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Washington Post
16-06-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
Press club sues Los Angeles, police chief over alleged attacks on journalists
The Los Angeles Press Club sued the city of Los Angeles and its police chief, Jim McDonnell, over alleged police violence toward journalists covering the ongoing protests of immigration raids in L.A. The press club, which advocates for journalists in Southern California, filed its lawsuit Monday in federal district court in Los Angeles, saying that the defendants violated journalists' First Amendment rights by using 'excessive force' against them. 'Being a journalist in Los Angeles is now a dangerous profession,' the group wrote in its complaint. 'LAPD actions during the June 2025 protests in downtown Los Angeles reveal a brazen refusal to abide by the Constitution and state law and repeats the same conduct by the Defendant City repeatedly held to be unconstitutional by the federal courts for the past 25 years.' Law enforcement at the protests have routinely shot less-lethal ammunition at protesters, in some cases hitting and injuring members of the press. Sergio Olmos, a reporter for CalMatters, told The Washington Post last week that out of hundreds of days of protests that he's covered in his career, he's never seen the police use so many less-lethal rounds. Adam Rose, press rights chair of the L.A. Press Club, compiled a spreadsheet of more than 50 alleged incidents of potential police violations of journalists' rights covering this month's protests starting on June 6. This includes the case of Australian television correspondent Lauren Tomasi, named in the complaint, who was hit with a less-lethal round while broadcasting live on air. Olmos' case and The Post's reporting were also cited in the lawsuit. 'The Los Angeles Police Department has a long history of violating the rights of the press and public at protests. And we shouldn't have needed this lawsuit,' said David Loy of the First Amendment Coalition, one of the attorneys for the press club. 'But unfortunately, we see it as unfortunately necessary to go back to courts to protect the rights of the press to cover protests without fear of attack or assault.' The LAPD said it 'does not comment on pending litigation.' McDonnell has defended the department's response to what it has called 'hostile and riotous' protesters. The Los Angeles mayor's office did not respond to a request for comment. In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs allege that the city and the LAPD violated journalists' rights under the First and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantee the right to a free press and due process, respectively, as well as multiple California state statutes. L.A. Press Club is joined by another plaintiff, Status Coup, an investigative outlet whose reporters say they were hit with less-lethal munitions while covering the protests. Carol Sobel, a former ACLU lawyer acting as lead counsel for the plaintiffs, said that the LAPD hasn't followed the California legislature nor precedent from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which she says has clearly ruled that journalists have a right to access in protests. 'They just don't give a damn,' she said. 'And they act with impunity. So we're hoping that the federal courts will hold them accountable.' LAPD is only one of many law enforcement agencies on the ground in Los Angeles, alongside the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the California Highway Patrol, as well as federal forces from the California National Guard and the Department of Homeland Security. Sobel said she plans to sue other law enforcement agencies, too, starting with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Los Angeles Magazine Garners Four Nominations from L.A. Press Club
Los Angeles magazine writers Malina Saval (Editor-in-Chief of Pasadena magazine) and Lina Lecaro (Senior Editor, Los Angeles) scored three collective nominations for this year's LA Press Club's 67th annual SoCal Journalism Awards. Freelance contributor Jon Regardie also got a nod in the Political Commentary category for his piece Mark Ridley-Thomas Begins His Appeal, With an 'Army of Supporters Standing Behind Him. Lecaro, a veteran pop culture reporter and previous nominee/2nd place runner-up for Journalist of the Year (Newspapers, over 50,000 circulation) four years in a row, has also won three LAPC awards previously. This year, she is a finalist in the Criticism of Music category for her work in Los Angeles including live music reviews of Madonna at the Kia Forum, The Rolling Stones at SoFi Stadium and the No Values punk music festival. Saval, an award-winning journalist, author and editor who has revamped Pasadena since taking the helm in July 2023, is a finalist in Entertainment Commentary, Arts category for her essay, Boaz, Bruce and 'Born to Run, which focuses on her experience taking her autistic teenage son to his first Bruce Springsteen concert. Saval, who has earned several SoCal Journalism awards and National Arts and Entertainment Journalism awards, is also a finalist in the Culture News, Film/TV related category for her story, Hiding in Plain Sight: How the Academy Museum Relegated Hollywood's Jewish Founders to the Ghetto portions of which were quoted in the New York Times.
Reuters
24-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Reuters
「ＳＨＯＧＵＮ」が4冠、全米映画俳優組合賞 日本人受賞は初
［ロサンゼルス ２３日 ロイター］ - 第３１回全米映画俳優組合賞（ＳＡＧ賞）授賞式が２３日、ロサンゼルスで行われ、真田広之が主演・製作のドラマ「ＳＨＯＧＵＮ 将軍」がＴＶドラマシリーズ部門で最優秀アンサンブル賞を受賞するなど４冠を達成した。 アンサンブル賞のほか、真田がドラマ部門の男優賞、アンナ・サワイが女優賞に輝き、スタント賞も受賞した。ＳＡＧ賞での日本人の受賞は史上初めてとなる。 映画部門ではエドワード・ベルガー監督の「教皇選挙」が最高賞のキャスト賞を受賞。主演男優賞はティモシー・シャラメ（「名もなき者／A COMPLETE UNKNOWN」）、主演女優賞はデミ・ムーア（「サブスタンス」）、助演男優賞はキーラン・カルキン（「リアル・ペイン 心の旅」）、助演女優賞はゾーイ・サルダナ（「エミリア・ペレス」）に贈られた。 またジェーン・フォンダに今年の生涯功労賞が贈られた。 私たちの行動規範： トムソン・ロイター「信頼の原則」, opens new tab Danielle Broadway トムソン・ロイター Danielle Broadway covers topics that range from film premieres, celebrity news, Hollywood legal proceedings, theater, press junkets, enterprise stories and more at Thomson Reuters. She has a bachelor's and a master's degree in English Literature from Cal State Long Beach and previously worked at the Los Angeles Times and freelanced at Teen Vogue, USA Today, Black Girl Nerds and other outlets. Danielle won an LA Press Club award for her Los Angeles Times cover story about South Los Angeles representation in the show "Insecure" and is a GLAAD Media Award nominee for her work on the PBS series "Subcultured" episode about the gay rodeo. She is a member of the African American Film Critics Association, Critics Choice Association, LA Press Club and GALECA (LGBTQ+ Critics).
