{"id":328322,"date":"2026-05-22T20:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/328322\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T20:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:52:08","slug":"long-beach-post-nominated-for-two-golden-state-journalism-awards-long-beach-post-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/328322\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Post nominated for two Golden State Journalism Awards \u2022 Long Beach Post News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Long Beach Post, a newsroom of <a href=\"https:\/\/thelalocal.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The LA Local<\/a>, is nominated for two Golden State Journalism Awards, presented by the <a href=\"https:\/\/sacpressclub.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento Press Club<\/a>. The awards honor the best reporting on California politics and public policy.<\/p>\n<p>The nominations, announced Thursday underscore the Post\u2019s deep commitment to producing news and information that helps make Long Beach a better place to live. Founded in 2007, The Long Beach Post was integrated into The LA Local in April, a nonprofit news organization that puts community at the heart of everything we do.<\/p>\n<p>Among the finalists:<\/p>\n<p>Reporter Kate Raphael was nominated in the \u201cEducation\u201d category for her reporting on the Long Beach Unified School District, including<a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/news\/education\/long-beach-unified-attendance-budget-chronic-absentee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> stories about their budget and attendance <\/a>struggles,<a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/news\/education\/teachers-union-racist-text-john-solomon-talb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> the move to oust a high-ranking member of the teachers union<\/a> and the district\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/news\/education\/a-mother-was-told-her-daughter-was-abused-at-school-then-the-information-stopped\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">failure to keep a mother informed<\/a> about an investigation into her daughter\u2019s abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Reporters Jacob Sisneros and John Donegan were nominated in the \u201cPublic Health\u201d category for an <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/news\/speeding-tickets-long-beach-traffic-enforcement-cameras\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ongoing series <\/a>of stories about the city of Long Beach\u2019s failure to reduce traffic deaths after promising to eliminate them and <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/news\/speed-cameras-long-beach-delayed-when-where\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">its sluggish pace installing speed cameras <\/a>after lobbying the state for permission to use them.<\/p>\n<p>The Golden State Journalism award winners will be announced May 27 in Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/sacpressclub.org\/6th-golden-state-journalism-finalists\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for a full list of finalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Long Beach Post, a newsroom of The LA Local, is nominated for two Golden State Journalism Awards,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-328322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328322","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=328322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}