CalMatters won four Golden State journalism awards with reporting that meet the “needs of all Californians”

Calmatters won four of This year’s Golden State Journalism AwardsCalifornia’s comments also vote on the California -based comments led by digital democracy.

The awards have been given by Sacramento Press Club for policy and public policy reporting throughout the country.

Alexey Kossef Earned for daily Capitol reportingS

The award is for a journalism body showing “consistent daily achievements in the rhythm reporting on the Capitol and/or the State Government.” Other finalists were journalists from Politico, Los Angeles Times and Kff Health News.

The judges wrote: We have found that Kosef’s entry has an impressive set of capitol stories, with stories that will meet the interests and needs of all Californians. We evaluated the mix of approaches to reflecting capitol, following the money, and the interior of being happening in California. Entrance reflected a deep understanding and skill of this vital rhythm. “

Kosef was awarded for highlights of his rhythm reporting: Stories explaining Why GAVIN NEWSOM’s constitutional change to control the weapon has not exceeded California, How California Democrats affected local conservative riots About LGBTQ rights and abortion, Why has no one spent more money on Google to lobby California employees, How GAVIN NEWSOM has not broken off its promise to exempt its tax returns each yearand Why Democratic Messages Completed by California Trump, California to accessibility after the November election.

Rachel Becker Won to account for the environment.

A reward that “recognizes exclusive reporting on policy, policy and activism related to water, wild fire, energy, climate change, pollution, endangered species and other environmental topics.” Other finalists were journalists from Kqed and Capital & Main.

The judges wrote: These stories, with their geographical local and intimate portraits, reveal the human fee for the inability of the state to face its numerous challenges of water and the interaction between them. Becker documents how the exhaustion of groundwater in the valley of San Joaquin has led to a destroyed battle between farmers and regulators, while tens of thousands of thousands of cakes have led to the turmoil between farmers and regulators, while tens of thousands of the valley with low yields. Deep reporting, thoughtful storytelling and empathy for people caught in the crossing of water policy. “

Its reporting in 2024 underground waters., Polluted drinking water and aging of infrastructure. She paid special attention to rural communities in disadvantaged and skillfully covered the tension of generations between agriculture and wildlifeS

Yousef baig earned for opinion and commentsS

The “exceptional commentary award that changed the opinion, kept the power to report, or perhaps just pleased his audience.” Other finalists were comments on comments from the Los Angeles Times (Robert Green, who recently joined the CalMatters Comment section) and Capital & Main.

The judges wrote: “We have all heard the attacks against the train to nowhere.” It is never easy to focus on the packaging, but Yousef Baig has decided to move on to rhetoric and make a real report on the California Railway Transport project. A clear and captivating protection of the most ambitious railway project in the nation, interviewing traders and workers and high government officials in a particularly strong comment. “

Bay View the high -speed railway project in California Outside the traditional political worldview: Focused in the cities of the Central Valley, where the path of the bullet train will be centered.

“If you are listening to the California political class, the high-speed rail project sounds like a Boodoggle textbook-on-budget, funny and addicted with waste,” Bieg writes. “Still, in the communities through the California Farmers’ Belt, the discourse is refreshing different. This is a symbol of transformation for a region that is already bursting with activity.”

Calsatters’ cooperation with CBS News won for TV Enterprise ReportingS

Honor is a powerful pairing of the Government’s rich digital democracy database for gap with Julie Watts of CBS News. The award is for Watts, CalMatters reporter Ryan Sabalow and Foaad Khosmood, the architect of Digital Democracy at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Other finalists were journalists from ABC10 and KCRA. No refereeing comments were provided on this award.

“California battle with fentanyl“Focused on the defenders of Fentanyl’s legislation, who were upset to learn through digital democracy that their bills were killed when lawmakers refused to vote.

Watts’s broadcast followed the history of Calmatters – “Power should never say no. How California Democrats kill bills without voting against them“-co-authorship of Sabalow and Watts. The story uses data from digital democracy to look at more than 1 million votes filed by current legislators and revealed that Democrats voted” not “less than 1% of the time. Instead of a direct vote against a bill, Democrats often kill bills, refusing to vote.

And Christopher BuchananA former associate of the CalMatters College Journalism Network was one of the two journalists awarded for courage in journalism,

The award “recognizes a journalist or a team of journalists who have shown exceptional courage to bring the necessary reflection of the public.”

The judges wrote that the Gaza protest and the opposing variable test in UCLA “transferred to hours of violence, united by the university or police. At least four UCLA student journalists were surrounded by counter-protests who sprayed students with chemicals and hit and kicked two of them.”

Buchanan, covering the Daily Bruin protest in UCLA, was also beaten and kicked. He lost his phone during the attack, but found it later, took out the video that shot and posted it. “