Variety won eight first-place awards at the LA Press Club’s SoCal Journalism Awards, including Entertainment Journalist of the Year for Brent Lang

Variety won eight first-place awards Sunday night at the Los Angeles Press Club’s 66th annual SoCal Journalism Awards, including a top win for executive editor Brent Lang as entertainment journalist of the year .

Variety entered the 2024 ceremony with 74 nominations, representing work published by employees online or in its weekly print edition during the 2023 calendar year.

Lang led the staff wins list by picking up three awards in total. In addition to his Entertainment Journalist of the Year trophy, Lang also won for Personality/Magazine Profile for his Michael J. Fox cover story and shared the Entertainment/TV Feature Award with Tatiana Siegel and Matt Donnelly for their story “Showstopper! The strikes are throwing Hollywood into chaos with expensive movie delays, pay battles and AI anxiety.”

Siegel was a double winner. In addition to sharing the final award with Lang, she also won in the news/entertainment magazine category for…