ABC7 sports anchor Rob Fukuzaki and civil rights attorney Carol Sobel will be among those honored Sunday evening during the Los Angeles Press Club\u2019s 68th Southern California Journalism Awards Gala in downtown Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
Fukuzaki, the longtime weekday sports anchor for \u201cABC7 Eyewitness News,\u201d will receive the Joseph M. Quinn Lifetime Achievement Award at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel. He joined the station in 1994, becoming the first Japanese American male television news anchor in the Los Angeles market.<\/p>\n
In addition to his broadcasting career, Fukuzaki founded the Heads Up Youth Foundation in 1996. The nonprofit provides scholarships and educational assistance to disadvantaged students and foster youth in Southern California, according to organizers.<\/p>\n
Sobel will receive the Guardian Award for Contributions to Press Freedom. She spent 20 years with the ACLU Foundation of Southern California before opening her own law practice in 1997. She has represented journalists and media organizations in First Amendment cases for decades. Sobel currently represents the Los Angeles Press Club in litigation alleging First Amendment violations, organizers said.<\/p>\n
Veteran television journalist Craig Melvin \u2014 co-host of NBC\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d who also anchors \u201cDateline\u201d and serves as a fill-in anchor for \u201cNBC Nightly News\u201d \u2014 will receive the President\u2019s Award for Impact on Media.<\/p>\n
Filipino journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa will receive the Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism, named for the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan in 2002.<\/p>\n
About 550 journalists, editors, broadcasters and media executives are expected to attend the annual gala.<\/p>\n
Founded more than a century ago, the Los Angeles Press Club represents journalists working in print, broadcast and digital media. Proceeds from the gala support scholarships, mentoring programs, educational initiatives and grants for investigative journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ABC7 sports anchor Rob Fukuzaki and civil rights attorney Carol Sobel will be among those honored Sunday evening…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[153107,3415,818,12920,46363,21006,53870,48,52,51,47,50,49,15193],"class_list":["post-378327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-68th","tag-awards","tag-downtown","tag-gala","tag-gather","tag-journalism","tag-journalists","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-socal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378327","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=378327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}