Hosam Elattar Elected OC Press Club Board Member

Award-winning Voice of OC newsman Hosam Elattar was elected to the Orange County Press Club Board successful October. 

Elattar covers Anaheim and North Orange County, the Arab & Muslim American community, nutrient insecurity, lodging & homelessness, religion and acquisition astatine the Voice of OC.

“This is an accidental for maine to springiness backmost to my profession, and the nonrecreational storytellers and journalists reporting connected things impacting the prime of beingness of residents successful this county,” helium said. 

Elattar was elected alongside Destiny Torres and Hanna Kang of the Orange County Register, arsenic good arsenic Carrie Freitas, CEO of Kitchen Table Marketing + PR (KTM). 

They articulation the board’s returning members: Andrew Turner, Breeana Greenberg, Clara Beard, David N. Young and Patty Marsters.

“I americium ever wary of glorifying journalists arsenic ‘heroes’ — but that is precisely who Hosam Elattar is. For 5 years, I watched Hosam proviso Orange County residents with quality that is unflinching yet compassionate.  He was a premier dependable successful Little Arabia’s combat for ceremonial designation successful West Anaheim.” said Brandon Pho, the OC Press Club’s outgoing president and erstwhile Voice of OC reporter. 

“His reporting pressured Anaheim assembly members to proceed with an interior probe of corruption astatine City Hall. He is not conscionable a newsman — he’s an artist. And it takes an creator to envision a aboriginal for Southern California’s journalism scenery arsenic the manufacture faces unceasing threats to its humanity: From hedge money takeovers to AI outsourcing.”

“Ecstatic doesn’t adjacent statesman to picture my absorption to his predetermination to the OC Press Club Board of Directors.”

Pho has served connected the committee since 2021.

Orange County’s journalists began organizing successful the 1910s, erstwhile reporters from Orange and Santa Ana gathered astatine Downtown Santa Ana cafe to motorboat the archetypal property club. 

The club’s existent iteration was formed successful 1953 by erstwhile OC Register Civic Editor Harry Harvey.

“It’s important to beryllium progressive successful the Press Club to basal up for the interests of journalists crossed the region and to marque definite they’re not silenced,” Elattar said. “And to advocator for a amended aboriginal for each reporters.”