By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Tina Dupuy on FishbowlLA, January 2009
In late January 2009, FishbowlLA flagged the approaching deadline for the LA Press Club’s National Entertainment Journalism Awards — with a wry note that FBLA had found the call for entries on Craigslist rather than receiving it directly.
Then
The LA Press Club’s National Entertainment Journalism Awards were one of the recurring annual journalism-awards programs recognizing entertainment-and-celebrity coverage — part of the broader ecosystem of regional and specialty press-club awards.
The Craigslist-discovery detail was characteristic of the blog’s self-aware, slightly outsider relationship to the LA-media establishment.
Now
The LA Press Club has continued operating across the years since 2009. The National Entertainment Journalism Awards have continued as one of the club’s recurring annual programs, alongside the SoCal Journalism Awards. The LA Press Club has remained one of the durable institutional anchors of the LA-region working-journalist community.
The 2009 piece reads now as a small documented moment of LA-press-community texture — a small artifact of the working-journalist institutional ecosystem the LA Press Club has continued to anchor.
Original report archived on the Wayback Machine.