AltWeekly Awards
2008 Investigative Reporting Below 55,000
1st Place: Hidden in Plain Sight (PDF) by Nate Blakeslee , The Texas Observer
2nd Place: The Loop, MLGW Networx: Keeping Us in the Dark?, Will the City Council Get the Real Story? Will Anyone?, Networx Down and Unplugged
by Chris Davis
,
The Memphis Flyer
3rd Place: Hot and Soured, Official Reactions Mixed on Allegations of Minimum-wage, Building-Code Violations and State Cracks Down on Burlington-Area Chinese Restaurant Owners
by Ken Picard
,
Seven Days
Honorable Mention: Sluggish Response to Suicide, Punish the Mentally Ill!, Prisoners as Commodities, Prisoner Gagged, Maine Prison Bosses Violate Court Orders, Press Behind Bars, Mentally Ill Inmate Gets Care Despite State's Objections, Stabbed in the Back, Dangerous Waits for Psychiatric Evaluations? and Exiled Maine Prisoners Report Abuse, Danger
by Lance Tapley
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Portland Phoenix
2008 Media Reporting/Criticism Above 55,000
1st Place: Goodbye Baquet, Hello O'Shea, Dangerous Liaisons and Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid by Nikki Finke , L.A. Weekly
2nd Place: The Deluge
by Doron Taussig
,
Philadelphia City Paper
3rd Place: Culture War, Silent Treatment and The Problem with Heroes
by Adam Reilly
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Boston Phoenix
2008 Media Reporting/Criticism Below 55,000
1st Place: All the News Not Fit to Print, That Dog's All Wet and The Canine Ultimatum by Nick Welsh , Santa Barbara Independent
2nd Place: Monetizing Content at The Commercial Appeal
by John Branston
,
The Memphis Flyer
3rd Place: Identity Crisis, Who Really Gored Gore? and Afflict the Afflicted
by Liz Garrigan
,
Nashville Scene
2008 Music Criticism Above 55,000
1st Place: Hot Hot Heat, The Disorientation of Lauryn Hill and The Fey Highwayman by Rob Harvilla , The Village Voice
2nd Place: Freaks Come Out at Night
by Jonathan Cunningham
,
New Times Broward-Palm Beach
3rd Place: Hug Life, People, People, Why are They Fighting? and Half the Man He Used to Be
by Sarah Godfrey
,
Washington City Paper
Honorable Mention: Forgiving the Past Through Elliott Smith, It's So Easy Being Green and Jack Kerouac's Writing is Still Influential for Rock Icons 50 Years After On the Road
by Jennifer Maerz
,
SF Weekly
2008 Music Criticism Below 55,000
1st Place: The Unbearable Lightness of Paul (PDF), Police Report (PDF) and Haley's Comet (PDF) by Gilbert Garcia , San Antonio Current
2nd Place: It's a Rap, Bad-Vibe Bands and Johnny Cash's Block Party
by Chris Herrington
,
The Memphis Flyer
3rd Place: Weird Sisters (PDF), Melancholy Man (PDF) and The Feminine Mystique (PDF)
by Rene Spencer Saller
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Illinois Times
2008 News Story-Long Form Above 55,000
1st Place: The Punisher and A Thumb on the Scales by Alan Prendergast , Westword
2nd Place: Not Hiring
by David Martin
,
The Pitch
3rd Place: The End of Murder
by David Zahniser
,
L.A. Weekly
