RadarOnline Named Entertainment Website of the Year by National Entertainment Journalism Awards
Senior Executive Editor, Dylan Howard Named Entertainment Journalist of the Year
NEW YORK, Nov. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Los Angeles Press Club last night announced the winners of the 4th Annual National Entertainment Journalism Awards, and American Media, Inc.'s RadarOnline received top honors. RadarOnline was awarded the title of Entertainment Website of the Year and Dylan Howard, Senior Executive Editor, was named Entertainment Journalist of the Year.
The Los Angeles Press Club supports and promotes quality journalism and the organization's National Entertainment Journalism Awards recognize the finest work from US-based entertainment reporters and editors in all media–print, radio, TV, and online.
RadarOnline is dedicated to providing 24/7 coverage, breaking more celebrity news stories than any other site in the category. The website has repeatedly scooped the competition on some of the biggest stories, including exclusive gets surrounding the ongoing scandals involving Charlie Sheen, Tiger Woods, Lindsay Lohan and the famous taped rants of Mel Gibson.
"This is a great honor for RadarOnline and AMI," said Executive Vice President and Managing Editor of RadarOnline, David Perel. "We are thrilled to be recognized as the Best Entertainment Website by such a prestigious organization. This is a testament to the immense talent and hard work of everyone at the site. We are all particularly proud of Dylan Howard whose reporting and editing skills are unparalleled."
The RadarOnline team placed second in the Investigative Reporting category and received honorable mention for Best Use of Video. Other nominations for Radar included, Best Online News for the story titled "Lindsay Lohan Legal Troubles" as well as for the joint investigation with its sister publication, Star magazine, on "Power, Politics & Money! Mother of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Love Child Revealed."
Additionally, Dylan Howard and his team were nominated for Best TV News for two notable stories: "Charlie Sheen Uncensored" and "Oksana Grigorieva Breaks her Silence."
About American Media, Inc.
American Media, Inc. owns and operates the leading print and digital celebrity and health and fitness media brands in the United States. AMI's titles include Star, OK!, National Enquirer, Globe, Country Weekly, Soap Opera Digest, Soap Opera Weekly, Pixie, Shape, Men's Fitness, Muscle & Fitness, Flex, Muscle & Fitness Hers, Fit Pregnancy and Natural Health. AMI also manages 18 different digital sites including RadarOnline.com, OKmagazine.com, Shape.com, MensFitness.com, MuscleandFitness.com and FitPregnancy.com. AMI's magazines have a combined total circulation of almost 7 million and reach more than 55 million men and women each month. AMI's digital properties reach an average of 10 million unique visitors and 80 million page views monthly.
AMI also operates a Publishing Services business unit which includes Distribution Services, Inc. (DSI), the No. 1 in-store magazine sales and merchandising marketing company in the U.S. and Canada. DSI places and monitors AMI's publications and third-party publications to ensure proper displays in major retail chains and national and regional supermarket chains. DSI also provides marketing, merchandising and information gathering services to third parties including non-magazine clients. Publishing Services also provides print and digital advertising sales and strategic management direction in the following areas: manufacturing, subscription circulation, logistics, event marketing and full back office financial functions. Playboy is one of many publishers who have taken advantage of these additional services.
SOURCE American Media, Inc.
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