California Ethnic Media Awards – May 27, 2021
Gov. Gavin Newsom will kick off the June 3, 2021 California Ethnic Media Awards with a salute to the ethnic media sector for their coverage of the larger-than-life issues that defined the year 2020.
The awards ceremony will run from 6 pm to 7:30 pm. It will be accessible on Zoom, and livestreamed on Facebook. Some 20 winners selected from over 230 entries will receive awards for excellence in reporting the epic stories of 2020, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic downturn, the 2020 Census, the movement for racial justice, the Trump war on immigrants, climate change and the Nov. 3 elections.
“From his years as San Francisco Mayor, when his first press conference after being elected was with the city’s ethnic media, Gov. Newsom has recognized ethnic media’s indispensible role in communicating with the state’s multilingual, multiethnic populations,” said Ethnic Media Services director Sandy Close.
“Gov. Newsom is the country’s first governor to write a quarterly column expressly for ethnic news outlets called On The Record,” noted California Black Media director Regina Brown Wilson. “Ethnic media represent one of the many vital bridges between government and the people governed.”
