Who is a winner at the Southern California Journalism Awards?

 

Who is a winner at the Southern California Journalism awards?
Lisa Niver, Photo by Curtis Sabir

Thank you! I was honored to be a finalist in two categories for the 59th Southern California Journalism Awards and delighted to receive second place in the Print Column category for “A Journey to Freedom Over Three Passovers.” I was a finalist for Travel Reporting with my story about Mongolia.

WINNERS F7. COLUMN
Tom Hoffarth, Los Angeles Daily News, “Vin Scully’s Final Call”

2nd Lisa Niver, The Jewish Journal, “A Journey to Freedom Over Three Passovers”

3rd Sharon Smith, Downey Patriot, “The Problem With Senior Housing”

FINALISTS F7. COLUMN
*Patricia Bunin, Southern California News Group, “When Nothing Special Moments Are Everything”
*Tom Hoffarth, Los Angeles Daily News, “Vin Scully’s Final Call”
*Lisa Niver, The Jewish Journal, “A Journey to Freedom Over Three Passovers”
*Jon Regardie, Los Angeles Downtown News, “David Without a Slingshot (Yet)”
*Sharon Smith, Downey Patriot, The Problem With Senior Housing”

FINALISTS X13. TRAVEL REPORTING
*Brad A. Johnson, Bradajohnson.net, “Trout Fishing and the Yearning for Peace in Kashmir”
*Todd Krainin, Reason, “Gurgaon: India’s Private City”
*Lisa Niver, Mountain Travel Sobek, “Mongolia: Land of Dunes & Moonrises”
*Gwynedd Stuart, L.A. Weekly, “How to Go to Disneyland as an Adult and Not Want to Die”
*Susan Valot, KCRW, “For the Curious: A Visit to the Oldest Juniper Tree in America”

What awards did the Jewish Journal win?

“Jewish Journal senior writer Danielle Berrin was named Journalist of the Year by the Los Angeles Press Club at its 59th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards banquet on June 25. She won in the category for print publications with circulations of 50,000 and above.

Who is a winner at the Southern California Journalism awards?
Lisa Niver and Marty Kaplan

Other Jewish Journal winners included columnist Marty Kaplan, who won first place for “Is Campaign News Necessary?” Berrin took third place in the same category for “Huma Abedin and the Real Housewives of Politics.”

Contributing editor Tom Tugend took second place for his personality profile “Looking Back at War on Memorial Day”; contributing writer Lisa Niver won second place for her column “A Journey to Freedom Over Three Passovers”; book editor Jonathan Kirsch was awarded second place for criticism of books, art, architecture and design for “Shock Is Followed by Awe Over Foer’s New Novel”; editor-in-chief and publisher Rob Eshmanwon third place for food and culture criticism for “Jonathan Gold on Eating Your Entire City”; and staff writer Eitan Arom took third place for hard news for his story “The Complex, Secret Path to Becoming an Orthodox Jew.”

Who is a winner at the Southern California Journalism awards?
Lisa Niver, Jessi Berrin and Danielle Berrin, Journalist of the Year

From the Los Angeles Press Club event at the Biltmore: See all the winners and all the finalists for the 59th annual Southern California Journalism Awards.

Who is a winner at the Southern California Journalism awards?

VideoMayor Eric Garcetti: “Thank you for being the light” 

Mayor Eric Garcetti: “The urgency of what you do in this moment is so important in this city, in this country and this world. Thank you for being the light. What you do is safeguarding this democracy. What you are doing is breathing life back in to what we stand for. I certainly am grateful for that. If you didn’t do your job I couldn’t do my job.”

Who is a winner at the Southern California Journalism awards?
Lisa Niver and Andrea Mitchell, winner of The Joseph M. Quinn Award for Lifetime Achievement
Who is a winner at the Southern California Journalism awards?
Lisa Niver and Daniel Berehulak, winner of Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism
Who is a winner at the Southern California Journalism awards?
The Jewish Journal Table at the Southern California Journalism Awards
Who is a winner at the Southern California Journalism awards?
Lisa Niver, Kat Kramer and Diana Ljungaeus, Executive Director of the Los Angeles Press Club

Do you want to be a travel writer too? Enter the We Said Go Travel Summer Writing Competition! In honor of Lisa’s award, we extended the deadline! Next month, we will have our first ever photo competition.

Lisa Ellen Niver

Lisa Niver is an award-winning travel expert who has explored 102 countries on six continents. This University of Pennsylvania graduate sailed across the seas for seven years with Princess Cruises, Royal Caribbean, and Renaissance Cruises and spent three years backpacking across Asia. Discover her articles in publications from AARP: The Magazine and AAA Explorer to WIRED and Wharton Magazine, as well as her site WeSaidGoTravel. On her award nominated global podcast, Make Your Own Map, Niver has interviewed Deepak Chopra, Olympic medalists, and numerous bestselling authors, and as a journalist has been invited to both the Oscars and the United Nations. For her print and digital stories as well as her television segments, she has been awarded three Southern California Journalism Awards and two National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards and been a finalist twenty-two times. Named a #3 travel influencer for 2023, Niver talks travel on broadcast television at KTLA TV Los Angeles, her YouTube channel with over 2 million views, and in her memoir, Brave-ish, One Breakup, Six Continents and Feeling Fearless After Fifty.

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