From left: Amairani Hernandez, Brenda Verano, Lalo Alcaraz and Jacqueline Garcia.
CALÓ News reporters Amairani Hernandez, Brenda Verano and Jacqueline Garcia were nominated for the SoCal Journalism Awards in the Immigration Reporting, Sociopolitical category for their story "LA's immigration defense organizers are burning out. Here's how they keep going."
This story was part of the series “L.A. vs. ICE,” a collaboration with Los Angeles Public Press, L.A. Taco, Capital & Main, Capital B and Q Voice News.
CALÓ News staff cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz was nominated in the Editorial Cartoon category for “Lalo on CALÓ: Big Raid in Little Tokyo." Alcaraz won the category in 2025.
CALÓ News also received a nomination in the Sports Commentary category with Natalia Molina’s piece "The Dodgers: They just like us."
Susana Canales Barrón, who collaborated with CALÓ News while she was a California Local News Fellow, was nominated for her work on "Infant left momentarily parentless after immigration raid near a WIC store in Oxnard" in the Best Use Of Social Media To Enhance And/Or Cover A Story By An Independent Journalist. Canales Barrón recently won a Ruben Salazar Journalism Award for her work at Los Angeles Public Press.
The SoCal Journalism Awards are organized by the Los Angeles Press Club and will announce the winners at the 2026 SoCal Journalism Awards gala on Sunday, June 28.
Tickets for the gala are available now. Early-bird rates will be available until June 1.
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