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 Hundreds of journalists and friends of journalism gathered in Universal City on Sunday night to honor the best work of 2008 at the 51st Annual Southern California Journalism Awards.
Author and Huffington Post editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington received the President's Award for impact on media. Daily News city hall reporter Rick Orlov received the Joseph M. Quinn Award for lifetime achievement. And Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent Robyn Dixon received the Daniel Pearl Award for courage in journalism.
 Awards presenters included Paula Poundstone, Bill Maher, NBC4 anchor Ana Garcia, Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Joe Morgenstern, ABC7 entertainment reporter George Pennacchio, and "Ask a Mexican" columnist Gustavo Arellano.
David Evans of Bloomberg Markets was named large-circulation print journalist of the year for his coverage of the unfolding financial crisis. Brad Greenberg of the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles was the winner for smaller circulation publications.
Ana Garcia and Fred Mamoun of KNBC shared the television journalist of the year award with Eric Longabardi of TeleMedia. Frank Stoltze of KPCC was the radio journalist of the year. Chris Hedges of Truthdig was named online journalist of the year.
LA Weekly's Christine Pelisek was also a big winner, taking home three prizes.
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 In a ceremony honoring critic Joe Morgenstern for his career achievements, the Los Angeles Press Club announced the winners of the Second Annual National Entertainment Journalism Awards.
Finalists and honorees came from publications, web sites and broadcasters of all sizes, and from all across the country. Locally, Ella Taylor of the LA Weekly was named best critic in the print category. Shawn Edwards and Russ Simmons of Fox4 News in Kansas City won the criticism category for television; Kenneth Turan of KUSC won for radio; and Tom Tangney of MyNorthwest.com won for online criticism.
Winners in other categories came from Playboy, Bloomberg, KABC, Georgia Public Radio, the Los Angeles Times, Marketplace, and Rolling Stone.
Morgenstern was honored for his lifetime contributions to the field of entertainment journalism. A film critic for the Wall Street Journal and KCRW, he is the co-founder of the National Society of Film Critics and one of only three film critics to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his work. Presenting the awards this year was film and television actor Robert Forster.
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The results are in for this year's elections for the board of directors of the Los Angeles Press Club.
Current board members Ezra Palmer, Anthea Raymond, Jon Regardie, George White and Adam Wilkenfeld were voted in for new two-year terms. Club director Diana Ljungaeus was also elected, as was Carolina Garcia, executive editor of the Los Angeles Daily News.
Thanks to the members who voted, and thanks as well to outgoing members of the board, Michael Collins and Jahan Hassan.
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 The Los Angeles Press Club celebrated its 50th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards on June 21, honoring ABC's Bob Woodruff with the Daniel Pearl Award for courage and integrity in journalism. KNBC's Ana Garcia was the recipient of the Quinn Award for lifetime achievement, and the Los Angeles Times' Steve Lopez received the President's Award.
During the ceremony, which was dedicated to the memory of longtime broadcast newsman Hal Fishman, the club honored outstanding achievement among journalists in Southern California. The Los Angeles Times' Melissa Healy was named top print journalist of the year at a large circulation newspaper, while Anat Rubin was the winner in the smaller-circulation category. Antonio Valverde of KMEX won television journalist honors, and Steven Cuevas of KPCC won the radio journalist honors.
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