The Hollywood Reporter Nominated for 64 SoCal Journalism Awards
THR's Next Gen issue featuring Teyana Taylor was nominated for best print issue at the 2026 SoCal Journalism Awards. Taylor was photographed by Sharif Hamza on Oct. 25, 2025 at Quixote Studios in West Hollywood.
Photographed by Sharif Hamza
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The Hollywood Reporter has been nominated for a brand record 65 SoCal Journalism Awards, including journalist of the year for Seth Abramovitch, Gary Baum, Mikey O’Connell and Alex Weprin, nods for film and TV critics David Rooney, Angie Han and Daniel Fienberg and honors for best print issue and best website.
Other noms include Baum for best columnist and Scott Feinberg for best anchor/host in audio journalism as well as mentions across numerous other categories including social media, photography, video, features, investigative, illustrations and blogs.
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The winners of the 68th SoCal Journalism Awards, overseen by the Los Angeles Press Club, will be announced at a gala taking place June 28 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.
The L.A. Press Club also will honor several individuals with special honors, including NBC’s Craig Melvin (President’s Awardee for Impact on Media), Filipino and American journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa (Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism), ABC7’s Rob Fukuzaki (Lifetime Achievement Award) and Carol Sobel (Guardian Award for Contributions to Press Freedom).
This marks a record number of noms for THR at the SoCal Journalism Awards. These noms follow on the heels of its record-breaking 85 noms at the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards. THR also recently won a Webby People’s Voice Award in the category of Entertainment, General Desktop & Mobile Sites (Websites & Mobile Sites) and was nominated for a Mirror Award for the first time for Steven Zeitchik’s “Last Call for Late Night,” about the decline of an American institution under unprecedented political and economic pressure.
A full list of THR’s nominations follows. Click here for the full list of this year’s finalists.
JOURNALISTS OF THE YEAR
PRINT, over 50,000 circulation
* Gary Baum
* Mikey O’Connell
ONLINE JOURNALIST, tied to an organization
* Alex Weprin
ONLINE JOURNALIST, independent/freelance
* Leena Tailor
ENTERTAINMENT JOURNALIST
* Seth Abramovitch
ALL MEDIA PLATFORMS Print, Radio, Podcast, TV or Online.
TECHNOLOGY REPORTING
* Alex Weprin, “YouTube Just Ate TV. It’s Only Getting Started”
TRAVEL REPORTING
* Leena Tailor, “From Snoop Dogg and NSYNC to Post Malone and Bon Jovi: The Diverse and Transformative New Wave of Celebrity Bars Shaking Up Nashville”
COMMENTARY/ANALYSIS OF FILM
* David Rooney, “‘Jaws’: The Prototype Summer Blockbuster Turns 50, Losing None of Its Bite”
CRITICISM OF FILM (Over 1,000 Words)
* David Rooney
CRITICISM OF TV
* Angie Han
* Daniel Fienberg
CRITICISM OF THEATER/PERFORMING ARTS
* David Rooney
PRINT/ONLINE – ANY OUTLET, including news bureaus and correspondents. Enter individually or as a team.
PUBLIC SERVICE NEWS or FEATURE
* Nicole Fell, “How Watch Duty Became an Essential Resource for Angelenos During Wildfires”
HUMOR/SATIRE WRITING
* Mikey O’Connell, “I Lost My Home in the L.A. Wildfire. This Is What I’m Holding On To.”
ART/PHOTOGRAPHY All Platforms
ENTERTAINMENT PHOTO, Single Image
* Ash Barhamand, Alison Edmond, Erik Madigan Heck, “Tim Burton + Jenna Ortega”
ILLUSTRATION
* Lincoln Agnew, Ada Guerin, Nicholas Brawley, THR Art Dept, “The Exiles of Tehrangeles”
COVER ART
* Ash Barhamand, Alison Edmond, Peter B. Cury, AB+DM, “Ariana Grande”
* Maer Roshan, Ada Guerin, Neil Jamieson, THR Staff, “The New Face of Hollywood”
* Maer Roshan, Ada Guerin, Christopher Hughes, THR Staff, “This Is Not Keanu”
BEST ISSUE
* Ash Barhamand, Alison Edmond, Sharif Hamza, Ada Guerin, “Teyana Taylor”
PRINT — ANY OUTLET
EDITORIALS
* Ryan Gajewski, Darah Head, “Parm to Table: Dan Tana’s Was a Cut Above”
BUSINESS REPORTING An article or series
* Gary Baum, “Is Dana White the Most ‘Untouchable’ Whale in Vegas?”
LIFESTYLE FEATURE
* James Hibberd, “Knives Out: Celebrities Reveal Plastic Surgery Secrets — But One Procedure Still Taboo”
GENDER AND SOC