Young journo prize

The Livingston Awards for Young Journalists bestow $10,000 each on three journos under age 35, judged by a panel that includes Dean Baquet of the Los Angeles Times, Tom Brokaw and others. One of the winners announced today is local. Peter Zuckerman covers entertainment for the Los Angeles Daily Journal but won for a series on Boy Scouts and child molesters he wrote last year for the Idaho Falls Post Register. He is also a finalist for the Los Angeles Press Club's awards to be given out June 24.

The Press Club gives out a ton of awards, but here are some of the finalists:

PRINT JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR (OVER 100k CIRCULATION)

* Jeffrey Anderson, LA Weekly, Underground Power Broker
* Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times, Glimpses of a Hermit Nation
* Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, Violinist Has the World on Two Strings
* Alan Mittelstaedt, LA Weekly, What you Can’t See Can Kill You
* Sebastian Rotella, Los Angeles Times, Europe’s Boys of Jihad

PRINT JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR (UNDER 100k CIRCULATION)

* Jason Armstrong, Los Angeles Daily Journal
* Ben Baeder and Keith Birmingham, San Gabriel Valley Tribune
* John Boston, Santa Clarita Valley, The Signal
* Anat Rubin, Los Angeles Daily Journal
* Leslie Simmons, Los Angeles Daily Journal

TELEVISION JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR

* Ana Garcia, KNBC 4
* David Goldstein, CBS2/KCAL 9

RADIO JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR

* Kitty Felde KPCC (Talk of the City)
* Larry Mantle KPCC (AirTalk)
* Warren Olney KCRW (PRI)
* Tavis Smiley PRI
* Frank Stoltze KPCC