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 YEARA1. 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 TimesA2. 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 JournalB5. 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 AngelesC13. 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"
Comments
*stands and applauds* Excellent! You go, girl! o_O
Posted by: Flynne at May 22, 2008 5:39 AM
Woohoo!
Posted by: marion at May 22, 2008 6:57 AM
Congratulations! Well deserved and earned.
Posted by: Donna at May 22, 2008 7:22 AM
Hey, that's wonderful! Congratulations!
Posted by: eric at May 22, 2008 7:27 AM
Congrats and good luck! You're so much better than all those other bums...not that I've ever heard of any of them.
Posted by: Todd Fletcher at May 22, 2008 9:18 AM
Congratulations! Best of Luck!
Posted by: MeganNJ at May 22, 2008 9:32 AM
Hey Amy- it appears your blog archives are not linking. I was hoping to look back at the "Tea and Crumpets" to see how everyone responded...
Posted by: Eric (now capitalized!) at May 22, 2008 9:42 AM
Hey, thanks for looking. But what do you mean, my blog archives aren't linking? A bit worried! I searched "crumpets" and came up with this:
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2007/07/01/tea_and_crumpet.html
Posted by: Amy Alkon at May 22, 2008 9:52 AM
Actually might be because they listed it with an ampersand instead of an "and," which I used. I put in the links above to both.
Posted by: Amy Alkon at May 22, 2008 9:53 AM
There it is! For some reason my browser was showing a page error when I went looking for it...
Posted by: Eric at May 22, 2008 10:17 AM
I am on my laptop using a satellite connection right now- my browser window would be like 20 normal pages in length, and they are all blank until you get about 10 pages down. It's probably just me.
Posted by: Eric at May 22, 2008 10:24 AM
Who could be surprised?
Not bad for the "red-headed step-child" of journalism!
If you get past the lace curtain, what WILL they do with you?! ;)
Keep it up.
Posted by: Jay R at May 22, 2008 11:35 AM
Run me in more papers, I hope!
Feel free to request my column in your local paper. Write the alt weekly editor or the features editor of the local daily.
Posted by: Amy Alkon at May 22, 2008 11:40 AM
Best of luck!
Posted by: Crid at May 22, 2008 6:18 PM
You've been a daily day-brightener for me
since I accidently came across your work
when checking up on some mythology,
googling "goddess" and thinking "wow, here
is something special."
It is really nice to see this generally recognized.
Posted by: Northcountry at May 22, 2008 7:07 PM
*golf clap* ... Nicely done Amy, very nicely done.
Bravo!
G_R
Posted by: Gunner Retired at May 23, 2008 1:44 AM
Congrats, but being mentioned alongside pieces of crap like Tim Ruttan must suck. Kind of like future Nobel Peace Prize winners have to look at their award knowing that asshats like Al Gore, Yasser Arafat and Jimmah Carter won one too.
Posted by: Smarty at May 23, 2008 8:53 AM
