gaga On the Edge” Michael Idato, The Sydney Morning Herald and the Los Angeles Press Club. Shanti Marlar, Peter Cury and Kelsey Melbourne Age, “Game Changer: How House D10. ANIMATION/MOVING GRAPHIC Stefanson, The Hollywood Reporter, “Jim of Cards Altered The Course of TV History” Henry Cram, KCET, “Immigration 101” Carrey” Jessica Ogilvie, The Washington Post, “How JOVRNALISM staff, JOVRNALISM, “Homeless Tara Thompson, Rudi Uebelhoer, Nora actresses who are just starting out get www.LAFC.com Realities: Jennifer’s Echo Park Tent” O’Donnell, Peter Flax and Cheryl pressured into ‘creepy’ nude scenes”

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and Stephanie Fischette, The Hollywood Chauncey K. Robinson, People’s World, “’Sorry THE DANIEL PEARL AWARD—NIMA Congratulations Reporter, “Women of Action” to Bother You’, ‘On Her Shoulders,’ ‘Cargo’” ELBAGIR, CNN, Presented by Judea Pearl Gina Pollack, Andy Viner, Michael Ray, Tori David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, Edgar and Helki Frantzen, KCET, “Under the “Hereditary,” “Crazy Rich Asians,” “The Influence” Favourite” B8. MEDICAL/HEALTH REPORTING, ALL MEDIA PLATFORMS to all the J9. ENTERTAINMENT REPORTING, RADIO B18. REVIEWS – THEATER/PERFORMING Steve Burrows, HBO, “Bleed Out” Frances Anderton and Avishay Artsy, KCRW, ARTS, ALL MEDIA PLATFORMS Harriet Ryan and Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles “Bringing back ‘70s-era Mexico City in Thom Geier, TheWrap, “Theater Reviews” Times, “More than 20 women accused ‘Roma’” Eric A. Gordon, People’s World, “Arrival & a prominent Pasadena obstetrician of mistreating them. He denied claims and la Press Club Honorees Craig Fiegener, KNX AM, “Farewell to the Departure”, “Israel in Egypt” Dumpy Little Building in Culver City” Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times, “David was able to continue practicing” Devika Girish and Melissa Duenas, USC Byrne’s American Utopia tour at the Stuart Sender, Grisha Alasadi, Guy Livneh, Tori Annenberg Radio News, “Demystifying Shrine,” “Cuba’s Omara Portuondo comes Edgar and Michael Ray, KCET, “Heat” Bollywood” to the aid of L.A. Phil, Dudamel at the Teri Sforza, Tony Saavedra and Scott Cynthia Littleton, Variety, “How Sarah Bowl,” “Even at the Rose Bowl, Taylor Swift Schwebke, Orange County Register/Southern Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse Invented forges an intimate bond with fans” California News Group, “Born on Drugs” Modern Celebrity Culture” David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, Zach Weissmueller and Mark McDaniel, Drew Tewksbury, NPR Weekend Edition, “At “Girl from the North Country,” “Angels in Reason TV, “Government-Approved One NASA Lab, Art and Science Share the America,” “The Cher Show” Workouts? The Fight Against Fitness Same Orbit” Chris Willman, Variety, “Reviews by Variety’s Licensing” Chris Willman” K20. ENTERTAINMENT COMMENTARY, B9. SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY ONLINE B19. REVIEWS – BOOKS/ART/ DESIGN / REPORTING, ALL MEDIA PLATFORMS Owen Gleiberman, Variety, “How Michael ARCHITECTURE, ALL MEDIA PLATFORMS Brittany Beckman, Mashable, “Rise of the Moore Lost His Audience” Samanta Helou Hernandez, KCET, “‘Bridges Terpenes” Shirley Halperin, Variety, “Pusha T vs. Drake in a Time of Walls’ Brings Chicano Art to Jeffrey Daniels, CNBC Digital, “California’s next Isn’t a War of Words, But of Pictures” Mexico City” governor hopes to get the jump on fires Angie Han, Mashable, “‘Crazy Rich Asians’ and Evelyn McDonnell, The New York Times, by expanding the state’s high-tech early the immense pressure to feel seen” “Rock-Your-World Moments Fill New warning camera system” Paul Hodgins, Voice of OC, “Is It Time for Local Music Memoirs From Tina Turner and a Debra Greene, KCLU AM/FM, “Technology Arts Leadership to Reflect a Changing Disillusioned Hit Maker” Helping To Catch Rare Turtle Poachers” World?” Shana Nys Dambrot, Art & Cake, “Todd Gray at Janko Roettgers, Variety, “How Roku Morphed Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, “‘The Meliksetian Briggs Gallery” From a Quirky Hardware Startup to a TV Romanoffs Satirizes the Desperation of Shana Nys Dambrot, LA Weekly, “Rick Bartow Streaming Powerhouse” White Privilege in Decline” at the Autry: Spirit Animals of Our Most Keith Wagstaff, Mashable, “Dark Matter” Divine Souls” B16. COMMENTARY/ANALYSIS – TV/FILM, Eunice Wong, Truthdig, “Demonic Possession C5. CRIME REPORTING, PRINT ALL MEDIA PLATFORMS in a Chinese Family” Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, “2018 Emmy “Hunting the Con Queen of Hollywood” nominations: A reflection of America, the B20. REVIEWS – FOOD/CULTURE, ALL Soumya Karlamangla and Brittny Mejia, Los bad and the good” MEDIA PLATFORMS Angeles Times, “Friends took this photo at Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, “Bill Cosby Brian Addison, Long Beach Post, “Reviews” their favorite bar in Thousand Oaks. Minutes Outstanding service since 1979 and the complicated heart-break of a hero’s Ruksana Hussain, Cuisine Noir, “Bringing West later, the shooting started” fall from grace” African Cuisine to the West Coast: Afia Stacy Perman, Los Angeles Magazine, Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, Anabasua” “Searching for The Salomons” “Critic’s Notebook” Brad A. Johnson, Orange County Register/ Simi Horwitz, Film Journal International, Southern California News Group, “Restaurant K12. CRIME REPORTING, ONLINE “Three essays on respectively outlier reviews: Journeyman, Southern Spice, Left Jeremiah Dobruck, Long Beach Post, “Warrant children onscreen; in praise of “Scarface” Coast BBQ” reveals ‘extremely high’ tension at Cabrillo 310.823.5466 and review of Disobedience” Jonathan Gold, Los Angeles Times, “Counter High before drive-by killed grandfather” Kristin Marguerite Doidge, The Atlantic, Intelligence” Jason Kandel, NBC LA, ”Twisted” “The Pop Innovations of a 50-Year-Old Shawna Kenney, Narratively, “I Was a Black Licensed, Insured & Bonded • TP# 23109B Soundtrack” D6a. PHOTO ESSAY, Culture/Entertainment Nazi Skinhead” Jay L. Clendenin, Los Angeles Times, “TIFF David Ketterling and Susan Leibowitz, NBC B17. REVIEWS – TV/FILM, ALL MEDIA Portrait Studio” News, “Unsolved Murder in the Mountains” PLATFORMS Osceola Refetoff, KCETlink, “Land Artifacts: A Ryan Parry, DailyMail.com, “Iraqi who planned Owen Gleiberman, Variety, “Reviews by Didactic of Ruins” to carry out terror attacks with bomb he Variety Chief Film Critic Owen Gleiberman” Robert Festino, Jennifer Dorn and Art Streiber, built in Las Vegas caught in elaborate FBI Simi Horwitz, Film Journal International, “On Variety, “Lady Gaga Photo Series” sting” Chesil Beach,” “The Wife,” and “Disobedience” Robert Festino, Jennifer Dorn, and Joe Peter Rainier, The Christian Science Monitor, Pugliese, Variety, “Variety Power of Women” H3. CRIME REPORTING, BROADCAST “Phantom Thread,” “First Man,” “What Will Jennifer Laski, Shanti Marlar, Kate Pappa and Karen Foshay, Vince Beiser, David Egen and People Say” Miller Mobley, The Hollywood Reporter, Dan Leonard, KCET, “Out of Bounds” “Oscar Actress Roundtable”

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Gina Pollack, Andy Viner, Karen Foshay, Luisa F4. INVESTIGATIVE/SERIES, PRINT under Robin Urevich, Capital & Main, “Deadly Conlon and Helki Frantzen, KCET, “The 50K Detention” People v Kiera Newsome” Andre Coleman, Pasadena Weekly, “Guns” Josh Mankiewicz, Karen Israel, Susan Jeffrey Gottlieb, The Signal, “Developer’s J8. INVESTIGATIVE, RADIO Leibowitz, Chetna Joshi, and David nonprofit educational foundation gave Frances Anderton and Avishay Artsy, KCRW, Ketterling, NBC News, “Unraveled” scholarships to students of well-connected “Bridges and Walls” Keith Morrison, Michelle Madigan, David families” Michell Eloy and Madeleine Brand, KCRW, Ketterling, Haylee Barber and Joe Brian Hews, HMG Community Newspaper, “More California moms-to-be are using Delmonico, NBC Dateline, “The Women and “ABC District Officials Recommend Board cannabis, but is it safe?” Dirty John” Vote Yes For Public Relations Company With Saul Gonzalez, KCRW, “Should homeless Emily Snyder, Peggy Holter, Christine Questionable History” housing cost half a million dollars a unit?” Pelisek, Genevieve Wong and Nick Joe Nelson, Scott Schwebke and Beau David Gorn, KPCC/CALmatters Collaboration, Montes, Investigation Discovery (ID), People Yarbrough, Redlands Daily Facts/Southern “California’s push to make people healthy— magazine, “People Magazine Investigates: California News Group, “Bad Apples: How a and save taxpayers money” Monster in the Desert” culture of covering up sex abuse at public Rina Palta, KPCC, “Rats, roaches, bedbugs, schools is hurting children — and costing mold: Why thousands of LA’s homeless F5. BUSINESS, PRINT under 50K taxpayers millions” shelter beds sit empty each night” Michael Aushenker, San Fernando Valley Nicholas Slayton, Sean P. Thomas and Jon Business Journal, “Dealing’s Done at Charles Regardie, Los Angeles Downtown News, I5. INVESTIGATIVE, TELEVISION Dunn” “Reporting on Overlooked Elements of the Jim Epstein, Reason TV, “The $15 Minimum Ruksana Hussain, Irvine Weekly, “SPACES Homelessness Crisis in Skid Row” Wage Is Turning Hard Workers Into Black Brings Groundbreaking Virtual Reality Market Lawbreakers” Experience to Irvine” E5. INVESTIGATIVE/SERIES, PRINT over 50K Deepa Fernandes, Lata Pandya, Alberto Martin L. Jacobs, The Argonaut, “Buy, Scrape, Jack Dolan, Ryan Menezes and Gus Garcia- Arce, Austin Stoecklein and Dennis Nishi, Build, Repeat” Roberts, Los Angeles Times, “Gaming the KCET, “Stolen Paychecks” Ciaran McEvoy, Los Angeles Business Journal, System: How Cops and Firefighters Cashed Courtney Friel, KTLA 5 News, “Crackdown on “Closing Times” In on L.A.’s Pension Program” Handicap Placard Abuse!” Nicholas Slayton, Los Angeles Downtown Scott M. Reid, Orange County Register/ Cole Sullivan and Sam Bergum, USC News, “The Booming Business of Southern California News Group, Annenberg Media, “Warning Signs: Student ‘Experiences’” “Investigation into USA Swimming and USA threatened USC professor more than a year Gymnastics” before killing him” E6. BUSINESS, PRINT over 50K Joel Rubin and Ben Poston, Los Angeles Times, Antonio Valverde, KMEX Univision, “Vatican Jeff Collins, Orange County Register/Southern “In the search for drugs, a lopsided dragnet” Abuses” California News Group, “The new American Harriet Ryan, Matt Hamilton and Paul Pringle, dream: Leasing your house” Los Angeles Times, “A Scandal at USC” B10. LOCAL POLITICAL/GOVERNMENT Gerrick Kennedy, Los Angeles Times, “Rhythm REPORTING, ALL MEDIA PLATFORMS and Beats: Examining the state of R&B in a G1. INVESTIGATIVE, MAGAZINES Avishay Artsy and Frances Anderton, KCRW, hip-hop world” Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, “Stan “Koreatown residents: ‘No Hearing No Tent’” Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times, “When pop Lee’s New Villains Are Very, Very Real” Jack Dolan, Ryan Menezes and Gus Garcia- music got big: 1968 and the birth of arena Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, Roberts, Los Angeles Times, “Gaming the rock” “Hunting the Con Queen of Hollywood” System: How Cops and Firefighters Cashed Stacy Perman, Los Angeles Times, “#MeToo law Brent Lang and David Lieberman, Variety, In on L.A.’s Pension Program” restricts use of nondisclosure agreements in “Do Media Chiefs Deserve the Lavish Pay Nick Gerda and Spencer Custodio, Voice of OC, sexual misconduct cases” Packages They Rake In?” “Policeman Confronts Reporter For Taking Sara Randazzo, Wall Street Journal, “The Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, “‘SMILF’ Photos of Him Detaining Homeless Man” Sexting Scandal That Toppled One of Creator Frankie Shaw Investigated Over Los Angeles Times staff, Los Angeles Times, America’s Most Powerful Lawyers” Misconduct Claims” “How California Law Shielded Dishonest Jacob Sullum, Reason, “America’s War on Pain Cops” D6b. PHOTO ESSAY, News/News Feature Pills Is Killing Addicts and Leaving Patients Joe Rubin, Capital & Main, “Battery Blood: Ringo Chiu, Associated Press, “The Woolsey in Agony” How California Health Agencies Failed Exide Fire” Workers” Thomas Cordova, Long Beach Post, “Mother K5. INVESTIGATIVE, ONLINE of slain LBCC football player pleads with C.J. Ciaramella, Reason, “Chicago Is Trying to B11. NATIONAL POLITICAL/GOVERNMENT REPORTING, ALL MEDIA PLATFORMS public to help catch son’s killer” Pay Down Its Debt by Impounding Innocent Michael Nigro, Truthdig, “The Border in Black People’s Cars” Eric Boehm, Reason, “Trade Hearing and White” Aaron Mendelson and Mary Plummer, LAist, Highlights Staggering Number of Losers Osceola Refetoff, KCETlink, “Whittaker- “134 Cases, $36 Million: Inside Sexual From Trump’s Tariff Plan” Bermite: Environmental Redemption in Misconduct At America’s Biggest County Ted Johnson, Variety, “Inside the Intense, Santa Clarita, California” Government” Combative World of Covering the Trump Arturo Talavera, Capital & Main, “Epicenters of Joe Rubin, Capital & Main, “Battery Blood: White House” Refuge: A Tale of Two Cities” How California Health Agencies Failed Exide David Sirota, Capital & Main, “Beto vs. Workers” Democrats: Texas Lawmaker Frequently Shane Singh, Playboy Magazine, “A Veteran in Voted to Help Trump and GOP” Crisis” Joanna Sokolowski, Kate Trumbull-LaValle, Justin Cram, Pascale Joassart-Marcelli

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and Kelly Parker, KCET, “City Rising – The Matthew Crotty, Kelly Parker and Jori Finkel, Savannah Sinfield, Keith Demolder and Raina Journalism Awards Are Judged Informal Economy” KCET, ”Artist and Mother” Singh, USC Annenberg Media, “See It Live: Staff, Variety and Rolling Stone, “American Borderline Shooting” InJustice” Like Many Press Clubs, We Get by With a Little Help From Our Friends JOSEPH M. QUINN AWARD – JIM HILL, A5. ONLINE JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR introduced by Magic Johnson B13. ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTING, ALL Nick Gerda, Voice of OC he Los Angeles Press Club does not MEDIA PLATFORMS Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter judge its own awards competition. Vince Beiser, Karen Foshay, Lata Pandya, I3. VIDEOGRAPHER, TELEVISION Jessica Goodheart, Capital & Main TInstead, our awards are decided by Alberto Arce and Dennis Nishi, KCET, “Watch Matt Bass, KCET, “Open Your Eyes: Lula Emma Parry, The Sun Online volunteer journalists representing press What You Sign” Washington Dance Theatre” Robin Urevich, Capital & Main organizations from across the country. Alleen Brown, Eric Preven and Joshua Preven, Travis LaBella, KCET, “That Far Corner: Frank In return, our press club judges other The Intercept, “Los Angeles Blames Wildfire Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles” A6. ENTERTAINMENT JOURNALIST OF THE organizations’ competitions. on Homeless…” Peter Musurlian, KLCS & Globalist Films, YEAR Christopher Langley, KCET Artbound, Owen Gleiberman, Variety Each spring, press clubs exchange “Holocaust Soliloquy” contest entries with one another, sharing “Whittaker Bermite: Environmental Andres Pruna, KMEX-TV, “Mito y Realidad en la Itay Hod, TheWrap a mutual commitment to honoring Redemption in Santa Clarita, California” cuenca del Amazonas” Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times Andres Pruna and Shanna Mendiola, KNBC4, Ernesto Torres, KNBC-TV, ” A wish for a white Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter journalistic achievement. The reciprocal “Plastics in Our Ocean” Christmas” Chris Willman, Variety judging process ensures fair and impartial Stuart Sender, Grisha Alasadi, Guy Livneh, Tori judging. Edgar and Michael Ray, KCET, “Heat” J1. ANCHOR/HOST, RADIO A7. SPORTS JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR These are the 12 clubs and organiza- Madeleine Brand, KCRW, “Press Play with David Pingalore, KTLA 5 News tions that judged our contest this year: C4. GENDER/LGBTQ REPORTING, PRINT Madeleine Brand” Aitana Vargas, HITN TV Network & DirecTV Chicago Headline Club, Cleveland Press Diane Garrett, Variety, “Showbiz Women Gordon Cox, Variety, “Stagecraft With Gordon Sports Club, Florida Press Club, Lone Star Press Prevail (and Persist) Around the Globe” Cox” Club, Kansas City Press Club, Milwaukee Soumya Karlamangla, Los Angeles Times, “Male A8. PHOTOJOURNALIST/VIDEOGRAPHER Ted Johnson and Charla Freeland, Variety/ Press Club, New Orleans Press Club, Press doctors are disappearing from gynecology. OF THE YEAR SiriusXM, “PopPolitics with Variety’s Ted Club of West Pennsylvania, Solutions Not everybody is thrilled about it” Johnson” Ringo Chiu, Freelance Journalism Network, Southeast Texas Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, “Can L.A.’s Cynthia Littleton and Andrew Wallenstein, Thomas Cordova, Long Beach Post only LGBTQ-focused coffee shop survive?” Variety, “Strictly Business” Phil Ige, KTLA 5 News Press Club, SPJ Florida, Syracuse Press Stacy Perman, Los Angeles Times, “#MeToo law Mike Simpson and Chris Sedens, KNX AM, Osceola Refetoff, KCETlink Club. restricts use of nondisclosure agreements in “KNX Afternoon News” Ernesto Torres, KNBC TV4 sexual misconduct cases” Chris Willman, Variety, “Country Music Dials I2. ANCHOR/HOST, TELEVISION A4. RADIO JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR Down on Girl Power as Nashville’s Women Juliette Boland, The Anglophile Channel, “The Deepa Fernandes, Freelance for PRI’s The Find Even Fewer Slots” Timey Wimey Fandom Show” World and KCRW Cher Calvin and Micah Ohlman, KTLA, “KTLA 5 Morris O’Kelly (Mo’Kelly), KFI AM640/ K11. GENDER/LGBTQ REPORTING, ONLINE News at 10” iHeartRadio Jessica Flores, Annenberg Media at USC, Sonali Kohlhatkar, Free Speech TV and KPFK Lance Orozco, KCLU AM/FM “National Coming Out Day” Pacifica Radio, “Rising Up with Sonali” Susan Valot, Freelance Jeremy Fuster, TheWrap, “Hollywood Leon Krauze, KMEX A3. TELEVISION JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR Gender Gap Shocker: Women Directed Val Zavala, KCET, “SoCal Connected” Just 3 Percent of This Year’s Studio Films Karen Foshay, KCET (Exclusive)” K24. WEBSITE, NEWS ORGANIZATION Courtney Friel, KTLA Press FOrward Lata Pandya, KCET, “Hundreds of Torture EXCLUSIVE TO THE INTERNET Gigi Graciette, KTTV Fox 11 Antonio Valverde, KMEX Univision Survivors Adjust to New Life in SoCal with Capital & Main staff, Capital & Main Journalists in Los Angeles need a place where they can be heard, Organization’s Help” JOVRNALISM, jovrnalism.io/ Tom Walters, CTV - Canadian Television Stephanie Rivera, Long Beach Post, “Ugandan Zuade Kaufman and Robert Scheer, Truthdig meet and network with other journalists, and prepare for the LGBTQ refugees find a home in Long Sonya Quick, Voice of OC A2. PRINT JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR under 50,000 circulation chal­lenges that lie ahead. Beach’s ‘gayborhood’” Sharon Waxman, Tim Molloy, Thom Geier and Andre Coleman, Pasadena Weekly Shane Singh, Playboy Magazine, “Gay Pride in Ada Guerin, TheWrap Brent Lang, Variety that place exists. the Arab Nation” K25. WEBSITE, TRADITIONAL NEWS Jon Regardie, LA Downtown News It is the Los Angeles Press Club. H2. GENDER/LGBTQ REPORTING, ORGANIZATION BROADCAST Matthew Belloni and Tom Seeley, The A1. PRINT JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR over 50,000 circulation join and become a member of the Club that has represented Frances Anderton and Avishay Artsy, KCRW, Hollywood Reporter, THR.com Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter “Identity in Design: Paving the Way for More KTLA Digital Team, KTLA 5 News, KTLA.com journalists in Los Angeles since 1913. Michael Idato, The Sydney Morning Herald and Women Cyclists” Variety.com, Variety.com Melbourne Age Valerie Defert, France 24, “For her pleasure: Is Brian Karem, Playboy Magazine 6464 Sunset Blvd., Suite 870 ‘feminist porn’ a contradiction?” I1. REGULARLY SCHEDULED NEWSCAST, Lina Lecaro, LA Weekly Jenny Hamel, KCRW, “The Pansy Craze” TELEVISION Hollywood, CA 90028 Sonali Kolhatkar and Anna Buss, Free Speech Chris Cheshire, Courtney Burke, Nick Alfano Phone: (323) 669-8081 TV and KPFK Pacifica Radio, “Women Of and Cici Pan, USC Annenberg Media, “ATVN PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD – HENRY E-mail: [email protected] Color Surge In Election Races” Newscast: Woolsey Fire” WINKLER, introduced by Bill Hader www.lapressclub.org Joanna Sokolowski, Kate Trumbull-LaValle, KTLA 5 News at 10pm Team, KTLA, “KTLA 5 News at 10”

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Los Angeles 68 Press CLub national Arts & Entertainment journalism Awards

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If you produced exceptional work in the field of arts and entertainment reporting in 2019-2020, we'd like to see it! Enter our 12th 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 1, 2019 • Crystal Ballroom, Millennium Biltmore Hotel