Monday, June 27, 2011

Honored: Ahmadiyya Times, Editor win Southern California Journalism Award

Ahmadiyya Times and its editor Imran Jattala received the first-place award in ‘News Tweet' category for the coverage of May 28, 2010 terrorist attacks in Pakistan.

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By Imran Jattala | June 27, 2011

LOS ANGELES – Ahmadiyya Times and its editor were honored with one first-place award and two finalist nominations at the Los Angeles Press Club's 53rd annual awards gala last Sunday.

The Southern California Journalism Awards are handed out to the Los Angeles area's journalists to recognize the excellence of their work in established as well as new and emerging media.

This year new categories were introduced to specifically honor various aspects of online journalism.

One of the categories introduced this year was to recognize coverage of news disseminated via Twitter.

Ahmadiyya Times and its editor Imran Jattala received the first-place award in ‘News Tweet' category for the coverage of May 28, 2010 terrorist attacks in Pakistan.

The event specially reported via twitter was the massacre of Ahmadi Muslims in well-coordinated twin terrorist attacks on two Ahmadiyya Mosques.


86 Ahmadis Muslims were murdered and hundreds injured during the attack in Punjab city of Lahore where suicide bombers from Tehrilk-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) had entered during Friday prayers.

Ahmadiyya Times and its editor Imran Jattala were also among the finalists in Advocacy Journalism and Website-only News categories.

Will Lewis, President of the Los Angeles Press Club distributed the awards.

60 Minutes’ Leslie Stahl received the President’s Award for Impact on Media; and NBC’s Richard Engel received Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism.

Joseph M. Quinn Award for Journalistic Excellence and Distinction went to John Schwada of KTTV Fox News.

Some of the presenters from the star-studded lineup were: Ed Asner from the 70’s Mary Tylor Moore Show; Ray Abruzzo from The Sopranos; Waltom Goggins from Justified; Chris Blatchford from KTTV Fox News; Denise Grayson from The Social Network; Dan Lauria from the 80’s The Wonder Years; and Barbara Niven from One Life To Live.

Dr. Judea Pearl, father of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was on hand on behalf of the Daniel Pearl Foundation and spoke about the killing of the Journalists especially at a high rate in Pakistan.



  -- Imran Jattala: http://www.facebook.com/ImranJattala
  -- Follow Imran Jattala on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ijattala
  -- Follow Ahmadiyya Times: http://twitter.com/AhmadiyyaTimes
  -- Ahmadiyya Times http://www.facebook.com/AhmadiyyaTimes

  --Ahmadiyya Times, Editor win Southern California Journalism Awards
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 27, 2011 at 6:32 AM

    Congratulations Imran and Ahmadiyya Times...God bless you all.

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  2. Anwar FJune 27, 2011 at 3:42 PM

    Congratulations, Job well done and a well deserved award, keep up the good work.

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