LA Press Club Awards Finalists Announced
It's been a little crazy, so I'm just getting around to mentioning it. LA Press Club Awards finalists were announced Friday, and I'm a finalist in six categories. (It got pretty expensive to enter, so I didn't enter headlines this year -- even though I've won for my headlines every year I have entered.)
A. JOURNALISTS OF THE YEAR A1. PRINT (Over 50,000 circulation)
*Amy Alkon, Creators Syndicate
*David Evans, Bloomberg Market Magazine
*Mariel Garza, Los Angeles Daily News
*Patrick Range McDonald, LA WeeklyA2. PRINT (Under 50,000 circulation)
*Amy Alkon, Creators Syndicate
*Radley Balko, Reason Magazine
*Dan Evans, Glendale News-Press
*Ryan Vaillancourt, Los Angeles Downtown NewsB6. *COMMENTARY
*Amy Alkon, Syndicated columnist
*Larry Allison, Long Beach Press-Telegram
*Daily News Editorial Pages, Los Angeles Daily News
*Thomas Elias, California Focus syndicated columnC6. *COMMENTARY
*Amy Alkon, Creators.com, 'The Advice Goddess'"
*Burbank Leader, "Burbank Leader Editorials"
*Thomas Elias, "Thomas Elias California Focus Syndicated Column"
*Bennet Kelley, Santa Monica Daily Press, "Movement to Reality-Based Politics?"
*Joe Piasecki, Burbank Leader, "Olive Avenue Confidential"C7.* COLUMNIST
*Amy Alkon, Syndicated columnist, "The Advice Goddess"
*Charles Crumpley, LA Business Journal, "Drawing a Line at City Hall"
*Dan Evans, Burbank Leader, "Columns - Dan Evans"
*Ted Johnson, Variety.com, "Prop 8"
*Jon Regardie, Los Angeles Downtown News, "Four Regardie Report Columns"G2. FEATURE/COMMENTARY
*Amy Alkon, Psychology Today, "The Truth about Beauty"
*Damon W. Root, Reason, "Conservatives v. Libertarians: The debate over judicial activism divides former allies"
*David Schneider, Slake: Los Angeles, "Ballad of the Trunk Monkey"
*Richard Siklos, Business Week Magazine, "Extreme Moneyball"
*Peter Suderman, Reason, "The Gatekeeper - How a little bureaucratic office became the biggest impediment to Barack Obama‟s health care plans"
Stef Willen, the enormously talented woman who edits me part-time, is also a finalist for her wonderful and fascinating column in McSweeney's about her other job -- part-time fire insurance work. Her columns are here: Total Loss.
Looks like "real" journalist credentials to me.
Frank at May 24, 2011 7:29 AM
Frank, I think, is alluding to a my tweet about nasty, petty Gene Weingarten, who got wigged out when I criticized one of his tweets and sent me a lengthy email saying, among other things that I'm not really a journalist and that he knows funny and I'm not funny.
Amazing -- two-time Pulitzer winner has to take down a peg the chick who writes the advice column for the alt weeklies. Meanwhile, I break science news in my column with some frequency. I wrote about Rosemary Basson on the cycle of female sexual desire in 2006, thanks to a paper I heard presented at a psych conference I sent myself to. The New York Times got to that bit of news in 2010.
Amy Alkon at May 24, 2011 7:41 AM
Congrats, and good luck! And I see you're up there with Balko, another favorite. Excellent company.
Christopher at May 24, 2011 8:26 AM
I'll be waiting to see if whoever wins Headline of the Year came up with something better than Persistent Coffin.
Martin at May 24, 2011 9:56 AM
I hope you win all of them.
Jim P. at May 24, 2011 6:50 PM
"...saying, among other things that I'm not really a journalist and that he knows funny and I'm not funny.."
I bet he knew JFK. And you, madam, are no JFK!
What a dweeb. Break a leg, Amy!
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at May 24, 2011 8:22 PM
Way to go Advice Goddess!
and you're already a Winner!
Marilyn O'Malley at June 3, 2011 9:53 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2011/05/24/la_press_club_a_5.html#comment-2211846">comment from Marilyn O'MalleyAww, thanks!
Amy Alkon
at June 3, 2011 10:11 AM
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