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Best Defense wins National Magazine Award

By Joshua Keating Best Defense chief awards correspondent and hype man Tom was unable to post today because of some rare technical difficulties, but in his absence we got some great news here at FP world headquarters.  The Best Defense has won the 2010 Digitial National Magazine award for best blog! The photo on the ...

By , a former associate editor at Foreign Policy.
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By Joshua Keating
Best Defense chief awards correspondent and hype man

By Joshua Keating
Best Defense chief awards correspondent and hype man

Tom was unable to post today because of some rare technical difficulties, but in his absence we got some great news here at FP world headquarters.  The Best Defense has won the 2010 Digitial National Magazine award for best blog!

The photo on the left, taken just moments ago, shows the “Ellie” en route back to Washington in the victorious grip of Executive Editor Susan Glasser. 

Congratulations to Tom as well as the incredible community of readers who’ve helped make this blog a must-read. 

Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating

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