Highlights From The Sidney Hillman Foundation Journalism Awards
By on May 28th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Highlights From The Sidney Hillman Foundation Journalism Awards
Last night, ThinkProgress accepted the journalism award for Best Blog from the Sidney Hillman Foundation. The event was held at the Millennium Broadway Hotel in Manhattan, where we were honored to share the stage with the other award recipients, including PBS’s Bill Moyers, Los Angeles Times photojournalist Luis Sinco, and the Writers Guild of America.
The New Yorker’s Hendrik Hertzberg presented ThinkProgress’s Faiz Shakir and Amanda Terkel with the award, who received it on behalf of the team. Afterward, Faiz gave a speech about the importance of blogs in challenging those in power. Watch it (two parts):
Below are a few photos from the evening:
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Woo hoo!! Thanks, Faiz & crew!
May 28th, 2008 at 8:31 pmCongratulations and thank you all.And you know you are doing something right when you get under insHannity’s and loofa-boys skin. Keep up the good work!
May 28th, 2008 at 8:41 pmCongratulations to the entire TP crew for an work well done and an award well earned.
May 28th, 2008 at 8:45 pmGreat work Faiz, Amanda and staff.
You should all be proud!
May 28th, 2008 at 8:51 pmKudos for getting the recognition you so richly deserve!
I am very proud to be a member of this community.
Thank you again for all your efforts.
May 28th, 2008 at 8:53 pmCongrats to you all! Maybe Faiz should send BillO the youtube video as a way of thank you for the Blowhard’s criticism about this website. ;-)
May 28th, 2008 at 8:56 pmNice speech, Faiz. You have a great team. :)
May 28th, 2008 at 8:57 pmIt was also nice to put faces with names and see Faiz speak.He’s not excactly the librul monster that beck,loofa,inshannity,ect. makes him out to be. He can get his point across without spitting,shouting and acting like a bufoon.
May 28th, 2008 at 8:58 pmCongrats!!! Everyone!!!
[except the trolls]
May 28th, 2008 at 8:58 pmCongrats to all.
May 28th, 2008 at 8:58 pmI hope you guys are enjoying the party by now!
May 28th, 2008 at 9:02 pmHIGH FIVE?
(That’s me channeling Borat.)
May 28th, 2008 at 9:03 pmWhen asked to comment, Think Progress Watch had “no comment”
Best-
May 28th, 2008 at 9:10 pmThank you for your continued efforts to bring all of us the latest news. There is no one that deserves this award more than all of you. The candid progressive blog you have created is a hallmark to your honesty and integrity. This is a shining example of what true journalism should be.
May 28th, 2008 at 9:15 pmdbadass Says:
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When asked to comment, Think Progress Watch had “no comment”
Best-
Yea,but twajie just got back from his trip to Cabo. He saved up his crack money and even got a couple of “working girls”to pose with him. Man,he’s pathetic.
May 28th, 2008 at 9:35 pmCongrats! Great job and well deserved.
(…Ali is hot)
May 28th, 2008 at 9:45 pmCongratulations , you have done an enormous service to the country and served notice to the propaganda mouthpiece of the MSM !
May 28th, 2008 at 9:54 pmYou shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free, man.
ps…. that goes for the ladies too .
You guys and gals are the greatest. Congratulations for winning the award. Well deserved.
Thanks for your dedication to an important job.
May 28th, 2008 at 10:41 pmCongratulations to the Think Progress crew. I visit your site every day. You are the best blog in America (with C&L and infowars). Keep up the great work. Americans like me depend upon you for the real and straight news.
It’s hard to believe, but Think Progress have more credibility than all the mass media put together.
Praise the internet! We must never let the government or Zionists try to censor the internet. To free men and women everywhere, it has become as important to our survival as anything.
You deserve a good drunk for your great work.
May 29th, 2008 at 1:30 amIt’s nice. I never cease to be amazed at the nonsensical subtext that US chatter attaches to the word “liberal.” I don’t find it a useful word : I never did. But to smear people as “liberals” in fact is a way of smearing them as “reds under the bed” – nothing less. Since it’s encrypted, anyone stupid enough to try to defend themselves as a “left liberal” and claim equal legitimacy with “right liberals” is logically correct but still merely digging their own grave deeper. I traced the mythology of this back to a great quote I found on wikipedia last week:
In 1955, Dean Russell wrote an article pondering what to call those, such as himself, who subscribed to the classical liberal philosophy of individualism and self-responsibility. He said
Many of us call ourselves “liberals,” and it is true that the word “liberal” once described persons who respected the individual and feared the use of mass compulsions. But the leftists have now corrupted that once-proud term to identify themselves and their program of more government ownership of property and more controls over persons. As a result, those of us who believe in freedom must explain that when we call ourselves liberals, we mean liberals in the uncorrupted classical sense. At best, this is awkward, subject to misunderstanding. Here is a suggestion : let those of us who love liberty trademark and reserve for our own use the good and honorable word “libertarian.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism
– my own response to this is to say that these “libertarians” should henceforth be referred to as “Lockean conservatives,” which would distinguish them from the more pro-government sort of conservative, which I shall call the “Burkean conservative.” Thus, we free up the field from all the stray references to “liberalism,” once and for all, and forget the word, which no longer has any useful meaning at all.
May 29th, 2008 at 1:36 amKeep up the good work TP staff !!
_AIO_
May 29th, 2008 at 4:14 amMy compliments to the Think Progress Staff, plus the regular commenters that make this site my favorite to read “At Work”. Also Wordpress for the ease with which I navigate this site (and The Zoo) on my mobile phone. As Young Mr. Grace would say, “You’ve all done very well!”
May 29th, 2008 at 5:05 amCongrats, everyone. Well deserved.
May 29th, 2008 at 8:36 amGood going guys!
You are one of the few things holding our republic together.
May 29th, 2008 at 8:38 amCongrats guys, this is so well deserved! And special congrats to Matt, way to use that IC degree!!
May 29th, 2008 at 9:21 amWell done. Great website. The new format is better and the amount of material you present is incredible; especially considering the size of the staff.
Nice work. Congratulations.
May 29th, 2008 at 11:17 am