Harrington is Newspaper Exec of the Year

Craemer Award recipients are publishers, editors-in-chief and equivalents who have involved themselves in the directions of the editorial and news side of their newspapers by showing exceptional editorial achievement. Their newspaper has made an impact on its community or influenced local, state or national concerns as a result of their journalistic effort.

Harrington is the 56th recipient of the award, which began in 1967.

The organization’s 144th Annual Winter Meeting will be held virtually from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 3. You are invited to attend and to join. Click to register

Cal Press’ Philip N. McCombs Achievement Award for lifetime service will be awarded to Michael Giangreco, a former publisher in the Bay Area, Auburn, Napa and Sonoma. The award honors distinguished publishers who are no longer fully active in the industry but who have served their communities well for an extended period and have made lasting contributions to the industry and its traditions.

The Mark Twain Award for Journalism Excellence in California this year will honor the late John Carroll, former executive editor of the Los Angeles Times. This award, presented since 2010, honors those from the writerly world: editors, writers, cartoonists whose journalistic work, either regional or statewide in nature, challenged the status quo. Nominees may have rendered service anytime from the beginning of newspapering in California to the present time.

As reported last week, Cal Press will induct Allen P. McCombs and Charles Hastings Deuel into the California Newspaper Hall of Fame during the Winter Meeting.

McCombs (1929-2021) was the owner of Champion Newspapers in Chino from 1956 to 2017 and was its publisher until 2006. Deuel (1868-1947) was editor and publisher of the Chico Record (now the Chico Enterprise-Record) from 1897 until 1945.

Still to be announced is the Jack Bates Award for distinguished service to the California Press.

During the Winter Meeting, a panel presentation will highlight the work done by former Cal Press interns and will introduce a statewide project to document and assist campus journalism education across California.

The Cal Press mission is to guard the history and traditions of California journalism, to recognize and honor contemporary achievements, to assure the future of California journalism through encouragement of education and to provide a social and educational forum for its members.

That mission continues on Dec. 3.

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