The Daily Beast’s Tim Teeman Wins Los Angeles Press Club National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award
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Tim Teeman, who won for a profile of Broadway star Kara Young, was nominated in 10 of the award categories including Online Journalist of the Year and Columnist of the Year.
Tim Teeman, Daily Beast senior editor and writer, won the Los Angeles Press Club’s National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award (online) for Diversity in the Music/Performing Arts Industry. His profile, Kara Young on ‘Purlie Victorious,’ Tony Awards, and Diversity on Broadway, was celebrated by the judges as “excellent.” Teeman had been nominated in 10 of the award categories including Online Journalist of the Year and Columnist of the Year. He received third place for the Online Journalist of the Year honor and second place for his reporting on celebrity news (Real Housewives Creator: How to Make the Supreme Court Spouses Reality TV Stars). Teeman also placed third in Personality Profile-TV, Performing & Other Arts, Theater Feature, Music Feature, and Entertainment Feature categories. A two-time winner of Journalist of the Year at the event, Teeman has won many awards for his writing there and at the New York Press Club and NLGJA (The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists). Celebrity honorees at this year’s National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards included Kathy Bates, Tiffany Haddish, Melissa Etheridge, and Kevin Frazier.
