Capital & Main won 7 first-place prizes and 20 overall at the 66th annual Southern California Journalism Awards, one of the largest regional media contests in the nation. Winners were announced by the Los Angeles Press Club at a gala on June 23 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown L.A.
Cerise Castle was awarded first place in the Educational Reporting category for her stories on Temecula’s far-right school board. Judges described Castle’s work as “great storytelling that helps guide the reader through gnarly politics with real consequences for students.”
