LA Observed: Press Club honors Michael Kelly

Press Club honors Michael Kelly

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The Los Angeles Press Club plans to give its second Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism to Michael Kelly, the editor at large for Atlantic Monthly and Washington Post columnist who died covering the Iraq invasion. The club is having its annual awards dinner on June 21 in Universal City.

Other honorees already announced are Laura Diaz, an anchor at CBS 2 News, who will receive the Joseph M. Quinn Award for Journalistic Excellence and Distinction, and the President's Award to L.A. Times columnist Al Martinez. A bunch of other awards will also be handed out, including L.A. Journalist of the Year. The finalists in that category are Sonia Nazario and Steve Lopez of the Times and political columnist Jill Stewart, formerly of New Times.

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Laura Diaz? Get real.....

Posted by: PaperTiger at June 6, 2003 10:32 AM

there aren't many actual journalists left working in local TV news...Diaz isn't one of them...why she is being honored is not only silly, but insulting to those few TV reporters who still actually know how to work a story.

Posted by: El Scoop at June 7, 2003 09:40 PM

I'm sure they're not just trying to sell tickets...nothing like that...nahhhh.

Posted by: dez at June 8, 2003 04:33 PM

Laura Diaz is the best and most popular female anchor in LA (20 years in the market)... and the LA press club agree with ME!!!

Posted by: localguy at June 10, 2003 07:10 AM

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