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Blogger Wins Award, Vindication

Talking Points Memo founder captures Polk Award

By Laila Weir,  Newser User

Posted Feb 25, 2008 1:00 PM CST

(Newser) – The blogosphere is rejoicing in the news that “local boy” Joshua Micah Marshall garnered a George Polk Award for legal reporting. Marshall's Talking Points Memo blog is the first Internet-only operation to win the award, and many bloggers see that as validation, reports the New York Times. Marshall won for coverage of the US attorney firings scandal.

And in another vindication, the Justice Department restored Marshall to a mailing list for credentialed journalists, which it removed him from last year. Still, Marshall isn’t a stereotypical blogger. He operates a newsroom in New York with hired reporters, and over the last 7 years has slowly grown his readership and advertising to create a successful business.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales takes part in a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington in this Feb. 27, 2007  file photo. in Washington.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales takes part in a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington in this Feb. 27, 2007 file photo. in Washington.   (Associated Press)
Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales speaks at the University of Florida's Phillips Center, Nov.19, 2007, in Gainesville, Fla.  Gonzales, who resigned under fire two months ago from the Justice Department, was booed, heckled and called a criminal and a liar by students while giving the speech.    (AP...
Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales speaks at the University of Florida's Phillips Center, Nov.19, 2007, in Gainesville, Fla. Gonzales, who resigned under fire two months ago from the Justice...   (Associated Press)
Eighth grader Eyck Freymann updates his blog as he poses for a photograph in his home in New York, Friday Feb. 8, 2008.  Freymann blogs about politics on his own Web site. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)
Eighth grader Eyck Freymann updates his blog as he poses for a photograph in his home in New York, Friday Feb. 8, 2008. Freymann blogs about politics on his own Web site. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)   (Associated Press)
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