Times Staff Wins 11 Headliner Awards
The Los Angeles Times received 11 National Headliner Awards on Friday, including Best of Show for photographer David Bohrer for his powerful image of police officers leading children from the site of a shooting at the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills.
The photograph, which contest judges described as unforgettable, also took top honors for spot news photography, one of five first-place awards The Times received in the national competition sponsored by the Press Club of Atlantic City, N.J.
Other Times first-place winners are: foreign correspondent Paul Watson for news beat coverage in “A Witness to War”; Edmund Sanders in business news coverage and/or commentary for “The Privacy of Financial Records”; Wally Skalij for photography portfolio; and Anacleto Rapping for his sports photograph “Brandi Chastain Freeze-Framed.”
The Times staff won a second-place award for its informational graphics. Third-place awards went to the staff for spot news, captured for “The Face of Hate”; Chris Dufresne for his sports coverage; Michael Ramirez for editorial cartoons and Paul Morse for his sports photograph of “Derek Fisher on Top of Situation.”
The contest winners were selected from among 1,600 entries.
Recipients will be honored at a May 6 banquet in Atlantic City.