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LI Now wins Best News Blog PCLI award

June 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment

I’m proud to share that my newsday.com/towns team won first place for Best New Blog at the 2011 Press Club of Long Island Media Awards dinner on June 9.

Contributors to the blog, Long Island Now, during 2010, which is when the blog posts we submitted ran, included Erin Geismar, T.C. McCarthy and Josh Stewart, as well as Long Island Desk reporters such as Patrick Whittle.

The recognition tells us we’re going in the right direction with our aim to deliver creative, compelling community news content with a multimedia bent. From stand-up videos from the field sent from our mobile devices, to effectively using social media to share and solicit information, to great writing and video storytelling, we’ve done it all.

And, best of all, we’re having fun doing it.

Thanks to our editors for giving us the freedom to try anything we’ve thrown at them.

Here’s PCLI’s complete list of winners.

Carl Corry, Erin Geismar, T.C. McCarthy and Josh Stewart accept the first-place award for best news blog at the 2011 Press Club of Long Island Media Awards. Photo by Diana DeRosa; courtesy Press Club of Long Island

Here’s Newsday’s press release about all our winners:

 

NEWSDAY AND NEWSDAY.COM RECOGNIZED WITH
27 MEDIA AWARDS BY PRESS CLUB OF LONG ISLAND

Newsday Reporter Sandra Peddie Named
2011 Outstanding Long Island Journalist by Press Club of Long Island


Melville, NY, June 10, 2011 – Newsday and newsday.com have been honored with a total of 27 media awards by the Press Club of Long Island (PCLI). The awards were presented at PCLI’s annual Media Awards Dinner on June 9, 2011 at the Woodbury Country Club.

Newsday investigative reporter Sandra Peddie was named PCLI’s 2011 Outstanding Long Island Journalist, PCLI’s highest individual honor. The award was presented to Peddie for her ongoing, tenacious investigative reporting. Over the years, Peddie’s ground-breaking work has exposed numerous legislative and policy issues affecting the people of Long Island.

“Newsday is extremely proud of all of our finalists and winners, and we want to thank the Press Club of Long Island for recognizing our achievements,” said Debby Krenek, Editor of Newsday. “These awards are a tribute to our newsroom’s commitment to journalistic excellence and delivering the information that matters most to the people of Long Island.”

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Pinned: The 40/40 awards dinner

February 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment

I got my pin, so it’s official. I’m now part of the pantheon that is the 40 under 40 alumni.

The awards dinner on Jan. 28 at the Crest Hollow Country Club turned out to be a homecoming of sorts. A reunion with friends, old colleagues and business buds I hadn’t seen in a long time. It was also a venue to introduce my family to many of the people I had spoken of over the years who they otherwise would not have had the opportunity to meet.

Of course, everyone wanted to meet my mother (let’s not go there).

Thanks to everyone who has offered their congratulations. It’s been a hoot.

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40 under 40 Class of 2010: I’m in!

December 1, 2009 By 1 Comment

As editor of Long Island Business News, I watched for years as professionals across all fields, all of whom had packed together lifetimes of achievements in less than four decades, were singled out by the paper as 40 people under 40 most likely to bear the torches of  Long Island leaders past and present.

Once named to the 40 under 40, awardees are almost expected to take ownership of the region’s future and push it in the right direction. Take a look at the list of previous honorees and you’ll see that many have embraced that challenge.

In my years at LIBN, I had quietly hoped that one day I would do enough good, help enough people and display enough promise to have my name even be considered by the selection committee.

With my name thrown in by an amazing friend, this year they considered me. And to my utter surprised, I was selected to be in the Class of 2010.

I’m still having a hard time believing it’s true, in large part because I don’t feel equal to the honor. But as it sinks in, I’m reminded of the mentors,  friends and colleagues who have at times encouraged and cajoled me into action, and at times advised restraint when necessary. The list is long, but they include my parents and grandparents, best bud Dominick  Miserandino, Stony Brook Journalism School Undergraduate Director and former Newsday columnist Paul Schreiber, LIBN Publisher John Kominicki, Energeia Partnership leaders Paul Tonna and Nancy Englehardt and my Class of 2007 colleagues,  and Press Club of Long Island board members over the last 10 years.

But most of all, I thank my wife, Angela, whose love and support has been unwavering and whose patience as I’ve thrown out crazy ideas and spent many nights away on causes dear to me is, remarkably, still intact.

Thank you all.  I”ll do my best to continue striving to live up to your examples.

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Introducing Dominick Miserandino

June 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment

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3rd place for Interactive’s election blog

June 4, 2009 By Leave a Comment

News 12 Interactive’s 2008 live election night blog took home a third place PCLI Media Award at the Press Club of Long Island’s annual awards dinner on June 4.

The blog was done by staffers at four election headquarters across Long Island. Each producer was given a Flip cam and a laptop, and in four hours, we produced nine raw videos and about 30 quality posts. We also had a producer at headquarters firing off Twitter updates throughout the night.

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