Thank you to KTLA TV and my incredible and sparkly producer, Kimberly Cornell!
KTLA winners: Lisa Niver, Paul Sanchez and Michael Joseph JamesKTLA table at 2019 NAEJ AwardsCongratulations Lisa Niver! Photo by Michael Joseph JamesAll of the KTLA finalists for 2019 NAEJ awardsMichael Joseph James and Lisa Niver, KTLA Winners!Ann-Margaret and Danny Trejos on the red carpetLisa Niver and Cher Calvin on the red carpetCHRIS PALMERI, Press Club President
Thank you to KTLA and Thank you to the Los Angeles Press Club and especially to Chris Palmeri, Club President, and Diana Ljungaeus, Executive Director!
DANNY TREJO – Visionary AwardBEN MANKIEWICZ – Luminary AwardANN-MARGRET – Legend Award TARANA BURKE – Impact AwardJAMIE FOXXQUENTIN TARANTINO – Storyteller Award
The National Entertainment Journalism Awards were founded in 2008 and recognize the finest work from U.S.-based entertainment reporters and editors and theater, film and television critics in all media – print, radio, TV and online. This includes international journalists working in a language other than English.
Lisa Niver is an award-winning travel expert who has explored 102 countries on six continents. This University of Pennsylvania graduate sailed across the seas for seven years with Princess Cruises, Royal Caribbean, and Renaissance Cruises and spent three years backpacking across Asia. Discover her articles in publications from AARP: The Magazine and AAA Explorer to WIRED and Wharton Magazine, as well as her site WeSaidGoTravel.
On her award nominated global podcast, Make Your Own Map, Niver has interviewed Deepak Chopra, Olympic medalists, and numerous bestselling authors, and as a journalist has been invited to both the Oscars and the United Nations. For her print and digital stories as well as her television segments, she has been awarded three Southern California Journalism Awards and two National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards and been a finalist twenty-two times.
Named a #3 travel influencer for 2023, Niver talks travel on broadcast television at KTLA TV Los Angeles, her YouTube channel with over 2 million views, and in her memoir, Brave-ish, One Breakup, Six Continents and Feeling Fearless After Fifty.
3 responses to “Lisa is a winner! National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards 2019”
Lisa,
Wow. Congrats to you.
Xo Allen
Looks like an incredible honor! Congrats!
Thanks so much Michael! I am so honored and thrilled! YAY! Happy 2020! Lisa