Culture OC’s Joel Beers and Timothy Mangan Receive National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards

Culture OC writers Timothy Mangan, left, and Joel Beers. Photos courtesy of Mangan/Beers

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Joel Beers and Timothy Mangan, contributing writers to Culture OC, each earned 3rd place honors at the Los Angeles Press Club’s 1sth annual National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards ceremony, held Sunday, Dec. 7 in Los Angeles. All U.S.-based entertainment reporters and editors are eligible, as well as theater, film and television critics across all media.

Writing fellow Lola Olvera, and editors Paul Hodgins and Richard Chang, were also finalists this year.

THE RESULTS

Business, Theater/Performing Arts, Print/Online

3rd Place: Joel Beers, “Ticket Trauma: How Local Performing Arts Organizations are Affected”

Business, Music/Theater/Performing Arts (Content Exclusive to the Internet)

Finalist: Paul Hodgins, with Maria Hall-Brown, Al Magallon and Kevin King (PBS SoCal), “Under the Baton: Pacific Symphony's Carl St. Clair” 

Diversity in the Music/Performing Arts Industry, Online (Content Exclusive to the Internet)

Finalist: Lola Olvera, “Orange County’s First-Ever Black Literary Salon Positions Poetry as Empowerment” 

Visual Arts/Architecture/Literature Feature, Online (Content Exclusive to the Internet)

Finalist: Richard Chang & Paul Hodgins, “UC Irvine Pursues Management Negotiations with OCMA to 'Run the Museum'” 

Music Critic, Any Media Platform (Broadcast, Print, or Online)

3rd Place: Timothy Mangan