SPJ/LA Hosts Mixer with Steve Lopez
It’s not too late to RSVP for SPJ/LA’s mixer with LA Times’ Steve Lopez at Traxx Restaurant in downtown Los Angeles, Feb. 25, 2015.
Lopez is a California native who has been an LA Times columnist since 2001. He has won more than a dozen national journalism awards for his reporting and column writing at seven newspapers and four news magazines, and was a 2011 Pulitzer finalist for his columns on elder care. He is the author of three novels, two collections of columns, and a nonfiction work called “The Soloist,” which was a Los Angeles Times and New York Times best-seller, winner of the PEN USA Literary Award for Nonfiction, and the subject of a DreamWorks movie by the same name. Lopez’s television reporting for public station KCET has won three local news Emmys, three Golden Mike Awards, and a share of the duPont – Columbia University Award.
WHAT: SPJ/LA Mixer
WHO: Steve Lopez, LA Times Columnist
WHEN: Wednesday, Feb. 25 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
WHERE: Traxx Restaurant at Union Station 800 North Alameda Street, #122 Los Angeles, CA, 90012. Phone: (213) 625-1999
COST: The event is free and open to the public. No-host bar.
PARKING: Valet parking and convenient self-parking is available.
RSVP: Please RSVP by sending an email to: spjlosangeles@gmail.com
CONTACT: Dan Evans, SPJ/LA, (818) 637-3234 Richard Saxton, SPJ/LA, spjlosangeles@gmail.com
The Society of Professional Journalists is the nation’s largest and most broad-based journalism organization, dedicated to promoting high standards of ethical behavior and encouraging the free practice of journalism. Founded in 1909 as Sigma Delta Chi, SPJ works to inspire and educate the next generation of journalists and protects First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and press. The Greater Los Angeles professional chapter celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2009.
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