Spent the weekend in Washington, DC, and last night I had the honor of picking up Campaign Desk's award from the National Press Club (honorable mention for outstanding contribution to online journalism). Considering the number of awards they were handing out, it was an impressively well-run affair; they gave everyone time to thank who they wanted to thank, but didn't tell anyone in advance they were going to be able to, which kept the speeches to whatever people could come with off the cuff (a pretty good approach, I think).
Here's the dispatch I filed for the lovely and charming Wendi Kaufman over at The Happy Booker:
Posted by bkeefer at July 19, 2005 07:50 PMThe crowd wasn't as fashionable as the Academy Awards, but the speeches were a lot shorter. (All told, they handed out about two dozen awards in the space of about an hour and a half of presentations.) Lots of journo-lebrities, though apparently Bill Keller of the New York Times was stuck on the runway at LaGuardia and couldn't make it. And I don't think I saw a BlackBerry in use during the entire ceremony, which has to be some sort of etiquette record for the profession.