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Guardian triumphs at music journalism awards
09:20 | Friday November 28, 2008
The Guardian and the Observer won five gongs at last night’s 2008 Record Of The Day Awards for Music Journalism and PR, while Word was named magazine of the year.
Observer Music Monthly’s editor Caspar Llewellyn-Smith picked up editor of the year award for the second year running; The Guardian won best music coverage in a national newspaper and best podcast; Guardian journalist Alexis Petridis was named record reviews writer of the year and the Observer’s Kitty Empire won live reviews writer of the year.
Other winners at the awards, which took place at the Conway Hall in London, included Dog Day Press, who were awarded best independent PR company, and Polydor, who won best in-house PR department.
Jon Savage receiving the outstanding contribution to music journalism award, MBC PR co-founder Barbara Charone won the outstanding contribution to music PR awards and Pennie Smith received the outstanding contribution to music photography award.
The full list of the 2008 Record of the Day Award winners is as follows:
Live Reviews: writer of the year
Winner: Kitty Empire – The Observer
Best PR campaign for a breakthrough UK Act
Winner: Tony Linkin at Coalition PR for Glasvegas
Best PR campaign for an established UK Act
Winner: Lewis Jamieson at Hall Or Nothing PR for Elbow
Record Reviews Writer of the Year
Winner: Alexis Petridis – The Guardian
Best Music Coverage in a Newspaper
Winner: The Guardian
Business and Technology Writer of the Year
Winner: Ben Cardew – Music Week
Best PR campaign for an established non-UK Act
Winner: James Hopkins at Columbia Records for Kings of Leon
Best PR Campaign for a Breakthrough Non-UK Act
Winner: Ash Collins at Toast PR for MGMT
Best Podcast:
Winner: Guardian Music Weekly
Best Editor
Winner: Caspar Llewellyn Smith – Observer Music Monthly
Best Independent PR Company
Winner: Dog Day Press
Best Independent PR individual
Winner: Nathan Beazer at Dog Day Press
Best Digital Publication
Winner: NME.COM
Best in-house PR person
Winner: Andy Prevezer at Warner Bros Records
Best In-House PR department
Winner: Polydor Records
Artist and Music Features: Writer of The Year
Winner: Simon Cosyns and Jacqui Swift – The Sun, Something for the Weekend
Breaking Music Writer
Winner: Paul Lester
Magazine of the Year
Winner: Word
Best Blog
Winner: 20 Jazz Funk Greats
Best Online PR:
Winner: Scruffy Bird
Outstanding contribution to music journalism: Jon Savage
Outstanding contribution to PR: Barbara Charone – MBC PR
Outstanding contribution to music photography: Pennie Smith
Readers' comments
Paul Lester is a Guardian writer too, no? How boring. I like the Guardian and OMM's coverage, sure, but such an overwhelming victory in almost every category that matters does a disservice to all the other very good->great music journalism in the UK these days. This is just like Q giving Coldplay a bunch of awards for being Coldplay.