Foreign Policy Blog Honored as Industry’s Best
Passport Receives Best of the Web Award
Contact: Lynn Newhouse / phone: (202) 939-2248 / e-mail: Lynn.Newhouse@ForeignPolicy.com
Contact: Lynn Newhouse / phone: (202) 939-2248 / e-mail: Lynn.Newhouse@ForeignPolicy.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 15, 2008, Washington, D.C.
Passport, a blog written by the editors of Foreign Policy magazine, won top honors Monday at the Best of the Web Awards luncheon presented by Media Industry Newsletter (min). Presented annually, mins Best of the Web Awards recognize leaders in consumer and business-to-business online magazine publishing and are among the industrys highest honors in the digital medium.
Announcing the award yesterday in New York City, min’s Vice President Diane Schwartz and Digital Media Editor Steve Smith wrote, Foreign Policys editors have evolved the blog format into a whole new level of online publishing. A bimonthly print publication becomes a real-time, go-to destination for any serious newshound, policy wonk, or concerned world citizen FP brings the weight of its expertise and connection[s] into a format that elsewhere is known as drive-by opinion … By pulling together a thoughtful encounter with breaking news, using the context and expertise of its editors, Passport feels like an executive briefing. Here we have a magazine brand not only transforming a new digital platform, but also using that platform to transform its own brand.
Passport was among six blogs named as finalists for the award, including New York magazines Vulture, Entertainment Weeklys PopWatch, PC Magazines GoodCleanTech, Varietys Scribe, and Bravo TVs group of blogs. The awards were judged by a panel of distinguished new-media experts and the staff of min.
In reaction to the award, Foreign Policy Editor in Chief Moiss Nam said, We are honored that the work of FPs staff has been recognized by its peers. We believe Passport occupies an important and unique place between the daily-news content providers and the often unreliable world of armchair-analyst blogging. Passport was launched with the same commitment to editorial excellence that shapes our award-winning flagship print magazine and our online home, ForeignPolicy.com, and we remain dedicated to that endeavor.
For more information on the Best of the Web Awards, visit: www.minonline.com/awards/bestofweb
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