James Beard Foundation to include food bloggers in their awards

by Marisa McClellan, Posted Oct 21st 2008 @ 2:03PM

Over the years, the name James Beard has become synonymous with quality food, food writing, restaurant design and food media. Each May, all the players in the food world gather in New York to honor the best among them. However, when they convene in 2009, there's going to be whole new contingent in their midst.

The James Beard Foundation announced last week that in 2009, they will be adding a category for Blogs. In the press release, alerting us to this addition, they said,

Blogs have become an essential part of today's evolving media landscape. They provide journalists from both traditional and nontraditional backgrounds with an immediate, direct outlet for their work, and open up an unprecedented avenue for vibrant dialogue with readers. With the addition of this vital new category, the James Beard Foundation recognizes the tremendous impact that blogs have had on food journalism, and their importance to the future of the medium.

I look forward with great interest and excitement to seeing which blogs the James Beard Foundation will select as their first honorees.

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