Lifetime award to Redfern

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.

Redfern, CNPA president in 2010-11, received Cal Press’ Justus F. Craemer Newspaper Executive of the Year Award in 2012.

As reported here recently, Cal Press will induct Tim Crews and Eli Isenberg into the California Newspaper Hall of Fame during its 145th Annual Winter Meeting on Dec. 2.

Crews (1943-2020) was the founder and publisher of the Sacramento Valley Mirror in Willows, Glenn County. Isenberg (1913-2000) was editor and publisher of the old Monterey Park Progress in Los Angeles County from 1946 to 1978.

And the Mark Twain Award for Journalism Excellence in California will go to the late Tracy A. Wood, the pioneering investigative reporter, editor and war correspondent. Still to be announced are the recipients of the Justus F. Craemer Newspaper Executive of the Year Award and the Jack Bates Award for distinguished service to the California Press.

The organization’s 145th Annual Winter Meeting will be held virtually from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2. Membership and donations are encouraged. Register now