Awards

Lisa Niver has won many awards including a 2025 Silver Telly Award. From 2017 to 2025, in the Southern California Journalism Awards and National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards, she has won eleven times and been a finalist forty -two times for a variety of broadcast, print, podcast and digital categories.

65th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 25: Journalist Lisa Niver (L) and entertainment reporter BJ Korros attend the 65th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards at the Biltmore Los Angeles on June 25, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Amanda Edwards/Getty Images)

2025 Winner: Platinum Dot Com Award for Immersing in Ireland on The Jet Set TV
2025 Winner: Silver Telly Award for Celtic Charm travel special!
2025 2x WINNER: I received my first-ever First Place award at the Southern California Journalism Awards— in the Lifestyle Feature category for my podcast, Make Your Own Map — and was also awarded Third Place for Online Journalist of the Year.
2025 5x Finalist Southern California Journalism Awards for Online Journalist of the Year, Icon of the Seas TV segment and two podcast episodes one at Giant’s Causeway in Ireland and an interview with Alex Jimenez, Travel Fashion Girl.
2024 Winner: National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards Diversity in the Entertainment Industry
2024 4x Finalist: National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards finalist for Online Journalist of the Year, and for three of my podcast interviews with Beth Santos, Wanderful, Carolyn Ray, JourneyWoman, and Samantha Brown, Places to Love.
2024 2x Winner: Southern California Journalism Awards for podcast segments with Samantha Brown, Places to Love, and Tony Phelan, A Small Light
2024 6x Finalist: Southern California Journalism Awards for Online Journalist of the Year, Podcast Host and for my podcast interviews with Andrew McCarthy, Samantha Brown, Christie Tate and Tony Phelan of A Small Light
2023 Winner: Diversity in TV/Streaming at the National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards
2023 3x FINALIST: National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards for Podcast Host, Diversity in Entertainment and Personality Profile
2023 2x FINALIST: Southern California Journalism Awards for Podcast interview and Travel Reporting
2022 Finalist: Southern California Journalism Awards for BOOK CRITICISM
2021 Winner: National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards: Book Critic: Ms. Magazine “Untamed: Brave Means Living From the Inside Out”
2021 Finalist: National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards: Commentary Diversity/Gender and Commentary Analysis/Trend — Film
2021 Winner: Southern California Journalism Awards for TECHNOLOGY REPORTING
2021 Finalist: Southern California Journalism Awards for BOOK CRITICISM and TECHNOLOGY REPORTING
2020 Winner: National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards for Book Critic. See all of Lisa’s book reviews here.
2020 Finalist: National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards for Book Critic
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

#3 Top Travel Influencer 2023
#11 Top Travel and Lifestyle Website 2023
#21 on the Best Jewish Book Blogs 2023
#3 Top Travel Influencer 2022
2021 50 Female Influencers Brands Can’t Get Enough Of
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
Top 14 Women Travel Blogs by iVisa Feb 2017

Click here to see all of Lisa’s TV segments, articles, awards, social media and videos. ⟶

UNIVERSAL CITY, CALIFORNIA – DECEMBER 04, 2022: Lisa Niver and BJ Korros attend the 15th annual National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards at Sheraton Universal Hotel on December 04, 2022 in Universal City, California. Photo by Michael Tullberg/Getty Images

More from the Dec 2022 NAEJ AWARDS: CLICK HERE

Have you read my memoir, BRAVE-ish? My book has won 10 awards!

2025 International Impact Book Awards—Travel

2024 Gold Medal – Inspirational – North American Book Awards

2024 Gold Bookfest Award – Nonfiction Memoir Travel

2024 Gold Nonfiction Book Award – Nonfiction Authors Association

2024 Literary Titan Gold Book Award – Non-fiction

2024 Silver Bookfest Award – Nonfiction Self-Help Inspiration

2024 Readers’ Favorite Honorable Mention – Non-Fiction – Women’s Genre

2023 Hearten Book Awards First Place Winner – Inspiring & Uplifting Non-Fiction

2023 Zibby Awards Runner-up – Best Book for The Strong Woman

2023 Goody Business Book Awards Winner – Memoir/Self-Help

Featured in Conde Nast Traveler Women Who Travel Book Club: 10 New Books We Can’t Wait to Read this Fall

As seen in Forbes Best New NonFiction

Lisa Niver

Awards

Click here to see all of Lisa’s TV segments, articles, awards, social media and videos. ⟶

Have you read my memoir, BRAVE-ish? My book has won 10 awards!

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