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The Times' King-Drew series won the grand prize in today's Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards...Tonight's SPJ event on "Ethics and Entertainment Journalism" at the Central Library includes panelists Peggy Jo Abraham, news director of "E! News Live"; Tina Dirmann, formerly of US Weekly; John Horn of the Times; Heidi Parker, West Coast editor of Playboy; and Cynthia Wang, associate bureau chief for People...USC Annenberg has posted video from last week's sourcing seminar...More book festival bloggage: David Ehrenstein, LAist, LA.com. Our previous blog links...Tuesday's Life and Times on KCET looks at mystery novelist Marcos McPeek Villatoro's Latina soccer mom-FBI agent character, Romilia Chacon...The LAist Interview is with LAT copy editor Cicely Wedgeworth, who compiles Chow News from the L.A. message board at Chowhound.com... Los Angeles Photobloggers.org is a new site whose name says it all. They launched Monday, but promptly went down due to temporary server troubles. Nitsa at Streets of Los Angeles.com is a contributor...The LA Femme Film Festival runs May 27-29 downtown at Los Angeles Center Studios...Patt Morrison guest-hosts KPCC's Airtalk Tuesday and talks with Lewis Black of "The Daily Show" and lawyer Floyd Abrams, among others.