Los Angeles Press Club Honors PBS SoCal with 20 First Place Honors At Southern California Journalism Awards
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Los Angeles, Calif. – June 23, 2025 – PBS SoCal, Southern California’s flagship PBS organization, announced today 20 first-place honors for the 67th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards presented by the Los Angeles Press Club. The wins were spread across different programs/series in 20 categories and honored a variety of locally produced series/productions including ARTBOUND, EARTH FOCUS, LOST LA and more from PBS SoCal. Winners in all print, radio, podcast, TV and online categories (from more than 2,300 entries submitted this year) were announced in all categories presented during a ceremony on Sunday, June 22nd at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles. The honorees’ work can be seen on pbssocal.org and on the free PBS video App.
PBS SoCal’s original Emmy® award-winning series EARTH FOCUS (three wins), ARTBOUND (two wins) and LOST LA (two wins) led the organization’s tally. Other notable wins included PBS SoCal’s Senior Director of Production Angela Boisvert for the prestigious “Television Journalist of the Year” category as well as PBS SoCal Original series ART HAPPENS HERE WITH JOHN LITHGOW which explored the impact of arts education in schools, that took top honors in the “Education Reporting” category.
PBS SoCal co-productions “Whatever Dreams They Had,” “Understanding Autism,” “Possible Selves: Overcoming the Odds in Foster Care,” “Bella,” “Under the Baton: Pacific Symphony's Carl St. Clair,” “Birth of the Endless Summer” and “Snapshots of Confinement” rounded out the organization’s wins on Sunday night.
The full list of first-place honors for PBS SoCal is as follows:
TELEVISION JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
- Angela Boisvert, PBS SoCal
PHOTOJOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
- Osceola Refetoff, PBS SoCal
GENDER AND SOCIETY REPORTING
- Tadashi Nakamura, Quyên Nguyen-Le, Nic Cha Kim, Angela Boisvert, Iliana Garcia, PBS SoCal, “Artbound: Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement”
ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTING
- Matthew Crotty, Francesca Roth, Clarissa Guy, Angela Boisvert, Tamara Gould, PBS SoCal, “Earth Focus: The Tortoise, the Raven, and Us”
PHOTO ESSAY (Single Topic), News/News Feature
- Osceola Refetoff, PBS SoCal, “The White Snake of Knowledge: A Lithium Boom at the Salton Sea”
MEDICAL/HEALTH REPORTING
- Angela Boisvert, Matt Bass, Tamara Gould, Nathan Masters, Kathy Kasaba, PBS SoCal, “Lost LA: Tuberculosis: The Forgotten Plague”
FAITH/SPIRITUAL REPORTING
Stephanie Ayanian, Joseph Myers, Mary McDermott, Greg Feinberg, PBS SoCal, “Whatever Dreams They Had”
PHOTO ESSAY (Single Topic), Culture/Entertainment
- Osceola Refetoff, PBS SoCal, “High & Dry: Slab City – Creative Homesteading in a Desert of Extremes”
ENTERTAINMENT NEWS or FEATURE (Over 5 Minutes)
- Maria Hall-Brown, Paul Hodgins, Al Magallon, Kevin King, PBS SoCal, “Under the Baton: Pacific Symphony's Carl St. Clair”
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY (Over 25 Minutes)
- Scott Steindorff, Zhara Astra, Dylan Russell, Hemant Taneja, Sonia Rockwell, PBS SoCal, “Understanding Autism”
EDUCATION REPORTING
- John Lithgow, Perry Simon, Juan Devis, Angela Boisvert, Antonio Diaz, PBS SoCal, “Art Happens Here with John Lithgow”
PUBLIC SERVICE NEWS or FEATURE
- Shaun Kadlec, Jamie Wolf, Bill Resnick, Grace Zahrah, Doug Blush, PBS SoCal, “Possible Selves: Overcoming the Odds in Foster Care”
SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM
- Matthew Crotty, Francesca Roth, Clarissa Guy, Angela Boisvert, Tamara Gould, PBS SoCal, “Earth Focus: Transforming the Los Angeles River”
ENTERTAINMENT PERSONALITY PROFILE/INTERVIEW
- Bridget Murnane, PBS SoCal, “Bella"
RACE AND SOCIETY REPORTING, Individual Profiles
- Esteban Gómez, Whitney Peterson, Michelle Merker, J.D. Gonzales, Ian Marks, PBS SoCal, “Snapshots of Confinement”
IMMIGRATION REPORTING
- Antonio Diaz, Jaime Morgan Munoz, Angela Boisvert, Tamara Gould, Kathy Kasaba, PBS SoCal, “Rebel Kitchens Southern California”
TRAVEL REPORTING
- Angela Boisvert, Matt Bass, Tamara Gould, Nathan Masters, Kathy Kasaba, PBS SoCal, “Lost LA: Hiking Trailblazers”
HUMAN INTEREST FEATURE (Over 5 Minutes)
- Varda Bar-Kar, Alessandra Pasquino, Nic Cha Kim, Angela Boisvert, Tamara Gould, PBS SoCal, “Artbound: Judy Baca and the Power of Murals in Los Angeles”
ANIMATION/MOVING GRAPHIC
- Lucy Munger, PBS SoCal, “Earth Focus”
SPORTS
- Richard Yelland, Matthew Johnston, Robert Riemer, Will Jobe, Miles Masterson, PBS SoCal, “Birth of the Endless Summer”
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About PBS SoCal
PBS SoCal uses the power of public media for good, strengthening the civic fabric of Southern California and providing our community with an essential connection to a wider world. As a local, donor/member-supported non-profit organization, PBS SoCal is available to stream on the PBS app and the PBS Kids App and reaches nearly 19M viewers across 7 Broadcast channels — including 2 primary channels, PBS SoCal and PBS SoCal Plus and 5 digital subchannels. With a commitment to make content available anytime and anywhere for free, PBS SoCal offers programming that reflects the diversity of Southern California and showcases the full schedule of beloved and trusted PBS content spanning Education, News, Environment and Arts & Culture. PBS SoCal also sparks the sharing of ideas at in-person cultural events and community conversations as well as prepares children for kindergarten and beyond by bringing bilingual, hands-on learning experiences to the community for free.