{"id":385219,"date":"2026-07-03T18:25:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T18:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/385219\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T18:25:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T18:25:30","slug":"reason-earns-7-southern-california-journalism-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/385219\/","title":{"rendered":"Reason earns 7 Southern California Journalism Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Los Angeles Press Club recognized Reason seven times\u00a0on Sunday at the 68th Southern California Journalism Awards, which celebrates excellence in media across a range of categories. The magazine received four first-place wins, along with two second-place finishes and one third-place honor.<\/p>\n

Science Correspondent Ron Bailey\u00a0won best national politics\/government reporting across print and online for “Can America Get Out of the Gerontocracy Trap?<\/a>” which “takes on an emotionally charged topic,” the judges said, “and turns it into a clear, data-driven, hopeful narrative.”<\/p>\n

Reporter C.J. Ciaramella\u00a0won best activism journalism across print media for “Texas and Florida Have Become National Models for Using the Police State To Wage Culture War Battles<\/a>,” in which he explores how both states are leveraging law enforcement to fight instances of alleged wokeness.<\/p>\n

Producer Andrew Heaton, Director of Special Projects Meredith Bragg, Senior Producer Austin Bragg, and Producer John Carter won best humor\/satire writing across broadcast media for “Andor v. Star Trek: How Star Wars gets government right”:<\/p>\n

Reporter\u00a0Billy Binion\u00a0won best long-form personality profile\/interview (non-entertainment personalities) in the audio journalism category for his interview with anti\u2013death penalty activist Helen Prejean, whose life was chronicled in the movie Dead Man Walking:<\/p>\n

SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM (all BROADCAST)<\/p>\n

Editor at Large Nick Gillespie, former Producer Justin Zuckerman, Contributor Hana Ko, Audio Engineer Ian Keyser, and Motion Graphics Artist Lex Villena for “How Texas beat California on housing”:<\/p>\n

Human interest feature over 5 minutes (tv\/film)<\/p>\n

Senior Producer Zach Weissmueller, Contributor John Osterhoudt, and Motion Graphics Artist Lex Villena\u00a0for “Why Trump made a deal to free Ross Ulbricht”:<\/p>\n

Activism journalism (all broadcast)<\/p>\n

Senior Producer Zach Weissmueller, Contributor John Osterhoudt, and Motion Graphics Artist Lex Villena\u00a0for “Snowden was right. Now Trump should pardon him.”:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Press Club recognized Reason seven times\u00a0on Sunday at the 68th Southern California Journalism Awards, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3415,7,9,8,155475,536,155476,35218,54136,564],"class_list":["post-385219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-awards","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-clemency","tag-donald-trump","tag-edward-snowden","tag-reason","tag-ross-ulbricht","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385219","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=385219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}