southern california journalism awards sixtieth

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proudly congratulates
our dear friend and colleague
Dolly Parton
Honoree, The Bill Rosendahl Public Service Award
for Contributions to Civic Life
and salutes
all of the nominees and honorees at the
Los Angeles Press Club’s
60th Annual Journalism Awards Dinner
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annual Southern California
Journalism awards
A Letter From the President
Good evening, and welcome to the 60th Annual Southern California
Journalism Awards.
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 Brooklyn. The big celebrity crime was the stabbing death of
Lana Turner’s mobster boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato, by her daughter Cheryl
Crane. 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 Donald Trump 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. Lester Holt, 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 Los Angeles Times’ 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 Daniel Pearl Award recipient, who couldn’t be here tonight
because he’s in prison in Saudi Arabia, subjected to lashings, for writing about
human rights in a regime where such freedoms 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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Awards for Editorial Excellence in 2017 and PRESIDENT Chris Palmeri, Bureau Chief,
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 Ensaf Haidar
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
International)
For Lifetime Achievement
Lester Holt
NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt and Dateline
MARIEL GARzA, Editorial board member,
Los Angeles Times
PEGGY HOLTER, Independent TV Producer
ANTONIO MARTIN, Reporter, EFE
Sunday, June 24, 2018
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SCHEDULE 4:30 p.m. RED CARPET
5:00 p.m. COCKTAILS AND SILENT AUCTION
OF EVENTS
6:00 p.m. DINNER and PROgRAm—SILENT AUCTION CLOSES AT 7:00 p.m.
Welcome: Chris Palmeri
For all finalists see
pages 46-64
Presenters Cher Calvin and Robert Kovacik
STUDENT CATEGORIES
Frontier Communications $1,000 Scholarship Raffle
FEATURE CATEGORIES
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
DANIEL PEARL AWARD: Raif Badawi, introduced by Judea Pearl and accepted by
Badawi’s wife Ensaf Haidar
Presenters Nicole Lapin and Dan Lauria
COMMENTARY
SPORTS
NEWS
ENTERTAINMENT: Comic Alonzo Bodden
Presenters Dan Lauria and Patt Morrison
DESIGN/LAYOUT
ENTERTAINMENT
PRESIDENT’S AWARD: Kimi Yoshino, introduced by Andrea Chang
Presenters Pat Harvey and Robert Kovacik
INVESTIGATIVE
BILL ROSENDAHL PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD: Dolly Parton,
introduced by Sam Haskell
Presenters Robert Kovacik and Pat Harvey
NEWS
JOURNALISTS OF THE YEAR
THE JOSEPH M. QUINN AWARD—Lester Holf, introduced by Josh Mankiewicz
Don’t forget to pick up your certificates and silent auction goods on your way out.
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The Los Angeles Press Club
60th Southern California Journalism Awards
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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The Year in Review 2017 – 2018
Another Very Big Year
FrOm AwArDS SHOwS TO AN EPiC FiLm rEADiNg TO
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The third annual Veritas Sa ying 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
was very big, and also very busy, with a collec- National Entertainment Journalism Awards
included producers Tim and
tion of high-profile events, big-name guests and were held in November, and more than 50
Trevor White with Daniel
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-
sellout crowd came out to honor Andrea Mitchell, Award for Journalism That Makes a Difference
niversary of his assassina-
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 the New York Times, 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 Hungary
Colleen Bell led a Q&A after director Evgeny Afineevsky’s screening of his Cries From Syria.
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