The 2010 Orwell Prize for political writing winners have been announced, with Andrea Gillies taking the book prize for her biographical work Keeper and conservative Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens winning the journalism award.
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How Pulitzer winners are spending their prize money
Pulitzer Prize winners receive a cool $10,000 for their efforts. So how are the latest recipients going to splash their cash? Holidays, cars and parties. Rock ‘n roll.
Webby winners announced
The winners of the 2010 Webby Awards have been announced. Twitter, Foursquare, OK Go and College Humour all got their dues, while Truthdig was named Best Political Blog. Check out the full list here.
The Webby Award nominations announced
The nominations for the 2010 Webby Awards have been announced — Crikey once again being overlooked for the predictable NYT and BBC. Check out all the contenders and vote for your favourites.
Pulitzer Prize winners announced
The winners of journalism’s most coveted gongs have been announced: The Washington Post won the most awards, while investigative outfit ProPublica clocked up one for online journalism with a nod for its excellent expose on New Orleans hospitals post-Katrina.
Joseph Pulitzer was no prize
Newspaper mogul Joseph Pulitzer’s name may be synonymous with journalism due to the award he endowed, but the man himself was no model of media management, according to this fascinating biography of a man most of us have heard of but know nothing about.
The top 10 works of journalism of the past 10 years
New York University’s Journalism Institute has named its top 10 pieces of American journalism for 2000-2009, from the NYT’s 9/11 coverage to NPR’s This American Life podcast.
Jack Marx: We’re all losers if Tracey Grimshaw wins Journo of the Year
A Current Affair’s Tracey Grimshaw has been shortlisted for the prestigious Australian Journalist of the Year gong. Jack Marx rips her “tabloid” interviewing to shreds and says if she wins, the entire journalistic profession will look the fool.
The Shorty Awards: Twitter’s night of nights
The winners of the second annual Shorty Awards — like the Oscars for the Twitterati — have been announced. @crikey_news missed out again, but @SesameStreet, @TheNation and @MrsStephenFry all received nods.
Politico elected to the Pulitzer board
The Executive Editor of political commentary site Politico, Jim VandeHei, has been elected to the Pulitzer Prize board — the organisation’s first representative from the world of online news.
Bloggers now eligible for the Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize has relaxed its eligibility requirements to open the award up to more online reporters. With the web increasingly becoming the source for breaking news, it’s surely only a matter of time.
The 2009 Walkley winners
The Australian’s Gary Hughes won the Gold Walkley last night for his first-hand account of the Black Saturday bushfires. See the full list of Walkley winners here.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Bean counters go after journalism awards
The Age’s is again trying to slash prize money for the Australian Journalist of the Year award, an NT High School loses 50% of its staff, Martin Hamilton-Smith’s loyal staff, kids barred from playing at Cooper Park, and more hot reader tips.
Ad Age‘s A-list Media Awards
Advertising Age has announced its A-List Award winners for 2009, with Women’s Health named Magazine of the Year, The Atlantic’s James Bennet named editor of the year, and a few other hat-tips to media innovation this year.
Rolling Stone‘s Obama named Cover of the Year
A Rolling Stone cover featuring Barack Obama has been named Cover of the Year by the American Society of Magazine Editors, beating out Bernie Madoff as The Joker and perhaps the most delicious looking cover ever for the honours.
Walkleys schmalkleys: excuse us while we dine on these sour grapes
It seems that one of the major criteria for winning a Walkley is already having won one. This year is no different with a list of the usual suspects fronting up for another gong.
The 2009 Walkley finalists
The nominees for the 2009 Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism have been announced. Crikey didn’t get any love, but it’s nice to see such a diverse field of three whole media organisations sweep the pool.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Playing both sides of the Hockey field
Joe Hockey has been out locking in the support of Liberal moderates, The Age is still trying to slash funding for journalism awards, Fairfax pull stumps on “the best paper that Colac has ever had” are more hot tips.
Fairfax prevails in print, News dominates digital at Newspaper Awards
The Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers Association’s annual awards were held last night, with News Digital Media winning in several online categories, but Fairfax picking up the most prestigious Newspaper of the Year award for The Sydney Morning Herald.
Julia Medew named Young Australian Journalist of the Year
Age journalist Julia Medew won the Young Australian Journalist of the Year award last night for her reporting on “ghost wards” in Victorian hospitals.
Wankley Awards: Chris Mitchell’s climate change award
Most editors would beg an oil and energy lobby group to take their trophy back. Not Chris Mitchell.
Jailed Azerbaijani newspaper editor wins media award
Azerbaijani newspaper editor Eynulla Fatullayev has been given a special award for “journalism under threat” in the Amnesty International Media Awards.
The award for the most bitterly ironic media award goes to…
Why is Syracuse University giving a journalism award to Arianna Huffington — a woman who thinks journalists should work for free? asks Simon Dumenco.
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
The letters pages of The Australian ran a piece of correspondence from former PM Paul Keating today. Unfortunately, they omitted the final paragraph…
The ties that bind: how big pharma buys a good press
While efforts are underway in Australia and elsewhere to disentangle the ties between doctors and drug companies (as reported in Crikey yesterday), the spotlight should also be illuminating another influential profession’s conflicts of interest.
