Southern California Information Group journalists not too long ago obtained 13 awards – together with three first locations and one choice in a single class – on the Los Angeles Press Membership’s annual gala occasion.
The press membership held its 63rd SoCal Journalism Awards earlier this month in downtown Los Angeles, honoring the perfect work of 2020 from a wide range of regional media retailers.
The awards ceremony normally takes place in the summertime, however has been postponed to October this 12 months as a result of coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic additionally compelled final 12 months’s occasion to go digital.
The press membership introduced awards in additional than 150 classes, together with the perfect public service journalism on all platforms; greatest information function in print, each for publications with a circulation of greater than 50,000 and for these of lower than 50,000; greatest function photograph – and even for greatest headline and social media use. The awards additionally honored the journalists of the 12 months.
Hayley Munguia, former SCNG native authorities reporter for Lengthy Seaside Press-Telegram, took third place as Journalist of the Yr for newspapers with a circulation of lower than 50,000.
Scott Schwebke, an investigative reporter for SCNG, obtained two awards for first place. He and fellow reporter Joe Nelson took first place within the investigative class, within the below 50,000 circulation division, for a collection of San Bernardino Solar tales about corruption points within the West Valley Water District.
Schwebke additionally received the Information class within the below 50,000 circulation class for an article within the Los Angeles Each day Information a couple of transgender army veteran who was honorably discharged 36 years after retiring from the US Air Pressure.
SCNG really swept this class:
Former Pasadena Star Information reporter Bradley Bermont got here in second for his story a couple of crew of firefighters tasked with defending the Mt. Wilson Observatory through the Bobcat Fireplace.
And Munguia took third place together with her function on an engineer who helped construct the Perseverance rover and recorded her lives, from being youngsters of refugees who fled the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia to working for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
LA Each day Information columnist Dennis McCarthy received first place for greatest columnist within the division with a circulation of lower than 50,000.
SCNG workers additionally obtained the next awards:
- Brad Johnson: Third Place in Meals / Tradition Critique, All Media Platforms; second place within the weblog class for a narrative about its Meals & Journey; and third place for journey experiences, each platform for a narrative on his meals & journey weblog.
- Ryan Carter and Jeff Collins: Third place within the Enterprise class, newspapers with a circulation of greater than 50,000.
- Munguia: Second place in persona profile, newspapers with a circulation of lower than 50,000.
- Emily Rasmussen and Eric Licas: Third place within the Exhausting Information class, Newspapers of each circulation.
- Munguia, Rasmussen, Licas, Tyler Shaun Evains and Chris Haire: Second place within the Race and Society class, newspapers of each circulation.
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