Reason Nominated for 11 Southern California Journalism Awards

Matt Welch | 6.1.2012 4:10 PM

I am happy to announce that the good ship Reason has been nominated for 11 Southern California Journalism Awards, encompassing work produced in 2011 by organizations located between San Diego and Santa Barbara (Reason is heaquartered in Los Angeles), as administered by the Greater L.A. Press Club. And the nominees for best work in the field of journalism:

* Best TV Documentary: Paul Feine, Alex Manning and Anthony Fisher, for "Abandoned in Guatemala: The Failure of International Adoption Policies." Watch it below:

* Best Advocacy Journalism: Radley Balko, Hawk Jensen, Zach Weissmueller, for "The War on Cameras."

* Best Multimedia Package: Radley Balko, Hawk Jensen, Zach Weissmueller, for "The War on Cameras." Watch the video component below:

* Best Magazine Investigative News Story: Radley Balko, "The War on Cameras: It has never been easier—or more dangerous—to record the police."

* Best Magazine Feature/Commentary Over 1,000 Words: Shikha Dalmia, for "Bollywood v. Jihad: Which is the Bigger Threat to Fundamentalist Islam, the Pentagon or Mumbai?" and Nick Gillespie and Veronique de Rugy, for "The 19 Percent Solution: How to Balance the Budget Without Increasing Taxes."

* Best Magazine Entertainment Review/Criticism/Column: Thaddeus Russell, for "Empire of the Son: The president's parents were supporters, not opponents, of American hegemony"; Bill Steigerwald, for "Sorry Charley: Was John Steinbeck's Travels With Charley a fraud?"; and Matt Welch, for "The Simpletons: David Brooks, Thomas L. Friedman, and the banal authoritarianism of do-something punditry."

* Best Group Weblog: Hit & Run.

* Best Website, Print News Organization: Reason Online.

Finalists will be announced June 24. Last year, we were nominated for 15 awards, and took home 4. Our 2011 work was also nominated for 8 Western Publishing Association "Maggie" awards, but we got shut out.

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mr simple 13 years ago

Best Group Weblog: Hit Run.

While it's an honor just to be nominated, if they've read the comments here they'll know HnR has to win. Or else.
1. Episiarch 13 years ago
  
  "That's a nice awards ceremony you got there. Wouldn't want anything to 'appen to it, aye?"
  1. General Butt Naked 13 years ago
    
    "Ya fookin cunts...ya I said cunts, cunts."
35N4P2BYY 13 years ago

They left one out:

Most witty, insightful, oh and did we mention handsome commentor on HnR: 35N4P2BYY
1. Zeb 13 years ago
  
  Dude, nobody is ever going to remember how to spell that.
Pro Libertate 13 years ago

Bill Steigerwald? Did I miss something?

I'm also disappointed that I wasn't nominated for best commenter. Dangit.
1. Episiarch 13 years ago
  
  How odd. I was just thinking how disappointed I was that you weren't nominated for worst commenter.
  
  Isn't Bill Steigerwald Lucy's dad?
  1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
    
    That's impossible. See, there's a reason I didn't have you banned.
    1. Episiarch 13 years ago
      
      I'm useful! I'm useful!
      
      "The important thing is, I'm meeting new people."
  2. SIV 13 years ago
    
    Yes. Lucy is a second-generation contributor.
    1. Lucy Steigerwald 13 years ago
      
      I'm also a terrific intern.
      1. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
        
        Still? Glass ceiling!
        
        Lucy Steigerwald 13 years ago
        
        It's funny because I am associate editor, not a contributor, you savages!
        
        But that is my dad, and I am unoriginal, 'tis true.
        
        Pro Libertate 13 years ago
        
        Are you a clone with the Y chromosome removed? Because that would be acceptable. And totally cool.
        
        joshua corning 13 years ago
        
        Are you a clone with the Y chromosome removed?
        
        Can those things have babies?
        
        Zeb 13 years ago
        
        They pretty much make anyone who sticks around for more than a month associate editor, don't they?
        
        But don't sell yourself short, you contribute a lot. You should get the nomination for "best at responding to the idiot commenters".
        
        Pro Libertate 13 years ago
        
        I'm curious--with all the editors, who actually writes?
        
        Lucy Steigerwald 13 years ago
        
        That's the most awesomely damned with faint praise comment that I have ever read. Well done, sir.
        
        Episiarch 13 years ago
        
        The only way to advance at reason is to kill a superior, just like in the Mirror Universe. Lucy is merely biding her time before she uses the Tantalus Device on Welch (Cavanaugh's people will avenge him if she takes him out).
        
        Lucy Steigerwald 13 years ago
        
        I forgot "an" above. What's that law again?
        
        SugarFree 13 years ago
        
        Eat what you kill. That's the rule, Lucy.
        
        Episiarch 13 years ago
        
        I thought the rule was "never get involved in a land war in Asia". Wait, that's a classic blunder. The true rule is "No Dead, no Band, no Cat Stevens". That's a rule to live by.
        
        R C Dean 13 years ago
        
        Sorry, imitating Slavic sentence construction in a comment doesn't have a law.
        
        Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
        
        "I am associate editor, hear me roar, making paychecks too big to ignore."
  3. db 13 years ago
    
    I think a more difficult choice would be to determine bootlickingest commenter.
    1. BakedPenguin 13 years ago
      
      To the writing staff, or authority in general?
      1. db 13 years ago
        
        My initial intent was to authority in general. But a subaward could be created... 🙂
        
        Episiarch 13 years ago
        
        Well, the clear winner of the initial intent is Tulpa.
        
        SugarFree 13 years ago
        
        I might be the winner of the subaward, insomuch as I rarely criticize the subject or content of the articles. I always figured that if I didn't like what they were writing about I'd just leave rather than whine.
        
        SugarFree 13 years ago
        
        authority in general
        
        That's easy. Only one of us around here gets a joyboner about red light cameras and hates the delicious innovation of food trucks.
        
        Warty 13 years ago
        
        How glib.
db 13 years ago

Is "Southern California Journalism" like "Polish Death Camps?"
1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  [golf clap]
  1. db 13 years ago
    
    Don't forget to tip the interns.
    1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
      
      As a rule, all interns get is just the tip.
      
      No, wait...
2. Rasilio 13 years ago
  
  No but it is just like being world famous in Poland
  1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
    
    At least they got a pope. Unlike the U.S.
    1. Zeb 13 years ago
      
      What are you talking about. We've got tons of popes. I think several even comments on here fairly regularly.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordianism#Popes
      1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
        
        I meant of the Roman Catholic variety. Why the snub?
sloopyinca 13 years ago

Boy, the first thing that comes to mind is: Cavanaugh must really, really be on the LAT's shit list, because he's about as good a writer as you'll find in SoCal.
1. joshua corning 13 years ago
  
  The LAT are doing what Tim and Matt told them to do....but like 5 years after they left.
  
  So yeah the LAT has a chip on its shoulder.
2. Broseph of Invention 13 years ago
  
  "Cavanaugh" rhymes with "Saginaw", the dying automotive town in east-central Michigan, often referred to by mitten-staters at "Sag-nasty". The associative subconscious is stronger than you think.
  
  Tim is one of the best conversational writers I've ever read, and the safest bet for introducing pop-culture conscious friends to libertarianism.
affenkopf 13 years ago

Wait, isn't reason based in Washington?
1. SugarFree 13 years ago
  
  It has to move around a lot, much like an off-shore pirate radio ship.
  1. hamilton 13 years ago
    
    If they had a Reason seasteading that'd be cool. I wonder if Welch bought office space on that boat thingy off the CA coast.
    1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
      
      Why not in space?
  2. JW 13 years ago
    
    I thought it was more of a Tholian subspace thing.
    1. Episiarch 13 years ago
      
      THOLIAN WEBS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY
      1. JW 13 years ago
        
        Look, just because you bought the stripped down, base model, doesn't mean they're all like that.
    2. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
      
      Tholia demands an apology! That subspace thing was in Tholian space but it wasn't Tholian.
2. Zeb 13 years ago
  
  Only so they can get invited to cocktail parties. Or so I've been told.
joshua corning 13 years ago

Tim Cavanaugh gets shafted again!!!

Fuck the Southern California awards.
1. johnl 13 years ago
  
  The California ptb put their hands over their eyes whenever a Cavanaugh piece on the budget, the stupid train, or redevelopment comes out.
CE 13 years ago

What, no award for best comments?
1. joshua corning 13 years ago
  
  We only get recognized during fund raisers or when Scott does not want to explain how video games work.
CE 13 years ago

Hey, the Bollywood/Jihad link points to some article on 19 pct spending, and the 19 Pct Solution link points to some article on Bollywood. Don't they have any associate editors around here?
1. Matt Welch 13 years ago
  
  Thanks.
CE 13 years ago

And no awards for all the police brutality/excessive violence/dog killing articles?
joshua corning 13 years ago

Matt Welch, for "The Simpletons: David Brooks, Thomas L. Friedman, and the banal authoritarianism of do-something punditry."

This should win only because the whole east coast/west coast news nerd rivalry.
Butts Wagner 13 years ago

Jerry Bruckheimer walks to the podium in a full body cast

Bruckheimer: Asplosive blog memes can materialize out of thin air. They make us laugh, they make us cry, they make us piss or pants..in 3D!!! kaplow!!!

Bruckheimer is trying to gesture wildly, but he is in a full body cast

Bruckheimer: And the winner, for most asplosive blog meme is...

Bruckheimer opens the envelope

Bruckheimer: ...STEVE SMITH!!!

Warty approved metal starts playing and Bruckheimer slowly backs away from the podium. Bruckheimer is looking around frantically for help and can be heard muttering as he backs away from the microphone

Bruckheimer: Oh god! Not again! Don't they know this is how I got the full body cast in the first place?!
VigDaRig 13 years ago

Dude knows what he is talking about lol.

http://www.Data-Privacy.tk
1. Butts Wagner 13 years ago
  
  Never leave us, JohnThomas
Stormy Dragon 13 years ago

Too bad most of these are for the work of an awesome journalist, Radley Balko, that you nitwits managed to let get away.

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