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A Letter From the President

ood evening, and welcome to the 60th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards. G It’s hard to believe that when these awards were first started, Los Angeles was welcoming a new baseball team, the Dodgers, who had just moved from . The big celebrity crime was the stabbing death of ’s mobster boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato, by her daughter . KTLA became the first TV station to use a news helicopter that year. And also in 1958, the University of Southern California established the first school for cinema and television studies. What a run they’ve had with gradu- ates such as George Lucas, Ron Howard and Shonda Rhimes. Through the years, reporters have been there to cover those and so many other stories. I often get asked: What’s it like being a journalist in an era when President and so many others are criticizing and even threat- ening the media for allegedly publishing fake news and for other perceived biases? I tell people it’s a little scary. But it’s also exhilarating. Because there are so many great stories out there to be told. Chris Palmeri The media business has changed a lot over the past 60 years. But I’m pleased to announce that the club this year saw a record number of submis- sions to its awards—more than 2,000 entries, in categories from humor writ- ing to health care reporting, from photo essays to college newspapers. And they came in for categories that couldn’t have even been dreamt about six decades ago, such as blogging, social media and podcasts. Our honorees this year represent the very best that the art of storytelling has to offer. , NBC’s evening anchorman, is the consummate news professional, keeping America informed every night with his shrewd judg- ment and gravitas. We couldn’t ask for a better public service award winner than Dolly Parton, whose work on behalf of children’s literacy has helped so many young people discover the printed word. (And don’t forget, she’s an amazing songwriter too!) Kimi Yoshino, the ’ business edi- tor, has stood tall for all of us in the past year, shepherding difficult stories amid all of the turmoil that has hit the newspaper business. And finally, there’s Raif Badawi, our Award recipient, who couldn’t be here tonight because he’s in prison in , subjected to lashings, for writing about human in a regime where such are not allowed. On behalf of the board of directors and our club’s 500 members, thank you so much for your time, your sponsorship dollars and your support for a free press in Southern California.

Sincerely,

Chris Palmeri President Los Angeles Press Club

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PRESIDENT Chris Palmeri, Bureau Chief, Awards for Editorial Excellence in 2017 and Bloomberg News Honorary Awards for 2018 VICE PRESIDENT Cher Calvin, Anchor/Reporter, KTLA, Los Angeles TREASURER Doug Kriegel, TV Reporter The Daniel Pearl Award For Courage and Integrity in Journalism Raif Badawi accepted by

SECRETARY Adam J. Rose, Senior Editorial THE PRESIDENT’S AWARD Producer, CBS Interactive For Impact on Media EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Diana Ljungaeus, International Journalist Kimi Yoshino Los Angeles Times board membERS

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

Dolly Parton JOE BEL BRUNO, Managing Editor, Variety GERRI SHAFTEL CONSTANT, Producer, CBS The Joseph M. Quinn Award DEEPA FERNANDES, Reporter, PRI (Public Radio For Lifetime Achievement International) Lester Holt NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt and Dateline

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Congratulations to 2018 honorees Lester Holt, Raif Badawi, Kimi Yoshino, and Dolly Parton; the finalists and winners of the 2017 Awards for Editorial Excellence; and the 2018 winner of the Frontier Communications Press Club Scholarship.

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#MakingaDifference The Year in Review 2017 – 2018

Another Very Big Year From Awards Shows to an Epic Film Reading to a New Home, the Press Club Never Slowed Down

The third annual Veritas aying that the last year has been really big radio, magazine and online journalism. Award went to Steven and busy for the Los Angeles Press Club The Press Club’s other major awards show Spielberg’s The Post for the sounds like a cliché. Still, the last year really also drew a huge crowd. The 10th annual best nonfiction film. A panel S was very big, and also very busy, with a collec- National Entertainment Journalism Awards included producers Tim and Trevor White with Daniel tion of high-profile events, big-name guests and were held in November, and more than 50 Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers activities that helped celebrate journalism in the industry professionals were honored for their fame and screenwriters Liz nation’s second-largest city. work. Prestigious prizes were also presented Hannah and Josh Singer,. The highlights began last June, when the 59th to Tippi Hedren, Claudia Eller and Andrew Below right: The exclusive Annual Southern California Journalism Awards Wallenstein of Variety, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, screening of the Netflix took place at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel. and “Sesame Street” co-creators Joan Ganz Original Documentary They set a record in number of entries— a record and Lloyd Morrisett. The highlight of the night Series Robert Kennedy for broken by this year’s 60th annual awards—and a was undoubtedly the presentation of the Impact President on the 50th an- niversary of his assassina- sellout crowd came out to honor , Award for Journalism That Makes a Difference tion, was attended by Paul Jake Tapper, Jaime Jarrin and Daniel Berehulak. that went to Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey Schrade, who was wounded Additionally, the Club dispensed more than 100 of , who broke open the at the shooting. prizes honoring the year’s best print, television, #MeToo movement with their groundbreaking

Members-only private tour of the Autry Museum’s photo exhibit of La Raza, a bilingual newspaper published in Los Angeles from 1967-1977. In it, journalists documented the defining moments, key players and symbols of Chicano activism; In August 2017 former U.S. Ambassador to Colleen Bell led a Q&A after director Evgeny Afineevsky’s screening of his Cries From Syria.

LA 8 PC Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garetti, center, welcomes Jaime Jarrín, Bill Rosendahl Public Service Awardee; Daniel Berehulak, Daniel Pearl Awardee; Andrea Mitchell, Joseph M. Quinn Awardee; and Jake Tapper, President's Awardee. reporting on the abominable behavior of Harvey discussion “Exploring New Frontiers in LGBTQ Weinstein. Media in an Age of Resistance and Backlash,” Other events may have lacked the flash of with some of America’s most interesting and the award shows but still celebrated the people influential lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender doing great journalism and explored key issues media professionals. The following month, in the industry. In July, the Club hosted the panel director Evgeny Afineevsky showed up for a

Clockwise from above left: Luminary Awardees Claudia Eller and Andrew Wallenstein of Variety; Legend Awardee Kareem Abdul Jabbar is interviewed by Roy Firestone; Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor won the inaugural Impact Award; Tippi Hedren was the Visionary Awardee.

LA 9 PC Former U.S. Ambassador to Michael McFaul was in conversation with Professor Gabriel Kahn from USC about his new book, From Cold War to Hot Peace: The Inside Story of Russia and America; last July the Club hosted “Exploring New Frontiers in LGBTQ Media in an Age of Resistance and Backlash,” with some of America’s most interesting and influential lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender media professionals.

Members attended a reception with the Swiss Consul General Thomas Schenider (third from left); after a screening of Sands of Silence, which ex- plored sex trafficking, a panel discussion included the filmmakers and a woman who was a subject in the documentary. screening of his Cries From Syria, and then participated in a Another film event occurred the following month: The Q&A led by former U.S. Ambassador to Hungary, Colleen Bell. Press Club honored ’s movie The Post with One of the year’s highlights occurred in January at an its third annual Veritas Award for the best nonfiction film. unlikely location: City Hall. The Press Club, in partnership with Screenwriters Liz Hannah and Josh Singer and producers the Fountain Theatre, hosted a one-night only live reading of Tim and Trevor White stopped by for a panel discussion with William Goldman’s screenplay for All the President’s Men. It was Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame. hosted by Los Angeles City Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell April brought a screening of Sands of Silence, the 2017 and took place in City Council chambers. Prominent actors, Southern California Journalism Awards Feature Documentary including Bradley Whitford, Joshua Malina, Richard Schiff and winner, which explored the sex trafficking trade. The night also Ed Begley, Jr., participated in an unforgettable evening that, in included a panel discussion with the filmmakers and a woman 2018, feels frighteningly relevant. who was abused and a subject of the documentary. The Press Club was not static this year—literally. It left its longtime home in East Hollywood for a new space on Sunset Boulevard. It celebrated with a St. Patrick’s-themed housewarming party in March. In May, there were three major events for Press Club members: a special dinner reception with the Swiss Consul General; a reception and discussion with American academic Michael McFaul, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia from 2012- 2014, about his new book, From Cold War to Hot Peace: The Inside Story of Russia and America, held in the theater at the Press Club; and an exclusive screening of the Netflix Original Documentary Series Robert Kennedy for President on the 50th anniversary of his assassination, which was attended by Paul Schrade, who was wounded alongside Kennedy, and Juan Romero, the busboy who held Kennedy after he was shot. The Press Club members celebrated their new home with a St. Patrick’s The LA Press Club can only hope that it can provide its Day housewarming. members with as good a year as it has this past one.

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Getting a Foot in the Door LA Press Club Fellows Have a Unique Opportunity to Advance Their Career

veryone needs help when they’re starting out in journal- journalism that interests the Fellow. It could also involve creat- ism. In particular, too many talented young journalists of ing a list of outlets to target and researching who works there Ecolor have had trouble getting their foot in and what positions are attainable. Additionally, the door and launching a career. the industry veteran might help a Fellow create The LA Press Club wants to change that and a personal website or a more robust LinkedIn is starting a Fellowship program that involves page, and come up with examples of the Fellow’s industry veterans aiding those just getting best work that can be used when applying for a started. job. Each year, five recent college journalism The role of the veteran journalism partner is grads will be paired with a veteran in the field to to help the Fellow understand the playing field, work on securing a job. More than a mentoring give actionable advice on how to best market relationship, this will be a partnership between oneself, offer feedback on the Fellow’s portfolio, the Fellow and the journalism veteran to figure and take direct action on the Fellow’s behalf: to out how to launch career dreams and take con- email, call or lean on colleagues in the field to crete steps to get there. help open a door for their Fellow. LA Press Club Fellows will meet once a month LA Press Club board The LA Press Club Journalism Partners are: for six months with their journalism partner. member, Deepa Fernandes, Deepa Fernandes, a board member of the During this time the Fellow will craft a plan for will chair the Fellowship LA Press Club; Ashley Alvarado, Director of program. getting his or her foot in the door at a desired Community Engagement at KPCC; and Joanne news outlet or journalism institution. Griffith, Assistant Managing Editor, Digital. Each month, the Fellow will consult with their partner and Fernandes will chair the program. present progress made on the plan. This might include collat- The application for Fellowships will begin in August, and ing a reel or portfolio of work, and mapping out the area of Fellows will be announced in November.

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You’ve given the world songs to sing, books to read, homes to live in and hope where there was none.

For that,

WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU.

CONGRATULATIONS to our friend DOLLY PARTON on the BILL ROSENDAHL PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD and to all Southern California Journalism Awards honorees.

Founded in Southern California in 1964 Party Like It’s

Sixty Years Ago, Things Were Different at the LA Press Club By Jon Regard1958ie What was the Los Angeles Press Club like in 1958? Consider the letter printed on page 15 of the year’s 8 Ball Final, a yearbook of the then-monthly club newsletter. It came from a figure who noted that he was “an honorary member of the Club.” He went on to write, “The fact that the Club has grown to 2,300 members and that 1,100 of these are active in their profession is testimony to the vitality and importance of the Press Club in the Greater Los Angeles area.” It was on letterhead that read “Office of the Vice President.” It was signed by . To say it was a different time in the world of Los Angeles journalism is put- ting it mildly. Ads in that 8 Ball came from the likes of Northrop Aircraft, Lockheed promoting its new Electra turboprop, and U.S Steel. In an 8 Ball article, late KCBS newsman Bill Stout described the challenges posed by “electronic journal- ism.” He meant television, not the web. He wrote, “The main difference between being a newspaper newsman and a tele- vision newsman is that in television you have to shave. Regularly.” Not everything was completely dif- ferent. For the 8 Ball, Bob Thomas of the penned a piece about the troubles facing Hollywood. In a story titled “Anyone for Afghanistan?” he bemoaned the dying out of a favor- ite entertainment press perk, declaring “The big, free-wheeling junket appears to have been swept away in the wreck- age of the film business.” Photos from that time capture an era in some ways more innocent. George Snow of the Examiner shot a ground- level image of a kid pressed to the pavement wearing a “Midget Marble Champion 1958.” Others were seri- ous, like Bud Gray’s photo, also from the Examiner, of an exhausted firefighter working to extinguish a blaze. It was also a different time in terms of social propriety, with male reporters

LA 14 PC and editors of the era openly engaging in behavior that wouldn’t be tolerated today. Images from the 1958 “Club Scrapbook” include onetime Press Club president Joe Quinn leering at Jayne Mansfield as she signed the club’s guest book, and a passel of six journalists gathered around “Miss 8 Ball.” Yep, the Press Club had its own pin-up girl. The first Miss 8 Ball, in 1948, was Marilyn Monroe.

The February 1958, 8 Ball shows male reporters from KTTV and the Herald- Examiner taking her measurements. It seems fair to say that while it was a hub for professional journalists and provided an opportunity to discuss the media concerns of the day, the Press Club in ’58 was also a social network.

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In reliving the highlights of the year, Hirsch appeared in January for “sports the 8 Ball shows photos from the club’s night.” Vice President Nixon showed gin rummy finals and an actual adult up in February, drawing a crowd of lion being brought into the bar. There 800 people and speaking for 90 min- were plenty of events, including some utes. May brought the “African Safari charitable pursuits, thanks to the 8 Ball Night” gang dinner, and in October the Welfare Foundation, which on March Club honored Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz, 20, 1958, sponsored the premiere of describing him as “50 years a great the Clark Gable film Teacher’s Pet (Gable friend of the press,” with played a newspaper editor), raising serving as the master of ceremonies. In $20,000 in the process. For the end December 1958, the club had a now- of the year soiree, the 8 Ball reported, disturbing “” gang din- “The Christmas Party took a gay turn ner. The club charged $5 per couple for with the arrival of ’s mighty its New Year’s Eve party. Mouseketeers. The kids went wild.” The club also hit a milestone in 1958, There were regular evening gather- with the first L.A. Journalism Awards. ings, known as gang dinners, some with Unlike today, there were only four cate- themes, some with speakers, some with gories, and also unlike today, the prizes both. Football star Elroy “Crazy Legs” included hefty cash payouts. The Harry

LA 16 PC Karl Award, for the outstanding news them out to promote their latest album never been on more “solid ground.” The story of the year, went to Don Bailer of or film. The Club back then was based Club continues its proud mission to pro- the Herald-Express, who received $1,000 in the Ambassador Hotel, and a report tect and defend journalists whose job it is for, as the October 8 Ball noted, “the dra- from Club president Humphrey Owens to keep us all on “solid ground.” matic story of a jet black horse named recounts visits to the Club by Frank Tom Boy, who was condemned to death Sinatra, Eddie Fisher and “Red Skelton, in the will of a wealthy mistress.” There that wonderful buffoon.” Don Rickles were also $250 prizes for the best sports entertained at a dinner in June and story and the best sports photo, and $500 images from the time show Elizabeth for the recipient of what was known as Taylor dropping by, as well as a visit from The Wilshire Oil Co. Traffic Safety Award, . honoring the best story or photo of the In terms of our social evolution, year on, uh, traffic safety. we have traveled far in 60 years: The But while the job of the press remains #MeToo Movement, a push for diverse the same—get the story—it’s the differ- newsrooms and new business models ences that stand out. For example, in forcing newsrooms to shrink. The attack 1958 in Los Angeles, Hollywood celeb- on the free press and American institu- rities were not carefully “handled” by a tions have brought us to a very different phalanx of publicists who only trotted place, and yet journalism has

LA 17 PC Remembering Journalists Killed in There are Fewer Deaths This Year but 95 Journalists the Line of Duty Remind Us of the Risks in the Field very year the Los Angeles Press Club lists the journalists ing in a conflict zone has inherent and significant risk. But jour- Ekilled during the previous year as they toiled to bring infor- nalists engaged in non-controversial stories working in peace- mation to the public’s attention. It’s a grim task to compile this ful locales can be targets, too. It’s worth reminding ourselves, depressingly long list, but it is also necessary to remind all work- as we ply our trade in Southern California, that while we are ing in this profession just what’s at stake every day. lucky to do this worthwhile profession, it is not without risk, Most of the deaths occur as journalists are working to expose especially when our stories speak truth to power. corruption or political misdeeds, or to chronicle the ravages of Once again, we honor the journalists who between June war. 2017 and June 2018 were targeted by sick minds, caught in the Like other war correspondents, they understood that report- crossfire or were a casualty of corruption. We remember:

AFGHANISTAN María Efigenia Vásquez Astudillo, Renacer Al-Shabab news agency Nine journalists killed in Kabul in suicide kokonuko January 14, 2018, in Matibijah bombings on April 30, 2018 October 8, 2017 Rana Al-Ajeeli, reporter, PMU Media Maharram Durrani, November 16, 2017, on Iraqi-Syrian border Abadullah Hananzai, and DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO Arkan Sharifi, camera operator, Kurdistan TV Sabawoon Kakar, Radio Azadi/Radio Free Innocent BANGA KARABA, journalist, RNTC October 30, 2017, Daquq Europe/Radio July 12, 2017, in Bunia Louay Sadiq Meshaal, cameraman, Al- Shah Maral, Agence France-Presse Nujaba TV Nowroz Ali Rajabi, and DEnmark October 1, 2017, in Salahuddin Ghazi Rasooli, 1TV Kim Wall, freelance journalist, Sijad Najim Ojail, cameraman, Karbala TV Ali Saleemi, and August 10, 2017, in Koge Bay August 27, 2017, in Tal Afar Saleem Talish, Mashal TV GUATEMALA Two killed in Imam Gharbi by militant group Yar Mohammad Tokhi, Tolo News on July 7, 2017 Two killed after kidnapping in Mazatenango Harb Hazzah al-Duleimi, correspondent, and Ahmad Shah, reporter, BBC on February 1, 2018 April 30, 2018, in Eastern Khost province Laurent Ángel Castillo Cifuentes, Sudad al-Duri, cameraman, Hona Salaheddin TV Abdul Manan Arghand, journalist, Kabul correspondent, Medio Nuestro Diario, and Three journalists killed in Mosul in landmine News TV Luis Alfredo de León Miranda, journalist, blast in mid-June 2017 April 25, 2018, in Kandahar Radio Caltepec Bakhtiyar Addad, and Sayed Mehdi Husaini, reporter, Jomhor News Veronique Robert, France Televisions Agency HONDURAS Stephane Villeneuve, #5bisproduction December 28, 2017, in Kabul Carlos Oveniel Lara Domínguez, journalist, Sayeed Khuda Dad Ahamdi, reporter, Canal 12 Afghan voice agency October 23, 2017, in Copán & THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN December 28, 2017, in Kabul Carlos William Juárez, journalist, Canal 22 TERRITORY Hussain Nazari, cameraman, Rah-e-Farda TV Tegucigalpita Ahmed Abu Hussein, photojournalist, Voice November 17, 2017, in Kabul September 13, 2017, in Cortés province of the People radio; Bisan news agency April 25, 2018, near Jabalia Naqibullah, security guard, Shamshad Television INDIA Yaser Murtaja, photojournalist, Ain Media November 7, 2017, in Kabul Sandeep Sharma, journalist, News World April 7, 2018, in the east of Gaza March 26, 2018, in Bhind district BANGLADESH Navin Nischal, journalist, Dainik Bhaskar LIBERIA Shahzahan Bachchu, writer, publisher, March 25, 2018, in Bihar state Tyron Brown, reporter, Super FM and TV Bishaka Prokashoni Naveen Gupta, correspondent, The Hindustan April 16, 2018, in Monrovia June 11, 2018, in Kalkaldi November 30, 2017, in Bilhaur Sudip Dutta Bhaumik, journalist, Syandan MALTA BRAZIL Patrika and News Vanguard TV Daphne Caruana Galizia, freelance journalist Jefferson Pureza Lopes, journalist, Beira Rio FM November 21, 2017, in Agartala October 16, 2017, in Bidnija January 17, 2018, in state of Golâs Rajesh Mishra, reporter, Dainik jagran MEXICO Luis Gustavo da Silva, freelance journalist October 21, 2017, in Brahmanpur Chatti June 14, 2017, Aquiraz Shantanu Bhowmik, journalist, Dinraat TV Hector Gonzalez Antonio, correspondent, September 20, 2017, in Mandwai Excelsior May 29, 2018, in Tamaulipas COLOMBIA Gauri Lankesh, senior journalist, Gauri Alicia Díaz Gonzâlez, reporter, El Financiero Three kidnapped March 26, 2018, and killed Lankesh Patrike newspaper May 25, 2018, in norteña de Monterrey mid-April in Mataje region September 5, 2017, in Bengaluru Juan Carlos Huerta, TV host & director, Paúl Rivas Bravo, photojournalist, IRAQ Tabasco radio station Juan Javier Ortega Reyes, journalist, and May 15, 2018, in Villahermosa Efrain Segarra, driver, El Comercio Saad Hadi Al-Mashrafawi, photojournalist,

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Leobardo Vásquez Atzin, journalist, Enlace SOMALIA Mohammad Milad, cameraman, Sana Informativo Regional Mohamed Ibrahim Mohamed [Gabow], October 10, 2017, in Salhiya March 21, 2018, in Gutierrez Zamora journalist, Kalsan TV Abdulghafar Al-Badawi, journalist, Shahid December 11, 2017, in Mogadishu Media Institution Leslie Ann Pamela Montenegro del Real, El Ali Nur Siad Ahmed, Cameraman, Voice of August 28, 2017, in Daraa Sillón America Osama Nasr al-Zoabi, reporter, Syrian media February 5, 2018, in Acapulco October 14, 2017, in Mogadishu organization Carlos Domínquez, journalist/columnist, Abdullahi Osman Moalim, journalist, August 21, 2017 El Diario de Nuevo Laredo Jubbaland TV January 13, 2018, in Nuevo Laredo September 10, 2017, in Beledeweyne Khaled al-Khateb, correspondent, Russia Gumaro Pérez, reporter Today (RT) December 19, 2017, in Acayucan SOUTH SUDAN July 30, 2017, in eastern Homs province Edgar Daniel Esqueda Castro, Christopher Allen, freelance journalist TURKEY photojournalist, Metrópoli San Luis August, 26, 2017, in Kaya October 5-6, 2017, in San Luis Potosi Halla Barakat, journalist, Orient net Juan Carlos Hernández Ríos, SYRIA September 21, 2017, in Istanbul photojournalist, La Bandera Noticias Ibrahim al-Munjar, Sy24 September 5, 2017, in Guanajato May 17, 2018, in Saida Cándido Ríos, reporter, Diario de Acayucan Obeida abu Omar, Damaski Media Agency Two killed covering severe storm August 22, 2017, in Veracruz state March 21, 2018, in Ein Tirma Mike McCormick, reporter, and Edwin Rivera Paz, journalist, Honduras Kamel abu al-Walid, Jarabulus Media Office Aaron Smeltzer, WYFF TV Television (HCH) March 19, 2018, in Afrin May 28, 2018, in North Carolina July 9, 2017, in Acayucan Bashar al-Attar, photojournalist, Arbin Unified Media Office YEMEN NICARAGUA March 14, 2018, in Arbin Abdullah al-Qadry, photographer, Belqees TV Ángel Eduardo Gahona, El Meridiano Abdul Rahman Ismaeal Yassin, and AFP April 21, 2018, in Bluefields Hammouriyeh Media Office April 13, 2018, in Bayda province February 20, 2018, in Hammouriyeh NIGERIA Two killed in airstrike Karam Kabishou, cameraman, Sama TV Mohammed Naser Al-Washali, producer, Ikechukwu Onobogu, cameraman, Anambra December 29, 2017, Idlib province Broadcasting Service (ABS) and Qais al-Jazar (Qais al-Qadhi), bureau chief, November 15, 2017, in Obosi Abdullah Al-Najjar, set decorator, Yemen TV Al-Jisr TV April 12, 2018, in west Yemen Lawrence Okojie, journalist, Nigeria Television October 29, 2017, in Eastern Ghouta Authority (NTA) Mohammad al-Qadasi, Belgees TV July 8, 2017, in Edo State Two reporters killed in Abu Fas by roadside January 22, 2018, in al-Kayami bombs in mid-October 2017 PAKISTAN Dilshan Ibash, and Anjum Muneer Raja, sub-editor, Quami Hawker Faisal Mohammed, Hawar News Note: Names may be spelled differently Pukaar Agency depending on the media outlet. March 1, 2018, in Islamabad Haroon Khan, journalist, Satch TV October 12, 2017, in Swabi district, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Reporters Around the World Face PHILLIPINES Edmund Sestoso, broadcaster, dyGB 91.7 FM, Dangerous Conditions May 1, 2018, in Barangay Daro Christopher Iban Lozada, broadcaster, Prime Delivering the Truth Can Have Consequences, As Hundreds of Broadcasting Network International Journalists Are Behind Bars By Gunilla Larsson October 24, 2017, in Mindanao Leo Diaz, columnist/reporter, Sapol ven amid a battle with the occupant of the White House, the First Newspaper / Radio Mindanao Network Amendment and of speech remain strong in the United States. August 7, 2017, in Sultan Kudarat province EThat’s not the case in some other countries, where many reporters, edi- Rudy Alicaway, radio anchor, DXPB 106.9 Radio tors, photographers and bloggers are facing long prison sentences, and often August 6, 2017, in Molave onerous conditions, for reporting the truth. Journalists face particular danger in Turkey, Egypt and China. According to RUSSIAN FEDERATION the Stockholm Center for Freedom, 57 journalists have been convicted in Turkey, Maxim Borodin, reporter, Novy Den 188 have been arrested and another 140 are wanted. April 15, 2018, in Yekaterinburg The list of the imprisoned includes brothers Ahmet Altan and Mehmet Altan, who are facing life sentences. They were arrested after a failed coup in 2016, for SLOVAKIA allegedly giving “subliminal messages” and attempting to overthrow the “con- Ján Kuciak, reporter, Aktuality.sk stitutional order.” February 25, 2018, near Bratislava Nazli Ilicak was also arrested in Turkey in 2016 [Continued on page 22]

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Reporters Around the World The Los Angeles Times Face Dangerous Conditions congratulates [Continued from page 20] on the same charges. She has been sentenced to life in prison and is being held Business editor at the Bakirköy Women’s Prison in Istanbul. KIMI YOSHINO Mahmoud Abou Zeid, also known as Shawkan, is an Egyptian photojournalist who was arrested in 2013 while taking pictures of the Rabaa massacre in Cairo. This year’s winner of He faces the death penalty; since being imprisoned he has been diagnosed with Hepatitis C, as well as mal- the President’s Award nourishment and anemia. for Impact on Media. Huang Qi of China Huang Qi founded the website 64 Tianwang in 1998 and had reported on issues such as human traffick- ing, government cor- ruption and police bru- tality. He was arrested in 2016, allegedly for having “leaked state secrets to foreign entities.” He suffers from a serious kidney disease. Also in China, Ding Lingjie was arrested last year. She is the editor of a human rights news website and has been accused by Chinese officials of “picking quar- rels and provoking trouble.” She is suspected of insult- ing the State leader. The challenges are not limited to those countries. The Swedish/Eritrean jour- nalist Dawit Isaak has b been in an Eritrean Dawit prison since 2001 but Isaak has never had a trial. In a year defined In Azerbaijan, Araz Guliyev was arrested on hooligan- by public service journalism, we are ism charges in 2012. He was accused of “participation in activities that disrupt public order” and “offensive honored to stand among distinguished action against the flag and emblem of Azerbaijan.” In 2013 he was sentenced to eight years in prison. colleagues who are dedicated to a free Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were press and informed citizenry. arrested in December 2017 while reporting on the Rohingya refugee crisis b in Myanmar. They are accused of possess- We are proud of all ing secret government papers and face up to of the SoCal Journalism Award 14 years in prison. In Russia, Uzbek honorees and grateful to the reporter Khudoberdi L.A. Press Club for recognizing Wa Lone Nurmatov (who writes under the pseudonym this vital work. Ali Feruz) was held at a specialized pretrial detention center for foreign nationals. Nurmatov, who is openly gay, had been seeking asylum in Russia after having been tortured in Uzbekistan. He tried to commit sui- cide during his incarceration. Fortunately, Nurmatov was released on Feb. 15 and left Russia for Germany, where he has received refu- gee status. However, many other reporters continue to face brutal conditions simply for doing their job.

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ad_LAPressClub_2018_v1_FINAL.indd 1 5/31/18 3:09 PM DANIEL PEARL AWARD for Courage and Integrity in Journalism Speaking Truth No Matter the Consequences Daniel Pearl Award Recipient Raif Badawi Remains in Prison in Saudi Arabia for Expressing His Opinions

By gunilla aif Badawi is the recipient of the Los carried out, will most likely result in his death. larssON Angeles Press Club’s 2018 Daniel The writer, blogger, and activist has Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity now been imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for more in Journalism. But he is not at the than six years. His only “crime” was expressing RBiltmore Hotel tonight to accept the honor. his opinions. Instead, his wife, Ensaf Haidar, and their three It’s a situation that has prompted an outcry children have travelled to Los Angeles on his around the globe. The Los Angeles Press Club behalf. sent a letter to Crown Prince Mohammad bin That’s because Badawi is in prison in Saudi Salman pleading for his release. The organiza- Arabia, serving a 10-year sentence, plus 1,000 tion stated, “The charges lashes, for “insulting ” by promoting against him, based solely [on] Badawi’s involve- human rights and equal rights for women in ment in setting up a website for peaceful discus- Saudi Arabia on his blog. His sentence, if fully sion about religion and religious figures, violate his right to freedom of expression.” Raif Badawi's wife, Ensaf Badawi was born Jan. 13, 1984, and grew up Haidar, will accept the Daniel in and . In his early 20s he started Pearl Award on his behalf. an English school where both men and women were welcome to learn, an unusual initiative in a country where women were not allowed to drive a car. He opened an online forum called Saudi Liberal Network where he invited others to speak freely, and they did. After being told by the country’s General Directorate of Investigation to shut down the site, he did. In 2006 he started a blog, Free Saudi Liberal, where, in sarcastic but intellectual language, he questioned the ways of Saudi Arabia. In 2008 he was detained for the first time and charged with , meaning “abandonment of Islam by a Muslim in word or through deed.” He was banned from travelling and in 2009 Badawi and his wife’s bank accounts were frozen. In 2012, he was arrested on the charge of “insulting Islam through electronic channels.”

LA 24 PC The website was shut down by the Saudi gov- ernment and the following year he was sen- tenced to seven years in prison and 600 lashes. In 2012, Badawi was arrested On May 7, 2014, the punishment was increased to 10 years in prison, 1,000 lashes and sentenced to seven years and a fine of 1 million riyal (roughly $267,000). Haidar fled with the couple’s three children, in prison and 600 lashes which first to Egypt and then to Lebanon. When she realized that the ordeal wouldn’t “be over in a increased to 10 years, 1,000 month,” like Badawi had told her on the phone from prison, she sought and was granted asy- lashes and a fine of 1 million lum in . On Jan. 9, 2015, Badawi was flogged 50 times riyal in 2014. in front of the Jeddah mosque. His hands and feet were tied and hundreds of spectators were there to watch. The additional 950 lashes were to be administered over a period of 20 weeks, but they keep getting postponed. After hearing painfully horrible to imagine what was happen- about the flogging of her husband, Haidar said, ing to Raif.” “What I felt was indescribable. It was an inde- Since his incarceration Badawi has become scribable mixture of sadness and pain. It was a diabetic and suffers from hypertension.

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Raif is with his three children before being imprisoned. Badawi's wife, Haidar, fled with their children to Egypt, then Lebanon, eventually seeking asylum in Canada where she continues to fight for his freedom.

Haidar’s family has tried to forcibly divorce being either lives free or he has to die trying.” the couple, but they remain married and In Quebec the couple’s children go to Haidar continues to fight for her husband. school and Haidar is learning French and She now works as a human rights activ- English. She no longer has any connection ist and is the president of the Raif Badawi with Badawi’s family; his mother is dead, and Foundation for Freedom. When talking to his father openly condemns him. The rela- she said, “Standing in tionship between father and son has been difficult for a long time, and they have argued over the years. Included in Raif’s punishment is three months in prison for a crime called Badawi opened an online forum called Saudi Liberal uquq, meaning “parental disobedience.” Yet Badawi is not forgotten. Leaders Network which encouraged free speech. After being in many countries, including Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States and told to shut it down by the General Directorate of Germany, have asked for his release. The and the European Union have Investigation, he started a blog in 2006, called Free joined in the pleas for his freedom. Reporters Without Borders has organized Saudi Liberal. a petition to free Badawi. It has received more than 46,000 signatures. Badawi’s lawyer and brother-in-law, Waleed Abu al-Khair, set up a Saudi human rights organization called Monitor of Human favor of human rights is not a choice, but Rights in Saudi Arabia in 2008. In 2014 he rather something that is as evident as the was found guilty of numerous charges, pure air that goes through our lungs. Raif among them “insulting the judiciary, inciting wanted to protect freedom, justice, human public opinion, and undermining the regime rights and equality because he believes in and its officials.” those values. He used to say that a human He was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

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PRESIDENT’S AWARD for Impact on Media perseverance Leadership

By and donuts david lazarus os Angeles Times Business Editor Kimi President’s Yoshino is my boss, so I can say without hesitation that she’s an exceptional jour- Award Winner nalist, a snappy dresser, kind to animals Kimi Yoshino andL a great humanitarian. I can also say she’s that rare manager who Inspires Her leads by example and who, when it’s called for, is willing to make a stand for what’s right. Staff, and It’s no secret that Kimi ran afoul of a for- mer Times editor-in-chief (collect them all) and Leads With that her suspension by that editor—no names, except it was Lewis D’Vorkin—played a role in Principles and the subsequent changing of the guard atop the Ethics masthead. Here’s what David Folkenflik of NPR wrote at the time: Above: Showing t-shirts with Kim Murphy, now at the “The business editor of the Los Angeles Times New York Times. made a triumphant return to the newsroom to Below: With her husband, Saif. applause Thursday after several days away, tell- ing colleagues she had been whisked away and suspended as part of the newspaper’s investiga- tion into the leak of taped remarks made by the paper’s editor-in-chief in November.” Kimi was suspected by D’Vorkin of leak- ing embarrassing audio of him berating the newsroom staff, which she denied doing. Nevertheless, he suspended her pending an investigation, which prompted outright rebel- lion from business staffers. We submitted a letter calling for Kimi’s immediate reinstatement. She asked me not to dwell on the episode, saying she’d rather this profile be forward- looking and more focused on the future of the figures who aren’t just getting the job done but L.A. Times. But I don’t mind saying: That whole are doing so in a principled, ethical manner. The thing with D’Vorkin highlighted the respect and fact that Kimi brings donuts on Fridays is a plus. admiration with which the biz team views their “Kimi is the definition of what it means to be leader, and that’s a big deal. These are uncer- an outstanding newsroom editor in this compli- tain times in our industry, to say the least, and cated media era: demanding but fair,” says Jim it’s nice to be reminded there are newsroom Kirk, the Times’ editor-in-chief. “Someone who

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Top: Signs welcome Kimi after her return from suspension. Her team had shirts printed with "Free Kimi." Below: The -winning group which won for exposing corruption in the city of Bell; the mockup shows a designer's take on the Times' entrance into the food realm.

puts accuracy and ethics above all else. She has gation into corruption in the city of an incredible way with reporters and under- Bell, which won a much-deserved stands what it takes to get the strongest work Pulitzer Prize and was the kind of on the L.A. Times’ platforms. She makes the L.A. work all journalists dream of doing. Times better every day.” I told Kimi I thought it was par- Kimi has been at the paper since 2000, after ticularly cool that she served for a stints at the Stockton Record and Fresno Bee. Her spell as the Times’ Baghdad corre- career at the Times reflects both a diversity of spondent, but she played it down. talents and a drive to get stories told. She was She told me she didn’t think her a prime mover behind the popular L.A. Now published work from the Iraqi blog, which garners an annoying number of capital was among her best (she thought daily hits (relative to, say, the paper’s consumer her more intimate letters to friends and family coverage), and she helped oversee the investi- were better; today they’d be blog posts). In fact,

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Clockwise, starting above: Kimi with DOLLY PARTON her husband Saif's mother, sister and brother in Baghdad in 2008; ON RECEIVING THE Kimi with former LAT reporter Garrett Therolf at the Baghdad BILL ROSENDAHL Bureau in 2007; Her last day at the PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD City Desk before moving to the ing about letting readers know that we’re seri- Business section; ous about a story, and we’re going to devote the A of Los resources necessary to tell it right.” Angeles Times Iraqi staffers. Easier said than done, of course. All those bells and whistles can add to costs, despite an AND SALUTES ALL OF overall industry trend of belt tightening. Kimi it’s no small thing for anyone to report from a says that’s what the Times and other leading TONIGHT’S AWARD WINNERS war zone. publications are trying to figure out—how to As business editor since 2014, Kimi has develop and devote the resources for state-of- been relentless in rethinking and re-energizing the-art storytelling without breaking the bank. our coverage. Not coincidentally, the section I asked if that means doing stuff that isn’t was recognized two years in a row for general necessarily journalism. Kimi, to her credit, didn’t excellence by the Society of American Business hesitate to say yes, if that’s where the money is. Editors and Writers. This year, we bagged no So the Times is getting into guided tours. We’re fewer than 11 SABEW awards, which was more into food festivals and show-biz-related events. than anyone else, thank you very much. We’re doing whatever it takes to expand our Lately, Kimi has been adding to her duties by horizons (and cash flow) so we can keep focus- also overseeing digital and audience-engage- ing on what we do best, which is making sure ment activities, which she says have given her the public knows what it needs to know. a “broader lens” as to how the Times can up its “We’re never going to stray from our core game. mission,” Kimi says. “But we need to embrace Like pretty much every other newspaper, opportunities that allow us to fulfill that mis- we’re aggressively trying to go where our audi- sion.” ence may be, which is everywhere—online, She didn’t want me lingering over that video, social media. That means it’s no longer D’Vorkin business, but the simple fact is that sufficient to write a story and slap on a photo. the best leaders aren’t appointed, they’re tested. If a story merits a full-court press, it can mean Kimi passed that test as far as her staffers are podcasts, animated graphics, anything that adds concerned, and that’s where it really counts. texture to a tale. I can think of no one more deserving of the “It’s about a full and immersive experience,” President’s Award for Impact on the Media. Kimi says. “I’m not talking about hits. I’m talk- Seriously. Donuts. Every Friday.

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By LISA iteracy RICHWINE Dolly Parton Is Known for Her Music, But She Is Also an Advocate for Reading, Earning L Her the bill Rosendahl Public Service Award

olly Parton is famous around the books helped open her world when she was globe as the big-haired, larger- growing up in rural Locust Ridge, Tenn., in than-life singer, songwriter, busi- a tiny cabin with no electricity or running nesswoman and actress, but to water. Her mother, Avie Lee Parton, read manyD young children she is known simply the Bible to her children to entertain them, as “The Book Lady.” and the stories of the Old Testament capti- The Queen of Country Music is also the vated Parton. founder of the Imagination Library, an orga- The singer started the Imagination nization that mails more than 1 million free Library as a tribute to her father, Robert books to preschool kids each month to help Lee Parton. Like many men of his era, he foster a love of reading. Launched in 1995 went without schooling to help support in her home state of Tennessee, it is now his family and never learned to read or the largest children’s literacy organization write. Parton has said her father was the in the world. smartest man she has ever known, but she Tonight, the Los Angeles Press Club is suspects his lack of literacy kept him from honoring Parton with the Bill Rosendahl fulfilling all his dreams. Public Service Award for Contributions to The Imagination Library began in Civic Life. It recognizes her work with the Parton’s native Sevier County, Tenn., in the Imagination Library, which this year cel- foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. ebrated a milestone of having donated 100 While many equated “poor” children with million books over its history. “dumb,” Parton saw that often kids from Each child enrolled in the Imagination underprivileged families simply weren’t Library receives a new book addressed to exposed to reading at home, putting them him or her each month, from the time they at a disadvantage when they started school. are born until they are ready to start kin- “The real truth was that education dergarten. wasn’t about being rich or poor. It was sim- Parton, an author and avid reader, has ply that some parents had done much more said she hopes the books help prepare chil- than others to get their kids prepared,” she dren for an education and encourage them wrote in Dream More. to imagine what is possible. “When I thought about my Mama read- “I dream that every child in the world ing the Bible to us,” she added, “it hit me will have the opportunity to make their that if kids had books in the home, just dreams come true,” Parton wrote in her maybe somebody would read to them and 2012 book Dream More. help them love books. Even more impor- The fourth of 12 children, Parton said tant, maybe it would inspire them and

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Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden (pictured in photo at left) and Dolly Parton unveil "," the 100 millionth book donated by Parton's nonprofit Imagination Library, during a ceremony in the Great Hall, February 27, 2018.

spark in them the kind of wild imagination at age 13 when she sang with her uncle that I have so they will thirst for what’s out Bill Owens. In 1967, she released her debut there in the big world.” album “Hello, I’m Dolly.” The initial plan envisioned the library Parton has become the most honored as a local effort, but it later expanded female country music performer of all across the United States and into Canada, time. She has composed more than 3,000 Britain and Australia. In February, the pro- songs including “,” gram’s 100 millionth book was dedicated which became a hit for Parton and later for to the Library of Congress. “This is an Whitney Houston, and sold more than 100 extraordinary gift to humankind,” Librarian million albums worldwide. of Congress Carla Hayden said of the ini- Parton has won eight Grammys and tiative. in 2011 received a Grammy Lifetime As a child, Parton’s biggest dream was Achievement Award. Twenty-five of her to perform on stage at Nashville’s Grand songs have reached No. 1 on the Billboard Ole Opry, a goal she accomplished in 1959 Country Music Charts.

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The fourth of 12 children, Dolly is standing in front of her father. Dolly, below, circa 1955.

She also starred on the big screen as a she hosted a telethon that raised about $9 secretary in the workplace comedy , in million to help people affected by wildfires which three women seek revenge on their around Gatlinburg, Tenn. The money was male boss, and received an Academy Award used to give $10,000 each to nearly 900 fami- nomination for writing the movie’s theme lies displaced by the fires. song. Now 72, Parton continues to write and A successful businesswoman, Parton perform and remains active in her business launched the theme park in and philanthropic ventures. She has said she Pigeon Forge, Tenn., in 1986 and turned the will never retire. small town into a tourist destination that Earlier this month, Parton announced she supports thousands of jobs. had joined with Warner Bros. Television to She still lives in Tennessee, along with her produce a television series that will appear husband, Carl Dean. They have been married on Netflix in 2019. Each episode will be based for 52 years. on one of Parton’s songs, and the singer will The Imagination Library is just one of many appear on camera in some episodes. She philanthropic efforts by Parton, who helps also is composing music for an upcoming causes through her , movie called Dumplin’, the story of a plus- which encourages people to “Dream more, sized teenager who enters a local beauty learn more, care more and be more.” In 2016, pageant run by her mother, who is played by Jennifer Aniston. In addition, Parton has said in recent inter- views that she is preparing to reunite with co-stars and for a 9 to 5 sequel, prompted in part by the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment and abuse. Parton acknowledges that part of what made her famous was her over-the-top style featuring high heels, rhinestones and big blonde hair. In Dream More, she described her look as “a blend of Mother Goose, Cinderella and the local hooker.” But she added that she hopes her work to promote early childhood literacy will out- shine her glittering wardrobe and bright makeup. “If I am remembered 100 years from now,” she wrote,” I hope it will be not for looks but for books.”.

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9 to5 and always, Jane & Lily JOSEPH M. QUINN AWARD for Journalistic Excellence and Distinction

A Calming, Confident presence NBC Nightly News Anchor Lester Holt Receives the Quinn Award for Lifetime Achievement By Chris Palmeri

rom moderating the first Trump-Clinton debate in 2016, to helping us cope with the horror of the Parkland High School shooting, to ushering in the wonder of the PyeongChangF Winter Olympics, Lester Holt has been a calming presence in our lives, delivering the news and sharing stories with viewers in his trade- mark steady, authoritative manner. He says his style has been called “laid back” and “without drama.” Whatever it is, his newscasts inspire confidence in an increasingly erratic and dangerous world. This solid persona extends to pursuing stories in the field, even in the most dangerous circum- stances. During Egypt’s 2011 uprising, Holt braved angry mobs and street violence to bring us the Arab Spring story. The year before in Haiti, he slept under the stars each night, rising with the first light and moving into the earthquake’s devastation to report on the death and destruction. Intestinal fortitude is part of the man’s DNA. He still has a hunger to go where the stories are. “The bar I’m trying to maintain is that we go if it’s big and if it’s something that I think I can add value to by being there,” Holt explains. “Sometimes, as the main anchor, I may be in a position to get an inter- view that we might not otherwise get… As much as I can control it, I don’t want to just stand there with a background of a twisted-up city or whatever the story might be.” Whether he’s with the Parkland students, politi- cians or heads of state, Holt’s talent for getting to the truth is a constant. His straightforward ques- journalists all over the world. tion to President Trump about the reason for firing As the first African American to permanently FBI Director James Comey may prove to be of great host a nightly newscast on one the Big Three net- national significance. But for Holt, he was just doing works, Holt has been a trailblazer as well. It all helps his job. Watching him in action is an inspiration to explain why the Los Angeles Press Club tonight is

LA 36 PC presenting the “NBC Nightly News” anchor with the “Not too many people have done that,” says Josh Above: 2017, Holt Joseph M. Quinn Award for Lifetime Achievement. Mankiewicz, his colleague at “Dateline NBC,” where with firefighters in Lester Don Holt Jr. was born in Holt also serves as host. “It shows you that he’s very his hometown while to June DeRozario and Lester Holt Sr., an Air good and has been on a fast track for a long time.” reporting on the Force technician. He went to high school in the Holt leapt to NBC in 2000 where he distinguished wildfires. Sacramento suburb of Rancho Cordova, where he himself covering that year’s chaotic presidential Opposite page: demonstrated his presentation skills early; deliv- election, which George W. Bush ultimately won. Holt's headshot from ering announcements over the school public More anchor positions followed, including a regular WBBM TV in . address system. He attended nearby California State report on the Iraq War, as well as weekend hosting Clockwise from far University, Sacramento, though he never graduated. duties for “Nightly News” and the “Today Show.” He left: Holt interviews Holt found time, however, to pursue his twin pas- also hosted “Lester Holt Live” on the MSNBC cable Hillary Clinton, sions of broadcasting and music, landing a job as a network. chats with President disc jockey at a country and western radio station. Holt covered breaking news such as Hurricane Obama and In 1981 Holt was hired as a reporter for WCBS, Katrina, which flooded New Orleans, and the devas- President George the flagship TV station in New York, in what would tating earthquake in Haiti. He earned the nickname H.W. Bush (1992) and become a 19-year journey with the network. He Iron Pants for his ability to stay in the anchor chair interviews President was one of only a few journalists who would work for hours on end, keeping news-hungry viewers Trump. as a reporter and anchor in all three of the coun- informed. try’s largest markets: New York, Los Angeles and His biggest break came in February 2015, when Chicago. his colleague got in trouble for exag-

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Clockwise from gerating his own experiences covering the above: Talking to conflict in the . Williams was sus- former Secretary pended for six months without pay. of Defense Ash “Brian is a member of our family, but so Carter; reporting on Hurricane Harvey in are you, the viewers,” Holt told audiences that 2017; with troops in night after taking his seat at the “Nightly News” Afganistan; talking desk. “And we will work every night to be wor- to a teenager while thy of your trust.” in Cuba during Williams was later moved to MSNBC and President Obama's historic visit. Holt got the spot anchoring the “Nightly News” on a permanent basis four months later. Since then Holt has continued to distinguish himself as an anchor and interviewer. “Nightly News” has maintained its top spot in the rat- ings among the 18- to 49-year-old viewers most coveted by advertisers. And Holt has con- tinued to nurture the next generation of jour- nalism talent, both in his office and at home. Holt and his wife of 36 years, Carol Hagen, have two sons, Cameron and Stefan, the latter of whom is a reporter for WNBC in New York. Lester Holt keeps a condo in Santa Monica and often anchors from NBC’s studio in Universal City so he can spend the weekend in California. When he’s not working, Holt plays bass guitar in a rock n’ roll cover band, even sitting in with the house band The Roots on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.” Much like his day job, Holt keeps a slow and steady groove that makes those around him shine.

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CHER CALVIN is a five-time Emmy powerful agents and dealmakers in the Award winner who co-anchors the KTLA business. At the agency, Haskell oversaw 5 News at 6,10 and 11 p.m. weeknights the “packaging” of all agency-represented alongside Micah Ohlman. She joined network projects, including the mega- KTLA in 2005 and is currently Vice hits “Fresh Prince of Bel Air,” “Everybody President of the Los Angeles Press Club. Loves Raymond,” “Lost” and “Live with With a deep connection to her com- Regis & Kathie Lee.” munity in Los Angeles, she serves as Since 2013, Haskell has run Magnolia Mistress of Ceremonies for the annual Hill Productions in association with YWCA Pasadena Foothill Valley Women for Racial Justice Warner Bros. Television in Los Angeles. He and his partner Awards, which creates a venue for women fighting for racial Dolly Parton have produced two television movies for NBC. justice to discuss how they work to eliminate racism. Calvin The first, Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors, eclipsed over 16 also hosts the annual Miss Philippines USA pageant in Los million live viewers. The second, the sequel Dolly Parton’s Angeles, giving young Filipino-American women the confi- Christmas Of Many Colors-Circle of Love, delivered 14.5 million dence and community support they need to advance them- live viewers. Most recently, Haskell and Parton made a deal to selves and give them a voice. An avid traveler, she has visited produce an eight-episode anthology series for Netflix. Based more than 45 countries. In the last six months her travels on her music, each mini-movie will feature and tell the story have brought her to Japan, Philippines, Cuba and China. of one of her iconic songs. Principal photography will begin this fall.

Andrea Chang is an assistant editor at the Los Angeles Times. She previously ROBERT KOVACIK is the past President covered technology and retail for the of the Los Angeles Press Club. He is an paper as a reporter. Chang graduated Anchor/Reporter for NBC4 Southern from the Medill School of Journalism at California, joining NBC in 2004. Kovacik is and has written known for bringing viewers in-depth for the St. Petersburg Times, the Oregonian coverage of international events from a and the San Jose Mercury News. She local perspective, having recently returned joined the L.A. Times the same week the from covering the terror attack in first iPhone went on sale in 2007 and is fittingly from Manchester, England. Cupertino, Calif. Kovacik was NBC4's correspondent for the 2013 Papal Conclave at the Vatican and the Summer Olympics in Rome. Both assignments were recognized with . PAT HARVEY is the co-anchor of CBS 2’s One of his most compelling live shots occurred during an weekday 5 and 11 p.m. newscasts. She extensive manhunt for an alleged murderer. The suspect sud- joined CBS 2 following 20 years with denly appeared and surrendered to Kovacik live on air. His sister station KCAL 9 as one of the work has received several awards and accolades. Kovacik's original anchors of the nation’s first exclusive examination into the Los Angeles Fire Department's nightly three-hour primetime newscast. 911 response times prompted the Mayor to demand an audit, Harvey, who received the Joseph M. and his groundbreaking expose into overcrowded L.A. animal Quinn Award for Lifetime Achievement shelters helped force the city to change its laws. from the Press Club in 2004, regularly Kovacik is an honors graduate of Brown University and reports on issues of concern to Southern California and the Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where world. he also graduated with honors. Her reporting has ranged from filing live reports at the inauguration of President to following the story of a homeless painter from the streets of Los Angeles NICOLE LAPIN is recognized as a to a gallery in Paris. Harvey is a 21-time Emmy winner, the financial expert people don’t need a most recent for a half-hour special on the 20th anniversary of dictionary to understand, Lapin lends her the L.A. riots. Other awards include being named Best News money-saving advice to a variety of Anchor by the Associated Press and seven Golden Mikes. television, print and radio outlets. She recently inked a deal with BenBella for her third book, Becoming Superwoman. Her Emmy-nominated producer Sam Haskell III was named first book, 2015’s Rich Bitch, was a per- in 2007 by Television Week Magazine as “One of the 25 Most sonal finance guide for women. She Innovative and Influential People in Television of the Last 25 followed up with Boss Bitch, in 2017, which empowers women Years.” He earned his ranking through a 27-year career at to be the boss of their lives and careers. Born and raised in Los the William Morris Agency, where he was one of the most Angeles, Lapin got her start in finance at 18 by reporting from

LA 40 PC presenters the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for and “Nurse Jackie.” His extensive film work includes roles in Network. She became the youngest anchor ever at CNN. She Stakeout, Independence Day and The Spirit. claimed the same title at CNBC where she anchored “.” She has also served as a business anchor and special correspondent for JOSH MANKIEWICZ is a “Dateline NBC” and is the creator and host of the AOL Originals show “I’ll correspondent based in Los Angeles. He Never Forget My First,” where she interviewed influential began reporting for “Dateline” in 1995, women about the first time they knew they made it. and has contributed a mix of breaking news stories, news analysis, investigative reports and clever features. Among the dan lauria is a versatile stage, screen stories he has covered are Hurricane and TV actor, perhaps best known for his Katrina; the 1996 and 2000 presidential role on “The Wonder Years” as Jack campaigns; the terrorist takeover of Arnold. He also starred on TV most Japan’s embassy in Lima, Peru; the recently as a baseball manager in “Pitch” mysterious mental disorder known as Munchausen syndrome and as Sullivan on “Sullivan and Son.” On by proxy; the story of John Walker Lindh, the American who stage, he wrote and played a leading role joined the Taliban; and numerous aspects of airline and in the Off Broadway satirical Mafia airport safety and security. Additionally, Mankiewicz has comedy, Dinner with the Boys. His vast reported on an in-depth investigation into America’s most theatrical experience included playing legendary football dangerous roads, the death of entertainment legend Johnny coach Vince Lombardi in the Broadway hit Lombardi. Lauria Carson, and he championed an examination into television has also been a key player in reviving the classic PBS show news’ coverage of high-profile missing person cases and the “ Allen’s Meeting of Minds” as live theater featuring role race plays in story selection. Before joining “Dateline,” some of the best actors in town. Mankiewicz served as a correspondent for Fox Broadcasting A Brooklyn native and Marine Corps Vietnam veteran, Company’s newsmagazine “Front Page.” Prior to that, he was Lauria got his start in acting at Southern Connecticut State a political reporter for Los Angeles’ KCAL-TV, where from University while attending on a football scholarship. Other 1991 to 1993 he covered all elections and state and local many TV credits include “Criminal Minds,” “The Mentalist,” politics.

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PATT MORRISON is renowned in print, of numerous honors, including multiple radio and television. Aside from winning Emmy and Golden Mike awards. She also a share of two Pulitzer Prizes as a colum- was recognized with a Golden Mike for nist for the Los Angeles Times, she also team coverage of the Chatsworth train has several Emmys and Golden Mike crash, and an L.A. Emmy for Best Light Awards for her work on KCET-TV and News Story for “Toll Booth Bandits.” Prior KPCC. to joining NBC4, Williams co-anchored the TALKERS Magazine ranked her among 5 p.m. news at KCBS-TV, and before that the nation’s top 100 radio talk show hosts. she was co-anchor of the noon and week- She is a senior fellow in in the Luskin School of Public Affairs end newscasts at KPIX-TV in San Francisco. at UCLA and the bestselling author of Rio L.A.: Tales from the Williams is passionate about supporting social causes Los Angeles River, a nonfiction book. She is the author of the impacting Southern Californians. She participates annually at brand-new book, Don’t Stop the Presses! Truth, Justice and the fundraising events for the Rape Crisis Center in Riverside and American Newspaper. Casa de Las Amigas, a rehabilitation center for women, in Pink’s, the famous Los Angeles hot dog stand, has a veggie Pasadena, among many other organizations. dog named after her.

CHRIS PALMERI is the current Los Angeles Press Club President. He was named bureau chief for Bloomberg News and GUEST in Los Angeles in February 2016. Bloomberg’s Los Angeles office consists of fourteen reporters and editors, covering Alonzo Bodden’s first big comedy entertainment as well as real estate, break came when he appeared on the finance and politics. “New Faces of Comedy” showcase at Just Chris joined Bloomberg in 2009 and for Laughs in . He was intro- has covered the entertainment industry for six years. Prior to duced to America on NBC's “Last Comic that he worked for Forbes magazine in New York, Chicago Standing,” where he won season three. and Houston and for BusinessWeek magazine in Los Angeles. Bodden is known for his social and He's the recipient of four awards from the Los Angeles political commentary, and is a regular Press Club for breaking news, headline writing, consumer panelist on NPR’s “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell and investigative reporting. He holds a BA in Economics Me. He starred in his second Showtime comedy special, titled and Journalism from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, “Historically Incorrect,” in February 2016. Taped at The Vic Pennsylvania. Theatre in Chicago, Bodden touched upon a variety of sub- jects, including President Obama and gun owners, being glu- ten free, the NFL’s troubles, Millennials, and the Los Angeles JUDEA PEARL was born in Tel Aviv and Clippers. is a graduate of the Technion-Israel In 2011 he starred in his first special, “Who’s Paying Institute of Technology. He came to the Attention,” also for Showtime. He currently hosts a podcast of United States for postgraduate work in the same name. 1960 and received his master’s degree in A gearhead, car and motorcycle lover and expert, Bodden physics from Rutgers University and his hosted Speed Channel’s “101 Cars You Must Drive” and Ph.D. degree in 1965 from the Brooklyn “America’s Worst Driver” on the Travel Channel. He’s made Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Pearl joined the numerous appearances on CNBC’s “Leno’s Garage” with Jay faculty of UCLA in 1969, where he is Leno and is one of the hosts on the Science Channel’s new currently a professor of computer science and director of the series “How to Build Everything.” Cognitive Systems Laboratory. He is known internationally for Bodden has also performed on “The Tonight Show with his contributions to artificial intelligence, human reasoning Jay Leno,” “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” and was a guest and philosophy of science. panelist on Comedy Central’s “The Nightly Show with Larry Dr. Pearl is the father of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Wilmore.” He has 14 years of appearances at Montreal’s Just Daniel Pearl and president of the Daniel Pearl Foundation for Laughs Festival. This year he hosted the Just for Laughs (danielpearl.org), which he co-founded in April 2002 “to con- Comedy Awards. tinue Daniel’s life-work of dialogue and understanding and to While his movie career has consisted mainly of playing address the root causes of his tragedy.” security guards, he has protected the best, including and Queen Latifah in Bringing Down The House and Leslie Nielsen in Scary Movie 4. He was also the voice of COLLEEN WILLIAMS serves as co-anchor of NBC4 Southern Thunderon in Power Rangers Lightspeed. California’s weekday newscasts NBC4 News at 5 and 11 p.m., Bodden has traveled around the world, entertaining USO alongside Chuck Henry. troops from Iraq to Greenland and everywhere in between. Williams, who joined the station in 1986, is the recipient

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PERSONALITY PROFILE Politics/Busi- Men” BBC; “Hollywood’s Casting Couch” ness/Arts personalities (Magazines) Mary O’Hara, ; “Death and dying Danielle Nottingham, CBS News- Newspath; Susan Bell, USC Dornsife Magazine; “Dying to continues to be seen as a big taboo” “LA Riots 25 Years Later” Talk” Lizzie Pearl, Rich Moran and Rachael Dyer, Frances Read, Feature Story News (FSN); “Cali- John Gittelsohn, Bloomberg Markets; “The Nine Network Australia; “Inside the Mexico fornia Desert Tortoise in danger following $260 Billion Portfolio Shaped by Body- border tunnels” five-year drought” building, Scripture, and Slow-Thinking”

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OBITUARY/IN APPRECIATION – Politics/ Mike Amor, Andrea Keir, Luke Thomas, Business/Arts (All platforms) Duncan McLeod; 7 Network Australia, H10a. ENTERTAINMENT PERSONALITY Brian Doherty, Reason; “Tom Petty, R.I.P.” Sunday Night; “Goldie’s Comeback” PROFILE/INTERVIEW (TV) Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times; “Tom Petty’s Barbra Gasser, Kleine Zeitung; “Arnold Mike Amor, Andrea Keir, Duncan McLeod, final interview: There was supposed to Schwarzenegger: I would give anything to Leigh Hubner, 7 Network Australia, Sunday have been so much more” hear my father play again” Night; “Priscilla Remembers” Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times; “Sam Chrissy Iley, Sunday Times Magazine; “Oscar Raymond Bell, Elsa Ramon; KCBS2; “Misty Shepard, the Cowboy Playwright Who hopeful Michelle Williams on the death of Copeland” Rewrote the Rules of the American Stage” her beloved ex, Heath Ledger, and raising Courtney Friel and Armando Moncayo, KTLA 5 Steve Pond, TheWrap; “Tom Petty Apprecia- their daughter alone” News; “Are you going to miss your mom?” tion: He Was Rocking to the End” Alessandra Mattanza, Natural Style; “Naomi Andrea Gonzalez and Ulises Reyna, Univision; Tom Walters and Liam Hyland, CTV – Cana- Watts. Ho imparato ad amare anche le mie “Latinas de exito” dian Television; “Hugh Hefner: Prophet or fragilità” George Michael Pennacchio and Li Ping Profiteer?” Janet Nepales, Manila Bulletin; “Eleanor Chang, KABC-TV; “The Amazing Rose Marie Coppola reminisces about the Philippines” & the Story Behind that Famous Black Bow” B5a. PUBLIC SERVICE NEWS or FEATURE (All platforms) J6. PERSONALITY PROFILE (Online) H10b. NON-ENTERTAINMENT PERSONAL- Mike Amor, Andrea Keir, Duncan McLeod Terry Flores, Variety; “Longtime Voice Actress ITY PROFILE/INTERVIEW (TV) and Emma Dallimore, 7 Network Australia; Russi Taylor on Playing and Courtney Friel and Brian Choo, KTLA 5 News; “Trump’s Wall” Falling for Mickey in Real Life” ‘Pulitzer-Winning L.A.-Based AP Photogra- Jeff Collins, Orange County Register/Southern Monica Luhar, Quyen Lovrich, NBC News; “For pher Nick Ut Retires” California News Group; “Eviction decline is 45 Years, Southern California’s ‘Donut Man’ Gigi Graciette, Fox 11 News/KTTV; “A Mother’s no solace for thousands of renters losing Has Drawn Crowds on Route 66” Plea - Searching for Piqui” their homes” Lisa Ellen Niver, Saturday Evening Post; "A Justin Monticello, Alex Manning, and Zach Dina Demetrius, Deepa Fernandes and World War II Hero Remembers Guadalcanal" Weissmueller, Reason; “This Self-Taught Michael Bloecher, KCET: ”Substandard of Jenelle Riley, Variety; “Stephen King on ‘Mr. Programmer Is Bringing Transparency to Living” Mercedes,’ How to Adapt His Novels and California Politics” Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times; “California’s What Scares Him” Val Zavala and Alberto Arce, KCET; “Inner City ‘Elaborate Shell Game’ on Housing” Natasha Hakimi Zapata, Truthdig; “Truthdig- Islam” Meghan McCarty Carino and Aaron Men- ger of the Week: Nancy Hollander, Chelsea Val Zavala and Michael Bloecher, KCET; ”Virus delson, Southern California Public Radio / Manning’s Attorney” Hunter” KPCC; “Big rigs, big risks: As SoCal economy improves, truck traffic is rising and so are I5a. PERSONALITY PROFILE/INTERVIEW D3. PORTRAIT PHOTO crashes” under 20 minutes (Radio) Jay L. Clendenin, Los Angeles Times; “Jessica Frances Anderton and Avishay Artsy, KCRW; Chastain” B5b. CONSUMER NEWS or FEATURE (All “Dirty Girl Construction’s Joan Barton” Jennfier Laski, Shanti Marlar, Carrie Smith, platforms) Rico Gagliano, The Dinner Party Download; Michelle Stark and Joe Pugliese, The Frances Anderton and Avishay Artsy, KCRW; “Jordan Peele on ‘Get Out’: ‘Society is the Hollywood Reporter; “John Lithgow” “Can Gita, the cargo-carrying robot, make Most Fascinating Monster of All’” Miko Lim, The Red Bulletin; “The Real Damme you walk more?” Benjamin Gottlieb, KCRW; “A North Korean Deal” Amy DePaul, Voice of OC; “Starting Over: refugee’s journey to Los Angeles” Genaro Molina, Los Angeles Times; “Tom Once-Homeless OC Man Found by Family Laura Kangsluoma, Ampersand, USC Annen- Petty’s Last Portrait” After 18 Years” berg; ”Prudish Americans” Corey Nickols and Ada Guerin, TheWrap; Karen Foshay, Nic Cha Kim and Alberto Arce, Liz Warner, USC Annenberg Media; “Profile of “Tony Hale’s Tea Party” KCET; “Airbnbs Gone Wild” Barbara Dane” Jazmine Ulloa, Los Angeles Times; “Quietly, a Cop Skims Info” B2. OBITUARY/IN APPRECIATION – Film/TV I5b. PERSONALITY PROFILE/INTERVIEW Personalities (All platforms) Robin Urevich, Dean Kuipers and Bill Raden, Capital & Main; “Investigating Labor over 20 minutes (Radio) Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times; “John Hurt Secretary Nominee Andrew Puzder’s Fast Jonathan Bastian and Kathryn Barnes, KCRW; on Film: ‘A Voice of Wit, Mischief and Wily Food Empire” “The 805: Stories of Generosity from the Humanity’” Thomas Fire” Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter; Debra Birnbaum, Variety; “Remote Controlled: “Robert Osborne: The THR Years”

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B8. EDUCATIONAL REPORTING (All I10. TALK/PUBLIC AFFAIRS (Radio) Kristin Marguerite Doidge, GOOD Magazine; platforms) Frances Anderton and Avishay Artsy, KCRW; “Paralympic Gold Medalist’s Thoughts On Roxana Kopetman, Chris Haire and Kelly “Should extremely creative CEOs get away The Power Of Sports” Puente, Orange County Register; “113 with bad behavior?” Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Reason; “One sexual harassment cases reported in the Charles Feldman, Mike Simpson, Laraine Her- Woman’s Adventures in Gender Crossing University of California system in 3 years” man and Ken Charles, KNX; “KNX Indepth: and Civil Disobedience / The Myth of Tech- Kacey Montoya and Paul Sanchez, KTLA; Sex Harassment Crisis of 2017” nological Unemployment / An Economist “Veteran Walks 2200 Miles Across Country Abbie Fentress Swanson, Camellia Tse, Joseph Goes to Shanghai” to Raise Suicide Awareness” Stone and Laryl Garcia, KCRW; “Staying Virginia Postrel, Reason; “Love Your Home- Anna M. Phillips, Los Angeles Times; “Few afloat in L.A.’s restaurant biz” made Quilt? Thank ” School Supplies but a Lavish Party” Morris O’Kelly (Mo’Kelly), KFI AM640/iHeartRa- J.D. Tuccille, Reason; “Your Handy Guide to Ashley Powers, The California Sunday dio; “Remembering 9/11 from INSIDE the Camping in Forbidden Places / RIP Jerome Magazine; “The College Try” White House” Tuccille, Author of It Usually Begins With Nore Skenazy and Jonathan Haidt; Reason, Warren Olney, Andrea Brody and Devan Ayn Rand / Where Radar Cameras Fear To “Free Range Parenting” Schwartz, KCRW; “Ep. 0016 Trump vs Tread” Anna M. Phillips and Howard Blume, Los Democracy” Angeles Times; “Virtual Class, Real Funds” L5. COLUMNIST or CRITIC (Foreign H12. TALK/PUBLIC AFFAIRS (TV) Correspondents) H14. DOCUMENTARY, short, under 25 min- Matt Belloni, Jen Laski, Stephanie Fischette, Eva Catalan, El País Semanal; “Hollywood’s last utes (TV/Film) Victoria McKillop, Laela Zadeh and Natalie projectionists” Mike Amor, Andrea Keir, Emma Dallimore, Heltzel, The Hollywood Reporter; “Close Up Janet Nepales, Manila Bulletin, “Del Toro’s ‘first Duncan McLeod, 7 Network Australia; with The Hollywood Reporter – Drama grown-up movie’” “Donald Trump’s Wall” Actress” Mary O’Hara, The Guardian; “Why opioid Paul Detrick and Alex Manning, Reason; Karen Foshay, Linda Burns, Dina Demetrius, deaths are this generation’s Aids crisis” “Insane Posse: ‘We’re First Amend- Kathryn Keeney Jaeger and Lata Pandya, Maj. Danny Sjursen, Truthdig; “AFRICOM and ment Warriors’ for Juggalo Nation” KCET; “SoCal Connected” the Self-Investigation Farce” Juan Devis, Antonio Diaz, Matthew Crotty, Sonali Kolhatkar, Free Speech TV; “Mosul Burn- Tom Walters, CTV – Canadian Television; “The Ben Hunter, Kelly Parker, Stef Ferrari, KCET; ing, DeVos’s Backing of ‘Men’s Rights,’ and Map of History” “The Migrant Kitchen - Alta California” Infiltrating A Trump Group” Juan Devis, Catherine Quinlan, Matthew Sonali Kolhatkar, Free Speech TV; “Repealing J7. COLUMNIST (Online) Crotty, Nathan Masters and Kelly Parker; Obamacare, Gorsuch Nomination, and Sonali Kolhatkar, Truthdig Impeaching Trump” KCET; “Lost LA – Coded Geographies” Norberto Santana, Jr., Voice of OC John Marcus, Ryan Thompson, Chris Cheshire, Phil Goyen, Liz Hayes, Scott Morelli, Ben Scott Shackford, Reason Sofia Bosch and Aziza Kasumov, USC Crane; 60 Minutes Australia - Nine Network; Sahra Sulaiman, Streetsblog LA “Urban Soldiers - Inside Chicago’s War” Annenberg Media; “The Current Interna- tional: Germany Decides” Julia Wick, CityLab

I11. DOCUMENTARY (Radio) F6. COMMENTARY (Newspapers under Rina Palta and Priska Neely, Southern Califor- 50K) THE DANIEL PEARL AWARD nia Public Radio / KPCC; “Broke: Why more Thomas Elias, California Focus syndicated RAIF BADAWI, presented by JUDEA PEARL California families are becoming homeless” column and accepted by ENSAF HAIDAR Anna Scott, Saul Gonzalez and Miguel Calvin Naito, Los Angeles Daily News; “Our Cur- Contreras, KCRW; “There Goes The rent Approach to Food is Not Sustainable” Neighborhood” Calvin Naito, Los Angeles Daily News; “When F7. COLUMNIST (Newspapers under 50K) Image, Truth Wrestle, It’s Bad for the H13. FEATURE DOCUMENTARY, over 25 Patricia Bunin, Freelance: Southern California Executive” News Group minutes (TV/Film) Eric Pierce, Downey Patriot; “Opening a tem- Matt Belloni, Jen Laski, Stephanie Fischette, Charles Crumpley, San Fernando Valley Busi- porary homeless shelter in Norwalk is the Victoria McKillop, Laela Zadeh and Natalie ness Journal right thing to do” Heltzel, The Hollywood Reporter; “Close Up Henry Dubroff, Pacific Coast Business Times with The Hollywood Reporter – Drama R. Scott Moxley, OC Weekly E6. COMMENTARY (Newspapers over 50K) Actress” Jon Regardie, Los Angeles Downtown News Thomas D. Elias, California Focus syndicated Juan Devis, Justin Cram, Kelly Parker, Rita column; “No limit to parties campaign Baghdadi and Jeremiah Hammerling, KCET; E7. COLUMNIST (Newspapers over 50K) money laundering” “City Rising” Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times Rob Eshman, Jewish Journal; “Stephen Miller Juan Devis, Christopher Stoudt, Matthew Fred Dickey, San Diego Union Tribune and Julia Hahn Have a Past” Crotty, Nathan Masters and Austin Simons, Marty Kaplan, Jewish Journal Marty Kaplan, Jewish Journal; “And on His 92d KCET; “Lost L.A.: Descanso Gardens” Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times Day, He Fired the Surgeon General” Derrin Horton, Brian Choo, Kimberly Cornell, Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Angel Kim, Phil Ige, Jason Robert and Nick Times; “Our Dishonest President” Simpson, KTLA 5 News, “Gift of Life” Eric Preven and Joshua Preven, LA Daily News; Timothy Myers, Hilary Andersson, Mathew G3. COLUMNIST (Magazines) “The attorney-tax dollar privilege” Hill, BBC; “Trump’s Fortress America” Kareem Abul-Jabbar, The Hollywood Reporter; “Kareem Abul-Jabbar”

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G2. COMMENTARY (Magazines) Doug Davis, Los Angeles Downtown News; C3. SPORTS, Print Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter; “Ama- “Sheriff Lee Baca’s Legacy” Jay Berman, Orange County Register; “Helping zon’s Exec Purge: How Hollywood Took Jeff Mr. Fish, Truthdig; “Grope Therapy” to Right a Wrong” Bezos for a Ride” Mr. Fish, Truthdig, “#MeToo” Will Cockrell and Cheryl Angelheart, The Red Jeanie Pyun, The Hollywood Reporter; “Voices” Steve Greenberg, Ventura County Reporter; Bulletin; “The Ironman Algorithm” Malina Saval, Variety; “What TV Gets Right — “The Critical Line: Trumpcare” Nathan Fenno, Los Angeles Times; “A Prospect and Wrong — About Autism” Becomes a Suspect” K1. BEST USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA Joey Kaufman, Southern California News J8a. POLITICAL COMMENTARY, National (INDIVIDUAL) Group; “USC vs. UCLA: O.J. Simpson’s legacy (Online) Gigi Graciette, Fox 11 News/KTTV; “Finding leaves tangled emotions 50 years after Chris Hedges, Truthdig; “The Permanent Lie, Piqui” ‘Game of the Century’” Our Deadliest Threat” Jonathan Jones, City of Burbank; “La Tuna Fire” Loren Kopff, Los Cerritos Community News; Sonali Kolhatkar, Truthdig; “No Good Reasons Donald Kaufman, Truthdig; ” Love and Peace “Gahr’s Kumiyama and Quarles rewrit- to Continue America’s Longest War” Over Profits at Standing Rock” ing the record books as seniors, seek CIF Morris O’Kelly (Mo’Kelly), mrmokelly.com; Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times; championship” “The Case Against Donald Trump Jr. and “Southern California Fires” America” Jenelle Riley, Variety; “Facebook Live Q&A D4. SPORTS PHOTO Paul Street, Truthdig; “An Insubordinate With Patrick Stewart – Watch” Christian Anwander, The Red Bulletin; “Perfect President” Foil” Matt Welch, Reason; “The Neoliberal Era Is K2. BEST USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA Jay L. Clendenin, Los Angeles Times; “Hermosa Over” (ORGANIZATION) Iron Man” Lata Pandya, Marie Targonski-O’Brien, Dina Gina Ferazzi, Los Angeles Times; “Off Balance” J8b. POLITICAL COMMENTARY, Local Demetrius, Karen Foshay and Sheri Can- Harry How, Getty Images; “Doug Ghim Cloudy (Online) dler, KCET, “Police Violence Against Inmates First Tee” Brian Addison, KCET; “What’s At Stake With at LA Men’s Central Jail” Harry How, Getty Images; “Russell Westbrook Measure S? Everything, Los Angeles” Henry Cram and Sheri Candler, KCET, “Who Dunk” Mohammed Aly, Esq., Voice of OC; “Arrested Was Pio Pico?” for #RiverbedRescue” City of Burbank, “La Tuna Fire” J10. SPORTS NEWS or FEATURE (Online) Judith Lewis Mernit, Capital & Main; “How KTLA 5 NEWS, “Wildfires raging across South- Shahan Ahmed, KNBC Los Angeles; “LA Local Far Can California Go It Alone After Trump ern California” David Nwaba Joins Lakers, Living the LA Reneges on Climate Accord?” Jennifer Liles, Christina Schoellkopf, Natalya Dream” Claudia Perez, Voice of OC; “Perez: The SAPOA Jaime, The Hollywood Reporter, “Actress Mike DiGiovanna, Los Angeles Times; ” Always and Santa Ana’s House of Cards” Roundtable” Just a Heartbeat Away” Norberto Santana, Jr., Voice of OC; “Is Throw- Kristin Marguerite Doidge, GOOD Magazine; ing Rocks the New Homeless Response in J16. BLOG, INDIVIDUAL “The Most Powerful Posse In Compton” OC?” Brian Addison, LongBeachize; “Long Beach’s Michael Duarte, KNBC Los Angeles; “USC Most Optimistic Mayor Admits Two Huge Trojans Blind Long Snapper Silences the J9. NON-POLITICAL COMMENTARY Problems: A Lack of Affordable Housing Doubters and Makes His Dreams Come (Online) and Homelessness” True” Judith Lewis Mernit, Capital & Main; “All Donna Balancia, CaliforniaRocker.com; “Janu- Mirin Fader, Bleacher Report; “The Mad Scien- About EVs: Why There Isn’t a Ford in Your ary 1, 2017” tist of the NFL” Future” Sara Catania, JTrust; “The Real Deal in Truth or Rip Rense, The Rip Post; “Sgt. Pepper Summer” Consequences” J11. SPORTS COMMENTARY (Online) Leah Rosenzweig, Ampersand USC Annen- Joanie Harmon, Making Life Swing; “Angela Eric Boehm, Reason; “Atlanta Braves’ New Sta- berg; “Frank Lloyd Wright and the Confused and Chris Levey/Peter Erskine” dium Is a Disaster for Taxpayers and Fans” Sense of Space” Bennet Kelley, Today Past; “Jun-21: A Day of Dylan Hernandez, Los Angeles Times; “Some Maureen Ryan, Variety; “A TV Executive Sexu- Bigotry and Justice” Look Askew at Yuli Gurriel’s Dugout Squint” ally Assaulted Me: A Critic’s Personal Story” Eric Ortiz, Truthdig; “Take a Knee for Sharon Waxman, TheWrap “ ‘Harvey Wein- J17. BLOG, GROUP Humanity” stein’s Media Enablers’? The New York Lesley Goldberg, Michael O’Connell, Bryn Times Is One of Them” Elise Sandberg and Josh Wigler, The Hol- I8. SPORTS (Radio) lywood Reporter; “The Live Feed” Randy Kerdoon, Dick Helton, Vicky Moore, C4. EDITORIALS, Print Borys Kit, Aaron Couch, Ryan Parker and KNX; “KNX NFL Insider” Los Angeles Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Graeme McMillan, The Hollywood Reporter; Sharon McNary, KPCC; “Ultra Mom takes on Times; “Our Dishonest President” “Heat Vision” grueling Angeles Crest 100 trailrunning Jon Regardie, Los Angeles Downtown News; Staff, Reason; “Hit & Run” challenge” “The DWP Pay Hike Stinks” Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times; Lance Orozco, KCLU AM/FM; “LA Has Rams “Essential Politics” And Chargers, But Ride D7. EDITORIAL CARTOON Staff, Streetsblog LA; “May 5, 2017” Into Ventura County For Training Camp” Steve Brodner, Los Angeles Times; “The Court of Donald I”

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H11. SPORTS (TV) Janet Nepales, GMA NEWS ONLINE; “Fil-Am H4. BREAKING NEWS (TV) Raymond Bell and Jim Hill, CBS2; “From Dev- composer Robert Lopez and wife Kristen Oswald Borraez, Juan Chopin, KMEX; “Man astation to Defensive Line” Anderson-Lopez get Golden Globe nomi- beats mother” Derrin Horton, Brian Choo, Kimberly Cornell, nation” Gigi Graciette, Fox 11 News/KTTV; “Mexico Angel Kim, Phil Ige, Jason Roberts and Nick Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter; “George Earthquake: The Desperate Search for Simpson, KTLA 5 News; “Gift of Life” Takei Accused of Sexually Assaulting For- Survivors” Danielle Nottingham, CBS News – Newspath; mer Model in 1981” Duncan McLeod, Ashlee Mullany, Amelia “Kids MMA” Ramin Setoodeh, Variety; “Inside ’s Brace, Luke Dorrington, Mike Amor, 7 Net- Ernesto Torres, Jared Kiemeney, Fred Roggin, Secret Relationship with ‘Today’ Production work Australia; “Inside Mandalay Bay: The KNBC 4 TV; “All in the Family” Assistant” Vegas Massacre” Antonio R. Valverde, KMEX Univision; “Shoot- Christina Pascucci and Armando Moncayo, ing Trap” J1c. NEWS, Cultural (Online) KTLA 5 NEWS; “Mexico Earthquake” Jason Islas, Santa Monica Next; “Amid Regional Ernesto Torres, Tony Shin; KNBC 4 TV; “North D1. NEWS PHOTO Housing Crisis, Santa Monica’s Homeless- Park School Shooting” Jay L. Clendenin, Los Angeles Times; “Big ness Count Highest Since 2009” Tujunga Fire” Robert Penfold, Richard Moran, Nine Network ALONZO BODDEN Gina Ferazzi, Los Angeles Times; “Exploding Australia; “Heartbreak in Hurricane Harvey” Flames” Sahra Sulaiman, Streetsblog LA; “Family of Man G8. IN-HOUSE or CORPORATE Irfan Khan, Los Angeles Times; “Violence Breaks Crushed by Train During Altercation with PUBLICATION Out at Pro-Trump Rally” Police over Fare Seeks Answers, Justice” Bennet Kelley, Internet Law Center; “Cyber Jennifer Laski, Shanti Marlar, Carrie Smith, Gabriel Thompson, Capital & Main; “After Report: Cyber Attacks Inflict Billions in Kate Pappa, Coral Von Zumwalt, The Hol- the Inferno, Undocumented Workers Find Damages” lywood Reporter; “The Brave One” Themselves Without Federal Help” Staff, Collegian Times Marcus Yam; Los Angeles Times; “Raining Thy Vo, Voice of OC; “Who is Running the Elizabeth Post, Michael D. White and Marina Ember” County’s 2018 Tet Festival?” Senderov; San Fernando Valley Bar Associa- tion; “Valley Lawyer Magazine” L1. NEWS (Foreign Correspondents) C1. HARD NEWS, Print Variety; “Game Over” Hugo Daniel, Irish Daily Mail; “Annie: How Dina Demetrius, KCET; “Newly Public Videos Variety; “Special Report: Sexual Harassment” Eamonn and I Made Our Peace” Show 2008 L.A. Jail Beatings” Aviva Fried, Christèle Jaime, RTS (Radio Televi- Jason Henry and Steve Scauzillo, San Gabriel C2. HEADLINE, Print sion Suisse, Swiss TV); “Six feet Under Water” Valley Tribune / SCNG; “Tres Hermanos Dave Bowman, Los Angeles Times; “Squirrels? Richard Marosi and Brian van der Brug, Los Ranch” Always a Cache” Angeles Times; “Mexico’s Housing Debacle: Kim Masters, Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Angela Jamison, Los Angeles Times; “Eating his A Failed Vision” Reporter; “ Studios’ Roy Price: Inside first turkey free as a bird” Lizzie Pearl, Rachael Dyer, Tim Myers, Nine the Fall of a Top Executive” Glenn Rabinowitz, Pacific Coast Business Network Australia; “Southern California’s Christopher Palmeri, Jennifer Kaplan and Times; “Ripe for going public” anti-nuclear wave” Mark Chediak, Bloomberg News; “L.A. Fires Lucas Shaw, Bloomberg News; “’s Edge Tom Walters and Liam Hyland, CTV – Cana- Halt Filming, Menace Crops, Send Edison Helps Fender Find What It’s Looking for dian TV; “Wind and Wildfire” Plunging” With New App” Beau Yarbrough, San Bernardino Sun / SCNG; Lizzie Smith, DailyMail.com; “Diddy really have “North Park Elementary shooting” J1a. NEWS, Government/Politics (Online) to? Sean Combs changes his name AGAIN Eric Boehm, Reason; “After Challenging Red (but will Brother Love really catch on?)” Light Cameras, Oregon Man Fined $500 for I2. NEWS or FEATURE short form (Radio) Practicing Engineering Without a License” Jenny Hamel, KCRW; “Angelenos protest D8a. ILLUSTRATION or GRAPHIC, covers/ Nick Gerda, Voice of OC; “OC Supervisors Issue after the announcement to end the DACA reviews Another Crackdown on Speakers During program” Chris Mihal, Allison Cressey and Margherita Public Meetings” Jenny Hamel, KCRW; “500,000 people fill the Morotti, Variety, “The Young Pope review” Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times; “Trump streets downtown for the Women’s March” Chris Mihal, Allison Cressey and Rudcef, Vari- Fires Comey: A Screenplay in 5 Acts” Morris O’Kelly (Mo’Kelly), KFI AM640/iHeartRa- ety; “Review: Taylor Swift ‘Reputation’” Holden Slattery, The Chronicle of Social dio; “Mo’ on the Movies - ‘Thor: Ragnarok’” Chris Mihal, Chuck Kerr, and Tim McDonagh, Change; “California Bill Aims to Help Create Variety; “Shows like GOT are burning Better Foster Homes” I3a. NEWS (Radio) through money” Robin Urevich, Capital & Main; “The War Benjamin Gottlieb, KCRW; “LA Jewish Center Kelli Sullivan and Cameron Cottrell, Los Ange- Against One Sanctuary City” Threats Have Community on Edge” les Times; “Pets Special Section Cover” Carla Green, KCRW; “Some Uber drivers make Michael Whitley, Paul Gonzales and Adam J1b. NEWS, Entertainment Industry so little, they have to live in their cars” Simpson, Los Angeles Times; “Year in (Online) Jenny Hamel, KCRW; “There are 6000 home- Review: Calendar and Arts & Books” Barbara Gasser, Kleine Zeitung; “ I would give less youth in LA, reaching them is crucial” everything to hear my father play again” George Lavender, KCRW; “Visiting a California D8b. ILLUSTRATION or GRAPHIC, current Daniel Holloway, Variety; “‘One Tree Hill’ Cast, Prisoner in Mississippi” events Crew Detail Assault, Harassment Claims Connor McGlynn, USC Annenberg Media; Ed Baker, Hornet Stories (Hornet Social Media); Against Mark Schwahn” “Homelessness and Hunger in Los Angeles” “The Worst of 2017: A Top 10 List”

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Joe Fox, Priya Krishnakumar and Jon Schleuss, J12. ENTERTAINMENT and CELEBRITY L4. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS or FEATURE Los Angeles Times; “How to Avoid the Lines NEWS (Online) (Foreign Correspondents) at Disneyland” Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter; Mike Amor, Andrea Keir, Duncan McLeod and Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times; “Marisa Coughlan Comes Forward With Leigh Hubner, 7 Network Australia; “Priscilla “Wine Country Fires” Harvey Weinstein Story: ‘He Wanted to Remembers” Shanti Marlar, Kelsey Stefanson and Owen Barter Sex for Movie Roles’” Chrissy Iley, Sunday Times Magazine, “Britain’s Freeman, The Hollywood Reporter; “Murder, Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Reason; “Hot Girls hottest actor on his Journey from Hackney Mayhem, and Torture Off the Sunset Strip” Wanted: Exploiting Sex Workers in the to Hollywood” Chris Mihal, Benjamin de-Campos and Name of Exposing Porn Exploitation?” Adam Tanswell, SciFiNow; “Asgard will Rock” Nathalie Lees; Variety; “Sexual harassment Steve Pond, TheWrap; “Oscars Stage Manager Tom Walters and Brian Miller, CTV – Canadian at Estrella TV” Details PwC Accountants’ Incompetence: TV; “The Pepsi Jenner Abomination” ‘They Froze’ (Exclusive)” Kerstin Zilm, Deutschlandfunk, “Wall Proto- I9. USE OF SOUND (Radio) Ramin Setoodeh and Brent Lang, Variety; types - An Art Intervention” Deepa Fernandes, PRI’s The World; “Life of an “Inside ‘The Mummy’s’ Troubles: Tom Cruise Unaccompanied Minor, and what he left Had Excessive Control (EXCLUSIVE)” J14. ENTERTAINMENT FEATURE (Online) behind” Brian Steinberg, Variety; “Madison Avenue Matt Donnelly, TheWrap; “Indie Movie ‘Beach Debra Greene, KCLU AM/FM; “Music Helps Wants to Crash Netflix, Amazon” Rats’ Has a #BuryYourGays Problem – But Dementia Patients” It’s Not Backing Down” Susan Valot, KCRW; “A Very Merry Tuba F2. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS or FEATURE Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times; “Legendary Christmas” (Newspapers under 50K) songwriter Jimmy Webb: lying for John Patricia Bunin, Southern California News Lennon and about “that song” – ‘MacArthur C6. PAGE DESIGN, Print Group; “Letter to the King on the 40th anni- Park’” Dan Knapp, Letty Avila and Matthew Savino, versary of his death” Ramin Setoodeh, Variety; “Jack O’Connell on USC Dornsife Magazine; “Memento Mori Jon Regardie, Los Angeles Downtown News; ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ and the Dangers of Page Design” “The Close-Up Artist” Showering Naked Onstage“ Shanti Marlar and Kelsey Stefanson, The Nicholas Slayton, Los Angeles Downtown Patrick Shanley, The Hollywood Reporter; “In Hollywood Reporter; “‘Murder, Mayhem and News; “NEA Cuts Threaten Downtown Arts the Shadow of Superheroes, Westerns Are Torture’ Off the Sunset Strip” Institutions” (Quietly) Popular” Ross May and Edel Rodriguez, Los Angeles Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter; “‘Ghost Times; “Horrifying” E2. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS or FEATURE in the Shell’: 4 Japanese Actresses Dissect Chris Mihal, Bailey Franklin, Kurt Iswarienko, (Newspapers over 50K) the Movie and Its Whitewashing Twist” Variety; “Twin Peaks” Steve Appleford, LA Weekly; “How Eagles of Kelli Sullivan, Michael Whitley and Greg Death Metal’s Jesse Hughes Made Peace H9. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS or FEATURE Houston, Los Angeles Times; “The Year in With the Paris Attacks” (TV) Review: Sexual Harassment” Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times; “Music rolls Steve Appleford, LA Weekly; “In the Studio on at Folsom Prison 50 years after Johnny With Buzz and Mackie Osborne” C5. DESIGN, Print Cash made history” Meredith Bragg; Reason; “Chinese Dissident The Hollywood Reporter Art Department, The Ruben Nepales, Philippine Daily Inquirer; Ai Weiwei Explores the Tragedy of the Hollywood Reporter; “Oscar Issue 2017” “Angelina Jolie talks about her ‘very difficult Refugee Crisis” year’” Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, “Los Juan Devis, Nathan Masters, Matthew Crotty, Angeles Times: Nov. 5, 2017” Anousha Sakoui, Bloomberg Businessweek; Kelly Parker and Logan Kibens, KCET; “Hollywood Is Scrambling to Replace Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times; “Lost LA – When Women Called the Shots: Chinese Funding” “Oscars 2017” The Forgotten Story of Early Hollywood’s Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times; “In Striking Kelli Sullivan, Tim Hubbard, Jason Clark and Female Filmmakers” Shift, Dudamel Issues Plea to Homeland” Michael Whitley, Los Angeles Times; “World Phil Goyen, Tara Brown, 60 Minutes Australia - Series Preview” Nine Network; “The End” Kelli Sullivan and Michael Whitley, Los Angeles G6. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS or FEATURE Annabel Sedano, Andres Pruna and Arturo Times; “Mexico’s Housing Debacle: A Failed (Magazines) Quezada, KMEX; ” Neon, Los Angeles” Vision” Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter; “How ‘Sharknado’ Casts Its C-Listers” I7. ENTERTAINMENT REPORTING/CRITI- G9. DESIGN (Magazines) Andrew Barker, Variety; “How Kendrick Lamar CISM (Radio) Became the Defining Hip-Hop Artist of His Letty Avila, Matthew Savino and Dan Knapp, Frances Anderton and Avishay Artsy; KCRW; Generation” USC Dornsife Magazine; “The (Im)mortality “Oppressive designs: Fashion in ‘The Hand- Issue” Rebecca Ford, The Hollywood Reporter; “Do maid’s Tale’” Good Work, We Will Remember You” Ada Guerin and Eric Hernandez, TheWrap; Michelle Lanz & Monica Bushman, KPCC; “The ”Emmy Comedy-Drama-Actors issue” Ramin Setoodeh, Variety; “Kirsten Dunst and man behind “Beauty & The Beast” lyrics Sofia Coppola on Hollywood Sexism, Their The Hollywood Reporter Art Department, The didn’t live to see the final film” Feminist ‘Beguiled’ Remake” Hollywood Reporter; “Oscar Issue 2017” Peter Suderman, Reason; “Young Men Are Michael Villalpando and Karen Villalpando, Playing Video Games Instead of Getting Beverly Press/Park Labrea News; “2017 Food, Jobs. That’s OK. (For Now.)” Dining & Entertainment”

LA 58 PC J15. ENTERTAINMENT COMMENTARY B15b. CRITICISM ON TV/FILM, Reviews (All B17. CRITICISM ON BOOKS/ART/ARCHITEC- (Online) platforms) TURE/DESIGN (All platforms) Owen Gleiberman, Variety; “Donald Trump’s Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times; “Jordan Brian Doherty, Reason; “The Great James Pop-Culture Presidency Enters Its Thriller Peele’s clever horror-satire ‘Get Out’ is an Buchanan Conspiracy” Phase” overdue Hollywood response to our racial Shana Nys Dambrot, Artillery; “Ellen Gallagher Andy Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter; “Jerry anxiety” at Hauser Wirth LA” Lewis’s Final Awkward Opinion Explained” Alonso Duralde, TheWrap; “Reviews” Josh Stephens, California Planning & Devel- Luke Y. Thompson, Forbes; “How Much Do We Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter; opment Report; “Book Reviews: The New Want Our Star Wars Movies To Actually Be “Daniel Fienberg Reviews” Urban Crisis; How to Kill a City; City of Different?” Owen Gleiberman, Variety; “Film Review: Dreams” Andrew Wallenstein, Variety; “How FANG Left Roxanne Roxanne” Tom Teicholz, Forbes.com; “A Depression of the Media Business Snakebitten” Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, One’s Own: Daphne Merkin’s ‘This Close to Natasha Hakimi Zapata, Truthdig; “It’s the “Dunkirk” Happy’” Patriarchy, Stupid” Paul Von Blum, Truthdig; “Poster Power: The B16. CRITICISM ON THEATER/PERFORMING Dramatic Impact of Political Art” B15a. COMMENTARY ON TV/FILM (All ARTS (All platforms) platforms) Robert Hofler, TheWrap; “Robert Hofler Broad- B18. CRITICISM ON FOOD/CULTURE (All Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times; “Has horror way reviews” platforms) become the genre of the Trump era?” Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times; “Reviews of Brian Addison, LongBeachize; “These 15 Simi Horwitz, Film Journal International; “It’s Nick Cave, The Muppets” Underrated Long Beach Grub Hubs Are Not Simply Black and White: Onscreen Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times; “Charles Must-Visits” Mixed-Race Romances (sort of) Grow Up” McNulty: Theatre Criticism” Jonathan Gold, Los Angeles Times; “Counter Carrie Rickey, Truthdig; “What Happened to David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter; “David Intelligence” the Female Directors of Hollywood?” Rooney” Brad A. Johnson, Orange County Register; Jordan Riefe, Truthdig; “Syria’s ‘Hell on Earth,’ Tom Teicholz, Forbes.com; “Sinandali: Zubin “Restaurant Reviews” Up Close and Personal” Mehta Leads the IPO in an Enchanted Eve- Eddie Kim, Los Angeles Downtown News; “Bite- Zach Weismueller, Reason; “What HBO’s Veep ning of Music in Georgia’s Kakheti Region” Sized Blocks” Gets Right About Politics”

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Peter Suderman, Reason; “Government Cara Santa Maria, Lata Pandya and Alberto Mohan, Los Angeles Times; “Immigrant Almost Killed the Cocktail” Arce; KCET; ” Cleantech Incubator Is Grow- Workers in a State of Stress” ing L.A.’s Green Economy” Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times; “Gibson D5. ENTERTAINMENT PHOTO Ina von Ber, USPA & Ambassadorial Round- Brands transforms guitar-making into a Donna Balancia, CaliforniaRocker.com; “Valerie table; “Technology, Art and Business Colli- diverse ‘music lifestyle’ firm” June is a dynamic performer and a rising sion2017 disrupts, creates, invents” star“ D6. PHOTO ESSAY (single topic) Jay L. Clendenin, Los Angeles Times; “Musical B12. MULTIMEDIA PACKAGE (All platforms) Gema Galiana and Amy DePaul, Capital & Artist Lawrence Rothman” Willian Avila and Jason Kandel, KNBC Los Main, OC Weekly, the Economic Hardship Chris Mihal, Chuck Kerr, Bailey Franklin and Angeles; “North Hollywood Shootout Reporting Project; “What the Final Moments Andrew Hetherington, Variety; “Stephen Anniversary” of Homeless People Can Teach Us” Colbert/ Emmy Preview” Christina Bellantoni, Julie Westfall, Alison Corina Marie and Ada Guerin, TheWrap; Corey Nickols and Ada Guerin, TheWrap; Wisk, Joe Fox and Priya Krishnakumar, Los “Chrissy Metz” “Tony Hale’s Tennis Match” Angeles Times; “As a Crucial Primary Nears, Ted Soqui, LA Weekly; “Scenes From the 1992 Jenny Sargent, Jennifer Laski, Shanti Marlar, Track the California Races That Could Flip L.A. Riots — and How These Spots Have Carrie Smith and Joe Pugliese, The Holly- the House” Changed 25 Years Later” wood Reporter; “SNL – Melissa McCarthy” Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times; Joseph Rodriguez and Ruben Martinez, The “California’s Power Glut” Economic Hardship Reporting Project, The Jeanie Pyun, Seth Abramovitch, Gregg Kilday, New York Times; “The Gangs of L.A.” PRESIDENT’s AWARD—Kimi Yoshino, Mark Morrison and Tatiana Siegel, The Marcus Yam, Los Angeles Times; “California introduced by Andrea Chang Hollywood Reporter; “Hollywood Legacies: Burning” Exclusive Photos of the Hustons, Poitiers, Sutherlands and More Showbiz Families” F4. INVESTIGATIVE/SERIES (Newspapers Bijan Rezvani, Chris Clarke, Jason Bazalar, VJ B4. ACTIVISM JOURNALISM (All platforms) under 50K) Aguilar and ALMA + Friends, KCET: “Earth David Bier, Reason; “Why the Wall Won’t Work” Andre’ Coleman, Pasadena Weekly; “Cop in the Focus: Dakota Access Pipeline” Bryan Curiel, Holden Slattery, The Chronicle of Crosshairs” Social Change and Fostering Media Connec- Brian Hews, Los Cerritos Community News; B13. CRIME REPORTING (All platforms) tions; “After ICE Detains Father, Los Angeles “Dark Money Influencing La Mirada City Sisters Cope with Trauma, Disruption” Karen Foshay, George Lavender and Michael Council Race” Bloecher, KCET; “The Price of Freedom” Christopher Langley Osceola Refetoff, KCET Eddie Kim, Jon Regardie and Nicholas Slay- Artbound; “Glimpse of Another America” Jason Kandel, KNBC Los Angeles; “The Sweet- ton, Los Angeles Downtown News; “Address- heart Scammer” Judith Lewis Mernit, Capital & Main; “For ing the Homelessness Crisis in Downtown Whom the Road Tolls: Is It Fair to Put a Price Kate Mather, Los Angeles Times; “Cold Case” LA” on Freeways?” Jeff Maysh, Freelance /LA Magazine; “The Cop L.J. Williamson, Daily Journal; “Controversy has Lata Pandya, Stephanie O’Neill and Alberto Who Became a Robber” arisen over Antelope Valley head deputy Arce, KCET, “Where’s Nancy?” Ernesto Torres, Kim Baldonado, Kurt Beabes DA’s handling of pleas” and Jeff Scharping, KNBC 4 TV; “Community L.J. Williamson, Daily Journal; “Dependency Coming Together” lawyers bemoan governor’s refusal to B6a. HEALTH REPORTING (All platforms) boost budget” Eric Boehm, Reason; “A Baby Dies in Virginia” F5. BUSINESS (Newspapers under 50K) Nick Gerda and Tracy Wood, Voice of OC; E4. INVESTIGATIVE/SERIES (Newspapers “Battle Intensifies for Control of OC’s Health Carol Lawrence, San Fernando Valley Business over 50K) Care Plan for Low Income Residents” Journal; “Apartment Killer” Jeffrey Collins, Orange County Register/South- Jessica Goodheart, Capital & Main; “The Vir- Shwanika Narayan, Los Angeles Business Jour- ern California News Group; “Eviction decline tual Couch: Is Online Therapy Going Viral?” nal; “Pulling Plug?” is no solace for thousands of renters losing Danielle Nottingham, CBS News-Newspath; Eric Pierce, Downey Patriot; “City of Downey their homes” “Egg Freezing Parties” goes to court to clean up Rives Mansion” Amy Kaufman, Daniel Miller and Victoria Kim, Keith Wagstaff, Mashable; “If Obamacare dies, Garrett Reim, Los Angeles Business Journal; Los Angeles Times; “Ratner-Simmons Sexual a Facebook post could cause you to lose “Scoring Talent” Misconduct Allegations” your health insurance” Staff, Long Beach Press-Telegram / SCNG; “The Digital Divide” Daniel Miller, Ben Poston and Priya Krishnaku- mar, Los Angeles Times; ” Anaheim’s Subsidy B6b. SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY REPORTING Kingdom” (All platforms) E5. BUSINESS (Newspapers over 50K) Paul Pringle, Harriet Ryan, Sarah Parvini, Matt Lori Cameron and Michael Martinez, IEEE Jeff Collins, Orange County Register/Southern California News Group; “Eviction decline is Hamilton and Adam Elmahrek, Los Angeles Computer Society; “The Epic Journey of Times; “The Secret Life of a USC Dean” Women in Computing: Advances, Setbacks, no solace for thousands of renters losing Staff, Southern California News Group; “Rehab and an Uncertain Future” their homes” Riviera” Dina Demetrius, Deepa Fernandes and Jennifer Kaplan, Bloomberg News; ”California Alberto Arce, KCET; ” The Assassin Bugs” Pot Smokers” G1. INVESTIGATIVE (Magazines) Lisa Ellen Niver, Smithsonian; “Dive With WWII Andrew Khouri, Ben Poston and Roger Vin- Esme Deprez and Paul Barrett, Bloomberg Wrecks in the Solomon Islands 75 years cent, Los Angeles Times; “L.A. Affordability Businessweek; “The Lawyer Who Beat Big after the Battle of Guadalcanal, walk in the Crisis and Measure S” Tobacco Takes On the Opioid Industry” Footsteps of History” Natalie Kitroeff, Victoria Kim and Geoffrey

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Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter; Patrick McGreevy and Kyle Kim, Los Angeles H3. VIDEOGRAPHER (TV) “Johnny Depp A Star in Crisis” Times; “What Californians Need to Know Timothy Myers, BBC; “Trump’s Fortress Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter; “Mur- About the State’s $52-Billion Transportation America” der, Mayhem and Torture Off the Sunset Plan” Douglas E. Porter, KCET; “Tending The Wild” Strip” Aaron Mendelson and Mary Plummer, South- Arturo Quezada, KMEX; “Neon, Los Angeles” Cynthia Littleton, Variety; “Fraud in Holly- ern California Public Radio / KPCC; “KPCC Douglas E. Porter, KCET; “Lost LA – Descanso wood: Stealing From Media Companies Has Investigates: Behested Payments” Gardens” Never Been Easier” Ernesto Torres, KNBC 4 TV; “Frank Cut the Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Reason; “American Sex B7b. NATIONAL POLITICAL/GOVERNMENT Turkey” Police” REPORTING (All platforms) Rachael Dyer, Elizabeth Pearl and Richard I1. ANCHOR/HOST (Radio) J2. INVESTIGATIVE (Online) Moran, Nine Network Australia; “Air Marshall Debra Birnbaum, Variety; “Remote Controlled” Training” C.J. Ciaramella and Lauren Krisai, Reason; Steve Chiotakis, KCRW; “All Things Considered” Christopher Palmeri, Bloomberg Businessweek; ”How Florida Entraps Pain Patients, Forces Kim Masters, KCRW; “Krista Vernoff and Janis “What Did Sheldon Adelson Get for His Them to Snitch, Then Locks Them Up for Hirsch on sexual harassment in Hollywood” Decades“ $200 Million?” Morris O’Kelly (Mo’Kelly,) KFI AM640/iHeartRa- Robert W. Poole, Jr., Reason; “Your Flight Is Celeste Fremon, WitnessLA; “AERO BUREAU dio; “The Truth about Michael Flynn” NOIR: The Strange & Troubling Case Of the Delayed: The frenzied battle to reform Mike Simpson and Chris Sedens, KNX AM; LA Sheriff Department’s Missing Helicopter American air traffic control” “KNX Afternoon News” Engines” Jesse Walker, Reason; “The Indestructible Idea Nick Gerda and Thy Vo; Voice of OC; “Homeless of the Basic Minimum Income” in the OC” Pablo Ximenez de Sandoval, El Pais; ” Contrac- H2. ANCHOR/HOST (TV) John Myers, Los Angeles Times; “Hidden tors and Border Experts follow the money Juliette Boland, The Anglophile Channel; “The Donors Fund an Advocate for and get behind Trump’s wall” Timey Wimey Fandom Show” Transparency” Marlise Boland, Elyse Ashton, The Anglophile Robin Urevich, Dean Kuipers, Bill Raden, B9. ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTING (All Channel; “PoldarkDish” Capital & Main; “Investigating Labor Secre- platforms) Paul Boland, Kelly Monteith, The Anglophile tary Nominee Andrew Puzder’s Fast Food Jason G. Goldman, BioGraphic; “Shoot to Save” Channel; “Brit Flix with Kelly, Paul and (Two Buck) Chuck” Empire” Emily Guerin, Southern California Public Radio / KPCC; “They didn’t know the LA River was Sonali Kolhatkar, Free Speech TV; “’Russian I6. INVESTIGATIVE (Radio) full of E. coli — but public officials did” Interference,’ Sessions and Police, and Immigrant Suffering” Raymond Greene, KPCC; “Searching for Ruth” Kathryn Keeney Jaeger, Deepa Fernandes, Val Zavala, KCET; “SoCal Connected: The Way Raymond Greene, KPCC; “Slaughter by the Alberto Arce; KCET; “Blowing Concerns” Home” Sea” Shawn Regan, Reason; “How Capitalism Saved Raymond Greene, KPCC; “Owen’s Stone” the Bees” J18. WEBSITE, NEWS ORGANIZATION Molly Peterson, KCRW; “What you need to Brad Streicher and Sam Bergum, USC Annen- EXCLUSIVE TO THE INTERNET know about LA’s urban heat problem” berg Media; “Just Six Feet Away: Oil Drill Site May Threaten Community Safety” Daniel Heimpel, John Kelly, Kim Hansel, Jeremy Loudenback, Christie Renick; The H5. INVESTIGATIVE (TV) Chronicle of Social Change Dina Demetrius, Deepa Fernandes, Michael B11. GENDER/LGBTQ REPORTING (All platforms) Joe Linton, Sahra Sulaiman, Damien Newton, Bloecher, KCET; ” Substandard of Living” Jason Islas and Brian Addison; Streetsblog Deepa Fernandes, Public Radio International; Karen Foshay, Vince Beiser, Alberto Arce, KCET; Los Angeles “’s Transformistas” “Bumps in the Road” Sonya Quick, Voice of OC Jeremy Fuster and Beatrice Verhoeven, The David Goldstein, Lorraine Roe, Catherine Staff, Capital & Main Gelera, Michael Brandon, Gustavo Sampaio, Wrap; “Happy Women’s Day, Hollywood: Sharon Waxman, Tim Molloy and Thom Geier, KCBS/KCAL TV; “Illegal Pet Rescue” Disney, Fox Have No Female Directors on TheWrap Gigi Graciette, Fox 11 News/KTTV; “Sick Puppy This Year’s Movies” Peddlers” Thomas Philip Lick, KCET; “The Paradoxical J19. WEBSITE, TRADITIONAL NEWS Brad Streicher, Sam Bergum, USC Annenberg Nature of Gentrification in Long Beach’s ORGANIZATION Media; “Just Six Feet Away: Oil Drill Site May Gayborhood” Threaten Community Safety” Amelia Pang, Truthdig; “Native American Rape Matthew Belloni, Tom Seeley, The Hollywood Survivors Tell How Deck Is Stacked Against Reporter; THR.com Justin Cram, Daniel , Bijan Rezvani, B7a. LOCAL POLITICAL/GOVERNMENT Them” Nikol Hasler and KCET Staff, KCET; KCET.org REPORTING (All platforms) Zeke Smith, Josh Wigler and Lesley Goldberg, Reason; Reason.com Tony Barboza, David Zahniser and Jon Schle- The Hollywood Reporter; “‘Survivor’ Con- uss, Los Angeles Times; “Freeway Pollution” testant Opens Up About Being Outed as Alex Schaffert, Vijay Singh, Katie Briggs, Jay Transgender Arella and Ben Titcomb, Southern California Karen Foshay, Vince Beiser and Alberto Arce, Public Radio; SCPR.org KCET; “Bumps in the Road” Variety, Variety.com; Jason Islas, Streetsblog LA; “Assemblymember Richard Bloom Talks on CA Housing Legisla- PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD—Dolly Parton tive Package” introduced by Sam Haskell

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H1. REGULARLY SCHEDULED NEWSCAST Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter Nic Cha Kim, KCET (TV) Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times Christina Pascucci, KTLA 5 NEWS Sam Bergum, Abby Flaxer, Sanika Bhargaw Matt Donnelly, TheWrap Tom Walters, CTV - Canadian Television and Duanli Zhu, USC Annenberg Media; ”Annenberg TV News 2/15/17” A7. SPORTS JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR A2. JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR, Print under Sam Bergum, Garrett Schwartz, Taylor Edghill Andy McCullough, Los Angeles Times 50K and Kim Rogers, USC Annenberg Media; Aitana Vargas, HITN TV / HispanoPost / DirecTV Brian Hews, Los Cerritos Community News “Annenberg TV News 10/02/17 - USC Active Sports Jon Regardie, Los Angeles Downtown News Shooter Scare” Jennifer Pierce and Lizzy Tyler, CBS2; “CBS2 A8. PHOTOJOURNALIST OF THE YEAR A1. JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR, Print over News at 11pm 5/1/2017” Phil Ige, KTLA 5 TV 50K Ernesto Torres, KNBC 4 TV Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter A5. ONLINE JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR Marcus Yam, Los Angeles Times Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times Donna Balancia, CaliforniaRocker.com Fred Dickey, San Diego Union-Tribune Daniel Heimpel, The Chronicle of Social Change A4. RADIO JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR Michael Idato, The Sydney Morning Herald Norberto Santana, Jr., Voice of OC Deepa Fernandes, Freelance Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times Robin Urevich, Capital & Main Morris O’Kelly (Mo’Kelly,) KFI AM640/ Julia Wick, LAist iHeartRadio Susan Valot, Freelance for KCRW and KQED THE JOSEPH M. QUINN AWARD—Lester A6. ENTERTAINMENT JOURNALIST OF THE Holt introduced by Josh Mankiewicz YEAR A3. TELEVISION JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR Ramin Setoodeh, Variety Mike Amor, 7 Network Australia Antonio Valverde, KMEX Univision Gigi Graciette, Fox 11 News/KTTV How the Southern California Journalism Awards Are Judged Like Many Press Clubs, We Get by With a Little Help From Our Friends

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