Los Angeles Press Club
Founded in 1913
A-Mark Foundation has funded the Los Angeles Press Club’s A-Mark Prize for Reporting on Misinformation and Disinformation since 2023. The award started in Southern California but expanded to the entire state of California in 2025.
Entries might take on a specific instance of media manipulation, for example, examining its perpetrators and its impact. Entries can also explore possible solutions to the disinformation problem, or individuals or groups active in either perpetrating or solving it. In short, the work should delve deeply into any aspect of the troubling phenomenon in any journalistic format.
Since 2025, first place winners have received $5,000 for the reporter(s) and $2,500 for the publishing outlet, second place winners have received $3,000 for the reporter(s) and $1,500 for the outlet, and third place winners have received $2,000 for the reporter(s) and $1,000 for the outlet. Eligible entries must have been published, broadcast, or transmitted in California, or had California as the focus.
A-Mark Prize Recipients
2025
First Place
Miranda Green and David Folkenflik, “Chevron owns this city’s news site. Many stories aren’t told,” National Public Radio and Floodlight
Second Place
Sarah D. Wire and Mackenzie Mays, “Inside the far-right plan to use civil rights law to disrupt the 2024 election” (behind a paywall), Los Angeles Times
Third Place
2024
First Place
Albert Serna Jr., TJ L’Heureux, Adrienne Washington, Anisa Shabir, and Isaac Stone Simonelli, “In the Sheriff We Trust,” Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting and Howard Center for Investigative Journalism
Second Place
Greg Mitchell, Lyn Goldfarb and Michelle Merker, “Memorial Day Massacre: Workers Die, Film Buried,” KCET
Third Place
Alexandra Barinka, “TikTok Struggles to Take Down Deepfake Videos of Hamas’ Victims,” Bloomberg News
2023
First Place
Miranda Green, Mario Ariza, and David Folkenflik, “In the Southeast, power company money flows to news sites that attack their critics,” Floodlight and National Public Radio
Second Place
James Rainey, “His website skewers Stockton politicians and agencies. Then one gave him a cushy job.,” Los Angeles Times
Third Place
Sam Kestenbaum, “‘I Think All the Christians Get Slaughtered’: Inside the MAGA Road Show Barnstorming America,” Rolling Stone