For Excellence in Blog Reporting: GOP Latino Fail: Party Ignored Stu Spencer's Advice By Jerry Roberts & Phil Trounstine, Calbuzz
For Excellence in Print-Daily Coverage: High-risk Calif parolees unsupervised By Don Thompson, Gillian Flaccus, Greg Risling & Thomas Watkins, Associated Press
For Excellence in Print-Special Feature/ Enterprise Reporting: Dental program proves painful By Jocelyn Wiener & Emily Bazar, CHCF Center for Health Reporting
For Excellence in Photojournalism (series): Occupy Oakland Shooting & Manali Baby Birth By Jane Tyska; The Oakland Tribune
For Excellence in Photojournalism (single): Keeping the Peace By Chris Riley, Vallejo Times-Herald
For Excellence in Radio Reporting: Children Left Behind: California’s Foster Care Crisis By Doug Sovern, KCBS
For Excellence in Television Reporting: Walmart Investigation By Kurtis Ming, Brei Baar, Kenny Holmes, Dennis Lopez, & Peter Roney, KOVR CBS13
For Excellence in Student Reporting: Slaughterhouse Shortage Stunting Area’s Eat-Local Movement By David Ferry, The New York Times-The Bay Citizen

Print: Laura Mahoney, BNA Daily Tax Report (special feature/enterprise reporting)

Print: Judy Lin, Associated Press(daily coverage)

Radio: John Myers, KQED

Television: Kelly Peterson, KVIE

For excellence in blog reporting: Torey Van Oot, The Sacramento Bee

Katherine M. Macdonald Award: Megan Baier, California Health Report

Print: Brian Joseph and Tony Saavedra, The Orange County Register

Print: The Sacramento Bee, Capitol Bureau (daily coverage)

Radio: Marianne Russ,Capital Public Radio

Television: Kelly Peterson and Bryan Shaddon, KVIE

Print: Matt Weiser, The Sacramento Bee (special feature/enterprise reporting)

Print: The Sacramento Bee, Capitol Bureau (daily coverage)

Radio: John Myers, KQED

Television: KVIE, team entry

Katherine M. Macdonald Award: Susan Acker, University of La Verne’s Campus Times

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Print: John Hill and Kevin Yamamura, Sacramento Bee (special feature/enterprise reporting) and John Gittelsohn, Orange County Register (daily coverage)

Radio: Julie Small, KPCC

Television: Bryan Shadden, KVIE

Katherine M. Macdonald Award: Robert Faturechi, Daily Bruin, UCLA

Print: John Hill and Andrew McIntosh, Sacramento Bee (special feature/enterprise reporting) and Shane Goldmacher, Capitol Weekly (daily coverage)

Radio: Jenny O’Mara and Marianne Russ, KXJZ

Television: Kevin Riggs, KCRA

Katherine M. Macdonald Award: Alia Wilson and Daniel Zarchy, UC Santa Cruz

Print: Douglas Fischer, Oakland Tribune (special feature/enterprise reporting) and John Gittelsohn, Orange County Register (daily coverage)

Radio: Scott Shafer, KQED

Television: Hank Plante, KPIX

Katherine M. Macdonald Award: Kristin Mayer, Daily Trojan, University of Southern California

Print: John Hill and Dorothy Korber, Sacramento Bee (special feature/enterprise reporting) and Gary Delsohn, Herbert Sample and Dan Smith, Sacramento Bee (daily coverage)

Radio: John Myers, KQED

Television: Randy Paige, Frank Snepp and Richard Alvarez of KCBS-TV

Katherine M. Macdonald Award: Kristin Mayer, Capitol Weekly, University of Southern California

Print: Kimberly Kindy, Orange County Register (special feature/enterprise reporting) and
James P. Sweeney, Copley News Service (daily coverage)

Radio: Ina Jaffe and Cathy Shaw, National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered”

Television: Richard Alverez, Randy Paige and Frank Snepp, KCBS

Katherine M. Macdonald Award: Matt Ballinger, Orange Coast College

Print: Kimberly Kinday, Jenifer B. McKim, Natalya Shulyakovskaya and Tony Saavedra, Orange County Register (special feature/enterprise reporting) and Carla Marinucci and Lance Williams, San Francisco Chronicle (daily coverage)

Radio: Ina Jaffe, NPR’s Morning Edition

Television: Randy Shandobil, KTVU and Robbi Peele, Joe Riordan, Hank Plante, and Rick Villaroman, KPIX

Katharine M. Macdonald Award: Jon Ortiz, Los Angeles Times (Sacramento Bureau), California State University, Sacramento

Print: Jill Tucker, The Oakland Tribune (special feature/enterprise reporting) and David Lazarus, San Francisco Chronicle (daily coverage)

Radio: Scott Shafter, KQED, the California Report, San Francisco

Television: Randy Shandobil, KTVU Fox 2, San Francisco/Oakland

Katherine M. Macdonald Award: Julian Foley, Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley

Print: Daniel Weintraub, Orange County Register (special feature/enterprise reporting) and Jim Sweeney, Union Tribune (daily coverage)

Radio: Ellen Ciurezak, KQED (special feature/enterprise reporting) and Aaron Glantz, KPFA (daily coverage)

Television: Randy Paige, KCBS (special feature/enterprise reporting) and Kevin Riggs, KCRA (daily coverage)

Katharine M. Macdonald Award: Virgina Sellers-Erxleben, The Collegian, Fresno State University

Print: Erin Hallissy and Kenneth Howe, San Francisco Chronicle and Mark Gladstone and James Rainey, Los Angeles Times (special feature/enterprise reporting) and Dion Nissenbaum, The Press Enterprise (daily coverage)

Radio: Scott Shafer, KQED (special feature/enterprise reporting) and Suzanne Marmion, KXPR and Scott Shafer, KQED (daily coverage)

Television: News Center 4, KRON TV (special feature/enterprise reporting) and Randy Shandobil, KTVU (daily coverage)

Katherine M. Macdonald Award:  David Robert Hunn, Daily Collegian, Fresno State University

Print: John Jacobs, Sacramento Bee (special feature/enterprise reporting) and Lance Williams, San Francisco Examiner (daily coverage)

Television: Michael Isip, KVIE Channel 6 and Randy Shandobil, KTVU

Radio: Scott Shafer, KQED

Katharine M. Macdonald Award: Theresa Salinas, el Don, Santa Ana Community College

Print: Scott Ard, Karen deSa and Jeff Israely, Oakland Tribune

Radio: David Wright, KQED

Television: Michael Isip, KVIE Channel 6

Katharine M. Macdonald Award: Sekhar Padmanabhn, State Hornet, Sacramento State

Print: Melody Petersen, Rebecca Smith and Ricardo Sandoval, San Jose Mercury News

Radio: Steve Scott, KQED

Television: Kevin Riggs, KCRA TV 3 and Marcy Brightwell, Northern California News Satellite

Print: Lance Williams, San Francisco Examiner

Radio: Bryan Goebel, KFBK

Television: Jack Kavanagh, KOVR TV 13

Print: Kim Christensen and Marc Lifsher, Orange County Register andGary Webb, San Jose Mercury News

Radio: Gregg Fishman, KFBK

Television: Jack Kavanagh, KOVR TV 13