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02/11/2025

One week left! 8 days left! The entry deadline is Tuesday Feb. 18. Don’t miss your chance to showcase your best work. Know a journalist whose work deserves recognition? Tag them! Late entries accepted until Feb. 25 (fees doubled). Submit now: https://cnpa.awardsplatform.com/ Questions? Email [email protected]

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02/03/2025

The 2025 California Journalism Awards Are Open for Entries! 🏆

Attention California journalists! There's still time to showcase your best work from 2024. The California Journalism Awards honor excellence across print and digital journalism, recognizing outstanding reporting, photography, design, and innovation.

🔹 Eligibility: Entries must have been published in 2024
🔹 Entry Deadline: Tuesday, February 18, 2025, at 9 p.m.
🔹 Late Deadline: February 25, 2025 (late fee applies)

With over 50 categories, there’s a place for all forms of impactful journalism. Whether you cover politics, local news, sports, arts, or community issues, your work deserves recognition!

Learn more and submit your entries here:

Celebrate excellence in journalism with the California Journalism Awards, honoring top reporting, design, photography, and multimedia.

11/14/2024

"journalists can start preparing to report on the implications of his immigration agenda by developing expert sources, becoming familiar with leaders and social workers in local immigrant communities, and familiarizing themselves with the intricacies of immigration law and research."

Trump has promised mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, potentially fracturing about 5 million families.

09/19/2024

"With more than half of social media users across 40 countries encountering false or misleading information weekly, it’s clear that we’re facing a crisis of misinformation on a global scale"

In the four countries studied, each with its own unique technological, political, and social environment, understanding of algorithms varied across different sociodemographic groups.

08/22/2024

Today, California Governor Gavin Newsom & Assemblymember Buffy Wicks announced a public-private partnership agreement with the state of CA and Google to fund journalism. A press release from
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mrDryagykGwcqwptA0kUaCSsitloYbrT/view?usp=sharing

08/09/2024

Thank you to all who joined us at this year's California Journalism Awards gala! More pictures to come, but here's a sneak peek to those who couldn't join us this time!

06/21/2024

Our gala has knowledge sessions in the afternoon of 7/13! The 1st of 8 sessions is with the amazing Paul Pringle, Wendy Fry, Noah Biesiada, Sara Rubin, and CNPA's very own Julie Makinen! Registration and additional information can be found at https://cnpa.com/cja-gala-2024/ and www.ticketstripe.com/cjagala2024. Questions? Email [email protected]

06/19/2024

Did you know that the gala has breakout sessions in the afternoon?? Read more about them at

Please join your esteemed colleagues for an elegant evening congratulating the 2023 California Journalism Awards Finalists! Our Finalists will be celebrated at the Sheraton Universal Hotel Grand Ballroom, July 13, 2024, at 6 pm. The evening will begin with a hosted cocktail reception, followed by a....

06/12/2024

4 days left! Buy your gala tickets by this Saturday 6/15 to get the discounted rate. Email [email protected] with any questions. Grab your tickets at

Please join your esteemed colleagues for an elegant evening congratulating the 2023 California Journalism Awards Finalists! Our Finalists will be celebrated at the Sheraton Universal Hotel Grand Ballroom, July 13, 2024, at 6 pm. The evening will begin with a hosted cocktail reception, followed by a....

06/07/2024

California Journalism Awards Finalists have been announced!
Are you on the list? Check here to see if you are a FINALIST: https://cnpa.com/2023-cja-contest-finalists/
https://cnpa.com/california-journalism-awards-campus-finalists/

Please join your colleagues to celebrate outstanding journalism at the California Journalism Awards Gala, Saturday, July 13 at the Sheraton Universal Hotel, Universal City.
For information and tickets go to www.ticketstripe.com/cjagala2024

Please join your esteemed colleagues for an elegant evening congratulating the 2023 California Journalism Awards Finalists! Our Finalists will be celebrated at the Sheraton Universal Hotel Grand Ballroom, July 13, 2024, at 6 pm. The evening will begin with a hosted cocktail reception, followed by a....

05/31/2024

The gala is back! Join us on Saturday 7/13 in Los Angeles at the Sheraton Universal Hotel. Buy your tickets today to get early bird pricing:

Please join your esteemed colleagues for an elegant evening congratulating the 2023 California Journalism Awards Finalists! Our Finalists will be celebrated at the Sheraton Universal Hotel Grand Ballroom, July 13, 2024, at 6 pm. The evening will begin with a hosted cocktail reception, followed by a....

05/15/2024

California Journalism Awards Gala - 7/13 in Los Angeles

We're thrilled to announce our upcoming California Journalism Awards Gala! Save the date for July 13th as we gather at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Los Angeles. This is our first gala since 2019 and we're excited to celebrate the best of California journalism from 2023. Stay tuned for more details on tickets and how and when the winners will be announced.

05/15/2024

04/12/2024

Statement of CNPA President Charles F. Champion on Google Suppression of California News:

“Google’s suppression today of California news demonstrates exactly why the California Legislature needs to pass legislation to rein in the tech colossus. News publishers play a critical role in California’s democracy, providing an essential check on public – and private – abuses, and bringing truth to power. Google is leveraging their monopoly power in internet search (90% of the market) to brazenly undermine our democracy. Google has employed these scare tactics before, in Australia and Canada. Australian legislators held firm and did not back down from Google’s threats, passing legislation to require the giant and other tech companies to compensate news publishers for tech’s use of their content—and journalism jobs surged as a result. Canada also refused to back down. The fact that one company can shut down the means by which 90% of the public find online content in order to achieve their own political and business ends show just how much policymakers need to act, and act now. Google is not above the law, and they should not be allowed to act as if they are.”

04/12/2024

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-04-12/la-et-ct-google-blocks-news

Google said it will remove links to California news sites for some users because of concerns about a state bill that may require Google to pay publishers.

02/28/2024

Read it before they mail it... this issue of is out and you can read it online: http://californiapublisher.ca.newsmemory.com/?startWithTab=editions

02/27/2024

Today is the LAST DAY to submit your entries. Get them in by 9pm PST. https://cnpa.com/2023-cja-contest