EAST COUNTY MAGAZINE WINS 11 AWARDS FROM SAN DIEGO PRESS CLUB’S 2021 EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM AWARDS 4.4K
Total Views: 56 By Miriam Raftery October 25, 2021 (San Diego) – East County Magazine tonight received 11 awards in San Diego Press Club’s 48th annual Excellence In Journalism competition. The honors include three first place awards, recognitions for both our online news site and radio show coverage during the past year’s turbulent times. ECM’s awards span a broad range of categories, including three of the four awards presented for breaking news. Since its inception in 2008, ECM has won 137 major journalism prizes. Congratulations to ECM’s award-winning reporting team: Miriam Raftery, Henri Migala, Helen Horvath, and the late Briana Gomez as well as columnists David Shorey and Paul Levikow. “I’m proud of our team for once again going all out to report news that matters, even amid a global pandemic and civil unrest, at times risking their own safety to get the stories,” says ECM editor Miriam Raftery. ” It’s especially poignant to see two posthumous awards honoring works by Briana Gomez, who was such a talented and devoted young journalist.” She adds, “We also thank the Facebook Journalism Project for their generous support through a grant which helped enable our reporting during the pandemic, including several Zoom special reports and interviews as well as our coverage of COVID-19 issues and breaking news.” Below are ECM’s winning stories, radio broadcasts and podcasts: RADIO AND PODCASTS: Specialty Reporting: 1st place, Miriam Raftery, Grossmont Hospital healthcare heroes reflect on pandemic Interview/Talk: 1st place, Miriam Raftery, Interview with Congresswoman Sara Jacobs on capitol attack, impeachment, COVID relief and more ONLINE AND DAILY NEWS Breaking News: 2nd place, Henri Migala, Man arrested for battery of protesters in La Mesa; ECM photographer also attacked 3rd place, Miriam Raftery, Violent insurrectionists take over Capitol Honorable mention, Briana Gomez, Tuesday protest in La Mesa stays peaceful; man briefly detained after displaying pepper spray at protesters Criminal Justice: 1st place, Miriam Raftery, LMPD officer in trolley stop incident leaves force; questions of accountability and transparency remain Election Coverage: 3rd place, Miriam Raftery: In lively forum, five candidates shared diverse views in El Cajon City Council District 2 race Environment: Honorable mention, Henri Migala, Hundreds march to save El Monte Valley Political/Government: 2nd place, Briana Gomez and Miriam Raftery, El Cajon Council votes to oust planning commissioner Humbert Cabrera Real Estate: 2nd place, Helen Horvath, High prices, low inventory put squeeze on low income and first-time homebuyers during pandemic Columns, Serious: Honorable mention, David Shorey and Paul Levikow, Advancing Healthy Communities For a full list of all winners in San Diego Press Club’s 48th annual Excellence in Journalism Awards, visit https://issuu.com/sdpressclub/docs/2021_san_diego_press_club_final_winners_announced. Support award-winnning local journalism! Our reporting reflects the public interest, not special interests. You can help assure coverage of important local issues by making a donation or a sustaining monthly gift at https://www.eastcountymedia.org/donate. Printer-friendly version
4.4K viewsSAN DIEGO PRESS CLUB TO PRESENT MORE THAN 525 JOURNALISM AWARDS ON OCTOBER 30TH 2.7K
Total Views: 55 East County News Service October 29, 2018 (San Diego) – The San Diego Press Club will celebrate its 45th annual Excellence in Journalism awards program on Tuesday evening, Oct. 30. More than 525 awards in more than 180 categories will be presented to print and broadcast journalists and photographers. East County Magazine Editor Miriam Raftery, Contributing Editor Paul Kruze and reporter Jonathan Goetz are among this year’s winners. More than 450 people are expected to attend the event at the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation’s Joe and Vi Jacobs Community Center, 404 Euclid Ave., San Diego. About 20 restaurants and 10 wineries, plus several craft beer breweries, will provide refreshments. Admission starts at $65 per person for members. For more information, visit www.sdpressclub.org. This year’s awards program drew a record 1,200 entries, making it one of the largest journalism competitions in the nation. Judges included members of press clubs in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Rochester, Florida, Cleveland, Orange County, Milwaukee, Tulsa and Alaska. At the event, the Press Club will present three special awards, including: Lori Weisberg, writer, photographer, San Diego Union-Tribune, Harold Keen Award for outstanding contributions in journalism; Matthew Hall, editorial and opinion director, San Diego Union-Tribune, Jim Reiman Award for excellence in media management; Jack Berkman, president/CEO, Berkman Strategic Communications, Andy Mace Award for career achievements in public relations. Weisberg (right), a Southern California native, currently covers tourism and hospitality. She wrote for the Vista Press and Orange County Register before joining the U-T in 1980. Weisberg’s award is named after Harold Keen, who anchored San Diego’s first television news broadcast in 1949 and was described by colleagues as the dean of San Diego journalists. Keen arrived in San Diego in 1936 as a reporter for The San Diego Sun. He later worked for the San Diego Union, San Diego Magazine and KFMB-TV/Channel 8. He passed away in 1981. Hall (left) manages the newspaper’s Ideas and Opinion section, writing and editing editorials, and overseeing op-ed commentary, letters to the editor and a blog called “The Conversation,” which uses social media and the Internet to report the news of the day. Hall’s award is named after Jim Reiman, who served for many years as assistant news director at KGTV-TV/Channel 10. Reiman was considered an unsung hero of the profession, similar to many behind-the-scenes journalists who do not have a byline nor appear on camera. When Reinman retired, the Press Club created the award to honor enlightened media managers and the first recipient was KGTV assignment editor Jack Moorhead in 1997. Berkman, with 40 years of experience in PR, is a member of the Public Relations Society of America’s (PRSA) College of Fellows and has won more than 70 Bernays awards from the San Diego PRSA chapter, plus the national PRSA Silver Anvil Award. Berkman’s award is named after Andy Mace, former public relations manager at Pacific Telephone in San Diego. In 1971, Mace is credited with the idea of starting the San Diego Press Club. He later started his own company, Andy Mace & Associates, with an office at the Mission Valley’s Stardust Hotel & Country Club, now the Handlery Hotel. He passed away in 2009 at age 88. In addition, two college students will each receive cash scholarships at the Press Club event. They include: Lauren Mapp, San Diego State University, $2,500 Joe Lipper Scholarship; Katy Stegall, Southwestern College, $1,000 scholarship from the San Diego Press Club Foundation. Both have been active at their student newspapers. Mapp has served as editor of The Mesa Press at Mesa College and as a staff writer and photographer at The Daily Aztec at SDSU. Stegall has reported for The SWC Sun. Printer-friendly version
2.7K viewsECM WINS PRESS CLUB AWARDS FOR PUBLIC SERVICE, BREAKING NEWS, GOVERNMENTAL AND MULTICULTURAL REPORTING 16
Total Views: 37 By Miriam Raftery October 25, 2017 (San Diego) — East County Magazine picked up four more awards at the San Diego Press Club’s Excellence in Journalism Awards dinner held on Tuesday night, bringing our total to 105 journalism awards over the past nine years. Our editor, Miriam Raftery, won first place in public service reporting for her article titled, “Whitewash? County’s Border Fire report ignores serious concerns raised by residents.” Raftery and Paul Kruze shared a second place award for political and governmental reporting for a story with video titled “Hunter faces tough questions at raucous town hall in Ramona.” Rachel Williams took third place in the multicultural category for her report, “A revolution of struggle continues for Syrian refugees in East County.” Rebecca Jefferis-Williamson, Jonathan Goetz and Raftery shared a third place award in breaking news for their story, “Parkway Plaza evacuated, car show shut down amid unrest after police shooting” covering civil unrest after the shooting of Alfred Olango in El Cajon. All ECM awards were in the online and daily newspapers category. Congratulations to all of our winners! For a full list of winners, visit http://sdpressclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/2017-FINAL-Awards-Winners-Announced.pdf At the awards ceremony at the Jacob Center, Press Club members savored samples from local restaurants, breweries and wineries, including several East County wineries such as Woof ‘n’ Rose and Edwards from Ramona, San Pasqual Winery in La Mesa and the newest, Trevi Hills Vineyard in Lakeside. Printer-friendly version
16 viewsECM WRITERS, PHOTOGRAPHERS TO BE HONORED AT 2012 SAN DIEGO PRESS CLUB AWARDS 3.8K
Total Views: 38 September 28, 2012 (San Diego’s East County) – For the fifth year in a row, East County Magazine reporters and photographers will be taking home awards in the San Diego Press Club Excellence in Journalism Awards. Nadin Abbott, Tom Abbott, Jim Pelley, Ryan Schuler, and ECM editor Miriam Raftery are all winners in the 2012 competition. The winning categories—and just how many awards ECM has won – will be announced on October 23 at the San Diego Hall of Champions. Jim Pelley is our Ocotillo-based photojournalist who has been documenting issues involving the Ocotillo Express wind project. Nadin and Tom Abbott have covered major wildfires, political events and other top news stories. Ryan Schuler, our sportswriter, was an intern with ECM at the time he picked up his award, though we don’t yet know whether he won for his ECM stories or coverage in the Daily Aztec, where he also writes. ECM editor Miriam Raftery has received more than 100 journalism awards in her career. Society of Professional Journalists San Diego chapter honored Raftery with its 2012 James Julian Memorial Award presented for Raftery’s investigative reports which led to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) retracting its demand that local wildfire victims return disaster funds. Raftery has also received an American Society of Journalists and Authors national Arlene Award for community reporting for her coverage of election integrity issues. East County Magazine has received dozens of top journalism awards since our launch in September 2008. San Diego Press Club named East County Magazine the best general interest website in San Diego County for 2009. Our website was also named second best news site after the San Diego Union-Tribune. ECM awards include top prizes for investigative reporting, breaking news, features, multi-cultural coverage, environmental reporting and many other categories. Our nonprofit media site has also received an investigative reporting award from Society for Professional Journalists (SPJ) San Diego chapter, as well as an SPJ award for editorial writing. In 2012, we received the 2012 Media Award from the League of Women Voters, San Diego for our coverage of developers’ efforts to abolish community planning groups. View the complete list of 2012 San Diego Press Club winners here: http://www.sdpressclub.org/uploads/2012_Awards_Winners_Announced.pdf Printer-friendly version
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