I am proud, honored, and downright shocked to announce that I won a total of four awards (two for first place, one for second place, and one for third) at the Los Angeles Press Club’s 2025 Southern California Journalism Awards!

My wins span across work I did for FLOOD magazine, Totally ’80s, and this here site, Lyndsanity… but most excitingly, my big first-place win was for Independent/Freelance Online Journalist of the Year!

Many thanks to the L.A. Press Club for the recognition, and for the lovely event held at Downtown Los Angeles’s Millennium Biltmore Hotel during a tough weekend when we journalists all really needed to come together. Congratulations to all of my worthy colleagues who also received awards and nominations.

Scroll down for links to my winning entries!

ONLINE JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR – FIRST PLACE
Independent/Freelance
Judges’ comment: With her extensive interviews with pop music stars and absorbing pieces
about pop culture for her “Lyndsanity” website, Parker is a music culture aficionado who
deserves this award recognition.

ONLINE, MUSIC FEATURE - FIRST PLACE
FLOOD Magazine, “Standing in Front of Poseur: Redd Kross’s Guide to Lost Los Angeles”
Judges’ comment: Lyndsey Parker’s tour-de-force through the venues of California through the eyes of Redd Kross counterculture is the scum atop the ocean amid a Pacific Breeze. It rocks America.

ONLINE, THEATER/PERFORMING ARTS FEATURE – SECOND PLACE
Lyndsanity, “Andy Prieboy breaks 25-year silence on cult-classic Axl Rose musical: ‘If anything in my life was like Brian Wilson’s ‘Smile,’ it was ‘White Trash Wins Lotto’”

AUDIO JOURNALISM, REGULAR PODCAST – THIRD PLACE
The Totally 80s Podcast, “Desperately Seeking: Madonna’s Punk Roots”