2008 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced
Columbia University has announced the 2008 Pulitzer Prizes, awarded on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board. Here are the winnners.JOURNALISM
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MUSIC
SPECIAL CITATION
Posted on April 8, 2008
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2007 YouTube Video Award Winners
The 2007 YouTube Video Award winners have been announced. Here is the list of winners in each category with links to the winning videos. If you watch a lot of videos on YouTube you will recognize many of them. (via Video Nacho)
Posted on March 23, 2008
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2007 Weblog Award Winners Announced
The winners of the 2007 Weblog Awards have been announced. Here are a few of the winners in several different categories.You can find a complete list of the winners here.
Posted on November 19, 2007
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Webby Award Winners Announced
The winners of the 2007 Webby Awards have been announced. Some of the websites winners included Flickr (Best Practices, Best Visual Design and Community), Pan's Labyrinth (Movies), Last.fm (Music), HowStuffWorks (Education), The Onion (Humor) and CurrentTV (Television). The Webby Awards has nearly 70 categories so you will need to look at the complete list to see more of the winners.Variety has an article about the Webby Awards and says a ceremony will be held for the winners hosted by comedian Rob Corddry will be held on June 4th.
Posted on May 2, 2007
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Stewart Hosted the Peabody Awards
John Stewart hosted the Peabody Awards telling the audience they were lucky to have him there. An MSNBC.com article explains who won the awards.The biggest cheers went to Trey Parker and Matt Stone, co-creators of Comedy Central's "South Park." In introducing them, Stewart said he marveled at "at their ability to keep the show fresh and hilarious" after nearly 10 years on the air. The two, though, kept their remarks brief and irreverent, with Parker throwing a swear word into a joke about their "artistic responsibility" and Stone spending his time praising fellow honorees "Battlestar Galactica."Stewart also warned winners that he didn't want to see the awards end up on eBay. You can find a complete list of winners here on the Peabody website.
Martin Scorsese was honored for his PBS "American Masters" documentary "Bob Dylan: No Direction Home." FX's "The Shield" and ABC's "Boston Legal" also received awards, with Glenn Close and Candice Bergen accepting the statuettes, respectively.
Four television news teams received Peabody Awards for their work in covering Katrina and its aftermath. Jim Walton, president of the CNN News Group, accepted his team's award, saying, "This story continues to test us." Brian Williams, anchor and managing editor for "NBC Nightly News," received the honor on behalf of the citizens of New Orleans, who were "failed by their government," he said.
WLOX-TV in Biloxi, Miss., which continued broadcasting even as its newsroom's roof was blown off, also was honored as was New Orleans' WWL-TV. Sandy Breland, executive news director at WWL, choked up as she accepted the award, saying that too many Americans had already forgotten about Katrina.
Posted on June 13, 2006
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Webby Award Winners Announced
The winners of the Webby Awards have been announced. The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences says over 300,000 people voted online for this year's Webbys. The Webby Awards have 69 different categories and the winners in each category can be found here. Here are some of the highlights from this year's Webbys.Winners ranged from new and up-and-coming sites like The Huffington Post (Political Blog), Style Wars (Best Visual Design) and FabChannel.com (Music) to powerhouses like Paypal (Financial Services), ESPN (Sports), Expedia (Travel), and Bank of America (Banking/Bill Paying). Reflecting the past year's news, trends, and ideas, winners include The Katrina Help Center (Charitable Organization), San Francisco's disaster preparedness site 72Hours (Government) and hybrid vehicle guide UCS HybridCenter (Guides). Sites winning in more than one category include BBC for BBC Cumbria/Digital Lives (Community) and BBC News (News); Google for Google Earth (Best Visual Design/Function and Broadband) and Google Maps (Services); and Flickr (Best Navigation/Structure and Best Practices). BOOK OF COOL won three People's Voice Awards for Best Navigation/Structure, Best Use of Video or Moving Image and Retail. People's Voice winners included established sites like BabyCenter (Kids/Parenting), MyYahoo! (Best Home/Welcome Page), Library of Congress (Cultural Institution), and CNET (Guides/Reviews/Ratings), as well as popular favorites like TripAdvisor (Community), CuteOverload (Cultural/Personal Blog), and Bebo (Social Networking). 19 sites won both a Webby Award and a People's Voice Award including: Redken Haircolor (Beauty and Cosmetics), Style.com (Fashion), The Onion (Humor), 2006 Sundance Film Festival (Movie and Film), mediaBOOM (Professional Services), Above the Influence (Youth) and Google Maps (Services). International winners of The 10th Annual Webby Awards include: The United Kingdom's Official Portable PlayStation Site (Consumer Electronics), The Netherlands' Fabchannel.com (Music), New Zealand's NewZealand.com/travel (Tourism), and Canada's Big Ideas Come from Big Pencils (Best Visual Design/Aesthetic). Arnold Worldwide, POKE, Avenue A/Razorfish , Critical Mass, DDB, Big Spaceship, Second Story Interactive, Framfab, Mullen, and Bloc Media are among the interactive, advertising, and design agencies behind the winning sites.
Posted on May 9, 2006
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2006 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced
The 2006 Pulitzer Prize winners have been announced. The winners are listed below. A winners list on the official pulitzer.org also has details about each of the winners. The Write News has an article about the public service winners for Hurricane Katrina coverage.Journalism
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Special Citations: Edmund S. Morgan and Thelonious Monk
Posted on May 5, 2006
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10th Annual Webby Award Nominees Announced
The nominees for The 10th Annual Webby Awards have been announced. People can vote at peoplesvoice.webbyawards.com in the Webby's 65 different categories. The winners will be announced on May 9, 2006 and honored at The 10th Annual Webby Awards on June 12 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. The gala event will be hosted by comedian Rob Corddry of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.In the press release the Webby Award founders and staff noted this year's Web 2.0 influence.
"For a decade, The Webby Awards has honored the new and groundbreaking Web sites that have changed the way we work and live," said Tiffany Shlain, the founder and ambassador of The Webby Awards. "This year's nominees provide us with an inside look at where we're going next." Webby Awards executive director David-Michel Davies agreed. "Whether you call it 'web 2.0' or nothing at all, this year's nominees reflect how consumers are taking the lead and reshaping the Web to make it even more vital, useful, and meaningful."Here are some of the highlights from this year's nominations.
BloggersBlog.com provides a look at the nominees in the blog-related categories.Several agencies received more than one nomination including Arnold Worldwide, Avenue A/Razorfish, Crispin Porter, DDB Seattle, Euro RSCG and OgilvyOne. The nominees for Best Practices - Bloglines, Flickr, Google Maps, Technorati, and Writely.com -- reflect the latest breakout technologies and trends reshaping the web. Powerhouses like Expedia.com, ESPN.com, and Toyota and up-and-coming sites that have attracted major followings like Freakonomics, Flavorpill, and CuteOverload. Several nominees highlight the emergence of online video, including Rocketboom, a popular videoblog, and Dutch site FabChannel, which broadcasts video from live concerts. With six nominations, NPR received the most of any organization this year. Other teams receiving multiple nominations include Google Earth, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Krups USA, Library of Congress, Made In Montreal and The Book of Cool. The 10th Annual Webby Awards boast a record 60 international nominees, including sites from Australia, India, Poland, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland and the U.K.
Posted on April 19, 2006
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Ellie Finalists Announced by ASME
The finalists for the National Magazine Awards, also known as the Ellies,
have been announced. The Atlantic leads the pack with eight nominations. Twenty-three other titles also received multiple nominations.
Here is a list of the magazines up for multiple awards:
Posted on March 28, 2006
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Post Secret Wins Four Bloggies
PostSecret, which is both a blog and a book, cleaned up at the 2006 Bloggies winning four different awards including the Weblog of the Year award. Joshuaink.com, Go Fug Yourself and Boing Boing were the three other multiple blog winners with each blog taking two Bloggies. A complete list of this year's blog winners can be found here.Posted on March 24, 2006
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2005 Weblog Award Winners Announced
The winners of the 2005 Weblog Awards have been announced. The awards include overall categories like Best Blog (Daily Kos) and Best New Blog (Yellow Dog Blog) as well as winners in different categories including Best Law Blog (Law Dork) and Best Business Blog (The Club for Growth). A complete list of the winners can be found here. (Via Bloggers Blog)Posted on December 20, 2005
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New York Times Launches Entertainment Blog for Awards Season
The New York Times has launched an entertainment blog called the Carpetbaggers. The timing of the launch is pretty obvious -- The New York Times wants to have a blog ready now that the awards season is here. Here is how the Times described their new blog:Yesterday we launched a genuine, authentic, by-the-book New York Times blog. It's Carpetbagger, by David Carr. It's part of a new movie-awards-season web site called Red Carpet, which includes a bunch of things you won't see in the newspaper, like weekly columns by Joyce Wadler and Caryn James. You'll see a refer on today's front page, which I boldly, if ignorantly, declare to be our first-ever page-1 refer to a web-only feature. At the very least, it's our first-ever page 1 refer to a blog.
Posted on December 8, 2005
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John Stewart Wins Thurber Prize for Humor
Jon Stewart's book, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction, has won the Thurber Prize for American Humor. The two other finalists for the Thurber Prize were The Borowitz Report: The Big Book of Shockers by Andy Borowitz and Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas. The award is given annually by the Thurber House and Museum.Posted on November 28, 2005
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International Horror Guild Award Winners Announced
The International Horror Guild Awards for books published in 2004 have been anounced. The awards were announced during a presentation at the World Fantasy Convention on Thursday evening, November 3, 2005 in the Capitol Ballroom of the Madison Concourse Hotel in Madison, WI. The awards are given each year by the IHG, a guild created in 1995 as a way to recognize the achievements of those who create in the field of Horror and Dark Fantasy.
Posted on November 4, 2005
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ONA Awards Announced
NYTimes.com won three Online News Association Awards in general excellence, breaking news and outstanding use of multiple media for large sites. Slate.com and NewWest.net each won two awards. A list of the winners can be found here and a complete list of the finalists can be found here.Posted on October 30, 2005
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Ig Nobel Prizes Recognize Unusual Achievements
The Pleasant Morning Buzz has a list of this year's Ig Nobel winners. Ig Nobels are awarded each year for "achievements that cannot or should not be reproduced." Most of the categories are science-related, like the chemistry award that went to two scientists for "conducting an experiment to determine whether people swim faster in syrup or in water." The Ig Nobel also gave the following literature award.Literature: Award to the Nigerian email writers for creating "a bold series of short stories, thus introducing millions of readers to a cast of rich characters -- General Sani Abacha, Mrs. Mariam Sanni Abacha, Barrister Jon A Mbeki Esq., and others -- each of whom requires just a small amount of expense money so as to obtain access to the great wealth to which they are entitled and which they would like to share with the kind person who assists them."
Posted on October 10, 2005
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The Best Bad Writing
Writer's Blog reports that the winner of the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for bad writing has been announced.By comparing his love's anatomy to the carburetor of his car, Dan McKay, a computer analyst at Microsoft Great Plains in Fargo, North Dakota, won this year's contest, beating out thousands of other dreadful entries.More information about the contest can be found on the contest's website.
Posted on August 1, 2005
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2005 BET Award Winners Announced
The winners of the he 2005 BET Awards have been announced.
This webpage on BET.com includes photographs from the live show
which was hosted by Will Smith and his wife, actress Jada Pinkett Smith.
Here is a list of this year's winners:
Posted on July 15, 2005
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2005 AltWeekly Awards Winners Announced
The winners of the 2005 AltWeekly Awards Winners Announced have been announced. The awards are given to alternative newspapers by the Association of Alternative Newspapers. The L.A. Weekly won the most awards with four. Four other papers each won first in two categories each: The Chicago Reader, Folio Weekly in Jacksonville, Fla., Jackson Free Press and Orlando Weekly. A complete list of the award winners can be found here.Posted on June 22, 2005
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2005 Freedom Blog Awards Announced
The 2005 Freedom Blog Awards have been announced by Reporters Without Borders. Below is a list of the winners. Bloggers Blog has more information about this award.Posted on June 19, 2005
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Common Sense Media Winners Announced
Common Sense Media, a non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to improving kids' media lives, has announced the winners of the 2005 Common Sense Media Winners. Here are the 2005 Common Sense Media Winners.2005 Common Sense Media Losers, The Golden Garbage Can Awards:
Posted on May 27, 2005
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Morning News Announces Online Excellence Award Winners
The Morning News has announced the winners of the 2005 Editors' Awards for Online Excellence. The awards include a several unusual categories. Here is a list of a few of the winners:Posted on May 20, 2005
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Writers Write, Inc. Launches PleasantMorningBuzz.com
Writers Write, Inc., the parent company of AwardWinnersBlog.com, has announced the launch of the newest Blog in our Network: Pleasant Morning Buzz. Pleasant Morning Buzz features light-hearted commentary about current events and items of interest.Posted on May 13, 2005
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Steve Martin Wins Mark Twain Prize
The Kennedy Center has named Steve Martin as the winner of this year's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Steve Martin issued the following statement about winning the prize: "I think Mark Twain is a great guy and I can't wait to meet him." The Washington Post has more information including a profile of Steve Martin's long career in acting and comedy.Posted on May 12, 2005
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James Beard Award Winners Named
The nominees for the 2005 James Beard Foundation Awards were announced on
Wednesday, April 6, 2005. A few of the winners are listed below and
a complete list of the winners is available here.
Posted on May 9, 2005
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Webby Award Winners Announced
The winners of this year's Webby Awards have been announced. There are dozens of Webby categories and each category has a Webby Award Winner and a People's Voice Winner. Google.com won the Webby and People's Voice awards in the Best Practices category. Below are a few of this year's Webby Award winners. A complete list of the winners in all 60+ categories can be found here.The Webby Lifetime Achievement Award: Former Vice President Al Gore
Webby Person of the Year: Craig Newmark of craigslist
The Webby Artist of the Year: The Kleptones
The Webby Breakout of the Year Award: Flickr
Best Use of Sound: Spacesounds.com
Celebrity Website: Jamie Oliver website
Community: Dogster
Health: The Merck Manual -- Second Home Edition Online
Magazine: AlterNet.org
Sports: WhatIfSports
Weird: Rathergood.com
Posted on May 5, 2005
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National Magazine Award Winners Announced
Winners of the annual The National Magazine Awards have been announced. The Awards were established by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) in 1966.In the General Excellence category the winners were Print Magazine, Dwell Magazine, Martha Stewart Weddings, Wired, The New Yorker and Glamour. In the Fiction category the winner was The Atlantic Monthly. And Style.com won for General Excellence Online. A complete list of the winners (which includes several other categories) can be found here.Posted on May 2, 2005
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Webby Award Nominees Announced
The nominees for the annual Webby Awards have been announced. Here is a list of nominees. The Webby Awards offers awards in over 60 categories including Best Navigation, Consumer Electronics, Education and Youth. The 9th Annual Webby Awards will take place in New York City on Monday, June 6, 2005, marking the first time the awards will be held outside their San Francisco birthplace, organizers announced today. Winners will be announced on May 3, 2005. That is the Webby Award pictured on the right. A complete list of the nominees can be found here.Posted on April 18, 2005
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Several Journalism Awards Recently Announced
Several journalism-related awards have recently been announced. The winners of the 64th annual Peabody Awards include Grant Tinker, who received an Individual Peabody, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart's "Indecision 2004," as well as first-ever awards to CNBC, TRIO, Link TV and Univision. Multiple citations were awarded to HBO, Cinemax, BBC America and New York's WNYC Radio. Information about the winners can be found here. The 2005 Payne Awards for Ethics in Journalism will honor The Denver Post, freelance journalist Kevin Sites, and Arizona State’s independent student newspaper The State Press. The Jefferson Muzzles were also recently announced. The Jefferson Muzzles are given to organizations and people who in the past year forgot or disregarded Mr. Jefferson's admonition that freedom of speech "cannot be limited without being lost." Winners included The FCC, NASCAR, the Democratic and Republican National Parties, and The (Motion Picture) Classification and Rating Administration. A list of Jefferson Muzzle winners can be found here.Posted on April 14, 2005
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Search Engine Watch Award Winners Announced
The winners of the 5th Annual Search Engine Watch Awards have been announced. The winners by category are as follows:Posted on April 11, 2005
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National Journalism Award Winners Announced
The Write News reports that The Scripps Howard Foundation has announced the winners of its annual National Journalism Awards, honoring the best in print, Web and electronic journalism and journalism education for 2004. Some of the award winners were: Los Angeles Times (Investigative Reporting); The Hartford Courant (Public Service Reporting); Randy Bergmann, Asbury Park Press (Editorial Writing); Connie Schultz, The Plain Dealer (Commentary); Davan Maharaj, Los Angeles Times (Human Interest) DallasNews.com (Web Reporting). WriteNews.com has a complete list of the winners.Posted on April 6, 2005
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2005 Pulitzer Prizes Winners Announced
The 2005 Pulitzer Prizes have been announced.
More than 2,000 entries are submitted each year in the Pulitzer Prize
competitions, and only 21 awards are normally made. The awards are the
culmination of a year-long process that begins early in the year with
the appointment of 102 distinguished judges who serve on 20 separate
juries and are asked to make three nominations in each of the 21
categories. A list of the winners can be found below.
The Pulitzer Prize website offers more information about each award and each individual award winner.
Posted on April 5, 2005
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National Magazine Award Finalists Announced
The finalists for the Ellie awards have been announced. The Ellies are awards given to magazines by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME). For the eighth consecutive year, The New Yorker leads the list of 111 finalists, from 69 print and online magazines, with a total of ten nominations in nine categories. Nineteen other titles received multiple nominations: Vanity Fair (7), The Atlantic Monthly (5), Details (3), Esquire (3), Fortune (3), Gourmet (3), New York (3), Sports Illustrated (3), 5280 (2), The Chronicle of Higher Education (2), GQ (2), Harper's Magazine (2), Kids: Fun Stuff To Do Together (2), Los Angeles Magazine (2), National Geographic (2), National Geographic Adventure (2), Newsweek (2), Print (2) Runner's World (2), and The Virginia Quarterly Review (2). A complete list of the nominees can be found here.Posted on March 30, 2005
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The Nineteenth Genesis Award Winners Announced
The annual Genesis Awards pay tribute to the major news and entertainment media for producing outstanding works that raise public awareness of animal-protection issues. Recipients are honored in a wide range of categories for covering emerging issues, or bringing a fresh perspective to long-standing ones. The awards are given by the Humane Society of the United States.The Nineteenth Genesis Award Winners
Posted on March 26, 2005
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2005 Bloggies Awarded
The winners of the 2005 Bloggies have been announced. The annual awards are given to weblogs in various categories and regions. The blog Dooce won four awards including the categories Best American Weblog, Best Tagline, Best Humorous Weblog and Best Writing. Defamer won two awards including Best Entertainment Weblog and PlasticBag.org won in the Best British or Irish Weblog category and PlasticBag.org Tom Coates won the Lifetime Achievement. The Weblog of the Year went to the Boing Boing weblog, which also won the award last year. BloggersBlog.com has a complete list of the winners.Posted on March 15, 2005
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The Week Names Opinion Award Winners
The Week, a news and opinion magazine, has named the winners for its second annual Opinion Awards in the categories of Columnist of the Year, Single Issue Advocate of the Year, Editorial Cartoonist of the Year and Blogger of the Year. Here are the winners:Posted on March 11, 2005
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Life & Style Weekly Launch of 2004
Dr. Samir A. Husni, also known as Mr. Magazine, follows the magazine industry and reports on magazine launches. He has just selected Life & Style Weekly as the top magazine launched in 2004. About Life & Style Weekly, Husni says, "It clues you in on the latest news and events featuring your favorite stars. There's even content for the reader who longs to know where their favorite celebrities spend nights dining out. Who would have thought that Debra Messing actually drags her own trash can back up the driveway? Literally, anything you could possibly hope to know about celebrities can be found in Life & Style Weekly. And, literally, Life & Style Weekly marches on its way, wearing the celebrities' shoes, to the top of the class of 2004 -- making it the Launch of the Year."Posted on February 26, 2005
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Wired Names Rave Award Winners
Wired has announced the winners of its 2005 Rave Awards. These awards are given to people who Wired says are "reinventing TV and technology, music and medicine, buildings, books, and blogs. They're 15 mavericks and dreamers." In Film, the winner was Brad Bird, who is up for two Oscars for the hit animated action film, The Incredibles. And in Blogs the winner was Kevin Sites, the journalist who has been up-close to the fighting in Iraq. Other categories included Books (Winner: Jeff Hawkins for On Intelligence), Games (Winner: Pete Parsons & the Bungie Crew for Halo 2), Television (Winner: Blair Harrison for iFilm) and Music (Winner: Danger Mouse). Here is a complete list of the Rave Award winners.Posted on February 25, 2005
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Koufax Blog Award Winners Announced
The Koufax Awards for weblogs have been announced. The main winners were Daily Kos in the Best Blog, non-sponsored category and Talking Points Memo in Best Blog (Pro-Division). Professor Juan Cole, author of Informed Comment, won in the Best Post category. BloggersBlog.com has more details.Posted on February 24, 2005
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57th Annual Writers Guild Awards
The Writer's Guild of America has anounced the winners of the 57th Annual Writers Guild Awards. Some of the winners included: Charlie Kaufman for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Original Screenplay); Guiding Light (Daytime Series); Debora Cahn for "The Supremes" The West Wing (Episodic Drama) and Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor for Sideways (Adapted Screenplay). Click here for a complete list of the winners. The Writer's Blog also has an entry on the WGA awards.Posted on February 22, 2005
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