Truthdig Nominated for 12 SoCal Journalism Awards
The Los Angeles Press Club will reveal the contest's winners June 30 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.
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On Tuesday, Los Angeles Press Club unveiled its list of finalists for the 61st Annual SoCal Journalism Awards, a contest that received more than 1,700 entries. Truthdig earned 12 nominations, including for best website belonging to a news organization exclusive to the Internet (Publisher Zuade Kaufman and Editor in Chief Robert Scheer).
“This year, more journalists entered the SoCal contest than ever before, breaking old records and setting new, higher standards!” read a message on the Los Angeles Press Club website.
Truthdig’s Ear to the Ground section, which features work by Ilana Novick, Jacob Sugarman and Gregory Glover, was nominated in the best blog category. Maj. Danny Sjursen, whose American History for Truthdiggers series and policy columns appear regularly on Truthdig, was nominated for best columnist. Mr. Fish‘s artful, hard-hitting cartoons also received a collective mention in the editorial cartoon category.
Other Truthdig nominees include Chris Hedges for his searing meditation on modern capitalism, “The ‘Gig Economy’ Is the New Term for Serfdom” and economic and banking expert Ellen Brown for her column “Banks Are Becoming Obsolete in China—Could the U.S. Be Next?” Eunice Wong, editor of Truthdig’s book review section, landed a nomination for her own review of “The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family,” which was surely one of the more memorable book titles of the year as well. Truthdig photojournalist Michael Nigro’s impactful photo essay “The Border in Black and White,” captured during a December trip to the U.S.-Mexico border, also received a nomination, as did Bill Blum’s dire warning about the legal implications of the Department of Justice’s accusations against the founder of WikiLeaks, “The Dangerous Rush to Judgment Against Julian Assange.”
Truthdig’s Managing Editor Jacob Sugarman figures among the finalists for his original reporting in “‘The G-20 Is Death,’ and Other Lessons in Global Capitalism,” as does Assistant Editor Natasha Hakimi Zapata for two separate pieces, “The Late, Great Ursula K. Le Guin” and “Conservatives Own the Ongoing Disaster That Is Brexit.”
The winners will be announced June 30 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.
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