BEST HEADLINES: Succinct mini-summaries that convey the story's action/most important information as well as the stance of the writer.
Liann Harris' Andy Dick Adds "Arrested Development" To His "Almost" Repertoire
Aly Tharp's Bird Cults Committing Mass Suicides in Three States
Laura Massey's Fried Armadillo, Your New Favorite…
Runners-Up: Evan Harper's How Do You Help An Addict In Handcuffs?
Marian Field's President Obama Declares Democracy To Be The Key Ingredient To A Sweeter Africa
Honorable Mention: Nikhil Patel's Blizzard Infested Traveling - Go To New York, You Stay In New York
BEST NEWS ROUND-UP: Summarized news items succinctly and well while picking ones that deal specifically with their topic.
Brittany Lafollett's Feast On This: Good use of colored bolded links to anchor the items and great summaries, though her "horse meat" image was a little hard to read.
Evan Harper's Noir Round Up: Who knew there was so much current news about the noir genre?
Maxon Foster-McAlpine's AUX CALL PRESS SELECT: I don't get the headline at all, but he's really working a bunch of different sources from his Google Reader feeds and the blog's new easier-to-see purple links help anchor his news items.
Runner-Up: James Eastman's The Dub Files - A News Round Up - I'm not crazy about the large photos, or numbering but the images are hilarious and yet again a great link collection on a very specialized topic that leads to different sites.
BEST COMMENTARY: Makes an original argument using the blogger's first-hand knowledge to further their argument.
Amy Harvey's Skinning A Squeaker For A Sombrero - Amy spins a great argument against animal cruelty laws from a weird new's story that could have upstaged a less clever writer.
Sammie Le's K-Pop or K-Pedophilia? - Sammie continues to show her promise by unapologetically suggesting that only pedophiles would like shitty music made by kids.
Evan Harper's How Do You Help An Addict In Handcuffs? - Evan uses his knowledge of addiction to criticize a new approach to criminal drug rehabilitation. His ideas on what should be done (and some passive voice editing) would have strengthened his piece even more.
Runner-Up: Daniel Mikelonis' Hopes Risen Overall for the Future but Dashed Today Thai Plastic Surgeons - Horrible headline, but a very funny story with (GASP!) original reporting. Very cool.
Honorable Mention: Katherine Bosler's Who wants to win the lottery? - Though the headline hardly doesn't work as a summary, she does make a good argument that a Swedish program rewarding safe drivers may not be the best use of money.
BEST VOICE: Engaging, conversational, informative, never boring, and with almost no passive voice.
Brittany Lafollett's Playing Ketchup: Funny, vulnerable, a great story and gives a great sense of what she'll be covering and (more importantly) why it matters.
Maxon Foster-McAlpine's Harmonix Suffers Headshot By Being Bought Out For Only $49.99: If you've ever wanted to hear a gamer shit-talk about business news, this is a great place to start.
Honorable Mention: Aly Tharp's Bird Cults Committing Mass Suicides in Three States - it starts off strong, though the extended cult metaphor starts to get muddled at the end.
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