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UPDATED: 48 Hills wins *16* California Journalism Awards

Our fiercely independent reporting scored awards for General Excellence, Best Column, Arts Coverage, Homeless Reporting, more

The full list of California Journalism Award winners has been published, and it turns out we scored 16, not six, awards! See below for more details.

The California Newspaper Publishers Association announced the 2024 California Journalism Awards last night, and 48 Hills was honored with 16 of them in Division 7, extending our streak of awards for our fiercely independent, totally local reporting. Wow couldn’t do this without you. Support us now to match a $40,000 grant and keep us going. Subscribe to our newsletters to get our award-winning journalism directly to your inbox. Thank you for reading!

GENERAL EXCELLENCE, DIVISION 7
48 Hills, heck yeah

BEST COLUMN
Tim Redmond on housing (2nd place)
Tim Redmond’s Agenda (3rd Place)—subscribe to the award-winning Agenda newsletter here

HOMELESSNESS REPORTING
“Death by bullying: The fate of an unhoused high school student” by Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia (3rd Place)
“Where Do We Go’ launches new campaign against homeless sweeps” by Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia (4th Place)

TRANSPORTATION REPORTING
“Are cars, buses, bikes, small businesses, and safe walking a zero-sum game?” by Tim Redmond (3rd Place)
“How do we save BART and regional transit?” by Tim Redmond (5th Place)

HOUSING AND LAND-USE REPORTING
“Vancouver study shows how the Yimby narrative has failed, in real time” by Tim Redmond (4th Place)

‘3rd and Palou’ cast with writer-director Biko Eisen-Martin. Photo by Lisa Frare

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT COVERAGE
“Juneteenth reading of ‘3rd & Palou’ humanized 1966 Hunters Point Uprising” by Tom Molanphy (1st Place)
In tapestries of Bay Area street life, Dance Doyle weaves a world” by Mary Corbin (2nd Place)

FILM/TV REPORTING
“‘Groove’ is (still) in the heart” by Tamara Palmer (2nd Place)
“Oh, the (budget) horrors of Unnamed Film Fest!” by Daniel Bromfield (3rd Place)

MUSIC WRITING
“Dissecting SF’s big surprise rave” by Tamara Palmer (1st Place)
“Remember Me: How ‘California Soul’ legend Marlena Shaw took on a changing world” by John-Paul Shiver (5th Place)

FINE ARTS WRITING
“‘The Lifespan of a Fact’ finds journalism at a perilous juncture” by Charles Lewis III (4th Place)
“Stunning lost 1970s queer Halloween street party photos rise from the dead” by Marke B (5th Place)


Marke B.
Marke B.
Marke Bieschke is the publisher and arts and culture editor of 48 Hills. He co-owns the Stud bar in SoMa. Reach him at marke (at) 48hills.org, follow @supermarke on Twitter.

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