The year's best producers of short* journalism content
*140 characters or less, on Twitter
The Shorty Awards honors the year's best content producers on Twitter.
The first annual Shorty Awards Ceremony was held on February 11, 2009. Read what the press had to say about it and watch video from the night. Get news about next year's awards and who to follow on Twitter by joining the email list, subscribing to the blog, or following @ShortyNews on Twitter.
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Top nominees in journalism
- #advertising
Top nominees in advertising, sponsored by Porter Novelli@Mariansalzman: Public Relations, PR http://t.co/DfqKIx... via @AddThis Euro RSCG Worldwide PR moves into top 10 #erwwpr - #apps
- #brand
- #business
- #design
- #education
- #entertainment
Top nominees in entertainment, sponsored by Rocketboom@rocketboom: Check out the sneak peak to an all-new comedic web series coming to Rocketboom!
http://bit.ly/8YDn... - #finance
- #food
Top nominees in food, sponsored by Epicurious@epicurious: It's Brussels sprout season! Love 'em as a side but how about as a main? http://ow.ly/35hmI - #green
- #health
- #humor
- #music
Top nominees in music, sponsored by DanceJam@DanceJam: #CheckOut #BostonCeltics #dancing to Wacka Flocka in the locker room! http://bit.ly/axk2... - #newsTop nominees in music, sponsored by DanceJam@DanceJam: #CheckOut #BostonCeltics #dancing to Wacka Flocka in the locker room! http://bit.ly/axk2...
Top nominees in news, sponsored by PR Newswire@prnewswire: Thanks! #FF Happy weekend! : ) @dansturgill @jheineck @kingipapp - #nonprofits
- #personal
- #photography
- #politics
- #science
- #socialmedia
Top nominees in socialmedia, sponsored by PepsiCo@pepsi: Did you love #PepsiRefresh this year? Nominate us for the Mashable Awards for Most Creative Social Good Campaign! http://pep.si/bYy4... ^BP - #sports
- #startups
- #tech
Top nominees in tech, sponsored by KlickableTV@klickabletv: Apologies to anyone trying to upload a photo...we've accidentally disabled it to build some cool new stuff! Email us and get a free PRO acct - #travel
- #videogames
- #weird
- all categories...
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@theREALDvorak
- 40 nominations in #journalism
- 13 nominations in #entertainment
- 2 nominations in #finance
- 1 nomination in #too
I nominate @theREALDvorak for a Shorty Award in #finance #entertainment and #journalism he's just a wealth of information.
I nominate @theREALDvorak for a Shorty Award in #entertainment because he's got "Baditude."
I nominate @theREALDvorak for a Shorty Award in #entertainment because he's the real McCoy.
I nominate @jayrosen_nyu for a Shorty Award in #journalism AND #academia for his insight and analysis into the medium
@ShortyAwardS @jayrosen_nyu for #News; I idolize & aspire to his curmudgeony, gothamite goodness. Also, #Detroit press tweets.
I nominate @jayrosen_nyu in #journalism and/or #media for constantly insightful and thought-provoking comments on the media
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@digidave
- 6 nominations in #startups
- 1 nomination in #journalism
- 1 nomination in #nonprofits
- 1 nomination in #citizenjournalism
I nominate @GRGonzo for a Shorty Award in #journalism because...he does a great job keeping us informed
@shortyawards nominating BW's @stevebaker for a Shorty Award in #journalism b/c he pioneered reporting on Twitter before it was cool :)
I nominate @mattgunn for a Shorty Award in #journalism because nonsensical Twitter prizes warm the cockles.
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@pcornqueen
- 2 nominations in #weird
- 1 nomination in #journalism
- 1 nomination in #egocentric
- 1 nomination in #mostfrequentlymisreadname
@shortyawards @pcornqueen Thanks for the #journalism Shorty Award nomination.
I nominate @pcornqueen for a Shorty Award for #mostfrequentlymisreadname.
Retweeting @shortyawards: @pcornqueen, you were nominated by @perrij3 for a #weird Shorty Award http://bit.ly/bpBU
@shortyawards I'm nominating BW's @heatherlgreen for a Shorty Award in #journalism b/c of coolness like this: http://is.gd/40kp
I nominate @fwstayala for a Shorty Award in #journalism because of her engaging tweets that keep us informed of education news
I nominate @cst_thefixer for a Shorty Award in #Consumernews because she's a great reporter who knows how to help consumers...
I nominate @cst_thefixer for a Shorty Award in #news because...her updates are useful, timely, and sometimes very humorous!
I would like to nominate @cst_thefixer for a #journalism award for being a great source of information