I am a 6x Southern California Journalism Awards Finalist!

 

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THANK YOU! I am honored to be a SIX TIME finalist for the 2024 66th annual Southern California Journalism Awards. I am a finalist for Online Journalist of the Year, Podcast Host and for four of my podcast interviews with Andrew McCarthy, Samantha Brown, Tony Phelan and Christie Tate.

UPDATE June 23, 2024: I WON in two categories! Awards photos coming soon

The Los Angeles Press Club stated that “The work of these journalists represents the best reporting in the region out of more than 2,300 entries submitted this year. The winners will be announced at an awards dinner gala at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday, June 23, 2024.”

66th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 23: Journalist Lisa Niver (L) and entertainment reporter BJ Korros attend the 66th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards at the Biltmore Los Angeles on June 23, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Amanda Edwards/Getty Images) Niver WINS 2nd place in 2 categories!

A5B. ONLINE JOURNALIST, independent

  • Lisa Niver, Jewish Journal
  • Meghann Cuniff, LegalAffairsandTrials.com
  • Daniel Guss, Substack
  • Nico Lang, Freelance
  • Aitana Vargas, palabra and La Opinión

K1. ANCHOR/HOST

  • Lisa Niver, Make Your Own Map Podcast
  • Ana Garcia, True Crime Daily The Podcast
  • Lyndsey Parker, Totally ‘80s Podcast
  • Michael Schneider, Clayton Davis, Jazz Tangcay, Jenelle Riley, Emily Longeretta, Variety
  • Susan Valot, Quanta Magazine Science Podcast

K4. LIFESTYLE FEATURE

  • Lisa Niver, Make Your Own Map, “How To Be Your Own B.F.F with Christie Tate”
  • Robin Estrin, KCRW, “A Hanukkah miracle at Fairfax District’s Diamond Bakery”
  • Caroline Feraday, KCLU Radio, “Rare chance to fly in an historic aircraft which played a critical role in World War 2”
  • Giuliana Mayo, KCRW, “Minerva Hamilton Hoyt — tireless defender of the desert — saved Joshua Tree”
  • Giuliana Mayo, KCRW, “This fish traveled over 5000 miles to be on LA plates”

K5. PERSONALITY PROFILE/INTERVIEW, Entertainment Personalities (Over 10 Minutes)

  • Lisa Niver, Make Your Own Map, “Walking with Andrew McCarthy”
  • Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, “It Happened in Hollywood: Penelope Spheeris – ‘Wayne’s World’”
  • Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, “‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast — ‘The Three Amigos’: Alfonso Cuarón (‘Le Pupille’), Guillermo del Toro (‘Pinocchio’) and Alejandro González Iñárritu (‘Bardo’)”
  • Angelique Jackson, Variety, “Alex Borstein on the Legacy of ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ as It Ends: ‘We Launched in Such a Perfect Moment’”
  • Lyndsey Parker, Totally ’80s, “Rebel Soul: An ‘80s Conversation with Bebe Buell”
Lisa Niver and Andrew McCarthy

K6. PERSONALITY PROFILE/INTERVIEW, Non-Entertainment Personalities (Over 10 Minutes)

  • Lisa Niver, We Said Go Travel, “Journey into the World of Wanderlust: Samantha Brown, Travel Goddess”
  • Alex Cohen, Sara Sadhwani, Crystal Goss, Yazmin Cruz, Nathaniel Leathers, Spectrum News 1, “Inside the Issues: The Podcast ‘Marqueece Harris-Dawson’”
  • Debra Eckerling, Jewish Journal, “Chef Susan Feniger and Liz Lachman: ‘Forked,’ Food and Spiced Millet Puffs”
  • Esther D. Kustanowitz and Erin Benmoche, TheBagelReport, “Unapologetic Bagels feat. Dr. Samantha Pickette”
  • Robert Scheer, ScheerPost, “Nuclear War Imminent?”

K11. REGULAR PODCAST

  • Lisa Niver, Make Your Own Map, “Heroes of the Holocaust: A Small Light”
  • Jonathan Bastian, Andrea Brody, KCRW, “Wintering and enchantment: A pathway to healing and happiness with Katherine May”
  • Chris Greenspon, Damien Newton, Joe Linton, Streetsblog LA, “SGV Connect 120: Basking in the Afterglow of Arroyo Fest”
  • Sarah Shachat, Trevor Wallace, Chris O’Falt, IndieWire, “‘Barbie’ Director Greta Gerwig & Editor Nick Houy”
  • True Crime Daily The Podcast Team, True Crime Daily The Podcast, “Woman clings to hood of speeding car to save stolen dog: Man sentenced for rescue dog’s brutal death”

Thank you to the Jewish Journal for 13 years of support for my writing. Congrats to all of the Jewish Journal finalists in the SoCal Journalism Awards. See them all in this article: “Jewish Journal Nominated for 11 SoCal Journalism Awards by LA Press Club“

Lisa Niver has won many awards! From 2017 to 2024, in the Southern California Journalism Awards and National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards, she has won six times and been a finalist thirty-one times for a variety of broadcast, print, podcast and digital categories.

More about Lisa Niver: https://lisaniver.com/awards/

Lisa Ellen Niver

Lisa Niver is an award-winning author, travel journalist and international speaker who has explored 102 countries on all seven continents. This University of Pennsylvania graduate sailed across the seas for seven years with Princess Cruises, Royal Caribbean, and Renaissance Cruises and spent three years backpacking across Asia. Discover her articles in publications from AARP: The Magazine and AAA Explorer to WIRED and Wharton Magazine, as well as her site WeSaidGoTravel. On her award-winning global podcast, Make Your Own Map, Niver has interviewed Deepak Chopra, Olympic medalists, and numerous bestselling authors, and as a journalist has been invited to both the Oscars and the United Nations. For her print and digital stories as well as her television segments, she has been awarded five Southern California Journalism Awards and four National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards and been a finalist thirty-five times. Named a top travel influencer, Niver talks travel on broadcast television, her YouTube channel with over 2.5 million views, and in her award-winning memoir, Brave-ish: One Breakup, Six Continents and Feeling Fearless After Fifty.

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