{"id":313688,"date":"2026-05-13T13:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/313688\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T13:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:52:13","slug":"voice-of-oc-shines-in-socal-journalism-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/313688\/","title":{"rendered":"Voice of OC Shines in SoCal Journalism Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From watchdog coverage of Orange County\u2019s Medi-Cal Program, to coverage of ICE raids across our cities to the health of our beaches, Voice of OC staff are finalists in 11 categories in the Southern California Journalism Awards from the LA Press Club.<\/p>\n<p>Director of Photography, Julie Leopo was recognized for her work during last summer\u2019s ICE protests in Orange County. Hosam Elattar\u2019s profile of cancer survivor Anita Tran, is a finalist for personality profile, and Publisher Norberto Santana, Jr is a finalist in both the Columnist and Political Commentary categories.<\/p>\n<p>The winners will be announced at the Southern California Journalism Awards ceremony June 28 in Los Angeles. For a complete list of nominees, click <a href=\"https:\/\/lapressclub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/SoCal-2026-Finalists-051126-1323.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a roundup of Voice of OC finalists:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>PRINT\/ONLINE \u2013 ANY OUTLET <\/p>\n<p>MEDICAL REPORTING, Healthcare issues<\/p>\n<p>ART\/PHOTOGRAPHY All Platforms <\/p>\n<p>NEWS PHOTO, Single Image<\/p>\n<p>ART\/PHOTOGRAPHY All Platforms<\/p>\n<p>Julie Leopo, Voice of OC, \u201cVigil for Migrants\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PHOTO ESSAY (single topic), News\/News Feature<\/p>\n<p>ONLINE, Exclusively published on the Internet<\/p>\n<p>HARD NEWS<\/p>\n<p>BUSINESS REPORTING<\/p>\n<p>ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTING, Climate Change\/Society<\/p>\n<p>NEWS FEATURE, Music\/Culture\/Performing Arts related<\/p>\n<p>PERSONALITY PROFILE, Business\/Government\/Society Personalities<\/p>\n<p>COLUMNIST on Politics<\/p>\n<p>Norberto Santana Jr., Voice of OC<\/p>\n<p>POLITICAL COMMENTARY, Local<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From watchdog coverage of Orange County\u2019s Medi-Cal Program, to coverage of ICE raids across our cities to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,131339,3415,23973,131340,131341,14,131342,131343,131344,79350,131345,2267],"class_list":["post-313688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-angelina-hicks","tag-awards","tag-erika-taylor","tag-gigi-gradillas","tag-hosam-elattar","tag-immigration","tag-julie-leopo","tag-la-press-club","tag-noah-biesiada","tag-norberto-santana-jr","tag-spencer-custodio","tag-voice-of-oc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}