The California Press Foundation’s Mark Twain Award for Journalism Excellence in California this year will honor the late Tracy A. Wood, pictured, the pioneering investigative reporter, editor and war correspondent whose final work was as civic news editor at Voice of OC. She died in 2020 at age 76.
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 Tim Crews and Eli Isenberg into the California Newspaper Hall of Fame 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.
Still to be announced are the recipients of the Justus F. Craemer Newspaper Executive of the Year Award, the Philip N. McCombs Achievement Award for lifetime service 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
11/9/22: Revises link to Voice of OC article
