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Sure, the headline could be better, but there are six names and why show bias to the big guys, right?
JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Print Over 100,000 Circulation
STEVE LOPEZ - Los Angeles Times
Print Under 100,000 Circulation
JEFFREY ANDERSON - Los Angeles Daily Journal
Television Anchor or Reporter
JORDI ORTEGA - KVEA Telemundo 52
Radio Anchor or Reporter
KITTY FELDE - KPCC 89.3 FM
Sports Anchor or Reporter
STEVE GRAD - KNX Newsradio
Photo Journalist or Designer
DON BARTLETTI - Los Angeles Times
Full List of winners with judge's comments and second-place finishers
Finalists
Los Angeles Press Club site
Observations: Lopez beat out his LAT colleague Sonia Nazario, who won the Pulitzer for crissake...But the judges really like Lopez: "His talent is really a lost art. This type of writing is what this nation needs more of."...The Times took home 14 awards, from Hilburn to Pucin, way more than anyone else. [Ed.: Actually, KPCC took home 12...] Names that also repeat on the list include the Daily Journal (we'd link more to them if it were possible), the Press Telegram, KTLA, Warren Olney and the Daily News....Matt Welch of L.A. Examiner.com got two for online columns he wrote on other sites...And we're not surprised to see Mark Lacter, editor of the L.A. Business Journal, win for his Comment columns. We've never met him, but he seems like a fine editor (see 2nd graf of the following item)...
So what that Sonia won a Pulitzer. Pulitzers are for hacks. Her Enrique story was overwrought and manipulative.
Posted by: Luke Ford at June 23, 2003 08:30 AMGiven the mangled syntax and unadulterated witlessness of the judges’ comments, can one really be expected to take this competition seriously?
Posted by: Allan Mayer at June 23, 2003 03:53 PMLaura Diaz won an award. Why? For being pretty and Latino? The only reasons that woman could possibly retain a job in the "news" business.
Posted by: Hack London at June 24, 2003 05:16 AMIf ethnicity gets you a job as a journalist (can there be any doubt about this?) why shouldn't it get you a prize?
And for other ways to look at the Nazario story read here http://www.vdare.com/guzzardi/enrique.htm and here http://www.vdare.com/guzzardi/the_loser.htm
Posted by: ns at June 24, 2003 05:43 AM
of LA Observed
Kitty Felde won for "knowing how to tactfully ask questions"? Isn't it a reporter's job to ask questions? Her "tact" seems a pretty lame attribute, considering she's not interviewing OJ, Jessica Lynch or anyone actually newsworthy.
Posted by: Raymonda E. at June 23, 2003 08:13 AM