Times Wins 34 Awards in Press Club Competition

The Los Angeles Times won 14 first-place awards Saturday at the Greater Los Angeles Press Club Southern California Journalism Awards, including the award for overall excellence in newspapers with circulation over 100,000.

The Times also won 20 Awards of Excellence at the ceremony, held at the Los Angeles Athletic Club. In addition, Times columnist Bill Boyarsky was awarded the Joseph M. Quinn Memorial Award for career achievement.

The Torrance-based Daily Breeze also won 14 first-place awards and 20 Awards of Excellence in the competition.

The competition was judged by press clubs throughout the country. Many of the newspaper categories are split into divisions based on circulation size.

The Los Angeles Times winners included:

* Continuing Story or Series: Richard Simon and Jon D. Markman for coverage of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

* Investigative Reporting--Single Subject: John M. Glionna and Irfan Khan of the Valley Edition for their stories and photos about people victimized by alleged land fraud in the High Desert.

* Investigative Reporting--Body of Work: Eric Lichtblau, Paul Feldman, Dave Ferrell, Josh Meyer and Ralph Frammolino.

* News Writing--General News: Martha L. Willman.

* Feature Reporting: Sandy Banks of the Valley Edition.

* Entertainment Reporting: Sharon Bernstein and Robert Welkos for stories about the hazards of motion picture stunt work.

* Entertainment Reviews: Kenneth Turan.

* Sports Reporting--Single Story: Chris Dufresne.

* Specialty Feature Reporting--Body of Work: Paul Dean.

* Columns--Body of Work: In the government, election category, first place to Scott Harris, Valley Edition. In the local events, society category, first place to Robert A. Jones.

* Headline Writing: Heather Stewart.

* Sports Action Photo / Audio: Alexander Gallardo.

* Photo Essay: Gerard Burkhart of the Valley Edition.