La Jolla Light nets 10 San Diego Press Club awards, plus media management recognition
La Jolla Light
By LA JOLLA LIGHT STAFF
The La Jolla Light received 10 Excellence in Journalism awards from the San Diego Press Club on Oct. 25 — including five for first place — and its president and general manager, Phyllis Pfeiffer, received the Jim Reiman Award for outstanding media management.
Daniel K. Lew won first place for feature layout design for “Home for the holidays.”
Reporter Elisabeth Frausto won four awards: third place in the feature serious-subject category for “Spark: Team of La Jollans hopes to ignite anti-racism with new documentary”; second place in the general news category for “Parks board member appears at new La Jolla chalk drawings to apologize for comment about Black Lives Matter”; third place in the science/technology/biotech category for “Can UCSD doctoral student’s findings on pelicans’ ‘wave-slope soaring’ give drones a lift?”; and first place in the visual/fine art reporting category for “Marking Time: New exhibit at La Jolla’s Athenaeum queues up quarantine creations.”