Online Journalist of the Year: NAEJ 2024 Finalist

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Lisa Ellen Niver

November 20, 2024

THANK YOU! I am honored to be a FOUR TIME finalist for the 2024 17th annual National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards. I am a finalist for Online Journalist of the Year, and for three of my podcast interviews with Beth Santos, Wanderful, Carolyn Roy, JourneyWoman, and Samantha Brown, Places to Love.

What an honor to be a four-time finalist. The judges carefully reviewed more than 1,600 entries to find the best Arts and Entertainment reporting the nation had to offer, and I am a finalist for these awards:

A3. Online Journalist of the Year — Independent

Lisa Niver, We Said Go Travel
A.D. Amorosi, Freelance
Philip Boroff, Broadway Journal
Holly Gleason, Freelance
Kate Nelson, Freelance

J3. Diversity in the Entertainment Industry

Lisa Niver, PODCAST: Make Your Own Map, “Ageless Ambition: Inspirational Leadership of Carolyn Ray, JourneyWoman”
Lisa Niver, PODCAST: Make Your Own Map, “Maximum Beth: Disrupting Travel for Women, Changing the Wander World Worldwide – A Community Builder’s Journey”
Caroline Feraday, KCLU, “America’s first all-female mariachi group bring the rich cultural heritage of Latin America to Santa Barbara County”
Norma Martinez, Marian Navarro, Texas Public Radio, “‘My instrument is the orchestra’ — Colombian-born conductor discusses her path to the podium”
Elvis Mitchell, Rebecca Mooney, Katie Gilcrest, KCRW, “New Yorker writer Hua Hsu reflects on memoir ‘Stay True’”

J5. One-on-One Interview, TV Personalities

Lisa Niver, We Said Go Travel, “Journey into the World of Wanderlust: Samantha Brown, Travel Goddess”
Madeleine Brand, Angie Perrin, KCRW, “Julia Louis-Dreyfus on coping with grief, refusing to be ignored”
Deborah Zara Kobylt, iHeartRadio and Youtube, “Fox11’s Christine Devine talks about meeting her father for the first time in Brazil”
Jennifer Maas, Variety, “Xbox Game Content and Studios President Matt Booty on ‘Beginning to Hit Our Stride,’ Game Pass Strategy, ‘Fallout’ Update, Studio Closures and More”
Michael Schneider, Variety, “Day Eating With Seth Meyers: The ‘Late Night’ Host Counts Down His Top 10 Pizza List”

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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 eight times and been a finalist thirty-five times for a variety of broadcast, print, podcast and digital categories.

2024 2x Winner: Southern California Journalism Awards for podcast segments with Samantha Brown, Places to Love, and Tony Phelan, A Small Light
2024 6x Finalist: Southern California Journalism Awards for Online Journalist of the Year, Podcast Host and for my podcast interviews with Andrew McCarthy, Samantha Brown, Tony Phelan 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
2022 Finalist: Southern California Journalism Awards for BOOK CRITICISM
2021 Finalist: National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards for Commentary Diversity/Gender and Commentary Analysis/Trend — Film
2021 Winner: Southern California Journalism Awards for TECHNOLOGY REPORTING
2021 Finalist: Southern California Journalism Awards for BOOK CRITICISM
2020 Winner: National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards for Book Critic. See all of Lisa’s book reviews here.
2020 Finalist: National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards for Book Critic
2020 Winner: Southern California Journalism Awards for print magazine article: Hemispheres Magazine for United Airlines
2020 Five Time Finalist: Southern California Journalism awards

2019 Winner: NAEJ Award for KTLA TV segment
2019 Finalist: National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards in three categories
- Category H2a. Soft News: Ms. Magazine: Polar Bears Can’t Vote So You Have To
- Category F6a. Soft News Feature – Under 5 Minutes—Film/TV: KTLA TV Oscars Countdown to Gold with Lisa Niver
- Category C1b. Business, Music/Tech/Art: My Wharton Magazine article: Four Female Founders Share Their Origin Stories
2019 Finalist: Southern California Journalism Awards for Broadcast Television Lifestyle Segment: Ogden Ski Getaway
2018 Finalist for three categories of Southern California Journalism Awards:
- SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY REPORTING: Smithsonian
- TRAVEL REPORTING: Popsugar Fitness
- PERSONALITY PROFILE: Saturday Evening Post
2017 2nd place winner for Southern California Journalism Award Print Column “A journey to freedom over three Passovers” and finalist for Travel Reporting.