L.A. Press Club Names Streetsblog Team as Finalists Nine Times for 2025 Coverage
Journalism awards season is here, and it’s time for the Streetsblog team to dust off our formalwear, or in my case a denim Streetsblog jacket made for me as a middle school art project, and get ready.
The Los Angeles Press Club has announced the finalists for the 2025 “Southern California Press Club Awards” and the Streetsblog team is named as finalists for nine different awards. The variety of nominations come in three different categories (online, audio, and “any publication”) and cover topics ranging from policing and ICE to cricket to food criticism.
Congratulations not just to our Streetsblog Los Angeles/SGV Connect team, but also to everyone that works for or volunteers time to support Streetsblog California and our sister-site LongBeachize.
But before we list the stories and podcasts that are honored, a reminder that creating award-winning independent journalism is our job and we need your support to keep going and expand what we do. If it’s within your budget to help us out, you can get started at these links: Streetsblog LA/SGV Connect, Streetsblog California, LongBeachize.
Streetsblog Los Angeles
BLOG, GROUP
Joe Linton, Sahra Sulaiman, Damien Newton, Chris Greenspon, Joe Anthony, Streetsblog Los Angeles, “Streetsblog Los Angeles”
ONLINE: INVESTIGATIVE, CRIME RELATED and ONLINE: RACE AND SOCIETY REPORTING
Sahra Sulaiman, “They Came to Mourn. LAPD Came in Force. Now Two Men Could Face Serious Consequences Because LAPD Won’t Acknowledge They Were Wrong.”
ONLINE: ACTIVISM JOURNALISM
Joe Linton, “As Community Mourns 9-Year-Old Nadir Gavarrete, Crosswalk Collective Improves Deadly Koreatown Intersection”
Streetsblog California
ANY PUBLICATION, OBITUARY/IN APPRECIATION,
Damien Newton, Melanie Curry, Streetsblog California, “Streetsblog Mourns the Passing of Donald Shoup”
SGV Connect
AUDIO: TALK/PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Chris Greenspon, “SGV Connect 139: ICE”
Chris Greenspon, Joe Linton, “SGV Connect 137: Olympic Cricket at the Pomona Fairplex”
LongBeachize
BEST CRITICISM OF FOOD/CULTURE
Brian Addison, LongBeachize
BEST BLOG INDIVIDUAL
Brian Addison, LongBeachize
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