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Variety Picks Up Eight First-Place Wins at L.A. Press Club’s SoCal Journalism Awards, Including Entertainment Journalist of the Year for Brent Lang


Variety picked up eight first-place awards from the L.A. Press Club at an awards banquet Sunday, including entertainment journalist of the year.

Besides sharing the latter award with Lang, she also won in the category of entertainment news/magazines for the story “A Fired ‘Scream Star, Clients Booted From Agencies and a Secret Tom Cruise Meeting: Inside Hollywood’s Divide Over Israel.” Chris Willman picked up the award for entertainment commentary/arts for his opinion piece “Jason Aldean Already Had the Most Contemptible Country Song of the Decade — The Video Is Worse.” The 2024 awards were handed out during a gala dinner attended by more than 500 journalists and guests in the historic Crystal Ballroom at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.

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