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 Truthdig Wins Top Honors at L.A. Press Club AwardsPosted on Jun 27, 2011
The Los Angeles Press Club held its 53rd annual Southern California Journalism Awards on Sunday night, and Truthdig emerged triumphant from the historic Millennium Biltmore hotel, taking home prizes for Best Website Exclusive to the Internet, Best Online Sports Writing and Online Journalist. The judicial panel described Truthdig as a whole as a “good-looking, interactive and deep website.” The sports award went to Mark Heisler for his piece Role Models for the Id, which the Press Club’s judges called “very informative, entertaining, witty and provocative” (we agree); and Truthdig columnists Chris Hedges and Robert Scheer drew second-place and honorable-mention accolades, respectively, in the Online Journalist lineup. Check out the complete list of winners at this year’s event, at which “60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl, NBC News senior foreign correspondent Richard Engel and KTTV investigative reporter John Schwada were also honored, here.
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By gib, July 16, 2011 at 4:06 pm Link to this comment
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Congratulations! L.A. Press Club agreed with me!
Report thisBy radson, June 28, 2011 at 8:33 am Link to this comment
Lucy Berbeo:Tnx for the clarification,but I still consider it rather odd when the overall concept of TD
is predominately political.
Cheers
Report thisBy thecrow, June 28, 2011 at 7:17 am Link to this comment
In seventeen years of doing this, nothing bad had happened to me. I was never fired or threatened with dismissal if I kept looking under rocks. I didn’t get any death threats that worried me. I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV shows, and judging journalism contests.
So how could I possibly agree with people like Noam Chomsky and Ben Bagdikian, who were claiming the system didn’t work, that it was steered by powerful special interests and corporations, and existed to protect the power elite? Hell, the system worked just fine, as far as I could tell. It encouraged enterprise. It rewarded muckraking.
And then I wrote some stories that made me realize how sadly misplaced my bliss had been. The reason I’d enjoyed such smooth sailing for so long hadn’t been, as I’d assumed, because I was careful and diligent and good at my job. It turned out to have nothing to do with it. The truth was that, in all those years, I hadn’t written anything important enough to suppress.
- Gary Webb
http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/gary-webbs-parting-sh0t/
Report thisBy Wildeye, June 28, 2011 at 2:02 am Link to this comment
Congrats, Truthdig. Keep up the good work.
Report thisBy Lucy Berbeo, June 27, 2011 at 8:20 pm Link to this comment
Hi rico, suave and radson,
Mark Heisler, who covers the NBA for the Los Angeles Times, is a regular contributor to Truthdig. In addition to receiving this year’s award for “Role Models for the Id,” he was honored last year for his Truthdig column, “It’s Not About Tiger Woods, It’s About Us.”
The nonprofit Los Angeles Press Club was founded a century ago and sends out award entries for judging by volunteers from press clubs in major cities across the United States. The Press Club’s Southern California Journalism Awards have honored high-caliber Los Angeles-based journalism for the past 53 years.
Sincerely,
Lucy Berbeo
Report thisAssistant Publisher, Truthdig
By rollzone, June 27, 2011 at 11:50 am Link to this comment
well, hello. congratulations! you are the best at
Report thisfeeding us what they want us to read. you have LA-LA
style all over your page. you certainly deserved this
award. keep up the great feed.
By jr., June 27, 2011 at 11:30 am Link to this comment
Congratulations Truthdig!
Report thisBy radson, June 27, 2011 at 11:00 am Link to this comment
rico:I was wondering the same thing WHAT Sports?
Report thisBy rico, suave, June 27, 2011 at 10:40 am Link to this comment
Best online SPORTS writing???!!!
Now I KNOW for a fact that these awards are given in a total vacuum, completely irrelevant to the merits or deserts of the “awardee”.
Are these awards settled by a blindfolded dart thrower???
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