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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 13 May 2011 Contact: Debra Caruso / DJC Communications [email protected] 212-907-0051

Winners Announced in 2011 New York Press Club Awards for . Awards Presentation Dinner is June 13th at the Water Club, Manhattan.

Graham Rayman of the The Village Voice won this year's top honor in the New York Press Club's Awards for Journalism for a four part series about corruption at a New York City police precinct in Brooklyn. Rayman's series, "The NYPD Tapes: Inside Bed-Stuy's 81st Precinct," was awarded the Club's Gold Keyboard for investigative journalism. Finalists for the Gold Keyboard Award included investigations published by the Journal, , Bloomberg News, Fortune Magazine and City Limits Magazine.

More than 300 entries were received in this year's competition, a record number, submitted by publishing or broadcasting for more than 50 metro New York news organizations.

Notable in the outcome was the awarding of three prizes to Charlene Giannetti, co-founder and editor of the Web site, WomanAroundTown.com. Giannetti won awards in the Internet category for Crime Reporting, Entertainment News, and she was Internet winner of the Rev. Mychal Judge Heart of New York Award for her profile of educator, Edes Gilbert.

Bloomberg media properties dominated the Business Reporting awards this year with individual wins by Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg TV, the Bloomberg News wire service and Bloomberg BusinessWeek magazine.

An enduring tradition in New York media, the annual New York Press Club Awards For Journalism honor excellence in the craft by writers, reporters, editors, producers, shooters and multimediographers.

Entries are considered in more than 20 categories of reporting from material submitted by New York metropolitan area news organizations and individual journalists.

Judging is by prominent working journalists, former journalists and academics who are selected for their expertise in each category.

Award presentations will take place Monday, June 13th, at the Press Club's Awards and Installation of Officers Dinner at Manhattan's Water Club.

MORE INFORMATION about the Awards, the Awards Dinner (including reservations) and the New York Press Club can be found on the Club's Web site: www.nypressclub.org.

The New York Press Club Awards for Journalism Winners for 2011

Gold Keyboard Best Headline and Front Page "The NYPD Tapes" Magazine Graham Rayman "Apple Nation" The Village Voice , David Lidsky Fast Company Magazine Nellie Bly Cub Reporter "Articles by Sindya N. Bhanoo" Newspaper Sindya N. Bhanoo "Bad Habit" The New York Times Staff The New York Post Rev. Mychal Judge Heart of New York Best Web Exclusive Content Radio "Election Coverage, It's A Free Country" "The First New York Fashion Week" Anna Sale, Jody Avirgan, Kathleen Ehrlich, Sara Fishko, Karen Frillmann, Wayne , John Keefe, Dean Cappello Shulmister WNYC.ORG WNYC-FM Business Reporting Internet Radio "Woman Around Town: Edes Gilbert - An "Race For The Next Facebook" Educator Gives Back" Carole Zimmer, Mark Mills, Al Mayers Charlene Giannetti Bloomberg Radio WomanAroundTown.com TV TV "Making The Case For Diversity" "Never Forget" Carol Massar, Margaret Popper Virginia Huie, Brian Endres Bloomberg TV News 12 Long Island Internet Newspaper "The ABCs of ETFs - A Three Part Series "A Parish Tested" about Investing in ETFs" Anne Barnard Merry Sheils The New York Times WomanAroundTown.com

Anticipated News Newswire "How the Banks Won" Radio Christine Harper "George Steinbrenner Tribute" Bloomberg News Glenn Schuck Metro Networks Newspaper "Europe on the Brink" TV Marcus Walker, Charles Forelle, Brian "Paladino vs. Cuomo On the Issues" Blackstone, David Gauthier-Villars, David Josh Robin Enrich NY1 News

Magazine "Inside Foxconn" Frederik Balfour and Tim Culpan Bloomberg BusinessWeek

Consumer Reporting Radio "Chasing The Next High" Magazine Irene Cornell "Are Charities Spying on You?" WCBS-AM 880 Newsradio Anne Kadet SmartMoney Internet "Lt. Jack Cambria's Gift of Gab Saves Newspaper Hostages" "The Intelligent Investor" Charlene Giannetti Jason Zweig WomanAroundTown.com The Wall Street Journal Newspaper TV "A Solitary Jailhouse Lawyer Argues His "NY1 For You" Way Out of Prison" Susan Jhun, Agnes Chung Sean Gardiner NY1 News The Wall Street Journal

Newswire TV "The Quest for Transparency" "HIV Positive Sex Offender" Bob Ivry, Christine Richard, Caroline Salas, Lily Stolzberg, Brian Endres Craig Torres, Shannon D. Harrington, News 12 Long Island Matthew Leising, Bradley Keoun, Hugh Son, Christopher Condon Newswire Bloomberg News "Truth & Consequences" David Glovin, Patricia Hurtado, Saijel Kishan Continuing Coverage Bloomberg News

Internet Entertainment News "CNNMoney - America's Debt Crisis" Jeanne Sahadi Radio CNNMoney.com "Artie Shaw Centenary" Sara Fishko, Karen Frillmann, Wayne Newspaper Shulmister "Haiti's Anguish" WNYC-FM Deborah Sontag The New York Times Internet "Frank Sinatra - The One and Only Voice" Radio Charlene Giannetti "The Blizzard Of 2010" WomanAroundTown.com The WCBS News Team WCBS-AM 880 Newsradio Magazine "Waving the Flag" TV Rick Tetzeli "Coney Island" Fast Company Magazine Jeanine Ramirez NY1 News TV "Rock of Ages" Crime Reporting Elisa DiStefano, Charles Malicki, Alvin Rueda Magazine News 12 Long Island "Godfather and Son" Richard Stratton Newspaper Playboy Magazine "At 72, Jane Fonda Works It Out" Barbara Hoffman The New York Post

Entertainment News (cont'd) Feature Video "Blowin' in the Wind" Newswire Michael DelGiudice "Coverage of the New York Dance World" WNBC-TV Jocelyn Noveck News Special/TV "Coney Island Rides Again" Feature Photo Jeanine Ramirez, Stephanie Simon, Jill Urban Magazine NY1 News "The Directors" Gregg Segal Outstanding Web Coverage Fortune "Welcome to Potopia" Jessica Bennett, Kathy Jones, Monica Newspaper Parra, Susanna Schrobsdorff and "Little Amputee" Newsweek.com Staff and Contributors Anthony DePrimo Newsweek.com Staten Island Advance Political Coverage Feature Reporting Newswire Magazine "New York Politics, Campaign 2010" "The Creativity Crisis" Beth Fouhy Po Bronson, Ashley Merryman Associated Press Newsweek Internet Radio "Formative Experiences of Attorney General "Robin Hood" Candidates" Sara Fishko, Karen Frillmann, Wayne Edward-Isaac Dovere Shulmister City Hall WNYC-FM Radio TV "New York Governor's Race" "Gift of Healing" 1010 WINS News Staff Andrew Siff, Michael DelGiudice 1010 WINS WNBC-TV TV Internet "Government Waste" "Vicki Abelson: Move Over Gertrude Stein" Barbara Nevins Taylor, Ray Parisi, Alan Alix Cohen Lessner, Vinny Mariani WomanAroundTown.com WNYW-TV MyFox NY

Newspaper Magazine "Inside Mexico's Drug War, Americans "The High Cost of Free Parks" Allege Abuse" Patrick Arden Nicholas Casey Next American City Magazine The Wall Street Journal Newspaper Newswire "Crisis in Albany" "Coverage of Gay Community With Focus New York Times Staff on Family and Youth" The New York Times Leanne Italie Associated Press

Regularly Scheduled Local TV News TV "Adam Bradley Arrested" "Dead Whale Washes Ashore" Brian Conybeare, Cheryl Green, Tom Erin Colton, Susan Caron, Brandon Klein Karadimas, Dave Wolf, Stan Kowalski, News 12 Long Island Janine Rose News 12 Westchester Internet "Haiti Earthquake Coverage" Sports News TIME.com Staff TIME.com Radio "Ernie Harwell: Our Friend in the Booth" Spot News Photo Dan Obermuller, Gregg Caserta WFUV-FM Newspaper "Saved" Newspaper Eric Stringer "Blood Brothers" The New York Daily News Reed Albergotti, Vanessa O'Connell The Wall Street Journal Spot News Video

TV TV "Field of Yes" "Haiti Cholera Protests" Virginia Huie, David Garden Cath Turner, Alessandro Rampietti, Geoff News 12 Long Island Mills Al Jazeera English Internet "NFL's Helmet Testing Scrutinized" ### Peter Keating ESPN

Magazine "Coming to a Head" Peter Keating, J.B. Morris and the Enterprise Team ESPN the Magazine

Spot News

Newswire "Arrest of the Times Square Car Bomber" Colleen Long, Tom Hays, The Associated Press staff Associated Press

Radio "Tornado In NYC" The WCBS News Team WCBS-AM 880 Newsradio

Newspaper "Flash Crash" Tom Lauricella, Peter A. McKay, Scott Patterson, Jenny Strasburg, Carolyn Cui, Mary Pilon, Robin Sidel The Wall Street Journal