THANK YOU! I am honored to be a FIVE TIME finalist for the 2024 66th annual Southern California Journalism Awards. I am a finalist for Online Journalist of the Year, Podcast Host and for three of my podcast interviews with Andrew McCarthy, Samantha Brown and Christie Tate.
The Los Angeles Press Club stated that “The work of these journalists represents the best reporting in the region out of more than 2,300 entries submitted this year. The winners will be announced at an awards dinner gala at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday, June 23, 2024.”
A5B. ONLINE JOURNALIST, independent
Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, “It Happened in Hollywood: Penelope Spheeris – ‘Wayne’s World’”
Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, “‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast — ‘The Three Amigos’: Alfonso Cuarón (‘Le Pupille’), Guillermo del Toro (‘Pinocchio’) and Alejandro González Iñárritu (‘Bardo’)”
Angelique Jackson, Variety, “Alex Borstein on the Legacy of ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ as It Ends: ‘We Launched in Such a Perfect Moment’”
Lyndsey Parker, Totally ’80s, “Rebel Soul: An ‘80s Conversation with Bebe Buell”
Lisa Niver and Andrew McCarthyK6. PERSONALITY PROFILE/INTERVIEW, Non-Entertainment Personalities (Over 10 Minutes)
Alex Cohen, Sara Sadhwani, Crystal Goss, Yazmin Cruz, Nathaniel Leathers, Spectrum News 1, “Inside the Issues: The Podcast ‘Marqueece Harris-Dawson’”
Debra Eckerling, Jewish Journal, “Chef Susan Feniger and Liz Lachman: ‘Forked,’ Food and Spiced Millet Puffs”
Esther D. Kustanowitz and Erin Benmoche, TheBagelReport, “Unapologetic Bagels feat. Dr. Samantha Pickette”
Robert Scheer, ScheerPost, “Nuclear War Imminent?”
Thank you to the Jewish Journal for 13 years of support for my writing. Congrats to all of the Jewish Journal finalists in the SoCal Journalism Awards. See them all in this article: “Jewish Journal Nominated for 11 SoCal Journalism Awards by LA Press Club”
Lisa Niver has won many awards! From 2017 to 2024, in the Southern California Journalism Awards and National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards, she has won six times and been a finalist thirty times for a variety of broadcast, print, podcast and digital categories.
2024 5x Finalist: Southern California Journalism Awards for Online Journalist of the Year, Podcast Host and for my podcast interviews with Andrew McCarthy, Samantha Brown and Christie Tate
2023 Winner: National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards Diversity in Entertainment
2023 3x Finalist: National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards
2023 2x Finalist: Southern California Journalism Awards for Travel Reporting and Podcast Interview
When I discovered incense, in the wilds of the Venice Beach Boardwalk, as a young man in, probably, the late eighties, I didn’t know it had something to do with me.
5x Southern California Journalism Awards Finalist!
Lisa Ellen Niver
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