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09/26/2025

✨ CNPA October Meetups – Monterey & Pasadena ✨

We’re bringing CNPA meetups to both Northern and Southern California this month!

📍 Monterey (CNPA Meetup - Monterey)
When: Thursday, Oct. 16, 3–5 p.m.
Where: Monterey County Weekly, 668 Williams Avenue, Seaside, CA
➡️ Stay for networking, legislative updates, newsroom tech, costs & operations, grants & philanthropy, and more.

📍 Pasadena (CNPA Meetup - Pasadena)
When: Thursday, Oct. 23, 3–5 p.m. (program), followed by cocktail hour
Where: Parkway Grill, 510 S. Arroyo Parkway, Pasadena, CA
➡️ Same great agenda plus time to connect over cocktails afterward!

These events are free for CNPA members. Bring your questions, your perspective, and your curiosity—the real value is in the room.

🙏 Huge thanks to CNPA Board Members Erik Cushman (Monterey County Weekly) and Charlie Plowman (Pasadena Outlook Newspaper) for helping organize!

03/19/2025

🎉 Join Us for this year's California Journalism Awards Gala! 🎉

Saturday, May 17, 2025 at Hilton Los Angeles/Universal City Hotel

Celebrate the best in California journalism! Join your esteemed colleagues for an elegant evening honoring the 2024 California Journalism Awards Finalists.

The evening kicks off with a hosted cocktail reception, followed by a lavish dinner and an exciting awards ceremony.

🌟 Afternoon Knowledge & Networking Sessions 🌟
Before the gala, dive into thought-provoking discussions led by industry leaders

Get your early bird tickets and learn more at: https://cnpa.com/california-journalism-awards-gala-2025/

Don't miss this incredible opportunity to network, learn, and celebrate journalistic excellence!

Please join your esteemed colleagues MAY 17,2025 for an elegant evening congratulating the 2024 California Journalism Awards Finalists!

02/11/2025

One week left! 8 days left! The entry deadline is Tuesday Feb. 18. Don’t miss your chance to showcase your best work. Know a journalist whose work deserves recognition? Tag them! Late entries accepted until Feb. 25 (fees doubled). Submit now: https://cnpa.awardsplatform.com/ Questions? Email [email protected]

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02/03/2025

The 2025 California Journalism Awards Are Open for Entries! 🏆

Attention California journalists! There's still time to showcase your best work from 2024. The California Journalism Awards honor excellence across print and digital journalism, recognizing outstanding reporting, photography, design, and innovation.

🔹 Eligibility: Entries must have been published in 2024
🔹 Entry Deadline: Tuesday, February 18, 2025, at 9 p.m.
🔹 Late Deadline: February 25, 2025 (late fee applies)

With over 50 categories, there’s a place for all forms of impactful journalism. Whether you cover politics, local news, sports, arts, or community issues, your work deserves recognition!

Learn more and submit your entries here:

Celebrate excellence in journalism with the California Journalism Awards, honoring top reporting, design, photography, and multimedia.

11/14/2024

"journalists can start preparing to report on the implications of his immigration agenda by developing expert sources, becoming familiar with leaders and social workers in local immigrant communities, and familiarizing themselves with the intricacies of immigration law and research."

Trump has promised mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, potentially fracturing about 5 million families.

09/19/2024

"With more than half of social media users across 40 countries encountering false or misleading information weekly, it’s clear that we’re facing a crisis of misinformation on a global scale"

In the four countries studied, each with its own unique technological, political, and social environment, understanding of algorithms varied across different sociodemographic groups.

08/22/2024

Today, California Governor Gavin Newsom & Assemblymember Buffy Wicks announced a public-private partnership agreement with the state of CA and Google to fund journalism. A press release from
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mrDryagykGwcqwptA0kUaCSsitloYbrT/view?usp=sharing

08/09/2024

Thank you to all who joined us at this year's California Journalism Awards gala! More pictures to come, but here's a sneak peek to those who couldn't join us this time!

06/21/2024

Our gala has knowledge sessions in the afternoon of 7/13! The 1st of 8 sessions is with the amazing Paul Pringle, Wendy Fry, Noah Biesiada, Sara Rubin, and CNPA's very own Julie Makinen! Registration and additional information can be found at https://cnpa.com/cja-gala-2024/ and www.ticketstripe.com/cjagala2024. Questions? Email [email protected]

06/19/2024

Did you know that the gala has breakout sessions in the afternoon?? Read more about them at

Please join your esteemed colleagues for an elegant evening congratulating the 2023 California Journalism Awards Finalists! Our Finalists will be celebrated at the Sheraton Universal Hotel Grand Ballroom, July 13, 2024, at 6 pm. The evening will begin with a hosted cocktail reception, followed by a....