Celebrities and reporters gathered Sunday night at the Millennium Biltmore's Crystal Ballroom in downtown Los Angeles for the 54th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards and OC Weekly staffers grabbed seven honors.
Three of the Weekly's awards were for first place: Michelle Woo for Best Personality Profile, Lilledeshan Bose for Best Entertainment News or Feature, and a guy named Moxley for Best Business Story.
Gustavo Arellano (business coverage), Nick Schou (investigative work), Taylor Hamby (entertainment news), Laila Derakhshanian and Jesse Lenz (both for publication design) were also honored with second or third place awards.
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Here's what the judges said about Woo's “Dave Gibbons is a Church Misfit”: [Woo]
tells a compelling story about a man who's straddling different
worlds: that of the leader of a mega church who decides that's not the
path for him. The story is told effectively and the anecdote about
Gibbons' time at Bob Jones University serves to show how he had to find
the right path for himself.”
Here's what the judges said about Bose's “The Yost Theatre is Ready For Its Closeup”: “This is a crisp, brisk thorough account of the controversial reformation
of a community landmark, sparkling with detail and clever turn of
phrase. A nice job on a good yarn.”
Here's what the judges said about my “Pyramid Scheme”: “This is a terrific narrative that makes you feel like you're in the
middle of this sting, complete with would-be high rollers who insisted
the investors must come in with at least $5 billion, but would make an
exception in this case . . . Con artists and clever FBI special agents eventually exposed the game. This story had many moving parts and Moxley
covered them all exceptionally well.”
The awards banquet featured celebrity award presenters like Martin Sheen, Ernie Hudson, Ron Pearlman and Pauley Perrette.
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the legendary Washington Post duo of Watergate fame,
received the “President's Award.” Woodward, who is in the final stages of new book, appeared by remote camera
from Washington, D.C. while Bernstein gave a live speech designed to
inspire future investigative reporters.
The family of slain journalist Daniel Pearl was given the “Daniel Pearl Award” for “courage and integrity in journalism.”
CBS2/KCAL reporter David Goldstein took the “Joseph M. Quinn Award” for his consistently excellent, hard-hitting investigative stories that expose corruption.
We spotted ex-Weekly staffer Rich Kane, who was honored for his superb work at Laguna Beach Patch.
The Orange County Register, OC's largest news media organization, won three second place awards: Roxana Kopetman for a news feature, and Timothy Spangler for commentary and sports.
Since its inception in 1995, OC Weekly has won hundreds of national, regional and local journalism awards.
Journalists working in the Village Voice Media media empire (that includes the Weekly) have won a Pulitzer Prize four times.
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CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.
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