Award Winner for Southern California Journalism Awards! Thank you!

Thank you! I am honored to have won for my print magazine story for Hemispheres Magazine for United Airlines in the 2020 Southern California Journalism Awards.

G6. PRINT MAGAZINE FEATURE, Under 1,000 Words: Any feature.

Lisa Niver, Hemispheres Magazine for United Airlines, “Painter by the Numbers, Rembrandt”

This year the Southern California Journalism Awards Gala was virtual and hosted by Cher Calvin from KTLA and George Pennacchio from ABC.

Thank you to everyone who has supported me and to all of the outlets who published my work. Please see below for my print, digital and broadcast content which was nominated in 2020. Thank you to the Los Angeles Press Club for this opportunity to be recognized!

A5. ONLINE JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR

Lisa Niver, We Said Go Travel

Lisa Niver dancing underwater at 70 feet

B4a. ACTIVISM JOURNALISM

Lisa Niver, Ms. Magazine, “What Growing up X Taught Ilyasah Shabazz about Feminism”

Lisa Niver's article on Ilyasah Shabazz in Ms. Magazine

Congratulations to longtime Ms. Contributor @wesaidgotravel, a 5 time finalist for @LAPressClub's #SoCalJournalismAwards! Read her work at Ms. here: https://t.co/Q7SJjmyAA9
— Ms. Magazine (@MsMagazine) July 11, 2020

B13. EDUCATIONAL REPORTING

Lisa Niver, Wharton Magazine, “Treat Your Business Rival as Inspiration, Not Competition”

I10. BROADCAST LIFESTYLE FEATURE

Lisa Niver, KTLA 5 News, “Star Treatment Package Giveaway”

Lisa Niver at Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills on KTLA TV

CONGRATULATIONS to all of the WINNERS and FINALISTS! I am honored to be recognized in this esteemed group!

My past nominations and winning content:

2019 Winner: NAEJ Award for KTLA TV segment

2019 Finalist: National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards in three categories

Category H2a. Soft News: Ms. Magazine: Polar Bears Can’t Vote So You Have To
Category F6a. Soft News Feature – Under 5 Minutes—Film/TV: KTLA TV Oscars Countdown to Gold with Lisa Niver
Category C1b. Business, Music/Tech/Art: My Wharton Magazine article: Four Female Founders Share Their Origin Stories

2019 Finalist: Southern California Journalism Awards for Broadcast Television Lifestyle Segment: Ogden Ski Getaway

2018 Finalist for three categories of Southern California Journalism Awards:

SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY REPORTING: Smithsonian
TRAVEL REPORTING: Popsugar Fitness
PERSONALITY PROFILE: Saturday Evening Post

Lisa Niver at 2017 Southern California Journalism Awards

2017 2nd place winner for Southern California Journalism Award Print Column and finalist for Travel Reporting.

Lisa Niver at Los Angeles Press Club Awards 2019, Photo by Liz H. Kelly

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.