DAILY NEWS STAFFERS WIN L.A. PRESS CLUB HONORS.Byline: - Daily News UNIVERSAL CITY - Patrick O'Connor Patrick J. O'Connor is a long-serving alderman in Chicago's City Council. O'Connor represents the 40th Ward on the North Side. Like the majority of the members of the City Council, he is a member of the Democratic Party. of the Daily News was named best editorial cartoonist An editorial cartoonist, also known as a political cartoonist, is an artist who draws cartoons that contain some level of political or social commentary. The most common outlet for political cartoonists is the editorial page of the newspaper not the dedicated comic section, in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, in the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Press Club's 45th annual Journalism Awards competition. O'Connor took top honors in his category for an editorial cartoon This article or section deals primarily with the United States and Canada and does not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. on the state budget crisis. The judge said: ``His work has passion and is visually pleasing. Makes a strong statement.'' The Daily News won two other first-place awards in competition with other papers with more than 100,000 circulation daily as well as getting several other honors. Sports copy editor Daniel Rooney won first place for what the judge called a ``creative and punchy'' headline, ``Driving Miss Crazy'' on UCLA's victory over Ole Miss in basketball. Artist Jon Gerung won first place for design and layout for ``Star Wars: Attack of the Clones.'' ``Beautifully laid with excellent illustrations and just the right amount of text,'' according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the judge. In addition, the Daily News won second place in editorial writing for ``Yes on secession.'' Sports writer Howard Beck took second place for an article on Shaquille O'Neal. Winning honorable mentions were reporter Helen Gao for ``Belmont's new woes,'' editorial writer Chris Weinkopf for his weekly column, columnist Dennis McCarthy for his four-times-a-week column and photographer Hans Gutknecht for his photo essay ``An Inspiration to All.'' Daily News Editor David J. Butler said the awards underscore the newspaper's excellence in a variety of areas. ``O'Connor's first place and the awards recognize outstanding achievement in an assortment of areas where the newspaper's staffers are excelling in their work as they strive to serve readers.'' The awards were presented at a banquet Saturday night at the Sheraton- Universal Hotel in Universal City. The Daily News competed with newspapers with circulations of 100,000 and over with other first-place awards going to the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). , L.A. Weekly and the San Diego Union-Tribune. Awards also were given to papers with under-100,000 circulation, to weeklies, monthlies, online journalism as well as to radio and television news broadcasters. The competition was open to material published during 2002. |
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