Selection received eight first-place awards Sunday night time on the Los Angeles Press Club‘s 66th annual SoCal Journalism Awards, together with a prime win for govt editor Brent Lang as leisure journalist of the 12 months.
Selection got here into the 2024 ceremony with 74 nominations, representing work printed by staffers on-line or within the weekly print version through the 2023 calendar 12 months.
Lang led the record of employees wins by choosing up received three awards in all. Moreover his leisure journalist of the 12 months trophy, Lang additionally received for character profile/magazines for his cowl story on Michael J. Fox, and he shared the award for leisure function/TV with Tatiana Siegel and Matt Donnelly for his or her story “Showstopper! Strikes Plunge Hollywood Into Chaos With Dear Film Delays, Pay Battles and AI Nervousness.”
Siegel was a double-winner. Moreover sharing the latter award with Lang, she additionally received within the class of leisure information/magazines for the story “A Fired ‘Scream Star, Purchasers Booted From Companies and a Secret Tom Cruise Assembly: Inside Hollywood’s Divide Over Israel.”
Profitable two as properly was Brian Steinberg, who got here in first for commentary/evaluation of TV for “David Zaslav Likes to Intestine Cable Networks — CNN Isn’t Simply Transformed,” and in addition character profile/TV personalities for his story “Streaming Information Threw Kasie Hunt Some Curves — Now She’s Straightening Them Out.”
Selome Haily received character profile/movie personalities for the article “Lily Gladstone on Welcoming ‘Flower Moon’ Criticism, Mollie’s Company and Scorsese’s Limitations Whereas Telling an Osage Story.”
Chris Willman picked up the award for leisure commentary/arts for his opinion piece “Jason Aldean Already Had the Most Contemptible Nation Tune of the Decade — The Video Is Worse.”
The 2024 awards had been handed out throughout a gala dinner attended by greater than 500 journalists and company within the historic Crystal Ballroom on the Millennium Biltmore Resort in downtown Los Angeles.
A full record of the SoCal Journalism Awards’ first-, second- and third-place finishers will probably be printed on the L.A. Press Club‘s web site shortly. The org stated {that a} file 2,300 entries got here in from L.A.-based publications and journalists this 12 months.
Aside from the night time’s aggressive awards, six esteemed journalists or public figures had been honored with honorary or lifetime achievement awards all through the 66th annual gala, together with actress Jane Seymour (introduced by Kevin Ryan), Amanda Salas of Fox 11 (introduced by Jerry O’Connell), Stephen A. Smith of ESPN, Mickey H. Osterreicher of the Nationwide Press Photographers Affiliation (introduced by Adam Rose), and Evan Gershkovich of the Wall Avenue Journal (introduced by Judea Pearl). Gershkovich was introduced his award in absentia, as he stays within the custody of the Russian authorities, which has charged him with spying.
The 2024 SoCal Journalism Awards had been introduced “in loving reminiscence” of two beloved native journalists who died this 12 months. Ruth Ashton Taylor’s profession went again to the Forties, earlier than she made historical past as the primary feminine newscaster on the west coast. She died in January at age 101. Sam Rubin, the weekday leisure anchor on KTLA’s Morning Information, died Could 10 at age 64.
The SoCal Journalism Awards are considered one of two awards reveals introduced by the Los Angeles Press Membership annually. The opposite, the Nationwide Arts & Leisure Journalism Awards, honoring work from throughout the U.S., will subsequent happen on the Biltmore on Dec. 1, 2024.
