Los Angeles Press Club Honors PBS SoCal with Ten First Place Honors at Southern California Journalism Awards
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Los Angeles, Calif. – June 25, 2024 – PBS SoCal, Southern California’s flagship PBS organization, announced today 10 first-place honors for the 66th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards presented by the Los Angeles Press Club. The wins were spread across seven different programs/series in 24 categories and honored a variety of locally produced series/productions including 10 DAYS IN WATTS, ARTBOUND, UNIDAD and HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT GREG? from PBS SoCal. Winners in all print, radio, podcast, TV and online categories (from more than 2,300 entries submitted this year) were announced in all categories presented during a ceremony on Sunday, June 23rd at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles. The honorees’ work can be seen on pbssocal.org and on the free PBS video App.
The 14th season of the original Emmy® award-winning arts and culture series ARTBOUND led the organization’s tally with three wins, including one for “Chinatown Punk Wars” in the prestigious “Feature Documentary (over 25 minutes)” category. The documentary follows two Chinatown restaurants that became the implausible heart of L.A.’s burgeoning punk scene in the 1970s. Other notable category honors included actor and filmmaker Raphael Sbarge (Once Upon a Time, Murder in the First) and his team for the urban garden docuseries 10 DAYS IN WATTS in the “Public Service News or Feature” category as well as BONNIE BOSWELL PRESENTS: “Saving Moms,” which investigates the country’s rapidly growing maternal mortality epidemic, that took top honors in the “News Feature (Over 5 Minutes)” category.
The organization’s WEEKLY ARTS digital series as well as co-productions “UNIDAD: Gay & Lesbian Latinos Unidos,” “HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT GREG? A Journey Through Alzheimer's” and “MEMORIAL DAY MASSACRE: Workers Die, Film Buried” rounded out the organization’s wins on Sunday night.
PBS SoCal also scored a number of second and third place honors. Among those of note was ARTBOUND producer Nic Cha Kim who scored a second-place nod for television journalist of the year and “MEMORIAL DAY MASSACRE: Workers Die, Film Buried” which took second place for the A Mark Prize for reporting on misinformation and disinformation.
The full list of first-place honors for PBS SoCal is as follows:
Feature Documentary (Over 25 Minutes)
- Steven Kochones, Daniel Sollinger, Tamara Gould, Angela Boisvert, Nic Cha Kim, ARTBOUND: “Chinatown Punk Wars”
News Feature (Over 5 Minutes)
- Bonnie Boswell, Angela Boisvert, Phil Hughes, Taylor Hamilton, Kathy Kasaba, BONNIE BOSWELL PRESENTS “Saving Moms”
Public Service News or Feature
- Raphael Sbarge, Saga Elmohtaseb, Rick Pratt, Jenna DeAngeles, Felipe Vara De Rey, 10 DAYS IN WATTS “Legacy”
Non-Entertainment Personality Profile/Interview
- Brendan Bubion, Paula Kiley, Justin Cram, Suzanne Mejean Pinney, Noah Gutteriez, “WEEKLY ARTS: Ramsess' Portraits Honor Historic Figures in Black History”
Human Interest Feature (Over 5 Minutes)
- Nic Cha Kim, Tamara Gould, Angela Boisvert, Suzanne Mejean Pinney, Marley Lister, ARTBOUND “Little Amal”
Gender and Society Reporting
- Gregorio Dàvila, Roland Palencia, Mario J. Novoa, Michelle Merker, UNIDAD “Gay & Lesbian Latinos Unidos”
National Political/Government Reporting
- Greg Mitchell, Lyn Goldfarb, Michelle Merker, “MEMORIAL DAY MASSACRE: Workers Die, Film Buried”
Medical/Health Reporting
- Steve Ecclesine, “HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT GREG? A Journey Through Alzheimer's”
Faith/Spiritual Reporting
- Justin Cram, Brendan Bubion, Paula Kiley, Daniel Leonard, “WEEKLY ARTS: Sisters InfoShop Highlights Nuns' Activism and Aims to Spark Conversation”
Videographer
- Gionatan Tecle, ARTBOUND “L.A. Rebellion: A Cinematic Movement”
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PBS SoCal uses the power of public media for good, strengthening the civic fabric of Southern California and providing our community with an essential connection to a wider world. As a local, donor/member-supported non-profit organization, PBS SoCal is available to stream on the PBS app and the PBS Kids App and reaches nearly 19M viewers across 7 Broadcast channels — including 2 primary channels, PBS SoCal and PBS SoCal Plus and 5 digital subchannels. With a commitment to make content available anytime and anywhere for free, PBS SoCal offers programming that reflects the diversity of Southern California and showcases the full schedule of beloved and trusted PBS content spanning Education, News, Environment and Arts & Culture. PBS SoCal also sparks the sharing of ideas at in-person cultural events and community conversations as well as prepares children for kindergarten and beyond by bringing bilingual, hands-on learning experiences to the community for free.