Capital & Main Wins 17 Prizes at Southern California Journalism Awards
Capital & Main won Online Journalist of the Year and Best Website for a News Organization Exclusive to the Internet at the 62nd annual Southern California Journalism Awards, held Saturday in an online ceremony.
In total, Capital & Main received 17 prizes.
Joe Rubin won the prestigious Online Journalist of the Year award for his investigation into the state of California’s mishandling of lead contamination at a gun range and children’s gymnastics center. The investigation also won top prize for Local Political/Government Reporting and 2nd place in the Online Hard News category.
The judges wrote, “Rubin’s damning portrait of two public health agencies’ failure to protect the public, especially children, from the gun range’s lead contamination is a fine piece of public service writing.
Judges also lauded Judith Lewis Mernit for “a stunning and frightening story about groundwater supplies poisoning rural residents with high arsenic levels and parasitic intestinal worms in a San Joaquin Valley community founded by African Americans as a ‘black utopia.’” The story won the Online News Feature – Culture category.
Capital & Main also won six 2nd place awards and seven 3rd place awards:
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- “Child Law Penalizes Moms for Abusive Partners” by Angelika Albaladejo (2nd place, Activism Journalism and 3rd place, Online Gender/LGBTQ Reporting)
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- “When Charter Schools Fail, Parents Are Left Scrambling” by Larry Buhl (2nd place, Educational Reporting)
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- “Expiring Affordability Covenant Threatens Chinatown Tenants” by Joe Rihn (2nd place, Online News – Culture)
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- “Dodgers Baseball: The Blue and Very White” by Alex Demyanenko (2nd place, Online Sports Commentary)
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- “The Gun Range Next Door: A Public Health Failure” by Joe Rubin (3rd place, Online Hard News Feature and Online News – Government and Politics)
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- “Portraits of Erie, Pennsylvania” by Joanne Kim (2nd place, Photo Essay – News)
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- “Rent Law Offers Reprieve to Some of Los Angeles’ Most Vulnerable Families” by Jessica Goodheart (3rd place, Solutions Journalism)
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- “Are Offshore Aircraft-Repair Stations the New Normal?” by Steve Appleford (3rd place, Consumer News or Feature)
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- “Scared to Death: Immigrants in Need of Health Care Face Perilous Choices” by Eric Pape (3rd place, Medical/Health Reporting)
- “Topic of Cancer: How PFAS Threaten Our Water” by Dan Ross (3rd place, Science Reporting)
- “Scared to Death: Immigrants in Need of Health Care Face Perilous Choices” by Eric Pape (3rd place, Medical/Health Reporting)
The Southern California Journalism Awards are presented by the Los Angeles Press Club, one of the nation’s oldest and largest professional media organizations.
