The Southern California News Group was well-represented among the finalists for the 2024 SoCal Journalism Awards.
The Los Angeles Press Club announced the finalists for the 66th annual awards on Thursday, May 9, and SCNG had 26 total finalists across 19 categories – including a possible journalist of the year.
Staff writer Beau Yarbrough, who writes for The Sun and SCNG’s other Inland Empire publications, was named a finalist for journalist of the year in the “print, circulation under 50,000” category.
To be eligible for journalist of the year, a candidate must also be a finalist in multiple other categories. Yarbrough is also a finalist in three other categories:
SCNG, which comprises 11 daily news publications and various community weeklies, also dominated the investigative category for newspapers with a circulation under 50,000.
A year after staff writer Scott Schwebke comprised 80% of the finalists in that category, SCNG once again had four of the five overall investigative reporting finalists: Besides Yarbrough, Schwebke, Clara Harter and Jason Henry are also finalists in that category.
Here are the rest of SCNG’s finalists for this year’s SoCal Journalism Awards:
All media print or online, in any outlet:
Photography:
Hard news in print, any outlet:
Newspapers with 50,000-plus circulation:
Newspapers with under 50,000 circulation:
- News feature: Teresa Liu, Daily Breeze, for “Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, IndyCar Series look to go green.”
- Personality profile: Kristy Hutchings, Long Beach Press-Telegram, for “A WWII bride, now a Seal Beach resident, recalls Queen Mary trip, other adventures.”
- Personality profile: Jo Murray, Long Beach Press-Telegram, “From King of the Beach to personal struggles, racing icon Al Unser Jr. strives to rise anew.”
- Investigative: Harter and Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News, for “Fentanyl addiction fuels underground shoplifting economy in LA’s MacArthur Park.”
- Investigative: Henry, Los Angeles Daily News,…
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