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MOST NOMINATED
THE L.A. PRESS CLUB SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA JOURNALISM AWARDS’
ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA OUTLET. FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW.
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JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
PrintOver 50,000 circulation
Matthew Belloni
ENTERTAINMENT JOURNALIST
Stephen Galloway
PHOTOJOURNALIST
Jessica Chou
PORTRAIT “Whatever
Happened to Ted Turner”
Jennifer Laski, Shanti Marlar,
Carrie Smith, Jenny Sargent
& Wesley Mann
PORTRAIT “Norman Lear,
the Man Who Changed TV”
Carrie Smith, Jenny Sargent,
Jennifer Laski,
Shanti Marlar & Art Streiber
ENTERTAINMENT PHOTO
“Les Miserables”
Jenny Sargent, Carrie Smith,
Jennifer Laski, Shanti Marlar
& Wesley Mann
SPORTS PHOTO
“Dodgers, Tommy Lasorda
and Don Mattingly”
Carrie Smith, Jennifer Laski,
Shanti Marlar, Jenny Sargent
& Wesley Mann
ENTERTAINMENT PHOTO
“Revenge of the Nerds”
Jenny Sargent, Jennifer Laski,
Shanti Marlar,
Carrie Smith & Joe Pugliese
ENTERTAINMENT PHOTO
“Snoop: From Dogg to Lion”
Jenny Sargent, Shanti Marlar,
Jennifer Laski,
Peter Cury & Peggy Sirota
ENTERTAINMENT
REVIEWS/CRITICISM/
COLUMN
“The Race”
Gregg Kilday
ENTERTAINMENT PHOTO
“Anne Hathaway”
Carrie Smith, Shanti Marlar,
Jennifer Laski,
Jenny Sargent & Joe Pugliese
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
(Over 25 Minutes) “Emmy
Drama Actor Roundtable”
Jennifer Laski, Jenny Sargent,
Stacey Wilson,
Matt Belloni & Victor Klaus
ENTERTAINMENT
COMMENTARY/REVIEWS,
“The Dark Night Rises”
Todd McCarthy
PERSONALITY PROFILE
“The Dichotomy of Denzel”
Stephen Galloway
DOCUMENTARY (Short, under
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“Conan O’Brien”
Jennifer Laski, Jenny Sargent,
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DOCUMENTARY (Short, under
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Jennifer Laski, Carrie Smith,
Jenny Sargent, Raphael Laski &
Pablo Teyssier-Verger
NEWS INVESTIGATIVE
“The Most Sinful Period in
Hollywood History”
Gary Baum & Daniel Miller
NEWS INVESTIGATIVE
“The Most Litigated
Starin Hollywood”
Kim Masters
PERSONALITY PROFILE
“Snoop: From Dogg to Lion”
Shirley Halperin
ENTERTAINMENT REVIEWS/
CRITICISM/COLUMN
“Tragedy at the Movies”
Todd McCarthy
ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
OR FEATURE, “Modern Family”
Lacey Rose
PERSONALITY PROFILE,
“Jon Bon Jovi, One of the
True ‘Stand Up Guys’”
Scott Feinberg
MULTI MEDIA PACKAGE, “THR’s
Oscar Roundtable Videos”
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BL OG, GROU P,
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Matthew Belloni & Eriq Gardner
BEST USE OF SOCIAL
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“President Obama Has
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Tina Daunt
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27 NOMINATIONS
MOST NOMINATED
THE L.A. PRESS CLUB SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA JOURNALISM AWARDS’
ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA OUTLET. FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW.
For advertising information, please contact 323.525.2245, or visit THR.com/contacts
JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
PrintOver 50,000 circulation
Matthew Belloni
ENTERTAINMENT JOURNALIST
Stephen Galloway
PHOTOJOURNALIST
Jessica Chou
PORTRAIT “Whatever
Happened to Ted Turner”
Jennifer Laski, Shanti Marlar,
Carrie Smith, Jenny Sargent
& Wesley Mann
PORTRAIT “Norman Lear,
the Man Who Changed TV”
Carrie Smith, Jenny Sargent,
Jennifer Laski,
Shanti Marlar & Art Streiber
ENTERTAINMENT PHOTO
“Les Miserables”
Jenny Sargent, Carrie Smith,
Jennifer Laski, Shanti Marlar
& Wesley Mann
SPORTS PHOTO
“Dodgers, Tommy Lasorda
and Don Mattingly”
Carrie Smith, Jennifer Laski,
Shanti Marlar, Jenny Sargent
& Wesley Mann
ENTERTAINMENT PHOTO
“Revenge of the Nerds”
Jenny Sargent, Jennifer Laski,
Shanti Marlar,
Carrie Smith & Joe Pugliese
ENTERTAINMENT PHOTO
“Snoop: From Dogg to Lion”
Jenny Sargent, Shanti Marlar,
Jennifer Laski,
Peter Cury & Peggy Sirota
ENTERTAINMENT
REVIEWS/CRITICISM/
COLUMN
“The Race”
Gregg Kilday
ENTERTAINMENT PHOTO
“Anne Hathaway”
Carrie Smith, Shanti Marlar,
Jennifer Laski,
Jenny Sargent & Joe Pugliese
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
(Over 25 Minutes) “Emmy
Drama Actor Roundtable”
Jennifer Laski, Jenny Sargent,
Stacey Wilson,
Matt Belloni & Victor Klaus
ENTERTAINMENT
COMMENTARY/REVIEWS,
“The Dark Night Rises”
Todd McCarthy
PERSONALITY PROFILE
“The Dichotomy of Denzel”
Stephen Galloway
DOCUMENTARY (Short, under
25 minutes)
“Conan O’Brien”
Jennifer Laski, Jenny Sargent,
Carrie Smith, Raphael Laski
& Paolo Cascardo
DOCUMENTARY (Short, under
25 minutes) “Breaking Bad”
Jennifer Laski, Carrie Smith,
Jenny Sargent, Raphael Laski &
Pablo Teyssier-Verger
NEWS INVESTIGATIVE
“The Most Sinful Period in
Hollywood History”
Gary Baum & Daniel Miller
NEWS INVESTIGATIVE
“The Most Litigated
Starin Hollywood”
Kim Masters
PERSONALITY PROFILE
“Snoop: From Dogg to Lion”
Shirley Halperin
ENTERTAINMENT REVIEWS/
CRITICISM/COLUMN
“Tragedy at the Movies”
Todd McCarthy
ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
OR FEATURE, “Modern Family”
Lacey Rose
PERSONALITY PROFILE,
“Jon Bon Jovi, One of the
True ‘Stand Up Guys’”
Scott Feinberg
MULTI MEDIA PACKAGE, “THR’s
Oscar Roundtable Videos”
THR.com
BL OG, GROU P,
“Hollywood, Esq.”
Matthew Belloni & Eriq Gardner
BEST USE OF SOCIAL
MEDIA to Enhance And/Or
Promote a Story, Individual,
“President Obama Has
Private Meeting With Young
Stars at Beverly Hilton”
Tina Daunt
WEBSITE, NEWS ORGANIZATION,
“Hollywoodreporter.com”
Staff, The Hollywood Reporter
ONLINE, “Fatal Shooting at
‘The Dark Knight Rises’”
Staff, THR.com
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55
th
AnnuAl Southern CAliforniA
Journalism awards &
centennial celebration
Los Angeles Press Club
A non-prot organization with 501(c)(3) status
Tax ID 01-0761875
4773 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90027
Phone: (323) 669-8081
Fax: (310) 464-3577
E-mail: info@lapressclub.org
Website: www.lapressclub.org
PRESS CLUB OFFICERS
PRESIDENT: Jill Stewart
Managing Editor, LA Weekly
VICE PRESIDENT: Robert Kovacik
Anchor/Reporter, NBC4-LA
TREASURER: Beth Barrett
Investigative Reporter
SECRETARY: Jane Engle
Editor
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Diana Ljungaeus
International Journalist
PRESIDENT EMERITUS: Will Lewis
KCRW-FM Emeritus
BOARD MEMBERS
Maria Armoudian
Producer/Host, KPFK
Tina Daunt, The Hollywood Reporter
Barbara Gasser, International Journalist
Joseph Kapsch, Deputy Managing Editor,
The Wrap
Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times/KPCC
Tony Pierce, Blog Editor
Christina Villacorte, Reporter, LA Daily News
Gloria Zuurveen, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher,
Pace News
ADVISORY BOARD
Alex Ben Block, Entertainment Historian
Ted Johnson, Variety
Host Jack Maxwell
THE PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD
For Journalistic Contributions to Civic Life
Sue Laris
Los Angeles Downtown News
THE PRESIDENT’S AWARD
For Impact on Media
Carl Reiner
THE DANIEL PEARL AWARD
For Courage and Integrity in Journalism
Sandra Rodríguez Nieto
SinEmbargo.mx
THE JOSEPH M. QUINN AWARD
For Journalistic Excellence and Distinction
Fred Roggin
KNBC4-SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Awards for Editorial
Excellence in 2012 and
Honorary Awards for 2013
Sunday, June 23, 2013
The Crystal Ballroom
Millennium Biltmore Hotel
506 S. Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA
In Loving Memory of
Huell Howser
FROM YOUR FAMILY AT
CONGRATULATIONS!
FOR OVER 33 YEARS, YOU’VE CONNECTED SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
WITH YOUR SIGNATURE STYLE OF SPORTS REPORTING.
YOU’RE ONE OF A KIND AND YOU’RE OUR “HERO.”
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
JOSEPH M. QUINN AWARD FOR
FRED ROGGIN
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5:00 p.m. COCKTAILS AND SILENT AUCTION
6:00 p.m. DINNER
6:30 p.m. PROGRAM
7: 00 p.m. SILENT AUCTION CLOSES
Presenters Jack Maxwell and Patt Morrison
STUDENT CATEGORIES
DESIGN/LAYOUT
COMMENTARY
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
THE PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD: Sue Laris, Los Angeles Downtown News,
introduced by Jan Perry
ALONZO BODDEN
Presenters Charlie Shaughnessy and Wendie Malick
SPORTS
ENTERTAINMENT
PRESIDENT’S AWARD: Carl Reiner
Presenters Dan Lauria and Jodi Long
FEATURE
INVESTIGATIVE
THE DANIEL PEARL AWARD: Sandra Rodriguez Nieto,
introduced by Judea Pearl
Presenters Robert Kovacik and Maria Armoudian
INVESTIGATIVE continued
NEWS
JOSEPH M. QUINN AWARD: Fred Roggin KNBC4-Southern California,
introduced by Bob Miller
JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Don’t forget to pick up your certicates, silent auction goods, books and door
prizes on your way out.
SCHEDULE
OF EVENTS
For all nalists see
pages 31-39
55
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Journalism awards & centennial celebration
FROM YOUR FAMILY AT
CONGRATULATIONS!
FOR OVER 33 YEARS, YOU’VE CONNECTED SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
WITH YOUR SIGNATURE STYLE OF SPORTS REPORTING.
YOU’RE ONE OF A KIND AND YOU’RE OUR “HERO.”
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
JOSEPH M. QUINN AWARD FOR
FRED ROGGIN
LA 7 PC
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
In recent years our industry has been both cursed
and blessed. We have experienced unexpected and
sometimes severe upheaval. Though difficult, these
conditions have sparked innovation, strength and a
renewed sense of mission, bringing out the best. It is
clear that Southern California journalists are diggers,
survivors and truth-tellers. They sometimes work for
too-little pay or receive too-little recognition. Yet the
communities in which they write, broadcast, videotape,
report and share are richer and stronger for their work.
Each June, the 500-member Los Angeles Press Club,
greatly aided by sister-city clubs across the U.S. who
judge this competition, is deeply honored to recognize
all of you, the best and brightest in our industry.
Thank you for coming, and have a wonderful night, and
a great year,
Jill Stewart
President
Los Angeles Press Club
WELCOME
Jill Stewart
55
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T
he Press Club’s popular Thursday se-
ries—most of which are free to mem-
bers and open to all others for a small
fee—drew large audiences of journal-
ists, authors and media industry profession-
als. Director Galina Kalashnikova presented
her stunning documentary on Nazism, “The
Resort,” and noted critic Peter Rainer of the
Christian Science Monitor discussed his book,
“Rainer on Film.”
A large turnout heard Carol Williams, Mark
LeVine, Claudia Nunez and Terry McCarthy
discuss “Reporting from the Danger Zone,”
about the experiences of journalists who re-
peatedly risk their lives.
Jewish Journal editor Rob Eshman moder-
ated a compelling discussion with 2012 Dan-
iel Pearl Fellows Aida Ahmed of Malaysia and
Adnan Rashid of Pakistan, journalists who are
working in the U.S. as part of the Pearl Foun-
dation’s cross-cultural emphasis.
A sellout crowd showed up for Talkers
Forum, a daylong workshop presented by
Talkers magazine that delved into talk radio,
talk TV and talk Internet’s hottest challenges,
opportunities and issues.
L.A. Weekly editor Jill Stewart moder-
ated the lively debate, “Is the Battle for Page
Views Killing Good Journalism Click by Click?”
featuring Vanity Fair’s Richard Rushfield,
L.A. Times City Editor Shelby Grad, Variety’s
Andrew Wallenstein and Voice of OC’s Tracy
Wood.
In cooperation with the National Lesbian
& Gay Journalists Association, a packed room
heard from gay journalists including CNN’s
Miguel Marquez, L.A. Times’ Bettina Boxall,
NBC4’s Mekahlo Medina, Long Beach Press-
Telegram’s Phillip Zonkel and Jane Engle, for-
merly of the L.A. Times.
Other workshops and panels delved into
campus censorship of free speech by the good
taste patrol, what journalists really need to
know about Twitter, a conversation with radio
host Thom Hartmann and a screening of the
documentary “Lunch,” among other topics.
The Year in Review 2012 – 2013
A Battle For Page Views, Reporting From Danger Zones, Advanced Twitter,
Coming Out In The Newsroom
On the red carpet before the National Entertainment Journalism
Awards: Jane Fonda, Je Daniels, Jack Maxwell and Diana
Ljungaeus.
Led by moderator Jill Stewart, award-winning journalists Richard Rusheld,Vanity
Fair; Andrew Wallenstein, Variety; Tracy Wood, Voice of OC and Shelby Grad, Los
Angeles Times discussed the scramble for page views.
Patt Morrison on the red carpet, photographed with a group of colleagues
from KPCC, among them Jasmine Tuaha, Mae Ryan, Sandin Totten, Karen
Fritsche and Kevin Ferguson.
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A Battle For Page Views, Reporting From Danger Zones, Advanced Twitter,
Coming Out In The Newsroom
A full house attends Re-
porting From the Danger
Zone, a panel of front-line
journalists who take
great risks to witness and
report some of the dark-
est elements of the world.
Panel from left to right:
Mark LeVine, Professor of
history, UC Irvine; Carol
Williams, Senior Interna-
tional Aairs Writer, LA
Times; Maria Armoudian, Host, The Scholars’
Circle, Author, Kill the Messenger: The Media’s
Role in the Fate of the World and LA Press Club
Board member; Terry McCarthy, Emmy Award
and Edward R. Murrow Award-winning journal-
ist, currently CEO of the World Aairs Council
andClaudia Nunez, John S. Knight Fellow and
Award-Winning La Opinion Reporter on human
rights on the Mexican border.
Peter Rainer
talked about
his 30 years as
a lm critic and
shared both
insights and
anecdotes.
Andy Ludlum, KNX, Los Angeles; Skip Essick, KMJ-AM/FM, Fresno;
Kevin LaRue, KSL, Salt Lake City; Garret Lewis, KNST, Tucson; and
Chuck Tyler, KRLA/KKLA, Los Angeles.
Talkers New Media Seminar in October drew a full house and lead-
ing talk radio personalities. In these pictures, from left to right: Mike
Horn, CRN Digital Talk; Sam Hasson, LATalkRadio.com; Tom Leykis,
The New Normal; Shadoe Stevens, Mental Radio, Sirius XM; Ian Free-
man, Free Talk Live; Michael Harrison, TALKERS
Patt Harvey presented her co-worker
and friend David Goldstein, investiga-
tive reporter at CBS2/KCAL9 with the
2012 Joseph M. Quinn Award for lifetime
achievement.
Bob Klopfenstein, The Good Day Show
and Walter Sabo, Sabo Media
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The Year in Review 2012 – 2013
Looking Back on the 2012 Southern California Journalism Awards
Bob Woodward attended the gala via live feed, due to a deadline issue. Carl
Berstein ew in to Los Angeles to accept the President’s Award for Impact on
Media. Presented by Martin Sheen, the president for a whole world through “West
Wing” and actress Pauley Perrette.
Michael Collins and Denise Dueld from
Enviroreporter.com receives an award from the press
club, at right then-president Will Lewis.
The 2012 Daniel Pearl Award was given to the Pearl Family and Foundation,
ten years after Daniel Pearl was slain. Judea, Ruth and Michelle Pearl with
Will Lewis.
The Los Angeles Press Club silent auction brought in a record $20,000
last year.
Board member
and NBC4
anchor/reporter
Robert Kovacik
with a friend.
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T
HE LOS ANGELES PRESS CLUB has a long
history. However, it wasn’t always something
to be proud of. Consider how things went
nearly a century ago.
The Los Angeles Times headline of May 2, 1914,
read, ominously, “Press Club New Scandal,” and the
lead jammed in more color than a Monday Night
Football commentary:
After gold-bricking the public with a “midway
plaisance” declared obscene by investigators for the
Church Federation, and toned down by police order
in its dying hours, the so-called Press Club saw its
box office attached last night for a second time dur-
ing the week, and the attached receipts turned over
as part payment to a bevy of girls who declare they
have been cheated and insulted.
The “midway plaisance” has been conducted by
the Press Club, an organization 80 percent non-press,
at Seventh Street and Grand Avenue, as a vehicle
to swell the club coffers. Constables invaded the
“midway” last Wednesday evening and seized $19—the
evening reciepts.… It had been said that the East Indian
maidens were gathering in the coin in gobs. But the
constables got only a few paltry dollars.
Undeterred, the original founders of the club made
headlines again a few months later, when the Los
Angeles Times on Aug. 11 headlined a story “Trick to
Grab Cash from Many Policemen.” The lead was as
spicy as the young city quickly spreading down the dirt
road called Wilshire Boulevard toward the sea:
The so-called Press Club of Los Angeles, composed
chiefly of members of every walk in life except the
legitimate newspaper profession, has decided to
expand and in so expanding to gird itself with the
officers of the law—the policemen—at so much per.
The so-called Press Club has mailed a letter to half
a hundred or so members of the police department,
saying: “You are hereby notified that you have been
elected a member in good standing of the Press Club
of Los Angeles. Your name was proposed by D.W.
Green and favorable action was taken by our board of
directors last Wednesday night.
“Kindly mail treasurer of the club check for $10 to
cover initiation fee.… This card entitles you to all the
privileges of the club—rooms occupying the entire
building at No. 327 South Hill Street.”
The writer explains that D.W. Green was booted out
of journalism, then delivers well-earned blows to both
the club and the hapless officers of the Los Angeles
Police Department:
Policemen are not accustomed to election to club
memberships in such a wholesale, haphazard manner:
they are not educated to the idea of being voted into
an ultra-Bohemian organization as a lump: neither
are they sensitive to the form-letter method of being
dunned for $10 in return for something they hadn’t
asked for. Some of them said last night they are all
deeply impressed…
An Aug. 31 Times update was headlined “Press Club
Shuts Doors; Will Assess for Debts,” and the hard-
partying boys of the Press Club—and it was virtually
all boys—had managed to rack up $3,500 in debt,
equivalent to about $82,000 today. The story read, in
part:
The furniture will be turned back and a pro rata
assessment upon the membership is planned in order
to raise the necessary funds. This will amount to about
$10 per member, it is said.
But the years wore on, two wars came and went,
and a barely legal bunch of mischief-making men
with only a passing link to journalism vanished, to
be replaced by serious, hard-edged journalists who
revived the club after World War II.
Today, the Los Angeles Press Club is the most
influential journalism group outside of the National
Press Club, and its two key awards—the Southern
California Journalism Awards and the National
Entertainment Journalism Awards—are a celebration of
the excellence, creativity and decency of our industry.
IT WASN’T ALL HIGHLIGHTS
The Los Angeles Press Club Is Hitting Its
Centennial, But in 1914 Things Didn’t Look So Good
Looking down Broadway in Los Angeles, ca 1925.
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PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD
for journalistic
contributions to civic life
T
HE REMARKABLE, easy-laughing Sue
Laris doesn’t go around the city brag-
ging about it, but she embodies, more
than most women journalists in Los
Angeles, the fight for equal rights that began in
the 1960s and continued into the 1990s, when
large numbers of women finally won key posi-
tions in the region’s media.
After she founded what is now the Los An-
geles Downtown News in 1972 with her first
husband, Laris thought about expanding the
business. But she soon learned, “I couldn’t
even get a loan without my
husband signing for it. And
some of that was because
we were small—and some
of it was because I was a
woman. I finally said, ‘If we
are going to grow, it will be
through our own revenues.
So I refinanced my house—
a couple of times—to make
it happen.’”
She has now made it happen for more than
40 years. That longevity, and being an indepen-
dent voice serving the Downtown community
amidst a constantly changing journalistic land-
scape, has made Laris the 2013 recipient of the
Los Angeles Press Club Public Service Award
in Journalism.
There were plenty of hurdles. She recalls
one time, after her divorce, when a printer told
her she had to pay the paper’s big printing bill
unusually early. Laris scrambled to get a short-
term loan, but a beady-eyed banker insisted
she produce a full profit-and-loss balance sheet
in three days. Over a terrible weekend, she and
a friend with extensive accounting skills pulled
it together.
To her horror, as she
headed to the bank with doc-
uments in hand, she noticed
that her cash flow projection figure was wrong.
“This was basically bank fraud on my part.”
she merrily recalls. “I just handed the banker
the documents and didn’t say a word. He flipped
though page upon page and says, ‘Frankly Sue,
I was looking for a way to say No to you, but
this is beautiful. I’m going to say yes.’”
The charming Laris readily admits she had
no clue that Downtown would ever become
a vibrant, booming community of workers,
residents, cafes, galleries and shops. Today, her
independently owned multimedia company,
with an avid print readership of about 150,000
weekly, has morphed from the original Civic
Center News to a paper whose success is in-
separable from that of Downtown’s.
An Independent
Voice for 40 Years
BY JILL STEWART
DEDICATION TO HER COMMUNITY EARNS DOWNTOWN NEWS EDITOR,
PUBLISHER AND OWNER SUE LARIS THE PRESS CLUB’S PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD
Posing with the Mayors: Tom Bradley
Richard Riordan.
LA 13 PC
It is hard to overstate her pioneering guts,
and her key role in joining or leading many
volunteer organizations as she grew her news-
paper. As downtowns in places like Seattle and
San Diego began to revive, residents founded
downtown newspapers—and Sue Laris was
often the woman from whom they sought ad-
vice.
Today her 18-member staff, led in the edito-
rial department by award-winning Executive
Editor Jon Regardie, puts out a paper that de-
fines L.A.’s core and its 15 distinct neighbor-
hoods. It has won dozens of awards from the
California Newspaper Publishers Association
and the Los Angeles Press Club in categories
such as Investigative Reporting, Best Writing,
Best Business Story, Best Design and Best Car-
toon.
One of her only regrets (the ebullient Laris
moans, “Why did I do that?”) was years ago,
when she wrote in the paper about the breakup
of her marriage—while it was breaking up.
For 25 years, her popular personal column
focused on everyday family life. But, she says,
“During my first divorce—oh my God, it would
have been better if we’d been owned by a big
corporation that would have stopped me!”
Her husband was writing negative articles
about her in the paper, so after several weeks
she went after him. Pretty soon, all of Down-
town L.A. was following the highly personal
debate, which predated TMZ, Perez Hilton and
all the rest.
Laris laughs, “I still meet people today who
say, ‘Oh yes, I remember your divorce!’”
Far more people know Downtown News for
its wonderful, intelligent, and often probing
journalism.
Among her favorite published stories, Laris
cites the scoop that children were living on
Skid Row. Downtown News was the first to re-
port on the then-shocking phenomenon.
Another was Downtown News’ 1990s rev-
elation that the Music Center of Los Angeles
was mired in financial scandal. The Los Ange-
les Times had ignored the same tip, then had
to catch up.
Not to needle its far bigger competitor too
much, but Laris remembers with glee her pa-
per’s revelations about what Times-Mirror CEO
Mark Willes said in a private meeting. Laris had
a source who gave her the goods.
As Laris recounts it now, Willes told other
L.A. Times execs, “We’re going to increase
readership by 500,000 and do you know how?
Hispanics. I know what you are going to say:
‘They can’t read!’ But they can read. And they
can read English!”
For nine long weeks, Downtown News pelted
the Times with stories about the shameful at-
titude Willes displayed in the meeting. To this
day, she won’t say who captured Willes’ words
verbatim.
Looking back over the decades, Laris says,
“It was so rewarding to have had a key voice
in a growing city, and in a new city. Of course,
many of the old problems still exist. There’s still
a lot to be done.”
A moment with Huell Howser.
With four LA City Council members, (l to r) Dennis
Zine, Laris, Jan Perry, Ed Reyes and Tom LaBonge.
Jon Regardie is a
member of the Board
of Directors of the Los
Angeles Press Club.
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H
ours after news broke that iconic public
television host Huell Howser had died on Jan.
7, 2013, his ardent fan and impersonator, the
comedian James Adomian (“Comedy Bang Bang” and
“Last Comic Standing”), tried to decide which episode
of KCET’s “California’s Gold” was his favorite. Adomian
had watched since his youth, and the choice wasn’t
easy.
Was it the jojoba farm visit, where Howser introduced
the coming excitement by saying, “Well, folks, I guess
I’m just standing in a big ol’ pile of horse manure!” Later
he marveled to the loyal viewers who devoured every
episode of the show, “Look at all this jojoba! And it’s
just growing out of the ground!”
Or was it his stop at Bagdad Cafe, a forgotten and
extremely odd haunt on a back road where Howser de-
clared, “Well, I don’t know anything!”
Howser sported a thick Tennessee accent, a corny
grin, an infectious enthusiasm and a first name that
was fun to say out loud. “Huell” was, he once revealed,
a combination of his dad’s name, Harold, and his
mother’s, Jewell. He was deeply proud that his show
brought Californians together, and was equally proud
that he was not just the on-camera talent, but a major
fundraiser and producer of the long-running PBS hit.
He had a series of programs on the network.
In life, he was adored and mimicked by many, from
the writers for “The Simpsons” to Adam Carolla. Ask
almost anyone and they’ll deliver a trilling “That’s
amaaaazing!” Yet they were all fans, and no one
doubted the enthusiasm, the ability to find something
fantastic in what others see as routine, that defined
Howser’s work. There was no shortage of tributes after
his death from cancer at the age of 67.
That day, KCET’s brass and his coworkers struggled
for words. A KCET blog post by Drew Mackie said it all:
“Huell elevated the simple joys and undiscovered nug-
gets of living in our great state. He made the magnifi-
cence and power of nature seem accessible by bringing
it into our living rooms. Most importantly, he reminded
us to find the magic and wonderment in our lives every
day. Huell was able to brilliantly capture the wonder
in obscurity. From pastrami sandwiches and artwork
woven from lint to the exoticism of cactus gardens and
the splendor of Yosemite — he brought us the magic,
the humor and poignancy of our region. We will miss
him very much.”
Southern California Journalism Awards
Dedicated to KCET Host Huell Howser
IN MEMORY OF A
MAN LIKE NO OTHER
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are proud to thank Sue Laris,
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Congratulations on the Public Service in Journalism award
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THE VOICE OF DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES
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I
T IS A scientific fact that at least 8.4
percent of all the laughs you have ever
laughed since you were born have been
generated by Carl Reiner. You can look
it up.
“The New Yorker” ran a cartoon in the
1940s, showing a couple of matrons walk-
ing past a movie theatre, and one says to the
other, ‘’You know, I saw a movie that didn’t
have Ingrid Bergman in it.”
Same idea: just try to find a comedy bit in
the last 60 years that doesn’t have Carl Rein-
er’s fingerprints on it.
First it was on Broadway, where his audi-
ences went home repeating the jokes as well
as humming the tunes from the shows he ap-
peared in. Then he made the entire television
nation laugh, with “Your Show of Shows” and
then “The Dick Van Dyke Show.” Mr. Reiner
created “The Dick Van Dyke” show, wrote for
it, directed it, and of course performed in it, as
the rarely seen but comically tyrannical Alan
Brady.
The man is a media machine. The stage
… television … and records. In the ground-
breaking “2,000-Year-Old-Man,” he plays the
straight-man interviewer to the two-K birth-
day boy, Mel Brooks.
The first of the five records about the mi-
raculously two-millennia-old man was made
52 years ago, which is like 2,000 years in the
world of comedy, but it is a timelessly popular
bit that aspiring comics will often say is what
got them into comedy in the first place.
It has never been out of print, and the last
album in the series won a Grammy for spoken
word performance. A Grammy is an award
shaped like a golden gramophone, which the
2,000-year-old man probably bought when it
was patented in 1887.
How President’s Award Winner Carl Reiner Has Kept
Generations in Stitches and Changed the Face of Comedy
Laughter to Last a
Lifetime, or Several Lifetimes
PRESIDENT’S AWARD
for impact on media
BY PAT T
MORRISON
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How President’s Award Winner Carl Reiner Has Kept
Generations in Stitches and Changed the Face of Comedy
Laughter to Last a
Lifetime, or Several Lifetimes
To this Mr. Reiner has added nine Emmy
awards—and the Mark Twain Prize for Ameri-
can Humor.
And then there’s his role of director. Al-
though there is no photographic record of him
ever donning the jodhpurs and boots getup
of Cecil B. DeMille, Mr. Reiner directed 15
movies, whose cast members include George
Burns, Lily Tomlin, Ruth Gordon, and his co-
writer Steve Martin.
Fifteen movies, and all of them talkies—
which is only four fewer talkies than DeMille
ever directed.
He has acted on the big screen in about a
dozen films; not content with confining him-
self to comic roles, Mr. Reiner recently under-
took to become the sinister Saul Bloom in the
Ocean’s Eleven film series.
As for writing, how many typewriter rib-
bons has Carl Reiner gone through? He’s cred-
ited with more than a half-dozen screenplays,
starting with a Doris Day movie, The Thrill of It
All. That’s even before he got to the first of his
dozen books.
The latest is called I Remember Me, and
here too he ventures into a new medium. Be-
cause I Remember Me is also an e-book that
features his home movies in a touch-screen
popup.
If you want to see Mel Brooks in swim
trunks on the beach on Fire Island, this is
your opportunity. To this day, Mr. Reiner and
Mr. Brooks can sometimes be found of an
evening, sitting on the Reiner sofa, watching
television programs which are bound to be
Opposite page: Carl Reiner started his directing career on
“The Dick Van Dyke Show.” Reiner helped produce, write,
and direct many lms, including: The Jerk, All of Me, Where’s
Poppa? and Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid.
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less amusing than what these two have to say
about them.
Mr. Reiner has been acting ever since Harry
Truman was in the White House—and once he
actually acted in the White House, for Presi-
dent Eisenhower’s birthday. During the deep-
freeze years of the Cold War, in the ballroom
of the White House, he gabbled away to the
guests in double-talk Russian, which is one of
his trademarks—to the great mystification of
one of the guests, the president of Mexico.
Where did all this wit, where did all these
wits, come from?
From the Bronx, where he was born—such
a funny word, Bronx.
From parents who loved music and humor,
and kept a radio to make sure it had both.
From a father whose sang-froid allowed
him to drill and fill his own tooth.
From the United States Army, which, in its
infallibility, trained him to be a French trans-
lator and then sent him to Hawaii.
And from his three children and his adored
Estelle, his ukulele-playing, still-life-painting,
nightclub-singing, movie-scene-stealing
wife. Of her, he wrote after she died, “I think
I became a writer because of my need to tell
Estelle who and what I cared about, what
bugged me and what I found funny.”
Imagine how crammed his wallet must
be, full of membership cards from just about
every guild in Hollywood.
His star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
was put there 53 years ago, in the original
batch ever installed. And it is, fittingly, right
next to that of another renowned American
humorist, Will Rogers.
Are you getting the drift? There is no stop-
ping this man. And if there’s an award for
best comic tweet, he’ll wind up winning that
too – although who would ever want to limit
Carl Reiner to just 140 characters?
PRESIDENT’S AWARD CARL REINER
Above: In 2011, Reiner
played the con man
Saul Bloom in Steven
Soderbergh’s remake of
Ocean’s Eleven. He also
reprises the role in the
sequels, Ocean Twelve and
Ocean’s Thirteen.
Right: Carl Reiner, and long-
time friend, Mel Brooks
have released ve comedy
albums together. In 1998,
their album, The 2000 Year
Old Man In The Year 2000,
won Best Spoken Comedy
Album at the 41st Annual
Grammy Awards.
Carl Reiner wrote and starred in a pilot called “Head of the Family” in 1959,
but it didn’t sell. Two years later, the pilot was recreated as “The Dick Van
Dyke Show.” Reiner wrote 40 out of the 60 scripts for the rst two seasons.
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T
HE HACKED-UP BODY of a young
newspaper photographer, just hired
to cover social events, turned up in a
street in a town in Northern Mexico.
Another newspaper photographer, this
one working for the major daily El Diario, was
murdered in 2010. And a reporter for El Diario
was killed in 2008. Following the latter’s
funeral cortege, one of his colleagues said
that he didn’t want anyone to open his coffin
at his funeral.
Amid the thousands of people murdered
in Mexico during the violence of the drug
cartels, at least a dozen have been journal-
ists, and a dozen more journalists have gone
missing. Newspapers have installed bullet-
proof walls and windows.
Covering the drug violence is one of the
most dangerous beats in the world. Rarely
have these killings been seriously investi-
gated—“carpetazo” is the
word, filed away and forgot-
ten. Even more rarely have
they been solved.
Some newspapers have
stopped carrying bylines
on their stories about the
drug cartels in an effort to
protect their staffs. Others
have stopped covering the
story altogether.
That is not the case for
Sandra Rodriguez Nieto, the
recipient of the Los Angeles
Press Club’s 2013 Daniel
Pearl Award for courage in
journalism.
As Tracy Wilkinson of
the Los Angeles Times’
Mexico City bureau says
of Rodriguez Nieto, “She was one of a
handful of reporters (almost all women)
who courageously tried to cover the news
in Ciudad Juarez at the time of its worst
violence. She wrote about the bad guys,
the cartels and gangsters, but also and
more importantly, perhaps, the victims,
people whose relatives were slain or went
missing.”
She also, said Wilkinson, covered “the
scourge of ‘femicides,’ the killing of women
that became infamous in Ciudad Juarez.
She covered corruption and the failure of
authorities to investigate crimes or protect the
citizenry. These may seem obvious or even
mundane topics, but the dangers of writing
about them in a place like Ciudad Juarez are
enormous.”
Rodriguez Nieto’s reporting led her to craft
a victims’ database that revealed that most of
the Juarez victims were young
and poor, not drug cartel
members, as Mexican officials
claimed. Additionally, 98%
were unarmed. And 97 times
out of 100, their murders were
never solved.
Rodriguez Nieto is part
of a group of journalists
putting the world on notice
about the plight of Mexican
reporters who are threatened,
intimidated, kidnapped or
killed—sometimes by drug
traffickers and sometimes by
local authorities.
Despite the inherent danger,
Rodriguez Nieto also aids
others trying to cover the beat.
She has been an international
La Fabrica del Crimen (The Crime Fac-
tory).
Writing the Stories
Cartels Don’t Want Told
In a Country
Where
Journalists Are
Sometimes
Killed, Daniel
Pearl Award
Winner Sandra
Rodríguez Nieto
Refuses to Back
Down
BY PAT T
MORRISON
DANIEL PEARL AWARD
for courage and integrity
in journalism
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expert for visiting foreign journalists, offering
advice and expertise about covering the
bloody zone.
Her latest book is La Fabrica del Crimen
(The Crime Factory). She was recently
announced as the winner of a prestigious
Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University,
where she will study methods to develop
sustainable online journalism with a focus on
transparency and government accountability
in Mexico.
Rodriguez Nieto is a fearless, one-woman
encyclopedia on Mexico’s drug cartels. She
knows how the competing organizations
operate and how they keep out of the reach
of the law. Her work has been repeatedly
recognized: In 2010, the Spanish newspaper
El Mundo presented her with its “Reporteros
Del Mundo” award for her work covering a
conflict zone.
That same year, the Los Angeles Times
named her a media hero for her reportage in
one of the most dangerous cities on earth.
She showed up for work every day, the story
said, and in much of Mexico, that alone could
be considered an audacious act.
She holds a BA and a master’s degree from
universities on both sides of the border. She
received the Knight International Journalism
award in 2011, and the John Peter and Anna
Catherine Zenger award last year.
Rodriguez Nieto currently
works for SinEmbargo.mx, but
will be leaving for Harvard and
the Nieman fellowship.
She is tireless and fearless,
and she is this year’s winner
of the Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and
Integrity in Journalism.
Sandra Rodríguez Nieto is
known for writing fearlessly
about any problems concerning
the government in Mexico, and
even created a victim’s database
to prove how poverty has led
many youth in the country to a
street-life lled with drugs, crime
and working for the drug cartels.
Rodríguez Nieto holds a master’s
degree in journalism from the
University of Texas at El Paso.
Jesús Araujo/El Nuevo Sol
In 2012, Rodríguez Nieto gave a book presentation at
California State University, Northridge.
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T
he Los Angeles Press Club’s National
Entertainment Journalism Awards
have been called the Oscars of
entertainment reporting, but they’re much
younger than Oscar. In just ve short years,
this nationwide competition has emerged
as the premier contest focused solely on
journalists who cover lm, television, music
and other forms of entertainment.
e NEJs are open to journalists
from all 50 states who work across
all platforms—print, radio, TV and
online. Prizes are given for reviews,
personality proles, entertainment
news, features, investigative reports
and numerous other categories.
e awards are handed out each
November at a star-studded gala
held in Los Angeles, where in
addition to recognizing the best
journalism of the year, the Press
Club bestows honors on industry
luminaries: in 2011, the First Amendment Award was given to
Hugh Hefner (attendees included Jerry Buss
and Berry Gordy). Last year, a new honor, the
Visionary Award, given to a celebrity who uses
his or her fame to accomplish good in the world,
went to Jane Fonda. e evening included an
introduction of Fonda by her friend Robert
Redford, and an original song written for the
honoree and performed by Je Daniels (with the
brilliant refrain “abs, buns and thighs”). Fonda
also participated in a thought-
provoking, exclusive Q&A
with Press Club vice president
and NBC4 anchor and reporter
Robert Kovacik.
At the same event,
comedian Kathy Grin
introduced Lifetime
Achievement Award winner
Janice Min from e
Hollywood Reporter. e star-studded audience included Lily
Tomlin, Melanie Grith and Sam Waterston.
It’s not too early to start thinking about entries for the sixth
annual event. e submission period will open in September.
CONGRATULATIONS
FRED ROGGIN
ON BEING NAMED RECIPIENT OF THE
JOSEPH M. QUINN AWARD FOR JOURNALISTIC EXCELLENCE
AND DISTINCTION.
Coming Soon!
The Oscars of Entertainment Journalism
Top: Jane Fonda, Janice Min and
Kathy Grin; above: Hugh Hefner
and LAPC executive director,
Diana Ljungaeus; right: Je
Daniels entertains.
CONGRATULATIONS
FRED ROGGIN
ON BEING NAMED RECIPIENT OF THE
JOSEPH M. QUINN AWARD FOR JOURNALISTIC EXCELLENCE
AND DISTINCTION.
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Doing What
He Loves
BY MARIA
ARMOUDIAN
JOSEPH M. QUINN AWARD
for journalistic excellence
and distinction
F
RED ROGGIN’S LONG, award-winning
career began in 1976. Though just 19, he
earned a job as a play-by-play sports an-
nouncer, reporter and anchor for KIKO
radio in Globe, Arizona, the state where he
was raised.
His ascent was quick, and four years later,
following radio and TV stints in Yuma, Arizona,
Austin, Texas and Phoenix, Roggin joined NBC4
Southern California. That’s where the merry-
go-round of jobs stopped,
and 33 years later he is
recognized across South-
ern California. The sta-
tion’s primary sports
anchor and reporter is the
recipient of the Los An-
geles Press Club’s 2013
Joseph M. Quinn Award
for Lifetime Achievement.
For Roggin, it’s all
about doing what he
loves.
“I loved sports, and I
could talk and tell stories,
and people would listen
to my stories,” he said. “I
loved the idea of getting paid to tell stories
about sports.”
Since joining the team at NBC4, Roggin has
developed a series of programs and segments.
He considers that to be one of the hallmarks
of his career.
“I’m a producer at heart who gets to be on
the air,” said Roggin, who attributes his lon-
gevity to his creativity and unconventional ap-
proach to reporting and production. Without
these qualities, he suggests, “I would become
like everyone else, and that person is easily
replaced.”
In 1980, Roggin created, hosted and execu-
tive-produced the weekly show “Sunday Night
Sports.” Shortly after, he created the humorous
segment “Hall of Shame,” a roundup of sports
bloopers, errors and other amusing sports mo-
ments.
“I always believed that humor was one way
to attract an audience,” said Roggin. “I’m gen-
erally goofy, and at times people find what I do
amusing. But at other times, people may want
to hit me with a right hook.”
In 1990, his own “Roggin’s Heroes,” which
highlighted extraordinary sports plays, was
developed into a nationally syndicated weekly
program. Earlier this year, NBC4 launched the
Sunday midnight sports commentary show
“Going Roggin.” The 30-minute program fea-
tures a series of segments such as “Freduca-
tion,” Roggin’s commentary on the week’s top
At the top of his game, Roggin has earned
numerous local Emmy Awards, Golden Mike
Awards, Associated Press Awards and several
Press Club Awards for his sports segments,
specials and series.
FOR
SPORTSCASTER
AND LIFETIME
ACHIEVEMENT
AWARD WINNER
FRED ROGGIN,
THERE’S ALWAYS
SOMETHING
NEW
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sporting events and a dialogue with profes-
sional athletes, experts and viewers about a
variety of issues in sports.
Then there’s Roggin’s “The Challenge,” a
multi-platform, post-game discussion show
airing after NBC’s “Sunday Night Football.” It
includes NFL analysis, interviews and a contest
in which viewers compete to win prizes.
In addition to his work in Los Angeles, Rog-
gin’s broadcasts have appeared on national
networks and cable television. After report-
ing on the Olympic Games in Sydney and Salt
Lake City for NBC, Roggin advanced to host
the games in Turin, Athens, Beijing, Vancou-
ver and London. His sports segments appear
regularly on NBC’s “Early Today” program and
on two MSNBC shows, “First Look” and “Morn-
ing Joe.”
Running down his industry accolades is a
breathtaking task. Roggin has earned 30 local
Roggin interviews Kobe
Bryant and Ron Harper of
the Lakers; his mementoes
include media badges from
several Olympics and the
Centennial Playos of the
Stanley Cup Finals; his child-
hood photos already show
his engaging personality.
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Emmy Awards, 23 Golden Mikes, three Associated Press
prizes and numerous Press Club awards in categories in-
cluding Best Sports Series, Best Sports Special, Best Sports
Segment and Best Sports Reporting. His honors include
being named California Sportscaster of the Year in 1990
by the National Association of Sports Broadcasters and
being voted Best Sportscaster in a Los Angeles Daily News
readers’ survey.
Although Roggin loves sports so much that he consid-
ered pursuing a career as either a major league umpire
or an NBA referee, he has also been involved with other
entertainment programs. In 1994 he produced and hosted
three one-hour, primetime
specials called “Top Secret
Television.” In 1997 he teamed
up with Arthel Neville on the
daytime talk show “The Arthel
& Fred Show.” More recently,
Roggin hosted two Game
Show Network shows, “GSN
Live” and “The Money List,”
the latter based on the UK pro-
gram “Who Dares Wins.” The
former lasted for two years,
the latter for one.
Roggin was born in Detroit, grew up in
Arizona, where he studied broadcasting at
Phoenix College, and now lives in Calabasas
with his wife Richel and his five children,
Haylee, Jack, Josh, Jeff and Shannon.
JOSEPH M. QUINN AWARD FRED ROGGIN
USC Athletics salutes
Fred Roggin,
the 2013 Joseph M. Quinn
Award winner
as presented by the
Los Angeles Press Club
Congratulations and
FIGHT ON!
Roggin interviews the Angels’ Rod Carew, above, and
Tommy Lasorda of the Dodgers, at left.
to the honorees of the
55th SoCal Journalism Awards and we join in remembering
our friend and SAG-AFTRA member Huell Howser.
Congratulations
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MARIA ARMOUDIAN, Ph.D., is
the author of Kill the Messenger:
The Media’s Role in the Fate of the
World, and the host and producer
of “The Scholars’ Circle” and “The
Insighters” on Pacifica Radio. She
served as an environmental com-
missioner for the city of Los Ange-
les, and also developed legislation
and led investigations as senior
staff at the California State Legislature. Her articles
have been published by the New York Times Syndicate
and the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, and have ap-
peared in numerous media outlets, including the Los
Angeles Daily News, Billboard, and Salon.com. Maria is
also a musician and singer/songwriter with a self-re-
leased CD, “Life in the New World.”
Award-winning entertainment
industry journalist ALEX BEN
BLOCK is senior editor for The
Hollywood Reporter. He has been
the show business historian for
Hollywood Today, founding editor
of Television Week, associate editor
of Forbes Magazine, assistant city
editor of the Los Angeles Herald
Examiner and editor-in-chief and
VP of eStar.com.
Block was Executive Director of the L.A. Press Club
for three years and is an honorary board member.
Block was on KPCC-FM’s “Call Sheet” and reports
for the syndicated radio program, “The Advertising
Show.” He has been heard as expert commentator on
KNBC-TV, The Today Show, CNBC, NPR, NBC, O’Reilly
on Fox, CNN and more.
His honors include three LA Press Club Awards,
Hearst Awards, Crain Awards, a Detroit Press Club
Award, a Will Rogers Foundation “Willie,” the (RIM)
Angel Award and the Journalism Award from the Cau-
cus For Television Producers, Directors and Writers.
NBC4 weekend co-anchor and gen-
eral assignment reporter ROBERt
KOvACIK is a familiar, trusted face
for all Angelenos. Kovacik, who
joined the station in July 2004, is an
award-winning journalist known for
in-depth and comprehensive report-
ing. For six years he was the lead
morning reporter on “Today in LA.”
In one of his more well-known sto-
ries, he was explaining to viewers about an extensive
manhunt to find an alleged murderer when the sus-
pect suddenly appeared and surrendered to Kovacik
while live on the air. His coverage of the event was
recognized in 2007 with a regional Edward R. Mur-
row Award, among other prizes. Before joining NBC4,
Kovacik was the West Coast correspondent and a fill-
in anchor for “National Geographic Today.” Born and
raised in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, Kovacik is an
honors graduate of Brown University. He attended Co-
lumbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and
became the youngest anchor in the nation’s largest
television market, New York City, when he was named
anchor of KCET’s overnight venture “Nightworld.” He
currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Los
Angeles Press Club.
DAN LAURIA is currently play-
ing Sullivan in “Sullivan and Son,”
a new show on TBS produced
by Vince Vaughn and created by
Rob Long (creator of “Cheers”).
The Brooklyn native who served
in Vietnam as an officer in the
Marine Corps got his start in act-
ing while attending Southern
Connecticut State University on
a football scholarship. He is perhaps best known for
his role on “The Wonder Years” as Jack Arnold. His
other television work includes “Criminal Minds,” “The
Mentalist,” “CSI,” “Party of Five” and “Nurse Jackie.”
His extensive film work includes roles in Stakeout,
Independence Day and The Spirit. Equally impressive
is his theatrical experience: In 2006 he appeared in an
Off Broadway production of A Stone Carver by William
Mastrosimone with Jim Iorio and Elizabeth Rossa, and
later he played Jimmy Hoffa in Brian Lee Franklin’s
Good Bobby, a fictionalized account of Robert Ken-
nedy’s rise. His most prominent theater role was as
legendary football coach Vince Lombardi in the Broad-
way hit Lombardi. Dan has also been a key player in
reviving the classic PBS show “Steve Allen’s Meeting
of Minds” as live theater featuring some of the best ac-
tors in town.
A veteran of stage, film and televi-
sion, JODI LONg currently stars
in the TBS series “Sullivan and
Son.” Her extensive television ex-
perience includes “Cafe American”
with Valerie Bertinelli, Margaret
Cho’s mother in “All American
Girl” and Alicia Silverstone’s secre-
tary in “Miss Match.” Her film work
includes Beginners with Ewan Mc-
Gregor and Christopher Plummer and Paul Schrader’s
Patty Hearst. In 2006 her one-woman play Surfing DNA
was produced at East West Players in Los Angeles and
garnered her an Ovation nomination for Best Solo
Performance. She also wrote and co-produced a docu-
mentary about her vaudevillian parents, Long Story
Short. She made her Broadway debut at age 7 and her
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stage credits include Loose Ends with Kevin Kline and
the revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Flower Drum
Song, for which she won an Ovation Award, at the
Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. She serves on SAG’s
National Women’s Committee.
For seven seasons on “Just Shoot
Me,” WENDIE MALICK played the
hilariously pretentious ex-model
and fashion editor, Nina Van Horn,
earning Emmy and Golden Globe
nominations for Best Supporting
Actress in a Comedy Series. She
joined the cast of “Frasier” in its
final season, and currently stars
with Betty White in TV Land’s hit
sitcom, “Hot in Cleveland.” Malick’s film credits in-
clude Confessions Of A Shopaholic, The American Presi-
dent, and Bugsy. Women in Film honored her as “A
Woman of Vision” in 2000, and the Board of Advocates
of Planned Parenthood dubbed her a “Champion of
Choice” in 2006. Through their charitable gift fund, “A
Drop in the Bucket,” Malick and her husband, Richard
Erickson, support a medical center in the Congo.
Hockey Hall of Famer BOB
MILLER recently concluded his
40th season as the “Voice of the
Kings,” alongside broadcaster and
former Kings’ right wing (not the
political kind) Jim Fox. The NHL
Professional Broadcasters’ As-
sociation honored him with the
Foster Hewitt Award in 2000, in
recognition of his outstanding
contributions to the radio and television industry, and
to hockey. Miller was inducted into the Hockey Hall of
Fame in 2000, the California Sports Broadcasters Hall
of Fame in 2002, and the California Sports Hall of Fame
in 2011. The press box at the Kings’ home area, Staples
Center, is named after him and he has a star on the
Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame. The Chicago na-
tive’s voice has also accented numerous television and
film projects, including “Cheers,” Rollerball, Miracle on
Ice and The Mighty Ducks.
PAtt MORRIsON is renowned in print, radio and
television. Aside from winning a share of two Pulitzer
Prizes as a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, she
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Club’s 55th Annual Southern California Journalism
Awards. For the latest news, tools, resources and
research that matter to Californians age 50+,
visit aarp.org/ca
Saluting award winners for
excellence in journalism.
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also has several Emmys and
Golden Mike Awards for her work
on KCET-TV and KPCC. TALKERS
Magazine ranked her among the
nation’s top 100 radio talk show
hosts. She is a senior fellow in in
the Luskin School of Public Affairs
at UCLA and the bestselling author
of Rio L.A., Tales from the Los
Angeles River, a nonfiction book on
the Los Angeles River. Pink’s, the famous Los Angeles
hot dog stand, has a veggie dog named after her.
City Councilwoman JAN PERRy,
more than any other Los Angeles
elected official, has left her mark
on the vibrant and growing
Downtown, where she has long
represented the “Great Ninth”
District encompassing South
Los Angeles and much of L.A.’s
urban core. Holding a master’s
degree from USC, she’s known
among government journalists as one of the very few
members of the City Council who actually understands
the city budget. She brought her interest in urban
planning to bear on redevelopment projects that
have changed the face of Downtown L.A., and served
during a decade when more housing was constructed
Downtown than in the city’s previous three decades.
A recent candidate for mayor, she is the only female
member of the 15-person Los Angeles City Council
and steps down on June 30.
CHARLEs sHAUgHNEssy is
from a showbiz family in London –
his father was the principal writer
on “Upstairs, Downstairs” and
his mother was an actress. After
getting a BA in Law at Cambridge
University, he returned to his first
love – acting – and worked on
stage and television in England
before moving to the U.S. in 1983.
Here he is best known for playing Maxwell Sheffield
on “The Nanny,” and Shane Donovan on “Days of Our
Lives.” He received an Emmy for his voice work in the
Disney series, “Stanley”, and a memorable arc as St.
John Powell in AMC’s “ Mad Men.” In 2007, upon the
death of a cousin, he became the 5th Baron Shaugh-
nessy of Montreal and Ashford.
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FINALISTS
L6. WRITING – PRINT
Melody Cherchian, Daily Sundial, “Fort For the
Foreclosed”
Christina Cocca, Daily Sundial, “Conversion
Therapy Ban Challenged”
Anna Kamalyan & Olga Tatarenkova,
Los Angeles City College, “FDIC Turns
Magnifying Glass on Higher One”
Amanda Scurlock, Los Angeles City College,
“Ghosts of Snyder Field”
Regine Simmonds, Los Angeles City College,
“Finding Happiness at the Finish Line”
Sarah Weiss, Los Angeles City College, “Park
Your Politics”
Alexander Woodman, Daily Titan Newspaper,
“Doctoral Scholar Visits a Land of Contrast”
L7. REPORTING – BROADCAST, PODCAST
OR STREAM
Bronte Lawson Turk, Annenberg TV News,
“Meadowbrook Horse Sanctuary”
Matthew Mullins & Dave Martin, Los
Angeles City College, “LACC Student, Jose
Barrientos Fakes Accent in Speech 101
Class”
Christian Pipion, Daily 49er, “University Art
Museum’s Opening Weekend”
Althea Wagoner & Brent Foster, Titan TV, “1
in 88”
Svetlana Yurash & Dave Martin, Los Angeles
City College, “Students: Do Not Go Gentle”
L5. PHOTOGRAPHY
Julia Deng & Bronte Lawson Turk, Annenberg
TV News, “Occupy Protester”
Ken Scarboro, Daily Sundial, “Proposition’s 30
Ultimatum Photo”
Loren Townsley, Daily Sundial, “Short-Lived
NACC Tournament”
Ryan Kyle Williams & Bronte Lawson Turk,
Annenberg TV News, “Endeavor Drives
Down Crenshaw”
L3. NEWS WEBSITE
Annenberg TV News, USC
Daily Sundial, CSUN
Highlights, Beverly Hills High School
The Pearl Post, Daniel Pearl Magnet High
School
L2. HIGH SCHOOL NEWSPAPER
Highlights, Beverly Hills High School
The Pearl Post, Daniel Pearl Magnet High
School
L1. COLLEGE NEWSPAPER
Daily 49er, CSULB
The Daily Bruin, UCLA
Daily Sundial, CSUN, “20 Years After the Riots”
Los Angeles Collegian, L.A. City College, “May
2, 2012”
Los Angeles Collegian, L.A. City College,
“November 7, 2012”
G7. IN-HOUSE OR CORPORATE PUBLICA-
TION (Magazines)
Collegian Times, “Collegian Times”
Adam Van Gerpen, “The Los Angeles
Fireghter Newspaper”
Pamela Greenwalt, Damon Romine, Leslie
Simmons & SAG-AFTRA Communications
Sta, SAG-AFTRA Magazine, “The Action
Issue”
Bennet Kelley, Internet Law Center, “Amazon
Tax Defeat and Google Under Siege”
Dave Wagner, Eric Santiago & Juan Carlos
Sanchez, Los Angeles Firemen’s Relief Assn.,
“The Firemen’s Grapevine, May 2012 Issue”
Sta, The Hollywood Reporter – THR.com,
“Fatal Shooting at ‘The Dark Knight Rises’”
B13. DESIGN (Newspapers over 50K)
Laila Derakshanian, OC Weekly, “Anaheim
Calling”
Darrick Rainey, LA Weekly, “2012 Theater
Issue, LA Weekly”
C13. DESIGN (Newspapers under 50K)
Brian Allison, Yumi Karegawa & Alexis
Rawlins, Los Angeles Downtown News, “The
‘Don’t Miss’ Summer”
Robert Landry, Los Angeles Business Journal,
“Wealthiest Angelenos”
Adam VanGerpen, Los Angeles Fireghter,
“Serial Arsonist Strikes Los Angeles”
B7. COMMENTARY (Newspapers over 50K)
Amy Alkon, Creators Syndicate, “Amy Alkon
Syndicated Columns”
Florie Brizel, Freelance, “Avoiding Close Calls”
Fred Dickey, U-T San Diego, “Akiki”
Thomas Elias, California Focus Syndicated
Column, “California Focus”
Timothy Spangler, Orange County Register,
“International Aairs from a Unique
Perspective”
C7. COMMENTARY (Newspapers under
50K)
Amy Alkon, Creators Syndicate, “Amy Alkon,
Syndicated Columns”
Patrick Caneday, Glendale News-Press &
Burbank Leader, “Small Wonders; A
Convenient Marriage of Doctrine &
Politics”
Andres Chavez, San Fernando Valley Sun, “As
the City Turns…”
Thomas Elias, California Focus Syndicated
Column, “California Focus”
Jon Regardie & Sue Laris, Los Angeles
Downtown News, “Which Way In LA,
Nuch?”
H6B. POLITICAL COLUMN/COMMENTARY
(Online)
Bill Blum, Truthdig.com, “The Future of Gun
Control in the Aftermath of Sandy Hook”
Nick Gillespie & Meredith Bragg, Reason.
com, “3 Reasons U.S Drone Policy is Really
Freakin’ Scary”
Robert David Jaee, Hungton Post, “Double
Standard for Bipolar Disorder”
Raphael J. Sonenshein, Jewish Journal.com,
“Out of Reagan’s Shadow”
Matt Welch, Reason.com, “The Dark Side of
Anti-‘Swiss Bank Account’ Politics”
B8. COLUMNIST (Newspapers over 50K)
Amy Alkon, Creators Syndicate, “The Advice
Goddess”
Rob Eshman, Jewish Journal
Marty Kaplan, Jewish Journal
Gina Nahai, Jewish Journal
Timothy Spangler, The Orange County Register
C8. COLUMNIST (Newspapers under 50K)
Amy Alkon, Creators Syndicate, “Amy Alkon,
Syndicated Columns”
Charles Crumpley, Los Angeles Business
Journal
Henry Dubro, Pacic Coast Business Times,
“Commentary from Business Times Editor
Henry Dubro”
Dan Evans, Glendale News-Press
Brian Lowry, Variety, “Why TV Channels Won’t
Sustain Gun Debate”
D6. EDITORIAL CARTOON
Doug Davis, Los Angeles Downtown News,
“Springboard to Higher Oce”
Ralph Gamboa, San Fernando Valley Sun & El
Sol Newspapers, “Dirty Dancing”
K5. COLUMNIST/CRITIC (International
Journalism)
Janet R. Nepales, Manila Bulletin, “Barbra
Streisand on Life, Success and Politics”
Tom Walters, CTV – Canadian Television, “The
Myth of Good And Evil”
H7. NON-POLITICAL COLUMN/
COMMENTARY (Online)
Greg Beato, Reason Magazine, “Welcome to
the Golden Age of Fact-Checking”
Florie Brizel, CNN.com, “Why We All Need a
Degree in ‘Mobilology’”
Robert David Jaee, Hungton Post, “Elyn
Saks and the Power of Romance in Taming
Schizophrenia”
Damien Newton, Streetsblog Los Angeles,
“Don’t Let the South Figueroa Corridor
Project Get Lost in the CRA Shue”
Timothy Spangler, Forbes.com, “Law of The
Market”
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F1. ANCHOR (Radio)
Marcia Baltimore, CRN.com, “Silver Moments”
Dick Helton & Vicky Moore, KNX 1070, “Dick
Helton & Vicky Moore”
Sonali Kolhatkar, KPFK Pacica Radio, “Uprising
With Sonali Kolhatkar”
Jim Rondeau, KCLU, “KCLU News With Jim
Rondeau”
E1. ANCHOR (Television)
Michael Eaves, Fox Sports West/Prime Ticket
Patrick O’Neal, Fox Sports West/Prime Ticket
I1. BEST USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA TO
ENHANCE AND/OR PROMOTE A STORY,
INDIVIDUAL (News Organization)
Vicki Chen, Annenberg TV News, “For Garcetti,
Experience is Double-Edged Sword”
Tina Daunt, The Hollywood Reporter,
“President Obama Has Private Meeting
With Young Stars at Beverly Hilton”
Dylan Howard, Celebuzz, “Whitney Houston’s
Death”
Dylan Howard, Celebuzz, “Exposed:
Hollywood’s Clandestine Poker Ring”
Richard Stellar, The Wrap, “AGE: Activists for
Geriatric Equality”
I2. BEST USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA TO
ENHANCE AND/OR PROMOTE A STORY,
ORGANIZATION (Individual)
Chris Keller & Kim Bui, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los
Angeles, “Dangerous Intersections”
Sta, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles, “Social Media
on Election Night”
Jake Swearingen, LA Weekly, “Air Pollution
Causes…Brain Damage”
Brian Humphrey, Erik Scott & Matt Spence,
The Los Angeles Fireghter, “LAFD News and
Information Blog”
Los Angeles Fire Department PSO Oce,
“facebook.com/Los-Angeles-Fireghter”
F11. DOCUMENTARY (Radio)
Gideon Brower, Eric Drachman, Bob Carlson
& Jacob Conrad, KCRW, “The Couple in 303”
Cason Smith, KSPC Radio-Claremont, CA,
“Scavengers”
E10. FEATURE DOCUMENTARY Over 25
minutes (Television)
Juan Devis, Bruce Dickson, Drew Tewksbury &
Justin Cram, KCET-TV, “Artbound Episode 1”
Matt Holwick, “Lets Roll – Ride For 9/11”
Jennifer Laski, Jenny Sargent, Stacey Wilson,
Matt Belloni & Victor Klaus, The Hollywood
Reporter, “Emmy Drama Actor Roundtable”
Sara Takata, Patrick McBride, Lawrence Patin,
Michael Eaves & Shawn Kopelakis, Fox
Sports West/Prime Ticket, “Before the Bigs:
Chris Paul”
E11. DOCUMENTARY Short, under 25
minutes (Television)
Christine Devine, Burke Ewing, Steve Adams &
Dave Bush, KTTV Fox 11 News, “Bunk Wurth
– Inspiring (paralyzed) Artist”
Jennifer Laski, Jenny Sargent, Carrie Smith,
Raphael Laski & Paolo Cascardo, The
Hollywood Reporter, “Conan O’Brien”
Jennifer Laski, Carrie Smith, Jenny Sargent,
Raphael Laski & Pablo Teyssier-Verger, The
Hollywood Reporter, “Breaking Bad”
Althea Wagoner & Brent Foster, Titan TV,
“1 in 88”
F10. TALK/PUBLIC AFFAIRS (Radio)
AirTalk, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles, “Berman
VS. Sherman”
Patt Morrison, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles,
“Comedy Congress”
Take Two, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles, “Take
Two: December 17, 2012” The Madeleine
Brand Show, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles,
“20th Anniversary of LA Riots”
Warren Olney, KCRW 89.9 FM, “Special
Programming: 20 Years After the Riots”
E9. TALK/PUBLIC AFFAIRS (Television)
Bret Marcus, Rebecca Haggerty, Karen Foshay,
Brian Rooney & Madeleine Brand, KCET-TV,
“Season 5 SoCal Connected: OC Homeless/
Paula Poundstone”
Bret Marcus, Justine Schmidt, Karen Foshay,
Rick Wilkinson & Vince Gonzales, KCET-
TV, “Season 4 SoCal Connected: Big Oil/
Kickstarter”
Rick Rei, David Nazar & George Barker, “SoCal
Insider”
PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD
SUE LARIS
B11. SPORTS (Newspapers over 50K)
Joel Beers, OC Weekly, “Mun Spencer-Devlin
Is the Best Lesbian…”
Jay Berman, The Orange County Register, “The
Forgotten League”
Matt Coker, OC Weekly, “Dick Baney and the
Other Lost Boys of Summer”
Timothy Spangler, The Orange County Register,
“International Sports from a Unique
Perspective”
C11. SPORTS (Newspapers under 50K)
Andrew Campa, Pasadena Sun, “Muir Football
Looks for Leadership”
Eric Longabardi & Roger Bloom, TeleMedia
News Productions, “A Kicker With Heart” &
“Lofgren’s Road From Newport to London”
David Nusbaum, Los Angeles Business Journal,
“Net Loss? Tennis Tourney Needs Money or
May Pack its Rackets”
Mike Terry, San Fernando Valley Sun, “Keeper
of the Flame”
D4. SPORTS PHOTO
Cheryl Guerrero, Burbank Leader, “Burroughs
Takes Control of League Title”
Carrie Smith, Jennifer Laski, Shanti Marlar,
Jenny Sargent & Wesley Mann, The
Hollywood Reporter, “Dodgers, Tommy
Lasorda and Don Mattingly”
F8. SPORTS (Radio)
Valerie Hamilton, Freelance (aired on
California Report), “Border Town’s Prize
Crop-Baseball Giants”
Josie Huang, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles, “Erica
Wu”
Josie Huang, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles, “Kyla
Ross”
Corey Moore, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles,
“Paralympic Runner”
Corey Moore, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles,
“Wheelchair Fencer”
H8. ONLINE SPORTS NEWS/FEATURE/
COMMENTARY (Online)
Aaron Fischman, Neon Tommy, “The Joys of
NBA Summer League”
Ann Frazier, Neon Tommy, “NHL Lockout
Begins; Blame the Hypocritical Owners”
Jonathan Kendrick, Neon Tommy, “How High
School Eligibility Rules Spiked Todd Hunt’s
Football Dreams”
Devra Maza, Hungton Post, “When All-Stars
Align: The Streak, .400 and the Home Run
of ‘41”
Andrew Seah, Neon Tommy, “The New Face of
American Tennis: John Who?”
E7. SPORTS (Television)
Bruce Bea, Tony Stefanelli, Chris Witte &
Chris Calleton, Fox Sports West/Prime Ticket,
“Dodger Stadium: 50 Years at Chavez
Ravine”
Bret Marcus, Rebecca Haggerty, Angela
Shelley, John Ridely & Alicia Clark, KCET-TV,
“Head Games”
Patrick McBride, Lawrence Patin & Edward
Lewis, Fox Sports West/Prime Ticket, “A
Century of Greatness: Janet Evans”
Patrick McBride, Lawrence Patin, Je Shearin
& Edward Lewis, Fox Sports West/Prime
Ticket, “John Smith”
Je Shearin, Fox Sports West/Prime Ticket,
“Howie Kendrick Photography Feature”
B9. ENTERTAINMENT REVIEWS/CRITICISM/
COLUMNS (Newspapers over 50K)
Marty Kaplan, Jewish Journal, “Don’t Be Naked”
M.G. Lord, The Hollywood Reporter, “Richard
Burton’s Diaries: Book Review”
Nick Schou, OC Weekly, “The King of Cool, Don
Winslow”
Catherine Wagley, LA Weekly, “The Art of
Nascar”
Catherine Wagley, LA Weekly, “Disney Demo”
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C9. ENTERTAINMENT REVIEWS/CRITICISM/
COLUMNS (Newspapers under 50K)
Tom Teicholz, “Lessons From Schnitzler’s
Vienna” et al
G5. ENTERTAINMENT REVIEWS/CRITICISM/
COLUMN (Magazines)
Tim Grierson, Backstage, “Killing Them Softly”
Gregg Kilday, The Hollywood Reporter, “The
Race”
Chris Kjorness, Reason Magazine, “Delta Dawn;
How Sears Roebuck & co, Midwifed the
Birth of the Blues”
Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter,
“Tragedy at the Movies”
Thaddeus Russel, Reason Magazine,
“Controlling Guns, Controlling People”
H11A. ENTERTAINMENT COMMENTARY/
REVIEWS (Online)
Kurt Loder, Reason, “The Great Lost Rolling
Stones Documentary is Now a Museum
Piece”
Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, “The
Dark Night Rises”
Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor,
“Film Reviews by Peter Rainer”
Don Shirley, LAStageTimes.com, “LA Stage
Watch”
Timothy Spangler, Los Angeles Review of Books,
“The New New Capitalism”
B10. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS OR FEATURE
(Newspapers over 50K)
Matthew Garrahan, Financial Times, “Will.i.am:
The Player”
Nate Jackson, OC Weekly, “The Ballad of Wade
Michael Page”
Zachary Pincus-Roth, LA Weekly, “Nothing To
Hide”
Drew Tewksbury, Freelance – Los Angeles
Times, “Anoushka Shankar Links Songs of
India and Spanish Flamenco”
Linda J. Williamson, Freelance – Los Angeles
Times, “Game Over: Family Fun Arcade is
Pulling the Plug”
C10. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS OR FEATURE
(Newspapers under 50K)
Tom Dotan, Los Angeles Business Journal,
“SideShows: Webisodes, Games Augment
TV Viewing Experience”
Natalie Jarvey, Los Angeles Business Journal,
“YouTube Gets Creatives in Los Angeles”
Mark Madler, Judy Temes, Andrew Khouri
& Angela Melero, San Fernando Valley
Business Journal, “Disney’s Frontier/
Dissecting Disney”
Jonathan Polako, Los Angeles Business
Journal, “Booming Bass – Korean Pop a
High-Volume Import in LA”
Andrew Wallenstein, Variety, “Hulu Redo in
View”
H9. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS (Online)
Dylan Howard, Celebuzz, “Caught On Tape:
Chevy Chase Rips His Own TV Sitcom”
Dylan Howard, Celebuzz, “Exposed:
Hollywood’s Clandestine Poker Ring”
Dylan Howard, Celebuzz, “Family Feud: The
Battle Over Michael Jackson’s Millions and
His Three Children”
F7. ENTERTAINMENT REPORTING/
CRITICISM (Radio)
Kevin Ferguson, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles,
“How Will The Adult Film Industry Respond
to LA’s Condom Ordinance?”
Steve Julian, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles, “Book
of Mormon”
James Kim, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles,
“Kwayzar”
Darby Maloney & Kim Masters, KCRW, “The
Hollywood-China Connection”
Sanden Totten, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles,
“Movie Trailers”
E8. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS OR FEATURE
(Television)
Oswaldo Borraez, Andres Pruna & Arturo
Quezada, KMEX, “Los Verdaderos Vaqueros”
Juan Devis, Bruce Dickson, Drew Tewksbury &
Justin Cram, KCET-TV, “Date Farmers: Desert
Detritus Becomes Chicano Pop Art”
Bret Marcus, Rebecca Haggerty, Kat Keeney,
Val Zavala & Jack Moody, KCET-TV, “Geena
Davis: Women in Media”
Norma Roque, Andres Pruna, Ernesto Torres,
Raul Gutierrez & Juan Hernandez, KMEX,
“La Limpias”
G6. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS OR FEATURE
(Magazines)
Rachel Abrams, Cliord Coonan, Ted Johnson
& Andrew Stewart, Variety, “Great Mall of
China”
Marc Graser & Rachel Abrams, Variety, “Movies
& Money”
J.D Heyman, Elizabeth Leonard & Ken Lee,
People Magazine, “Why Katie Left Tom -
Special Report”
Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, “Modern
Family”
Andrew Stewart, Variety, “B.O. Reality Gets Lost
in Perception”
D5. ENTERTAINMENT PHOTO
Chris Dougherty, Brenna Britton, Michele
Stueven & Joe Pugliese, People Magazine,
“Jean DuJardin: The Morning After”
Jenny Sargent, Carrie Smith, Jennifer Laski,
Shanti Marlar, & Wesley Mann, The
Hollywood Reporter, “Les Miserables”
Jenny Sargent, Jennifer Laski, Shanti Marlar,
Carrie Smith & Joe Pugliese, The Hollywood
Reporter, “Revenge of the Nerd (Conan
O’Brien)”
Jenny Sargent, Shanti Marlar, Jennifer Laski,
Peter Cury & Peggy Sirota, The Hollywood
Reporter, “Snoop: From Dogg To Lion”
Carrie Smith, Shanti Marlar, Jennifer Laski,
Jenny Sargent & Joe Pugliese, The
Hollywood Reporter, “Anne Hathaway”
F9. USE OF SOUND (Radio)
Judy Muller, Kristen Muller, Steve Prott &
Emily Frost, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles,
“When The Riots Began”
Lance Orozco, KCLU AM/FM, “Malibu Lagoon
Controversy”
Lance Orozco, KCLU AM/FM, “My Cancer”
Steve Prott, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles,
“Aurora Shooting”
Sanden Totten, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles,
“Movie Trailers”
H10. ENTERTAINMENT FEATURE (Online)
Tasbeeh Herwees, Neon Tommy, “The Last
Bookshops of Los Angeles”
Dylan Howard, Celebuzz, “Exposed:
Hollywood’s Clandestine Poker Ring”
Gordon Johnson, KCET-TV, “Gerald Clarke Jr.:
The Contemporary Indian Experience
Through Art”
Sarah Parvini, Neon Tommy, “The Family
Arcade Holds on as the Arcade Industry
Falters”
Dahvi Shira, People.com, “Joey Kovar”
K4. ENTERTAINMENT NEWS OR FEATURE
(International Journalism)
Daniele Compatangelo, TSI, “A Swiss Man at
Dreamworks”
James Desborough, Sunday Express, “World
Tour Too Much For Me, Says Adele”
Fernando Mexia, EFE News Services, “Tarzan
Reclaims His Place in the 21st Century With
A Clamor”
Tom Walters & Liam Hyland, CTV - Canadian
TV, “Electronic Witchcraft”
Kerstin Zilm, German Public Radio/freelance,
“Burdensome Objects”
PRESIDENT’S AWARD
CARL REINER
B2. NEWS FEATURE Over 1,000 words
(Newspapers over 50K)
Gendy Alimurung, LA Weekly, “The Man Who
Smelled Too Much”
Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, “In Tune
with Their Needs”
Fred Dickey, U-T San Diego, “ALS – John
Constans”
Michael Goldstein, OC Weekly, “Lisa Becker Has
Patience for Patients”
Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times,
“Standing Up: Davien’s Story”
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C2. NEWS FEATURE Over 1,000 words
(Newspapers under 50K)
Adolfo Flores, Pasadena Sun, “How An
Unarmed 17-year Old Died in a Hail of
Police Bullets”
Alfred Lee, Los Angeles Business Journal,
“Police Make Business of Seizures”
Ciaran McEvoy, Los Angeles Daily Journal,
“Shrinking Court Reporter Stas Brings
Changes to Civil Litigation”
Theresa Marie Moreau, The Remnant, “Christ
Crucied in China”
Ryan Vaillancourt, Los Angeles Downtown
News, “Operation Healthy Streets, As
Seen From the Streets”
G2. FEATURE/COMMENTARY Over 1,000
words (Magazines)
Greg Beato, Reason Magazine, “Better O
Dead: The Cheap, Exciting Afterlife of
Modern Mortal Remains”
Vince Beiser, Playboy Magazine, “Overdose
County, USA”
Stephanie Forshee, F&I & Showroom
Magazine Bobit Business Media, “Viral
Attack”
Jennifer Garcia & Elizabeth Leonard, People
Magazine, “How Katie Took Control:
Secrets of the Split”
Eugene Yi, KoreAm Journal, “Saigu: An Oral
History”
F4. FEATURE (Radio)
James Kim, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles, “First
Language Attrition”
Lance Orozco, KCLU AM/FM, “My Cancer”
Molly Peterson, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles,
“Owens Lake”
Sanden Totten, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles,
“LACMA Rock”
Brian Watt, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles,
“Earlez Grille”
Lance Orozco, KCLU AM/FM, “The Long
Goodbye”
H3. FEATURE (Online)
Nadia Brandt, Bloomberg News, “Asian Home
Buyers Buoy New Homes in California’s
Orange County”
Paige Brettingen, Neon Tommy, “iPals:
Connecting Students Half a World Away”
Sal Cardoni, TakePart.com, “Not In My
Backyard”
Vickie Chang, The Atlantic, “The Punk Rocker
Who Would Be Judge”
Catherine Green, Neon Tommy, “Police-Teen
Advisory Board Bridges The Gap in LA”
Sarah Parvini, NeonTommy.com, “Tension
Back Home: SoCal’s Iranian Community
Feels the Heat”
E4. FEATURE (Television)
Jessica Carrillo, Telemundo Los Angeles KVEA-
52, “Los Chipsters”
Sean Browning, Del Armijo & Robert
Kovacik, NBC4, “Carmageddon Baby
Boom”
Bret Marcus, Rebecca Haggerty, Angela
Shelley, Brian Rooney & Alicia Clark, KCET-
TV, “The App Economy”
Bret Marcus, Rebecca Haggerty, Rick
Wilkinson, Judy Muller & Alberto Arce,
KCET-TV, “Nasty Campaign Ads”
Jorge Mettey, Carolina Sarassa, Edwin
Ramirez, Manny Giron & Luis Hernandez,
Noticias Mundo Fox, “La Capital Latina De
U.S.A/The Latino Capitol of the U.S.A”
B3. NEWS FEATURE Under 1,000 words
(Newspapers over 50K)
Michael J. Mishak & Ashley Powers, Los
Angeles Times, “High-Stakes Stumping”
Linda J. Williamson, Freelance & Los Angeles
Times, “Facebook Group Helped With
Cancer Support, Mourning”
C3. NEWS FEATURE Under 1,000 words
(Newspapers under 50K)
Richard Guzman, Los Angeles Downtown
News, “Artwork Lost, Artwork Found”
Mark Kellam, Glendale News-Press,
“Assemblymen Follow Divergent Paths”
Ciaran McEvoy, Daily Journal, “In Honda
Small Claims Case, Some See Systemic
Woes”
Christina Schweighofer, Pasadena Weekly,
“Professional Nit Pickers”
Ryan Vaillancourt, Los Angeles Downtown
News, “The Papier-Mâché Playground”
F3. NEWS OR FEATURE SHORT FORM
(Radio)
Corey Moore, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles,
“Endeavour Fans”
Stephanie O’Neill, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los
Angeles, “Lap Band”
Stephanie O’Neill, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los
Angeles, “Starbucks Crash”
G3. FEATURE/COMMENTARY Under 1,000
words (Magazines)
Peter Bogdanovich, The Hollywood Reporter,
“What if Movies Are Part of the Problem”
Johnny Dodd, People Magazine, “Florida’s
Troop 409: Boy Scouts, With a Dierence”
Beng Fong-Torres, The Hollywood Reporter,
“Dick Clark: You’re a Liberal and I’m an
F-ing Whore”
Merle Ginsberg, The Hollywood Reporter,
“Red Carpet War Stories”
Timothy M. Gray, Variety, “From Kakuma to
Cannes”
Marisa Guthrie & Sean McManus, The
Hollywood Reporter, “My Dad, Me and
Munich”
K2. FEATURE (International Journalism)
Tina Jøhnk Christensen, Plaza Deco, “Back to
the Future”
Tina Jøhnk Christensen, Psykologi, “Would
You Get a Gene Test?”
Fernando Mexia & Armando Arorizo, EFE
News Services, “Picture of Napalm Girl
Turns 40”
Tom Walters & Liam Hyland, CTV - Canadian
Television, “Cardboard Dreams”
Kerstin Zilm, German Public Radio,
“MariachiOke”
D2. FEATURE PHOTO
Ringo H.W. Chiu, Los Angeles Business
Journal, “Taylor”
Chris Dougherty, Christine Ramage, Gladees
Prieur & Douglas Friedman, People
Magazine, “Dwight Yoakam: In the
Hollywood Hills”
Pamela Greenwalt, Damon Romaine, Leslie
Simmons, Yvette Youssea & SAG-
AFTRA Communications Sta, Union
Membership Magazine, “SAF-AFTRA:
Bringing Two Great Unions Together”
Eric Longabardi, TeleMedia News Productions,
“Bringing Home The Gold”
Alexander Woodman & Lucie Aleks, Daily
Titan Newspaper, “Doctoral Scholar Visits
a Land of Contrast”
B4. PERSONALITY PROFILE (Newspapers
over 50K)
Danielle Berris, Jewish Journal, “Sherry
Lansing’s Encore Career”
Matthew Garrahan, Financial Times,
“Will.i.am: The Player”
Dennis Romero, LA Weekly, “Shelley Lubben,
Porn Reformer or Self-Promoter?”
Tibby Rothman, LA Weekly, “Bobby
Martinez’s Rebel Cry”
Michelle Woo, OC Weekly, “Jason Quinn Will
Meet You at the Playground”
C4. PERSONALITY PROFILE (Newspapers
under 50K)
Patrick Caneday, Glendale News-Press
& Burbank Leader, “Small Wonders:
Celebrating the Exuberant Life of a
Friend”
Kelly Corrigan, Glendale News-Press,
“Montrose Boutique Owner, 92, Shows
No Signs of Stopping”
Alfred Lee, Los Angeles Business Journal,
“Dominic Ng: Made in America”
Theresa Marie Moreau, The Remnant, “Christ
Crucied in China”
Ryan Vaillancourt, Los Angeles Downtown
News, “The Dancer”
K3. PERSONALITY PROFILE (International
Journalism)
Tina Jøhnk Christensen, Jyllands-Posten,
“Viggo Mortensen: Citizen of the World”
LA 36 PC
finalists
Ruben V. Nepales, Philippine Daily Inquirer,
“Charlie Sheen After The Meltdown”
Ruben V. Nepales, Philippine Daily Inquirer,
“Tim Burton Reveals the Origin of His
Famously Dark Fantasies”
Tom Walters, Stephanie Kampf, Liam Hyland,
Bryan Shepard & Denis Langlois, CTV -
Canadian Television, “Star Trek: The Journey
of William Shatner”
Kerstin Zilm, German Public Radio, “Portrait of
Writer Felicitas Hoppe”
F5. PERSONALITY PROFILE (Radio)
Kevin Ferguson, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles,
“Homeless Advocate Troy Isaac”
Darby Maloney & Kim Masters, KCRW, “Benh
Zeitlin, an Unconventional Filmmaker”
Corey Moore, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles,
“Paralympic Runner”
Corey Moore, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles,
“Wheelchair Fencer”
Patt Morrison, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles,
“Rodney King, 20 Years After”
G4. PERSONALITY PROFILE (Magazines)
Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter,
“The Dichotomy of Denzel”
Shirley Halperin, The Hollywood Reporter,
“Snoop from Dogg To Lion”
Joe Mullich, Super Lawyers Magazine,
“Friending Ted Ullyot”
Steve Oney, Playboy Magazine, ”Playboy
Interview: Lee Child”
Peter Suderman, Reason Magazine, “Obama’s
Failed Narrative: Did the Presidency Ruin a
Good Storyteller, or Vice Versa?”
H4. PERSONALITY PROFILE (Online)
Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, “Jon
Bon Jovi, One of the True ‘Stand Up Guys,’
Opens Up As Never Before”
Mike Fleeman, People.com, “Robby Benson:
Inside His ‘Brutal Experience’ of Four Heart
Surgeries”
Richard Franzi, OCTalkRadio, “Critical Mass
Coast To Coast Radio Show”
Jessica Koslow, LA Stage Times, “Mikhail
Baryshnikov: A Russian in Paris”
Grant Slater, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles, “105
and Holy Sanctied”
Sahra Sulaiman, Streetsblog Los Angeles,
“Listening to the Streets”
E5. PERSONALITY PROFILE (Television)
Wendy Burch, KTLA, “Kirk Douglas’ Golden
Hour”
Christine Devine, Roger Howard, Je Nolke &
Steve Thorpe, KTTV Fox 11 News, “Cookie
Johnson & Her Cj Jeans” & “Rick Caruso
Prole”
Nina Weinstein, Joseph Angier & Brian
Knappenberger, Bloomberg Television,
“Bloomberg Game Changers: Warren
Buett”
Nina Weinstein, Henry Schipper & Brian
Knappenberger, Bloomberg Television,
“Bloomberg Game Changers: Magic
Johnson”
D3. PORTRAIT
Dan Busta, Backstage, “Amy Adams”
Ringo H.W. Chiu, Los Angeles Business Journal,
“Oxman”
Jennifer Laski, Shanti Marlar, Carrie Smith,
Jenny Sargent & Wesley Mann, The
Hollywood Reporter, “Whatever Happened
to Ted Turner?”
Carrie Smith, Jenny Sargent, Jennifer Laski,
Shanti Marlar & Art Streiber, The Hollywood
Reporter, “Norman Lear, the Man Who
Changed TV”
H11B. BLOG, INDIVIDUAL (Online)
Danielle Berrin, Jewish Journal, “Should ‘Girls’
Just Get Married”/”Wrong to be Funny
About Anne Frank?”
Laura Clark, Los Angeles Story, “Last Days as
Only Child & Waiting for My Baby”
Matt DeBord, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles,
“DeBord Report”
Ted Johnson, Variety, “RNC”
Richard Stellar, The Wrap, “When Aging Actors
Prey on the Elderly”
H12. BLOG, GROUP (Online)
Matthew Belloni & Eriq Gardner, THR.com,
“Hollywood, Esq.”
Zuade Kaufman, Robert Scheer, Peter Scheer,
Tracy Bloom & Alexander Reed Kelly,
Truthdig, “Ear To The Ground”
Zachary Pincus-Roth, Amanda Lewis,
Catherine Wagley, Siran Babayan & Jacy
Wojcik, LA Weekly, “Public Spectacle: LA
Weekly’s Arts and Culture”
Alexander Russo, Samantha Oltman, Hillel
Aron & Jamie Alter Lynton, L.A. School
Report, “Collective Weblog, L.A. School
Report: November 9, 2012”
Sta, Reason Magazine, “Hit & Run Blog”
G1. NEWS INVESTIGATIVE (Magazines)
Gary Baum & Daniel Miller, The Hollywood
Reporter, “The Most Sinful Period in
Hollywood History”
David Evans, Bloomberg News, “Duping the
Donors”
Michael Goldstein, Orange Coast Magazine,
“The Lost Boy”
Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, “The
Most Litigated Star in Hollywood”
Mike Riggs, Reason Magazine, “Transparently
Disappointing”
Peter Suderman, Reason Magazine, “Medicare
Whac-a-Mole: Why Health Care Price
Controls Always Fail”
B6. BUSINESS (Newspapers over 50K)
Gendy Alimurung, LA Weekly, “The Death of
Film”
Gustavo Arellano, OC Weekly, “Is Aaron
Kushner the Pied Piper of Print?”
Matthew Garrahan, Financial Times,
“Superheroes Soar on Disney Tensions”
R. Scott Moxley, OC Weekly, “Prince Edward
Maryland is Sorry”
Tessa Stuart, LA Weekly, “The Break-Up”
C6. BUSINESS (Newspapers under 50K)
Alfred Lee, Los Angeles Business Journal,
“Betting Big: Green Card-For-Startup
Program, Draws Capital - And Critics”
Marlize van Romburgh, Stephen Nellis &
Henry Dubro, Pacic Coast Business Times,
“Union Bank To Buy SBB&T”
Jacqueline Ryan, Los Angeles Business Journal,
“Miracle Growth”
Casey Sullivan, Los Angeles Daily Journal, “Huge
Salaries Sink Storied Law Firm”
Ryan Vaillancourt, Los Angeles Downtown
News, “Downtown’s $4.4 Billion Company”
H5. DATABASE-DRIVEN JOURNALISM
(Online)
Michael Collins & Denise Anne Dueld,
Enviroreporter.com, “Fukushima
Investigation”
Matthew Fleischer, WitnessLA, “Pay To Play:
Does the LA Sheri’s Dept. Exchange $$ for
Promotions?”
Brian Frank, Daniel Medina & Zach Behrens,
KCET-TV, “Ballot Brief”
Christopher Palmeri & Rodney Yap, Bloomberg
News, “Los Angeles $100,000 Carpenters
Show Clout of Utility’s Union”
Matt Pressberg, Neon Tommy, “Doing the Math
on Guns”
H6A. MULTIMEDIA PACKAGE
Max Follmer, Eric Medina, Jacob Soboro &
Dorian Otero, Takepart.com, “Civics in a
Minute”
Pamela Greenwalt, Damon Romine, Leslie
Simmons & SAG AFTRA Communications
Sta, Entertainment Union Membership
Digital Publication, “SAG-AFTRA Magazine
Digital Issue: Put on a Happy Face”
Sta, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles, “Mars
Curiosity Rover”
Michele Stueven, Kris Widger, Monica Rizzo &
Aili Nahas, People/People.com, “TCAs”
Stephen Galloway, Matt Belloni, Jennifer
Laski, Jenny Sargent & Carrie Smith,
The Hollywood Reporter, “THR’s Oscar
Roundtable Videos”
D7. PHOTO ESSAY (Single Topic)
Liz O. Baylen, Los Angeles Times, “Life-Changing
Dose”
Chris Dougherty, Brenna Britton & Art Streiber,
LA 37 PC
People Magazine, “Cannes: Behind the
Scenes”
Rick Loomis, Los Angeles Times, “Population
Rising”
Ted Soqui, LA Weekly, “Then and Now: L.A.
Riots 20 years Later”
Sahra Sulaiman, Streetsblog Los Angeles,
“Observers of the Spectacle”
PEARL AWARD
SANDRA RODRÍGUEZ NIETO
B5. INVESTIGATIVE SERIES (Newspapers
over 50K)
Hannah Dreier, The Associated Press, “Sept. 11
Fund Raided For Decits”
Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times,
“Standing Up: Davien’s Story”
Simone Wilson, LA Weekly, “Hit-and-Run
Epidemic, et al”
C5. INVESTIGATIVE/SERIES (Newspapers
under 50K)
Richard Clough, Los Angeles Business Journal,
“Too Good To Be True”
Michael Collins, Ventura County Reporter
Newspaper, “A Radioactive Nightmare”
Brian Hews & Randy Economy, Los Cerritos
Community Newspaper, “Corruption at LA
County Assessor’s Oce”
Joe Piasecki, Glendale News-Press, “Assembly
Budgets Shape Discipline, Political Goal”
Joe Piasecki, La Canada Valley Sun, “Using
Money to Shape Policy”
H2. INVESTIGATIVE (Online)
Paige Brettingen, Dan Watson, Danny Lee,
Gracie Zheng & Aaron Liu, Neon Tommy,
“LA’s Money, Matters, and Votes”
Michael Collins & Denise Anne Dueld,
EnviroReporter.com, “Boeing’s Meltdown
Makeover”
Celeste Fremon & Matthew Fleischer,
WitnessLA, “LASD Investigations”
Michael Martinez & Brad Johnson, CNN, “RFK
Convicted Assassin Sirhan Sirhan Seeks
Freedom”
Rodney Yap, Bloomberg News, “America’s
Great State Payroll Giveaway”
F6. INVESTIGATIVE (Radio)
Sharon McNary, Shirley Jahad & Tami
Abdollah, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles,
“Miramonte Settlement”
Stephanie O’Neill, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles,
“1-800-GET-THIN”
Stephanie O’Neill, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles,
“Starbucks Crash”
Roy E. Tuckman, Caroline Casey, Brad
Friedman, Summer Reese & Christine
Blosdale, KPFK-FM Radio, “KPFK
Comprehensive Election Coverage”
Roy E. Tuckman, KPFK-FM Radio, “What The
IRS Doesn’t Want You To Know”
E6. INVESTIGATIVE (Television)
Keith Esparros, John Simerson, Robert
Kovacik, Del Armijo & Michael Tauber,
NBC4, “LAFD 911 Response Times: How
Long Will You Wait?”
Gabriel Huerta, Telemundo Los Angeles KVEA-
52, “Terror Militar en San Felipe”
Bret Marcus, Rebecca Haggerty, Justine
Schmidt, Dina Demetrius & Jennifer
London, KCET-TV, “The ‘F’ Word” &
“Fracking & Earthquakes”
Bret Marcus, Rebecca Haggerty, Karen
Foshay, Vince Gonzales & Jack Moody,
KCET-TV, “Family Ties”
Jorge Mettey, Max Aub, Gustavo Gutierrez,
Manny Giron & Luis Hernandez, Noticias
Mundo Fox, “Contrabando: Negocio
De Todos/Counterfeiting: Everyone’s
Business”
WSPA Salutes the
Winners of the
55th Annual
Southern California
Journalism Awards
AnnuAl Southern CAliforniA
Journalism awards & centennial celebration
55
th
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J1. ADVOCACY JOURNALISM
Sharon Bernstein, Olsen Ebright & Daisy Lin,
NBC4, “Taking Advantage of California’s
Change in Autism Insurance Coverage”
Florie Brizel, Freelance, “Way We All Need A
Degree In ‘Mobilology’”
Chris Clarke & Zach Behrens, KCET-TV, “The
Desert is Not a Wasteland”
Christine Devine, Jose Rios, Patrick O’Brien,
Veronica Carillo & Will Wong, KTTV Fox 11
News, “Wednesday’s Child”
Christine Devine, Tony Ruiz, Je Nolke, Steve
Thorpe & Ruben Villaescusa, KTTV Fox 11
News, “Quake Ready”
Richard Stellar, The Wrap, “Elder Rights
Advocacy Journalist”
M1. BOOK GENERAL NON-FICTION
Bob Brill, “No Barrier: How the Internet
Destroyed the World Economy”
Guillaume Serina, France USA Media, Inc.,
“Obama Face Aux 9 Plaies de l’Amerique”
Deanne Stillman, Nation Books, “Desert
Reckoning”
B12. HEADLINE (Newspapers over 50K)
Mike Davis, Los Angeles Times, “Now Throw a
White Flag”
Donna Howell, Investor’s Business Daily, “Tech
Security 2013 Forecast: Clouds, Rain of
Threats”
Steven Leigh Morris, LA Weekly, “The Race-
Time Continuum”
Kevin Leung, Los Angeles Times, “Florida
Voters See GOP Ads Innitum”
Libby Molyneaux, LA Weekly, “The Oyster is
His World”
C12. HEADLINE (Newspapers under 50K)
Laurence Darmiento, San Fernando Valley
Business Journal, “Four Topping Fast-
Growing Pizza Chain”
Tom Hicks, Los Angeles Business Journal,
“Grace Period Over for Cash-Strapped L.A.
Churches”
Tom Hicks, Los Angeles Business Journal, “If
Cochran Partners Don’t Fit, They Might
Just Split”
Tom Hicks, Los Angeles Business Journal, “Pipe
Dream? Pot-Growing Greenhouse Maker
Targets Veggie Market”
K1. NEWS (International Journalism)
Mike Amor & John Varga, Seven Network
Australia, “Under the Border”
Claudine P. Mulard, Le Monde, “We are Safe
on Mars!”
Tom Walters & Liam Hyland, CTV – Canadian
Television, “Searching for Sam Bacile”
B1. HARD NEWS (Newspapers over 50K)
Gene Maddaus, LA Weekly, “The Artful
Dodger”
Art Marroquin, The Daily Breeze, “Film Director
Jumps To His Death”
Michael J. Mishak, Los Angeles Times,
“California Teachers Assn. A Powerful
Force in Sacramento”
R. Scott Moxley, OC Weekly, “Prince Edward
Maryland Is Sorry”
Simone Wilson, Dennis Romero & Hillel Aron,
LA Weekly, “Los Angeles’ War on Street
Artists”
C1. HARD NEWS (Newspapers under 50K)
Howard Fine, Los Angeles Business Journal, “Oil
Firm Digs In For Drilling Fight”
Richard Guzman, Los Angeles Downtown
News, “For Streetcar, It’s the $85 Million
Question”
Brittany Levine, Glendale News-Press, “John
Drayman Pony Rides Oered a Clue”
Ciaran McEvoy, Los Angeles Daily Journal,
“Closed Jury Trial Provides Window Into
First Amendment Flop”
Jacquelyn Ryan, Los Angeles Business Journal,
“Downtown LA Greets Wal-Mart”
H1. NEWS (Online)
Lilly Fowler, FairWarning, “State Investigators,
Workers Cite Labor Abuses in Warehouse
Empire”
Catherine Green, Neon Tommy, “New Details
in Shooting Case”
Martin Henderson, Rancho Santa Margarita
Patch, “Forsberg Murder Trial: At Long
Last, A Question Answered”
Michael Martinez, CNN, “On the Border: Guns,
Drugs and a Betrayal of Trust”
D1. NEWS PHOTO
Eric Longabardi, TeleMedia News Productions,
”Two Sides of the Same Street”
Raul Roa, Glendale News-Press, “Neighbors
Watch as a California Black Bear is
Removed”
E2. VIDEOGRAPHER (Television)
Laurie Fernandez, CBS 2/KCAL 9, “Anaheim
Police Shooting”
Edward Lewis, Fox Sports West/Prime Ticket
Je Shearin, Fox Sports West/Prime Ticket
F2. NEWS (Radio)
Josie Huang, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles,
“Deferred Action”
Corey Moore, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles,
“Anaheim Violence”
Stephanie O’Neill, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles,
“Yosemite Hantavirus”
Vanessa Romo, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles,
“Miramonte Anger”
E3. NEWS (Television)
Laurie Fernandez & Jay Jackson, CBS 2/
KCAL9, “Anaheim Police Shooting”
Azucena Gomez, Telemundo Los Angeles
KVEA-52, “Hotel de Inmigrantes”
Bret Marcus, Justine Schmidt, Karen Foshay,
Jennifer London & Michael Bloecher, KCET-
TV, “Courting Disaster”
Bret Marcus, Rebecca Haggerty, Dina
Demetrius, Jennifer London & Cathy Hue,
KCET-TV, “GMO’s & Prop 37”
Bret Marcus, Rebecca Haggerty, Karen
Foshay, Brian Rooney & Michael Bloecher,
KCET-TV, “OC/Homeless”
H13. WEBSITE, NEWS ORGANIZATION,
EXCLUSIVE TO THE INTERNET
Juan Devis, Drew Tewksbury, Bruce Dickson &
Justin Cram, KCET-TV, “Artbound”
Joanie Harmon, Ampersand Online Magazine
– UCLA Graduate School of Education &
Information Studies, “Mike Rose: ‘Second
Chance’ Students Will Improve Economy,
Society”
Zuade Kaufman, Truthdig.com
Alexander Russo, Samantha Oltman, Hillel
Aron & Jamie Alter Lynton, L.A. School
Report, “L.A. School Report: October 11,
2012”
Amanda Wolfe, Kate Ackerman, Matthew
Wayt, George Lauer & David Gorn,
California HealthCare Foundation
& The Advisory Board Company,
“CaliforniaHealthline.org”
H14. WEBSITE, NEWS ORGANIZATION
(Print)
Nick Gillespie, Reason Magazine, “Reason.
com”
Sta, Glendale News-Press, “www.
glendalenewspress.com”
Sta, LA Weekly, “People Issue Microsite”
Sta, The Hollywood Reporter,
“Hollywoodreporter.com”
QUINN AWARD — FRED ROGGIN
A1. Print Journalist of the Year
(Newspapers over 50K)
Gustavo Arellano, OC Weekly
Matthew Belloni, The Hollywood Reporter
Fred Dickey, U-T San Diego
Matthew Garrahan, Financial Times
Gene Maddaus, LA Weekly
A2. Print Reporter, Columnist or Editor of
the Year (Newspapers under 50K)
James Rufus Koren, Los Angeles Business
Journal
Diana Martinez, San Fernando Valley Sun
Jon Regardie, Los Angeles Downtown News
Brian Sumers, Los Angeles Daily Journal
Ryan Vaillancourt, Los Angeles Downtown
News
finalists
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A5. Online Journalist of the Year
Catherine Green, Neon Tommy
Chris Hedges, Truthdig
Martin Henderson, Patch.com
Dylan Howard, CeleBuzz
Dennis Romero, LA Weekly
A6. Entertainment Journalist of the Year
Rachel Abrams, Variety
James Desborough, Freelance
Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter
Jennifer Garcia, People Magazine
Dylan Howard, CeleBuzz
A4. Radio Journalist of the Year
Alex Cohen, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles
Kitty Felde, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles
Warren Olney, KCRW 89.9 FM
Stephanie O’Neill, 89.3 FM – KPCC Los Angeles
Lance Orozco, KCLU AM/FM
A7. Photo Journalist of the Year
Jessica Chou, The Hollywood Reporter
Rick Loomis, Los Angeles Times
A3. Television Journalist of the Year
Robert Kovacik, NBC4
LA 40 PC
I was born and grew up in the suburbs, St. Albans in Queens, New York. It’s
not quite the hood but it played the hood on rap records. I studied aerospace
at Aviation HS and became a licensed aircraft mechanic. That was my first
career. I worked on everything from Stealth fighters to DC-10’s to private
jets. Lockheed, McDonnell Douglas, Continental Airlines to name a few,
then they started drug testing—just kidding.
Teaching aircraft mechanics led to my career in comedy. I had to make
the students laugh.
My first big break came at the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal. I
won season 3 of Last Comic Standing. I’ve hosted TV series including 101
Cars You Must Drive on Speed Channel and America’s Worst Driver on Travel
Channel. I’ve done all the late night shows: Tonight Show with Jay Leno,
Conan O’Brien show, The Late Show with Craig Kilbourne, Keenan Ivory
Wayans show and Comedy Central, to name a few. I’ve worked around the
world for the USO, I have played a security guard, bouncer, crook or cop on
numerous shows and a couple of films including Bringing Down the House
starring Steve Martin and Scary Movie 4. Of course my big credit is doing
monster voices for Power Rangers. No, I wasn’t in the suit, just the voice. I’m
not a writer but I play one on Showtime’s Californication. I’m also a regular
on NPR’s “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me” and KPCC’s Comedy Congress. By the
way, I’m single, like jazz and of course long walks on the beach.
I’m not kidding about liking jazz. I’ve hosted the Capital Jazz Festival in
Maryland and am a regular host and performer on the Smooth Jazz cruises
hosted by Marcus Miller and Dave Koz.
I am kidding about the beach. I can’t swim. I know, it’s a stereotype but I
guess sometimes they’re true.
JACK MAXWELL has acted on stage with Al Pacino, Ed Asner, Joe
Mantegna, Jean Smart, Bill Smitrovitch, Ron Perlman, Wendie Malick,
Robert Forster, Dan Lauria and with many other acting luminaries. He
has also shared the screen with Al Pacino in Wilde Salome, co-starring
Jessica Chastain. A few of his TV credits are House, Lost, 24, Without A
Trace, Frankling & Bash and Ugly Betty. He’s currently touring the United
States with Joe Bologna and Renee Taylor in Lovers and Other Strangers
and plays Steve Allen in Steve Allen’s Meeting of Minds, directed by Frank
Megna. Jack starred in the 2012 Indie film Window of Opportunity.
As a host, Maxwell did 200 episodes of the nationally syndicated
Uncovered for MGM, as well as Movie Showcase for DirecTV. He’s happy to
be back tonight for the fourth straight year as our Master of Ceremonies.
He is a lifetime member of the Actors Studio. www.jackmaxwell.com
ENTERTAINMENT
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EMCEE
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Big Bear Mountain Resorts Snow Summit
The Border Grille, Santa Monica
Brian Marshak/Rooftop Revolutionaries
Burn Fitness, Santa Monica
Center Theatre Group, Los Angeles
Cheesecake Factory, Los Angeles
Debell Golf Club, Scott Scozzola
Deer Valley Resort Park City, UT
Disneyland Anaheim
An Marie Ekfeldt
Fox Sports West – Prime Ticket
George C. Page Museum, Los Angeles
Grammy Museum, Los Angeles
Grand Hyatt Istanbul
HF Bar Ranch Saddlestring, WY
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L.A. Galaxy
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Lawry’s Prime Rib, Beverly Hills
Los Angeles Dodgers
Los Angeles Sparks
Los Angeles Zoo
Luxor Hotel, Las Vegas
Millennium Biltmore Hotel
Natural History Museum, Los Angeles
James A. Pasternak, DDS
Pussy n’ Pooch Pet Store
Queen Mary, Long Beach
Carl Reiner
Roxbury Jewelry
San Diego Safari Park
San Diego Zoo
SASH Bag
Six Flags Magic Mountain, Valencia
Sportthings & More
Sprinkles Cupcakes
Taste Melrose
Taste of Palisades
Tonight Show with Jay Leno/NBC
Tortilla Republic
Turkish Airlines
UltraZone Laser Tag, Sherman Oaks
Chris Woodyard, USA Today
World Famous Laugh Factory, Los Angeles
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55
th
AnnuAl Southern CAliforniA
Journalism awards & centennial celebration
55
th
AnnuAl Southern CAliforniA
Journalism awards & centennial celebration
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Awards Program
Editor Diana Ljungaeus
Design Director Candice Ota
Contributors Maria Armoudian, Diana Ljungaeus,
Frank Megna, Patt Morrison, Matthew
Mullins, Jon Regardie, Jill Stewart, and
Christina Villacorte
Copy editing Jon Regardie
Proof reading Bob Ladendorf and Jill Stewart
Printing: CE Graphics
55th Annual Southern California
Journalism Awards Gala
Producer Diana Ljungaeus
Technical Director Mark Drew
Camera Myles West
Script and
Creative Consultant Frank Megna
Sales Bill Moran
Executive Assistant Rebecka Pontón
Bookkeeper Anna Robertson
Visual Service Jules Baker and AGF Media
Emcee Jack Maxwell
Stage Manager Eva Minemar
Photographers: Kerstin Alm, Inae Bloom, Chris Bordeaux,
Thomas Engstrom, Gary Leonard and
Gloria Zuurveen
Flowers Anna Connell and Eva Lund
Silent and
online auction Will Lewis, Brian Marshak and Louise
Monaco
Volunteers Beth Barrett, Inae Bloom, Graciela Flores,
Joanie Harmon, Sean Holiday,
Elias Jabbe, Richard Martinez, Matthew
Mullins and Araks Terteryan
Judges Press Clubs in Cleveland, Connecticut,
Denver, East Bay, Florida, Houston, Kansas,
New Orleans, Milwaukee, Missouri,
Ohio, Syracuse and Wisconsin
GALA PRODUCER
Diana Ljungaeus
Diana Ljungaeus is Executive
Director of The Los Angeles
Press Club. She began her
career as a cub reporter in
Sweden at the age of fteen.
She has lived and worked
in the U.S. since 1996. Her
background has run the gamut
from researcher to reporter and
editor, to story/script writer and nally to theater,
lm and multimedia producer. She co-wrote the
independent feature, The Seekers. Together with
her husband, Frank Megna, she owns and runs the
small live theater venue Working Stage Theater in
West Hollywood, as well as the non-prot educa-
tional theater and lm organization Opening Minds
Productions. She has produced or co-produced
the Southern California Journalism Awards Gala for
more than a decade.
Special thanks to:
Andrew Weiss Gallery; Alex Ben Block; Florie Brizel;
Alex Brod, Empire Diamond; Mauricio Bultrago,
Aero Mexico; Pat Gorman, Turkish Airlines Inc.; Bob
Ladendorf; Louise Monaco; Jon Regardie; Steve
Duchesne; Carolina Sarassa, MundoFox; Will Lewis;
Bess Scher; Bill Moran; Research Video Inc.; Henry
L.A. Car Service; Mary Grace; Coco Rodriguez; Los
Angeles Angels; Terri Hernandez Rosales NBC4;
Andre Marcel & AMB Publicity; United Fireghters;
Dayna Clark at The Paley Center for Media; Olivia
Manzo, Millennium Biltmore Hotel
CREDITS
We fly to more countries than any other airline.
