{"id":152,"date":"2007-03-09T15:01:55","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T23:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2007-12-09T13:45:08","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T20:33:08","slug":"la-press-club-hosts-immigration-panel-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"L.A. Press Club Hosts Immigration Panel Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/Images\/photos3\/immigration.wav\">Here&#8217;s the audio from Thursday night<\/a>.  Photos: Yes, Virginia, there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/Images\/photos3\/conannolan.jpg\">Conan Nolan<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/Images\/photos3\/jondaniel1.jpg\">Jon Fleischman and Daniel Hernandez don&#8217;t see eye to eye<\/a>, but, thanks to Dr. Conan Nolan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/Images\/photos3\/jondaniel.jpg\">they are able to share their feelings<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/Images\/photos3\/EdwardHeadington.jpg\">Publicist Edward Headington has a vision for the L.A. Press Club<\/a>.  Here&#8217;s the press release:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Conan  Nolan[LF: he served as moderator] is a general  assignment reporter for NBC4&sbquo;&Auml;&ocirc;s &quot;Channel 4 News&quot; and co-host of News Conference,  the station&sbquo;&Auml;&ocirc;s Sunday morning Public Affairs program.  Nolan has been reporting  on Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger&#8217;s first term in office since the historic  recall election in 2003 that included following the Governor on overseas trips  to Israel and Japan.   Additional foreign assignments included reporting from Kuwait and Iraq  while covering &sbquo;&Auml;&uacute;Operation Iraqi Freedom&sbquo;&Auml;&ugrave; for both NBC4 and the NBC network.   Nolan has also filed stories from Beirut, Lebanon while reporting on the Arab  world&sbquo;&Auml;&ocirc;s view of the September 11 anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nolan won an Emmy  award for his reports from the Pakistani frontier on the U.S. led campaign to defeat the Taliban in  Afghanistan. He was also in  Rome for the  selection of a new Pope after the death of Pope John Paul II.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Gregory  is based at KFI-AM Los Angeles &sbquo;&Auml;&igrave;  America&sbquo;&Auml;&ocirc;s most listened to News Talk  Station. Steve has covered some of the nation&sbquo;&Auml;&ocirc;s biggest stories.  Steve spent 15  days in the back of a news truck during the nation&sbquo;&Auml;&ocirc;s longest prison standoff in  Buckeye, Arizona. He also spent 13 days in the same  truck covering the nation&sbquo;&Auml;&ocirc;s largest wildfire in northern Arizona. His  investigative stories have uncovered a medical billing scam within the Arizona  State Prison System and led to the demotion of an Assistant Chief in the Phoenix  Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Steve is a four time recipient of  the Edward R. Murrow Award. The Associated Press in California, Arizona and  Colorado has  given him numerous awards for Best Talk Show, Best Newscast, Best Special  Program and Best Series. Steve has won international media awards for his series  on the Phoenix Fire Department, his series on the U.S. Border Patrol and a  feature on Arab-American comedians.  A great deal of Steve&sbquo;&Auml;&ocirc;s time is spent on  immigration issues. From protests and rallies on the streets of Los Angeles, to the dusty roads along the border of  Mexico, Steve has covered most sides  of the highly charged debate. In April of 2004, Steve was embedded with the  original Minuteman Project in Arizona. He lived with the volunteer group for  almost 30 days, going on patrols and observing strategy meetings. That year, the  Arizona Associated Press awarded Steve Best Talk Show, Best Special Program and  Best Use of Sound for his continuing coverage of the controversial  project. Steve has also spent a lot of time  with Customs and Border Patrol Agents. His 5-part series, &sbquo;&Auml;&uacute;Dying in the Desert&sbquo;&Auml;&ugrave;  won him the national Edward R. Murrow Award for best news series of 2002. The  program explored the rising deaths of immigrants who illegally crossed into the  U.S. from the agent&sbquo;&Auml;&ocirc;s and immigrant&sbquo;&Auml;&ocirc;s  point of view. The California Associated Press has given Steve top honors for  his coverage of the California Minutemen. His 3-part series on the California  National Guard&sbquo;&Auml;&ocirc;s deployment along the Mexico border won him a Golden Mike.  Also, He is part of the Golden-Mike-winning live coverage of the massive  immigration march and protest in downtown Los Angeles in May of  2006.<\/p>\n<p>Steve has also been covering the  ongoing case of two former border patrol agents imprisoned for wounding an  illegal alien drug smuggler. He was present at the agent&sbquo;&Auml;&ocirc;s sentencing and  surrender to federal authorities in El  Paso, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Jon  Fleischman is the founder and publisher of  FlashReport.org,  a primarily  volunteer endeavor for Jon, as his passion remains in the political arena.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel  Hernandez is a staff writer  with the LA Weekly in Los  Angeles.  Prior to that, he was on staff at the Los  Angeles Times.  Hernandez has written about immigrants and immigration,  bilingualism, people, neighborhoods, graffiti and street art, politics, fashion,  hipsters, media, and a little music, food, and books.  His work has also  appeared or been reprinted newspapers across the country and in publications  based in Berkeley, L.A., San Diego,  Mexico City, El Paso, San Francisco,  Paris, and other  places.   In 2006, Hernandez  was named &quot;Emerging Journalist of the Year&quot; by the National Association of  Hispanic Journalists, and participated in the USC Annenberg\/Getty Arts  Journalism Fellowship. He is also an occasional commentator for &quot;All Things  Considered&quot; on National Public Radio.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the audio from Thursday night. Photos: Yes, Virginia, there is a Conan Nolan. Jon Fleischman and Daniel Hernandez don&#8217;t see eye to eye, but, thanks to Dr. Conan Nolan, they are able to share their feelings. Publicist Edward Headington &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=152\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}