THANK YOU! I am honored to be a FIVE TIME finalist for the 2024 66th annual Southern California Journalism Awards. I am a finalist for , Podcast Host and for three of my podcast interviews with Andrew McCarthy, Samantha Brown and Christie Tate.
The Los Angeles Press Club stated that “The work of represents the best reporting in the region out of more than 2,300 entries submitted this year. The winners will be announced at an awards dinner gala at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday, June 23, 2024.”
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Michael Schneider, Clayton Davis, Jazz Tangcay, Jenelle Riley, Emily Longeretta, Variety
Susan Valot, Quanta Magazine Science Podcast
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Thank you to the 91传媒 Journal for 13 years of support for my writing. Congrats to all of the 91传媒 Journal finalists in the SoCal Journalism Awards. See them all in this article: “91传媒 Journal Nominated for 11 SoCal Journalism Awards by LA Press Club”
Lisa Niver has won! From 2017 to 2024, in the Southern California Journalism Awards and National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards, she has won six times and been a finalist thirty times for a variety of broadcast, print, podcast and digital categories.
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- Lyndsey Parker, Totally 鈥�80s Podcast
- Michael Schneider, Clayton Davis, Jazz Tangcay, Jenelle Riley, Emily Longeretta, Variety
- Susan Valot, Quanta Magazine Science Podcast
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- Alex Cohen, Sara Sadhwani, Crystal Goss, Yazmin Cruz, Nathaniel Leathers, Spectrum 91传媒 1, 鈥淚nside the Issues: The Podcast 鈥楳arqueece Harris-Dawson鈥欌��
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- Robert Scheer, ScheerPost, 鈥淣uclear War Imminent?鈥�
Thank you to the 91传媒 Journal for 13 years of support for my writing. Congrats to all of the 91传媒 Journal finalists in the SoCal Journalism Awards. See them all in this article: “91传媒 Journal Nominated for 11 SoCal Journalism Awards by LA Press Club”- 2019 Winner:听
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