Grateful and Honored: Finalist for Two 2023 Southern California Journalism Awards


* Lisa Niver, Jewish Journal, “Joshua Tree National Park: My First Visit!” from our Genesis GV70 Road trip.

* Julia Carmel, Los Angeles Times, “34 hours on America’s most scenic train. Is it as dreamy as it sounds?”
* Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, “Welcome to Portugal, the new expat haven. Californians, please go home”
* KCET, KCET, “The Migrant Kitchen: Puerto Rico”
* KCET & Tastemade, KCET, “Broken Bread: Tijuana”
* Lisa Niver, Make Your Own Map Podcast, “Deepak Chopra on the Divine Feminine and World Meditation Day”

* Jonathan Bastian, Andrea Brody, KCRW, “Inciting joy: Poet Ross Gay on gardening, grief, and basketball”
* Steve Chiotakis, Christian Bordal, Giuliana Mayo, Phil Richards, KCRW, “I don’t know if I’ll be able to avoid crying”
* Danielle Chiriguayo, KCRW, “How the ‘Christmas spirit’ brought joy and redemption”
* Mo’Kelly, KFI AM640/iHeartRadio, “Chief Robert Luna for Sheriff”


Lisa Niver has won many awards! From 2017 to 2023, in the Southern California Journalism Awards and National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards, she has won five times and been a finalist twenty-two times for a variety of broadcast, print and digital categories.
2022 Finalist : Southern California Journalism Awards for BOOK CRITICISM2021 Finalist: National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards for Commentary Diversity/Gender and Commentary Analysis/Trend — Film2021 Winner: Southern California Journalism Awards for TECHNOLOGY REPORTING 2021 Finalist: Southern California Journalism Awards for BOOK CRITICISM2020 Winner: National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards for Book Critic. See all of Lisa’s book reviews here.2020 Finalist: National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards for Book Critic2020 Winner: Southern California Journalism Awards for print magazine article: Hemispheres Magazine for United Airlines2020 Five Time Finalist: Southern California Journalism awards2019 Winner: NAEJ Award for KTLA TV segment2019 Finalist: National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards in three categoriesCategory H2a. Soft News: Ms. Magazine: Polar Bears Can’t Vote So You Have ToCategory F6a. Soft News Feature – Under 5 Minutes—Film/TV: KTLA TV Oscars Countdown to Gold with Lisa NiverCategory C1b. Business, Music/Tech/Art: My Wharton Magazine article: Four Female Founders Share Their Origin Stories2019 Finalist: Southern California Journalism Awards for Broadcast Television Lifestyle Segment: Ogden Ski Getaway2018 Finalist for three categories of Southern California Journalism Awards:SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY REPORTING: Smithsonian TRAVEL REPORTING: Popsugar FitnessPERSONALITY PROFILE: Saturday Evening Post2017 2nd place winner for Southern California Journalism Award Print Column “A journey to freedom over three Passovers” and finalist for Travel Reporting.More about Lisa Niver: https://lisaniver.com/awards/


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