TheWrap Wins 4 SoCal Journalism Awards for Features Covering TV, Culture and the HFPA

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The category’s nominees included GQ and Variety, as well as TheWrap’s Andi Ortiz, who was nominated for her oral history of the cult that has grown around Disney’s “Hocus Pocus” since its 1993 release, entitled “How ‘Hocus Pocus’ Went From Box Office Bomb to Disney’s Halloween Darling.“Reporter Sharon Knolle was nominated for two awards and won in both categories.

In the Entertainment Feature on TV/Radio, Knolle won for her examination of the sequel series to “Sex and the City” and whether the show negatively portrays women in middle age, entitled “Is ‘And Just Like That’ … Ageist?

Why Carrie and Her Friends Seem Over the Hill at 50.“ The category also included nominees from Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and Bloomberg News.Knolle’s second win was in the Entertainment Feature on Music/Theater/Arts with a look at safety issues for women in stand-up comedy: “Forget Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle – Female Comics Say Stand-Up Has ‘Never Been Safe’ for Women.” Knolle’s story beat finalists from Fast Company, Yahoo, KCET and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists’ Palabra.Writer Brenda Gazzar rounds out TheWrap’s SoCal Press Awards with a Lifestyle Feature win for her story looking back on the #MeToo movement on its fifth anniversary, “5 Years of #MeToo: How the Movement Spread Beyond Hollywood – for Better and for Worse.“ It beat nominees from Bloomberg, Yahoo, BBC and KCET.“It feels me with great pride to see that these specific writers and stories were awarded with SoCal Journalism Awards,” co-executive editor Jethro Nededog said. “TheWrap finds great purpose in shedding light on the.