Cole Receives Aronson Award from Hunter College
Blogging as journalism just got a huge lift.
Editors and Publishers carries the announcement that the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism awarded by Hunter College will include for the first time this year a category for bloggers. I'm humbled to say that they are awarding it to me for Informed Comment.
For more on the Aronson Award see this link.
It is really wonderful of Hunter College to expand the purview of the award to bloggers as well, and I think that in this matter as in others, they are functioning as a bellwether.
posted by Juan Cole @ 3/29/2006 06:40:00 AM
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you deserve it Juan. Your blog has been an indispensible source of information these last few years, for hundreds of thousand of people, if not millions.
Congratulations, Juan. Obviously very well-deserved recognition. I also assume that institutional recognition of this sort indicates growing recognition of a new status quo that includes the web and blogs along with older journalistic institutions.
Congratulations on a well deserved honor. I hope you are right with your bellwether prediction.
Congratulations Dr. Cole!
I believe your blog does truly represent the positive aspects of informed citizen journalism on the internet... The days when think-tank-fixated editors could effectively block out non-Washington experts are over... And that's a good thing!
I believe every History department should now urge its professors to provide some degree of honest commentary through blogs as this is a vast untapped network of knowledgeable opinion for ordinary citizens.
Of course, for every Cole and Khalidi there will be a Lewis and Pipes, but at least the readers will have an opportunity to examine views and news from sources other than Safire and Friedman.
Keep up the good work!
Prof. Cole, I have been reading Informed Comment for about three years now. Congratulations on this award.
You combine a vast knowledge of the region and its issues with a warm and personal concern for peoples who are suffering.
I hope that Informed Comment continues to be available for years.
Do you get to come to NYC, and to Hunter to accept the award?
-A Hunter undergrad
I am a relatively recent reader here but I can see that the recognition is deserved. I reiterate Abhnav Aima's comments in that the inclusion of the category in the awards is a welcome move away from the ever-increasing consolidation of the monopoly power over information. Thanks to the blogs, free flow of information may still remain relevant as an important component of a democratic society. I too wish more and more experts took it upon themselves to debunk the myths that shape opinion and policy nowadays. Congratulations... Mubarak!
Great point, Abhinav!
"I believe every History department should now urge its professors to provide some degree of honest commentary through blogs as this is a vast untapped network of knowledgeable opinion for ordinary citizens."
Congrats, Juan!
Congratulations! Very well deserved. And it was great MacNeil Lehrer found you to appear the other night.
Congratulations, Dr. Cole! I have been reading your blog for a few years now and it has been fun to watch you go from obscure, to occasionally quoted, to being a go-to guy for quetions regarding the Middle East. Don't let it get to your head. You still couldn't get a job at Fox News!
this is not related to juan's new honor
but im sooooooo outraged--harvard confirms that stephen walt has stepped down as academic dean of its kennedy school (timeonline 2 hrs ago)!!!!
so the lobby/money has spoken, fast!!!
would this be actually good? SO OBVIOUS AND SO MEAN-SPIRITED? how to generate an uproar over this? who can mass email all highschool graduates to boycott this "oldest institution"? withdraw their applications. that can hurt!
Congratulations Juan!
Shame that more people didn't pay attention before the war or even after the Mission was Accomplished. Thinking of those days when you bemoaned the fact that as the seeds of chaos were being planted, Iraq slipped to page 10 - B sections
Congtatulations, Juan. The award is well-deserved.
I try to read your blog every day, because if I do not, I have too much homework the next day. Truly, I find it indispensable.
Congratulations, Dr.Cole!
I am really glad to hear about James Aronson Award for Informed Comment! That's great news not only for you, but for all serious bloggers, researchers and journalists.
In these dark days of twisted scholarship and managed media, juancole.com acts as a flaghship finding new ways of modern historical research, blogging and news coverage.
Best wishes and good luck in your invaluable work!
Excellent News Juan,
Well deserved.
I created a blog spot just to say that!
Congratulations!! You have indeed done a great service to the public through your work. Truly an inspiration.
Congratulations, Juan. As so many have already said, you well deserve this award, and the many others that I'm sure will come. Your ongoing commitment to keeping us informed about what is REALLY going on in Iraq has been essential, especially in times like these where the mainstream media cannot be trusted.
Well done, sir!
Congratulations Juan! Blogging is, in my opinion, much more highly regarded journalism now than MSM.
Clive
Congratulations on an extraordinary achievement. For three years a single blog has consistently beaten the world's well-funded media companies and commentators for its insight, factual robustness and predictive accuracy.
congratulations
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