{"id":378948,"date":"2026-06-29T05:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T05:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/378948\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T05:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T05:15:18","slug":"variety-lands-16-wins-at-the-southern-california-journalism-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/378948\/","title":{"rendered":"Variety Lands 16 Wins at the Southern California Journalism Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tVariety<\/a> scored 16 first-place wins Sunday night as the Los Angeles Press Club handed out the 68th annual Southern California Journalism Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tVariety\u2019s first place finishes included wins for music criticism, for Variety\u2019s music chief Jem Aswad; Owen Gleiberman, for film criticism under 1,000 words; and Aramide Tinubu, for TV criticism. The kudos were presented during a lengthy ceremony held at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

\n\tVariety went into the night as the top nominee overall with 100 mentions. The Southern California Journalism Awards span print newspapers and magazines, TV, radio and digital news outlets as well as radio, podcasting and social media.<\/p>\n

\n\tVariety\u2018s top winners were:<\/p>\n

\n\tSelome Hailu for feature under 1,000 words: \u201cHow Planned Parenthood\u2019s Caren Spruch Works With Lena Dunham and Other Creatives to Sensitively Portray Abortion on Screen\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBrent Lang for film\/broadcast-related feature online: \u201cControversy Swirls, Legal Threats Fly After Sundance Documentary \u2018The Stringer\u2019 Questions Origin of Iconic \u2018Napalm Girl\u2019 Photo\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTrish Deitch for personality profile: \u201c\u2018I Can\u2019t Not Be Who I Am\u2019: Jamie Lee Curtis on Her 47-Year Career, Falling in Love With Christopher Guest and Why She Hopes Charlie Kirk Found God\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEllise Shafer for personality profile, music and arts personalities: \u201cDiana Silvers on Her Debut Album \u2018From Another Room\u2019 and Following Folk Heroes by Speaking Truth to Power: \u2018If Your Art Doesn\u2019t Scare You, It\u2019s Not Really Worth It\u2019 (EXCLUSIVE)\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRichard Phibbs, Jennifer Dorn and Jennifer Halper for entertainment photo: the May 2025 cover \u201cA$AP Rocky\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDaniel D\u2019Addario for obituary appreciation for film and TV personalities: \u201cHollywood\u2019s Humanist: Rob Reiner Was a Gifted Collaborator Who Understood Why We Tell Stories\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tK.J. Yossman for consumer news or feature: \u201cBBC Crisis Explained: How the Beloved U.K. Broadcaster Walked Into One of the Worst Scandals in Its 100-Year History \u2014 and Where It Goes From Here\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKate Aurthur for film feature, production histories: \u201cBravo Boss Frances Berwick on the \u2018Joy\u2019 of BravoCon and Who Can Be Forgiven by the Network (Karen Huger!) \u2014 and Who Can\u2019t (Jen Shah, Probably)\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNaman Ramachandran for theater\/arts feature: \u201c\u2018MJ the Musical\u2019 Star Jamaal Fields-Green on the \u2018Huge Responsibility\u2019 of Playing Michael Jackson on Stage\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEthan Shanfeld for music feature: \u201cInside the Diddy Trial Circus: How Screaming Fans, Baby Oil and Street Preachers Turned the Courthouse Into a Madhouse\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRamin Setoodeh for entertainment feature, TV\/streaming related: \u201cJulia Roberts, Andrew Garfield and Ayo Edebiri Aren\u2019t Holding Back: \u2018After the Hunt\u2019 Stars on Making the Year\u2019s Most Provocative Movie\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBrian Steinberg for culture news\/ TV feature-related: \u201cCBS Put \u2018Evening News\u2019 Through Massive Overhaul. Now It Needs People to Watch\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBrian Steinberg for business reporting: \u201cTV News Faces Creator Chaos as Anchors Chase Digital Dreams That Bring Big Bucks (or Return Little Reward)\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMore to come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Variety scored 16 first-place wins Sunday night as the Los Angeles Press Club handed out the 68th annual…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,132579,40925],"class_list":["post-378948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-southern-california-journalism-awards","tag-variety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378948","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=378948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}