AWARDS

Lisa Niver has won many awards! From 2017 to 2020, in the Southern California Journalism Awards and National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards, she has won three times and been a finalist fourteen times.

• 2020 Winner: Southern California Journalism Awards for print magazine article: Hemispheres Magazine for United Airlines
• 2020 Five Time Finalist: Southern California Journalism awards
  • A5. ONLINE JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
  • B4a. ACTIVISM JOURNALISM:
    • Ms. Magazine,“What Growing up X Taught Ilyasah Shabazz about Feminism”
  • B13. EDUCATIONAL REPORTING:
    • Wharton Magazine, “Treat Your Business Rival as Inspiration, Not Competition”
  • G6. PRINT MAGAZINE FEATURE, Under 1,000 Words: Any feature.
    • Hemispheres Magazine for United Airlines, “Painter by the Numbers, Rembrandt”

• • I10. BROADCAST LIFESTYLE FEATURE
    • KTLA 5 News, “Star Treatment Package Giveaway”

• 2019 Winner: NAEJ Award for KTLA TV segment
• 2019 Finalist: National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards in three categories
  • Category H2a. Soft News: Ms. Magazine: Polar Bears Can’t Vote So You Have To
  • Category F6a. Soft News Feature – Under 5 Minutes—Film/TV: KTLA TV Oscars Countdown to Gold with Lisa Niver
  • Category C1b. Business, Music/Tech/Art: My Wharton Magazine article: Four Female Founders Share Their Origin Stories
• 2019 Finalist: Southern California Journalism Awards for Broadcast Television Lifestyle Segment: Ogden Ski Getaway
• 2018 Finalist for three categories of Southern California Journalism Awards:
  • SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY REPORTING: Smithsonian 
  • TRAVEL REPORTING: Popsugar Fitness
  • PERSONALITY PROFILE: Saturday Evening Post

“The 60th SoCal Journalism Awards Contest is the largest and most impressive in our Los Angeles Press Club’s recent history. Our judges sorted through nearly 1,400 entries. Our finalists represent the most talented and hardworking journalists in Southern California! Winners announced on June 24, 2018.”

• 2017 2nd place winner for Southern California Journalism Award Print Column “A journey to freedom over three Passovers” and finalist for Travel Reporting.

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• 2021 and 2020 Top 10 Travel Influencer at Afluencer
• 2020 Center for Cultural Innovation Visual Artists grant
• Top Female Travel Blogger on #Travel1k Top 1000+ Travel Blog List, Feb 28 2019, May 30, 2018
• Top 10 Travel Blogs for Entrepreneurs Jan 2018
• Travel Classics Top 12 Travel Blogs Dec 2017

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