To Honor SF Chronicle, dot429 and Bob Ross Scholarship Winner
PRLog - Oct. 2, 2013 - SAN FRANCISCO -- For the past 12 years, the Excellence in Journalism Awards, presented by the Northern California division of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, has celebrated outstanding, accurate and fair media coverage of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues. This year’s reception, hosted by Sister Eve Volution of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and featuring appetizers, an open bar and a live performance by electro-punk band Violent Vickie, will be held at Café Du Nord, 2170 Market Street, San Francisco, on Thursday, October 10.
We will honor two prominent local journalists at the event for their commitment to LGBT coverage, one a veteran San Francisco Chronicle legal reporter who followed the same-sex marriage story from the start, Bob Egelko, and two, Richard Klein, who after launching style and architecture magazine Surface turned his attention to building an LGBT professional network, dot429, by including quality editorial as an integral part of his business plan (something we’d like to see more of!).
At the event we will also award a promising journalism graduate student the NLGJA Northern California Bob Ross Student Scholarship for $2,500. This year’s honoree is Titania Kumeh, a student at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. Kumeh shows strong potential as a journalist who has sought to accurately report on underrepresented communities, including HIV-positive men in the African-American community and sex workers. Her portfolio includes stories published in the Ghanaian Times, the Los Angeles Times and Mother Jones.
Please join the top print, online, radio and broadcast journalists, publishers and public relations professionals from around Northern California to honor their achievements.
NLGJA-NorCal Excellence in Journalism Awards
6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10
Cafe Du Nord, 2170 Market St.
San Francisco, CA 94114
Tickets can be purchased online https://www.eventbrite.com/event/8169961575 through October 9 as well as at the door.
About Bob Egelko
Bob Egelko has been a journalist since 1970. His expansive career includes 30 years at the Associated Press in bureaus in San Francisco and San Diego, followed by a brief stint at the San Francisco Examiner. Egelko went to law school in Sacramento and passed the bar. He's been at the San Francisco Chronicle since 2000 on the legal beat. And for anyone following same-sex marriage issues in this state, Egelko was in the right city at the right time and on the right beat. He's closely followed the rise and fall of Proposition 8, from its origins in the 2004 San Francisco marriages to the 2008 referendum and then, just a few days shy of San Francisco Pride, the historic U.S. Supreme Court decision. Egelko lives in Oakland with his wife, Ann Forfreedom.
About Richard Klein
Richard Klein is a successful entrepreneur and a major voice in the world of design and publishing. He is the founder and former publisher of Surface magazine. After selling the publication, Klein led the launch of dot429 and is currently operating as the CEO and publisher. Dot429 is the largest LGBT professional network, called the “LinkedIn for the gay community” by the New York Times, connecting professionals and entrepreneurs from different industries to inspire one another. Dot429’s online magazine has attracted so many new visitors to the network, Klein hired Vanity Fair’s Kevin Sessums to launch a print magazine this fall—FourTwoNine.
About Titania Kumeh
Born June 9, 1984 in Los Angeles, California, Kumeh was raised in the City of Angels by a single mother from the Bahamas. Together, they navigated through the L.A. riots when the tumult hit their neighborhood. They lived in housing situations where the nightly crackle of gunfire was a normal occurrence. They bought groceries sometimes with help from food stamps and other government assistance programs. And they did it all while her mom worked graveyard shifts and attended nursing school to support them.
Those experiences answer why Kumeh is motivated to pen narratives that feature the lives of people traditionally not explored in mainstream American news outlets: subcultures, marginalized groups, people of color, poor people, young people, old people and, generally, people who have found unconventional ways to survive. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, San Francisco Weekly, Pasadena Weekly and the Bay Citizen, among other publications.
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About the NLGJA, and Its Northern California Connection
Founded in 1990, the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association is an organization of journalists, media professionals, educators and students working from within the news industry to foster fair and accurate coverage of LGBT issues. NLGJA opposes all forms of workplace bias and provides professional development to its members.
Northern California is the birthplace of NLGJA, the brainchild of former Oakland Tribune Executive Editor Leroy F. Aarons. Today, not only is the Northern California chapter the oldest but it is also among the largest and most active.
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October 02, 2013 at 11:00 AM EDT
