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London, November 27th 2008 – The Guardian Media Group and Word magazine were among the big winners at the fifth annual Record of The Day Awards for Music Journalism and PR, which took place last night at Conway Hall, Holborn, central London.

Caspar Llewellyn-Smith won the ‘Editor of The Year’ award (Observer Music Monthly) for the second year running and Word Magazine was announced ‘Magazine of The Year,’ also for a second year in a row.

The Guardian Media Group scooped four of the top award categories – ‘Live Reviews Writer of The Year’, ‘Record Reviews Writer of The Year’, ‘Best Music Coverage in a National Newspaper’, and ‘Best Podcast’. All of these awards were won for the second year running by The Guardian.

Other notable winners included Dog Day Press who were awarded ‘Best Independent PR Company’ and Polydor Records who won the ‘Best In-House PR Department’ award.

Three ‘Outstanding Contribution’ Awards were also handed out at the ceremony with former Sounds journalist and acclaimed author Jon Savage receiving the ‘Outstanding Contribution to Music Journalism’ award, MBC PR co-founder Barbara Charone receiving the ‘Outstanding Contribution to Music PR’ award and legendary music photographer Pennie Smith receiving the ‘Outstanding Contribution for Music Photography’ award.

The Record of The Day Awards celebrate Music Journalism and Public Relations within the UK music business and were this year hosted by BBC Radio 2 DJ Janice Long.

The full list of the 2008 Record of The Day Award winners is as follows:

• Live Reviews: writer of the year
  Winner: Kitty Empire – The Observer
  
  
• Best PR campaign for a breakthrough UK Act
  Winner: Tony Linkin at Coalition PR for Glasvegas
  
  
• Best PR campaign for an established UK Act
  Winner: Lewis Jamieson at Hall or Nothing PR for Elbow
  
  
• Record Reviews Writer of the Year
  Winner: Alexis Petridis – The Guardian
  
  
• Best Music Coverage in a Newspaper
  Winner: The Guardian
  
  
• Business and Technology Writer of the Year
  Winner: Ben Cardew – Music Week
  
  
• Best PR campaign for an established non-UK Act
  Winner: James Hopkins at Columbia Records for Kings of Leon
  
  
• Best PR Campaign for a Breakthrough Non-UK Act
  Winner: Ash Collins at Toast PR for MGMT
  
  
• Best Podcast:
  Winner: Guardian Music Weekly
  
  
• Best Editor
  Winner: Caspar Llewellyn Smith – Observer Music Monthly
  
  
• Best Independent PR Company
  Winner: Dog Day Press
  
  
• Best Independent PR individual
  Winner: Nathan Beazer at Dog Day Press
  
  
• Best Digital Publication
  Winner: NME.com
  
  
• Best in-house PR person
  Winner: Andy Prevezer at Warner Bros Records
  
  
• Best In-House PR department
  Winner: Polydor Records
  
  
• Artist and Music Features: Writer of The Year
  Winner: Simon Cosyns and Jacqui Swift – The Sun, Something for the Weekend
  
  
• Breaking Music Writer
  Winner: Paul Lester
  
  
• Magazine of the Year
  Winner: Word
  
  
• Best Blog
  Winner: 20 Jazz Funk Greats
  
  
• Best Online PR:
  Winner: Scruffy Bird
  
  
• Outstanding contribution to music journalism:
  Jon Savage
  
  
• Outstanding contribution to PR:
  Barbara Charone – MBC PR
  
  
• Outstanding contribution to music photography:
  Pennie Smith

What the press said about our awards this year:
thequietus.com
www.nme.com
www.musicweek.com
news.bbc.co.uk
www.gigwise.com/
www.contactmusic.com