Blogging awards
| 16:15 UK time, Thursday, 29 November 2007
I wrote here recently about the launch of the tenth in our series of correspondent's blogs and looked back at how they've developed into a key element in our journalism.
This week I was delighted to hear that two of our bloggers have won awards. Robert Peston won the digital media category of the BVCA Private Equity & Venture Capitalist Journalist of the Year Awards for his work on Peston's Picks (more details ), while Nick Robinson was the recipient of the 's 'political journalist of the year' award. The judges commented on the "clarity and verve" of his political coverage, his ability to "convey accurately and concisely key political and electoral developments", and commended his Newslog for encouraging "lively political debate".
Both Robert and Nick have been blogging particularly energetically of late, as they have chronicled the Northern Rock and Labour donations stories, and the recognition is very well earned.
Comments
Mark Mardell was robbed !!!!
Well done to both Robert and Nick. Both their blogs are excellent and they thoroughly deserved their awards.
Perhaps your website techies could try a bit harder to win an award though: about half the time I try to contribute to their blog comments I receive an error message and my comment never appears.
You've missed a trick by not naming Justin Webb's blog "Webbblog". Open net, innit?
Well done to both Robert and Nick. Both their blogs are excellent and they thoroughly deserved their awards.
Perhaps your website techies could try a bit harder to win an award though: about half the time I try to contribute to their blog comments I receive an error message and my comment never appears.
Excellence in journalism and having a sharp astute eye are what Robert and Nick have constantly shown; so the accolades they receive are richly deserved. But there are so many others who deserve to be recognized as well and who have done the profession proud by their scintillating reports. Let us not forget them.