{"id":57180,"date":"2023-03-21T12:24:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T19:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=57180"},"modified":"2023-03-21T12:24:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T19:24:42","slug":"alene-tchekmedyian-to-receive-the-la-press-clubs-guardian-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=57180","title":{"rendered":"Alene Tchekmedyian to Receive the LA Press Club\u2019s Guardian Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Times\u2019 Alene Tchekmedyian has been named the Los Angeles Press Club\u2019s 2023 Guardian Awardee for Contributions to Press Freedom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m deeply honored to receive this recognition from the Los Angeles Press Club, an organization that has done so much to lift up local journalists. I am grateful to my editors for their constant guidance, my colleagues who I learn from every day and all of the people willing to share stories of misconduct within the L.A. County Sheriff\u2019s Department at great risk to themselves,\u201d Tchekmedyan said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"CToWUd a6T\" tabindex=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/ci3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/tV5zP4oh28V16xoP0DNSM7OOdi8Jysc14t5fc7qtIn-OmejztmxM0xfuyaJC4HCeonmyPCXaPrNItQICplv_JXuAMoCCzhGWv4rYzh22QX6PtwYqB1QX1mPxWvo_5ye2j8H7vMd-X9sb4VPRYcgIAG4iM47uu4Y=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/497313b006a7d4f17d0926d77\/images\/24b91705-3eef-4a0c-84a8-7712d4d0d4c2.jpeg\" width=\"270\" height=\"238\" align=\"left\" data-bit=\"iit\" \/>Tchekmedyian covered the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department from 2019 to 2022, focusing on accountability stories and writing about failures by officials to comply with transparency laws. She and her colleagues exposed the cover-up of misconduct by deputies who shared photos of Kobe Bryant\u2019s helicopter crash as well as the practice by sheriff\u2019s deputies of pulling over bicyclists for minor violations and searching them, which disproportionately impacted Latino riders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the most important jobs of journalists is to cast a light on those who hold power, and Alene\u2019s work is a shining example,\u201d said Press Rights Chair Adam Rose. \u201cShe\u2019s provided Los Angeles with vital coverage of opaque institutions, taken readers inside law enforcement scandals, and helped all journalists by fighting for transparency. \u201c<\/p>\n<p>Before joining The Times in 2016, Tchekmedyian reported on crime and policing for the Glendale News-Press and Burbank Leader. She grew up in Huntington Beach and graduated from UCLA and Columbia Journalism School.<\/p>\n<p>She is currently an investigative reporter at the Los Angeles Times.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian Award will be presented at the 65th SoCal Journalism Awards Gala on Sunday, June 25 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to honoring Alene Tchekmedyian, there will be four other special awards, the Joseph M. Quinn Lifetime Achievement Award, the President\u2019s Award for Impact on Media, the Bill Rosendahl Public Service Award and The Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism.<\/p>\n<p>Just like in 2022, the evening will be dedicated to all journalists in Ukraine and independent journalists in Russia, no longer able to do their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>More than 500 journalists and media executives are expected to attend this prestigious event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Times\u2019 Alene Tchekmedyian has&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57181,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57180\/revisions\/57181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}