The Los Angeles Press Club announced its finalists for this year’s Southern California Journalism Awards, and Alta Journal’s incredible contributors have made the cut with more than 20 recognitions.
“Alta Journal is positively thrilled to receive this recognition from our peers,” says Alta editorial director Blaise Zerega. “We’re honored to work with so many talented contributors whose stories, photographs, layouts, and illustrations brilliantly capture life in California and the West. Congrats to all the finalists!”
Winners of the 66th annual awards will be announced in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday, June 23, at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel. A full list of Alta's finalists can be found below.
Faith/Spiritual Reporting
D. J. Waldie: “A Sacred Sycamore’s Story Reveals a City’s History”
Technology Reporting
Jim Lewis: “Accepting AI’s Inevitability”
Criticism of Books
Science Reporting
Denise Hamilton: “P-22’s Life in L.A.”
Ajay Orona: “The Grizzly Next Door”
Humor/Satire Writing
Stacey Grenrock Woods: “A City of Dreams”
Crime Reporting
Santi Elijah Holley: “The Cop Watcher”
Portrait Photo
Gregg Segal: Michael Lehrer portrait
Illustration
Zoe Matthiessen: “P-22’s Life in L.A.”
John Mattos: “‘Agua, Agua’”
Chris Sickels/Red Nose Studio: “A Sacred Sycamore’s Story Reveals a City’s History”
Best Issue
John Goecke and Brent Hatcher: Issue 22: The Desert Issue
Activism Journalism
Santi Elijah Holley: “The Cop Watcher”
Columnist
Feature, Culture/Arts, Over 1,000 Words
Peter Fish: “The Most Famous California Novel You’ve Never Heard Of”
Lynell George: “The Search for Mardou Fox”
Talk/Public Affairs
Beth Spotswood and Jessica Blough: Alta Live
Online News Feature, Music/Culture/Performing Arts
Lynell George: “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 Meets Los Angeles, 2023”
Online Lifestyle Feature
Jeremy Lindenfeld: “Bitter Medicine”
Online Entertainment Feature, Film
Sam Wasson: “‘There Was No Second Password’”
Online Entertainment Commentary, Film/TV
Marcus Pinn: “Seriously Funny”•
Elizabeth Casillas is an assistant editor at Alta Journal. A graduate of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, she has previously written for the Poly Post and Enspire Magazine.
