Three Awards For Business Journal

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The Los Angeles Business Journal won three awards a gold, a silver and a bronze at the Alliance of Area Business Publications awards presentation June 3 for work done in 2005.


Reporter Andy Fixmer and a team of reporters and editors won a gold award for a package of stories called “Who Owns Downtown?” in the category of “Best Explanatory Journalism.”


The judges said: “Figuring out who owns downtown property in the second most populated city in the United States is an ambitious undertaking. Fixmer and other staff members who worked on the special report deliver the goods.”


The staff won a silver award in the category of “Best newspaper, large tabloid.” This is an award for overall excellence.


The judges said: “This staff knows how to take an important story and make the most of it, while not neglecting the nuts and bolts that are routine but essential. The reporting is consistently solid, the writing consistently clear.”


Also, former Business Journal reporter Amanda Bronstad won a bronze award for “A Marriage Unravels Unhappily,” her story about Ron Burkle’s divorce. The category was “Best scoop, large tabloid.”


The judges said: “All the major players were covering the divorce of billionaire Ron Burkle, one of the world’s richest men, but it was reporter Amanda Bronstad who seized the relevant documents in the case. Taking advantage of a short time when the documents were unsealed, she reported on aspects within the public records that shed light on the business dealings of a politically influential Californian.”


The Alliance, based in Los Angeles, is an organization made up of regional and local business publications across the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia and Puerto Rico.

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