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I am a 2022 Southern California Journalism Awards Finalist!
Lisa Ellen Niver
2022 Finalist: 64th annual Southern California Journalism Awards
B13. CRITICISM OF BOOKS Finalists
Thank you to the Los Angeles Press Club and Diana Ljungaeus, Executive Director!
During COVID, I focused on writing about books that helped people cope or felt like a way to escape in literature. Articles on Thrive Global:
Sizzling Summer Reads: Feel ALL Your Feelings
Huge Changes Happen in Tiny Steps: The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self
Is Your Life FULLY CHARGED? with Meaghan Murphy
Changing The World, One Connection at a time with Shelley Zalis from The Female Quotient
Prepare Your Pandemic Pivot with Ken Lindner’s 8C’s
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Lisa Niver has won many awards! From 2017 to 2022, in the Southern California Journalism Awards and National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards, she has won five times and been a finalist twenty times for a variety of broadcast, print and digital categories.
More about Lisa Niver: https://lisaniver.com/awards/
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