They Like Me, They Really Like Me
Or my writing, anyway. Enough to make me a finalist in seven categories in the LA Press Club Awards -- including "Journalist Of The Year."

Awards I'm up for are directly below. I'll find out if I actually get any of them at the awards dinner in late June.

A. JOURNALISTS OF THE YEAR

A1. PRINT (Over 100,000 circulation)
REPORTER, COLUMNIST OR EDITOR
* Amy Alkon, Creators Syndicate
* Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times
* Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times
* Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times

A2. PRINT (Under 100,000 circulation)
REPORTER, COLUMNIST OR EDITOR

* Amy Alkon, Creators Syndicate
* Michael Collins, Los Angeles CityBeat
* Sandra Hernandez, Los Angeles Daily Journal,
* Scott Moxley, OC Weekly
* Anat Rubin, Los Angeles Daily Journal

B5. SIGNED COMMENTARY
* Amy Alkon, Creator's Syndicate Syndicated columnist, "Look Before You Sleep."
* Marc Cooper, LA Weekly, "East Versus West."
* Bennett Ramberg, freelance writer, "A Lesson on Staying the Course."
* Jervey Tervalon, LA Weekly, "The Slow Death of a Chocolate City."

B13. HEADLINES
*Amy Alkon, Creators Syndicate, "The Incredible Sulk"
*Dave Bowman, Los Angeles Times, "A Pair of Stars/an L.A. Sky/a happy Galaxy"
*Steve Devol, Los Angeles Times, Cast as a leader, but what's his motivation
*Tim Lynch, Los Angeles Times, "A Town Right on the Default Line"
*Libby Molyneaux, LA Weekly, "A Scary Home Companion"

C6. COLUMNIST
* Amy Alkon, Creators Syndicate, "The Advice Goddess"
* Gustavo Arellano, OC Weekly, "Ask a Mexican,"
* Melissa Heckscher, Daily Breeze,
* Amy Klein, The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
* Gina Nahai, The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles

C13. HEADLINE
* Amy Alkon, Creators Syndicate, "Splendor in the Wheatgrass"
* Amy Alkon, Creators Syndicate, "Opportunity Knockers"
* Todd Cunningham, Los Angeles Business Journal, "Broke-o-Matic"
* Jay Firestone, The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, "One Camp, Two Camp, Red camp, Jew Camp"

I7a. WEBLOG, INDIVIDUAL
* Amy Alkon, AdviceGoddess.com - Syndicated, "Tea & Crumpets With Osama"/"Know Your Death Squad"
* Brad Greenberg, The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, "God Blog"
* Jill Leovy, Los Angeles Times, "The Homicide Report"
* Pat Saperstein, EatingLA.com, "Eating LA"
* Eric Spillman, KTLA, "The News Blog"