OC Weekly continues its winning ways in 2010, following up regional and national journalism honors with 22 awards from the Orange County Press Club last night.
Multiple winners included Nick Schou, R. Scott Moxley, Gustavo Arellano, Spencer Kornhaber, Vickie Chang and the Navel Gazing news blog.
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At a dinner ceremony at the Island Hotel in Newport Beach, Schou received the Investigative Watchdog Award 2010 to go
along with his five other awards, including first place for Best News
Feature Story.
Moxley was named Best Columnist, an award
he can place on his mantle next to his three other awards, including
first place nods for Best News Story and Best Opinion Piece.
Arellano took The Real O.C. Award, which singles out a story that best captures
this crazy county of ours. He also picked up three other awards.
As you will see in the list below, Chang and Kornhaber each won two first-place awards, Navel Gazing was named the Best
News Blog and finished second for Best Blog, and Stick a Fork In It
was awarded Best Food Blog:
Best News Story
1. R. Scott Moxley, OC Weekly
2. (tie) Don J. DeBenedictis, L.A. Daily Journal
2. Nick Schou, OC Weekly
3. Cindy Carcamo, Orange County Register
Best Investigative Story
1. Don DeBenedictis, L.A. Daily Journal
2. Nick Schou, OC Weekly
3. Eric Longabardi, abcnews.com
Best Opinion Piece
1. R. Scott Moxley, OC Weekly
2. Chris Prevatt, Liberaloc.com
3. Chris Trela, Coast
Best Business Story
1. Spencer Kornhaber, OC Weekly
2. Kedric Francis, Riviera
3. Andrew Asch, Riviera
Best Profile Story
1. Spencer Kornhaber, OC Weekly
2. Nick Schou, OC Weekly
3. R. Scott Moxley, OC Weekly
Best Arts and Culture Story
1. Daniella Walsh, Riviera
2. Pam Diamond, Orange County Register
3. Gustavo Arellano, OC Weekly
Best Music or Entertainment Story
1. Jim Washburn, Riviera
2. Chris Trela, Coast
3. (tie) Laura Schooling, Riviera
3. Richard Chang, Orange County Register
Best “Best Of” or Roundup Feature
1. Larry Welborn, 50 Cases: O.C.'s Most Notorious Crimes, Orange County Register
2. Riviera, Make the Scene: Best of Nightlife 2009
3. OC Weekly, Best Of OC 2009
Best Lifestyle Feature
1. Vickie Chang, OC Weekly
2. Mimi Ko Cruz, Inside CSUF
Best News Feature
1. Nick Schou, OC Weekly
2. (tie) Gustavo Arellano, OC Weekly
2. Cindy Carcamo, Orange County Register
3. Paul Anderson, Daily Pilot
Best News Blog
1. Navel Gazing, OC Weekly
Best Political Blog
1. Dan Chmielewski, Theliberaloc.com
Best Vlog/Use of Online Video
1. Tina Borgatta, “OC Metro Minute,” OC Metro
2. Paul Anderson, Suppliedtoanderson.com and vlogdayafternoon
Best Food Blog
1. Stick a Fork In It, OC Weekly
2. Jeff Overley and Niyaz Pirani, Food Frenzy, Orange County Register
3. Nancy Luna, Fast Food Maven, Orange County Register
Best Food or Restaurant Feature
1. The Editors, Riviera
2. Gustavo Arellano, OC Weekly
Best Food Review
1. Brad Johnson, Riviera
2. Anne Valdespino, Orange Coast
3. Kedric Francis, Riviera
Best Cover Design
1. Riviera, Men of Style
2. Orange Coast, Gourmex
3. Riviera, fashion cover
Best Story Design
1. Orange Coast, Gourmex
2. Orange Coast, Glee
3. Riviera, Endless Summer fashion
Best Travel Story
1. Kedric Francis, Riviera
2. Gary Baum, Riviera
3. Susan Belknapp, OC Metro
Best Sports Story
1. Vickie Chang, OC Weekly
Marjorie Freeman Award for Best Humorous Story
1. Martin Smith, Orange Coast
2. Nick Schou, OC Weekly
3. Chris Trela, Coast
Best Transition from Traditional Media-Publication
1. OC Metro, Churm Media
Best Transition from Traditional Media-Individual
1. Eric Longabardi, TheEnterpriseReport.com
2. Nancy Luna, Orange County Register
The Real O.C. Award
1. Gustavo Arellano, OC Weekly
Best Blog
1. The Arts Blog, Orange County Register
2. Navel Gazing, OC Weekly
Best Columnist
1. R. Scott Moxley, OC Weekly
2. (tie) Tim Spangler, Orange County Register
2. Kedric Francis, Riviera
3. (tie) Bill Lobdell, OC Metro
3. Kimberly Porrazzo, OC Family
Investigative Watchdog Award 2010
Nick Schou, OC Weekly
OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.