journalism awards national

THIRD ANNUAL
NATIONAL
Entertainment
JOURNALISM
AWARDS
APRIL 22, 2010
STEVE ALLEN THEATER
HOLLYWOOD
The Los Angeles Press Club
congratulates all the winners
and our first-ever
Best of Show selection
for taking honors at the
National Entertainment
Journalism Awards.
Fine work by all!
2010 National Entertainment Journalism Awards Finalists by Running Order
1. PRINT – News
Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News, “E.T. go Nome?”
2. PRINT – Feature/ Series Over 1,000 words
Brian Dowling, Columbia Magazine, NewHaven, CT
Anthony Effinger and Daniel Taub, Bloomberg Markets,
“All Shook Up”
Izumi Hasegawa, Japanese Movie Magazine
Martha Sarabia, La Opinion, “Telenovelas”
Richard Siklos, Fortune, “The Fight Over Michael’s
Millions”
3. ONLINE – Entertainment Website
Detroit Free Press and Freep.com, “Motown at 50”
Shawn Edwards and Valerie Freeman,
ILoveBlackMovies.com
TheWrap, TheWrap.com
4. ONLINE – Entertainment Critic of the Year
MaryAnn Johanson, Flickfilosopher.com
Peter Rainer, CSMonitor.com
Tom Tangney, MyNorthwest.com
Desson Thomson, TheWrap.com
Rick Warner, Bloomberg News
5. TV – News
George Pennacchio, KABC, “Oscar Pre-Show”
6. TV – Feature
Shawn Edwards, Fox 4 News, Kansas City, “Chat with
the Stars”
George Pennacchio, KABC, “Crips and Bloods”
George Pennacchio, KABC, “Misty Upham”
7. RADIO – News
Barbara Gasser, KroneHit, Austrian radio, “Court
decision on Chris Brown’s assault on Rihanna”
8. RADIO – Feature
John DeSando and Kristin Dreyer Kramer, WCBE 90.5
FM Columbus, Ohio, “It’s Movie Time’s Year in Review”
Scott Immergut.and Matt Holzman, KCRW’S The
Business, “D23 Disney Convention”
Brian Lauritzen and Gail Eichenthal, KUSC.org, Classical
USC Radio’s Arts Alive, “Nancy Bea Hefley”
9. ONLINE – News
Andrew Gumbel, “The Wrap Investigates the Closure of
the Motion Picture & Television Fund Long-term Care
Center”
Steven Mikulan, “Kafka-esque Twilight at the MPTF”
Sharon Waxman, TheWrap.com, “Exclusive: Comcast in
Talks to Buy Universal”
Amy Kaufman, TheWrap.com, “Are Aspiring Writers
Being Lured With Promises ‘Fade In’ Can’t Keep?”
Jeanne Wolf, Parade, “Saying Goodbye Isn’t Easy”
10. ONLINE – Feature
Andrew Gumbel, “The Closure of Motion Picture &
Television Fund Long-term Care Center”
Brent Lang, TheWrap.com, “Look Who’s Winning the
B.O. Battle of the Sexes”
Steven Mikulan, TheWrap.com, “MPTF”
Zachary Pincus-Roth, Slate.com, “Best Weekend Never”
Brad Schreiber, HuffingtonPost.com, “Athol Fugard: Art
Battling Apartheid and Aids”
11. PRINT – Feature (Personality Profile)
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly, “Boxing, Sex and Madness:
Mike Tyson, James Toback and the Ties that Bind.”
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly for “Eastwood on the Pitch.”
Robert Gordon, Playboy, “Soul Man.”
Monica Rizzo, People, “Melissa’s Revenge!”
Eric Spitznagel, Playboy, “Andy Richter Grows Up.”
12. PRINT – Feature Under 1,000 Words
Barbara Gasser, My Entertainment Magazine, “Star
Wars: The Clone Wars”
Lisa Ingrassia, People, “Kelly Osbourne: I knew if I didn’t
get help, I would die”
Libby Molyneaux, L.A. Weekly, “The Throat / Lemmy”
Martha Sarabia, La Opinion, “The Venezuelan Export
Gustavo Dudamel”
Jeanne Wolf, Parade, “Have Faith in Something Big”
13. PRINT – Entertainment Critic of the Year
Jason Bracelin, Las Vegas Review Journal
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly
Manny the Movie Guy, The Desert Sun
John Simon, Bloomberg News
Lavender Vroman, Antelope Valley Press
14. RADIO – Entertainment Critic of the Year
John DeSando and Kristin Dreyer, WCBE
Matt Holzman, KCRW
Larry Mantle, KPCC
Joe Morgenstern, KCRW
15. ONLINE – Best Entertainment Blog by an
individual
Shawn Edwards, ILoveBlackMovies.com
Tom Tangney, MyNorthwest.com
16. PRINT – Best Entertainment Publication
Antelope Valley Press – Lavender Vroman, Julie Jane
Rios, Steve Galbreath
L.A. Weekly Film Issue – Drex Heikes, Tom Christie,
Scott Foundas
17. BEST IN SHOW ($500 Award)
The Barbecue...
A
ward-winning KTLA entertainment journalist
Sam Rubin is an institution for many Southern
Californians who’ve come to rely on his insightful
broadcast coverage of Hollywood. But the millions
who have seen his witty delivery and in-depth
coverage on TV might not know just how much
grit – that’s right, grit – makes up the full Sam Rubin
package.
With Mel Gibson set to make a big return to the
screen on May 7 in Edge of Darkness, it was Rubin
who pushed Gibson to explain how he felt about being disliked by some
for his drunken slurs aimed at a Jewish cop in 2006 as he was being arrested on a DUI. The sometimes-charming, sometimes-biting Rubin wanted
an answer from the mega-millionaire actor and director of The Passion of
the Christ – and neither side backed down.
The surprisingly tense exchange unfolded like this:
Rubin: “Some people will welcome you back, some will say you should
never come back.”
Gibson: “Why?”
Rubin: “Because of what happened before.”
Gibson: “What happened before?”
Rubin: “The remarks that were attributed to you.”
Gibson: “The remarks that were attributed to me that I didn't
necessarily make!”
Rubin’s interview went big on the Internet, just another reminder that
this film industry expert, experienced reporter, and frequent awards-show
host not only has access to top Hollywood talent and studio executives,
but doesn’t play the role of best pal when hard questions are needed.
And let’s be honest, who didn’t want to cheer a few months ago
when Rubin, his eyes glittering with mischief and irritation, and his wildly
expressive eyebrows raised, looked into the camera and called provocateur
blogger Perez Hilton a “talentless dope”?
While a lot of entertainment broadcasters toil in obscurity in towns
like Portland and Boston, Rubin caught the eye of Hollywood early on
from his perch in Los Angeles. He’s been tapped nearly 30 times to play
“himself” as the IMDb describes it in his definitive bio, starting with a
cameo in Wes Craven’s New Nightmare in 1994 and more recently as a
KTLA reporter in Fantastic Four in 2005.
He looks great in a tux, and the ladies love this blue-eyed, cherubfaced father of two daughters who donates time to help the cause of
multiple sclerosis. His good-guy persona and his encyclopedic knowledge
of the TV and film industries are probably what make him such a natural
choice as host of the Critics Choice Awards Red Carpet Premiere and of
the nationally syndicated Live From The Academy Awards for Tribune
Entertainment.
But it’s his hard work that has really paid off, earning him a Golden
Mike Award for Best Entertainment Reporter from the Radio & Television
News Association and, as part of the KTLA Morning News team, an
Associated Press Television-Radio Award for Best News Broadcast.
At the National Entertainment Journalism Awards on April 22, the Los
Angeles Press Club is delighted to add to his stack of achievements our
own special recognition of his enviable, and well-earned, career.
JESSICA HOLMES
Sam Rubin roaster Jessica Holmes is an anchor
for KTLA Morning News at 9, and reports traffic
and news from KTLA HD Telecopter on various
occasions.
Holmes joined KTLA/CW in November 2005
as weathercaster for the station’s “rime News,
after winning The Audition —a reality show-like
competition held during Morning News.
Holmes began her television career in 1999. She interned at
Nickelodeon and began co-hosting the award-winning Slimetime Live, six
months later.
In 2003, she hosted the Outdoor Life Network’s Bragging Rights, a
reality game show series where male contestants competed in outdoor
sports challenges.
STEPHEN MAZUR
Ruben roaster Stephen Mazur is a screenwriter and
WGA member who, as an instructor with UCLA
Extension in 2005, won the Outstanding Instructor
Award in Screenwriting.
Collaborating with Paul Guay, Mazur has cowritten feature films Liar, Liar, starring Jim Carrey,
The Little Rascals and Heartbreakers. He also wrote
the teleplays, The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth
about Enron for CBS and Wedding Wars with John Stamos and Eric Dane
for A&E.
Mazur uses a favorite film, Big, as an example to his writing class. “My
goal is to help each student develop a story that is not only funny, but is
also real, heartfelt, and emotional.”
The Host...
NEJ emcee Michael Linder has had a rich career in
broadcast journalism, reality TV and Internet war
coverage that has taken him around the world.
In 1987 Linder created and executive produced
Fox TV’s America’s Most Wanted in 1987, casting John
Walsh as host and capturing one of the FBI’s 10 Most
Wanted fugitives in the show’s first episode. There
he pioneered the now-common use of television
reenactments.
He was a producer on the start-up productions of
Entertainment Tonight and Eye on LA.
On the web in 1995-96, Linder produced “Berserkistan,” the first
Internet site to cover a war on location — this one in Bosnia. The site
received critical acclaim for its news coverage, photojournalism and
interactive humanitarianism.
He is currently on the air at TalkRadio 790 KABC in Los Angeles.
At KABC, Linder has established the first new bureau and broadcast
studios to be built at LA City Hall in decades. His incisive reports are
featured in KABC’s hourly newscasts and as segments on “The Peter Tilden
Morning Show” and “The John Phillips Show.”
Michael has won numerous honors for his journalism including an
Edward R. Murrow Award for his coverage of California’s Water Wars and
an Emmy for his work in television.
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