Blatantly Self-Congratulatory Blog Post Alert!

At the Oregon and Washington Society of Professional Journalists’ annual awards banquet on Saturday, EW picked up a handful of nifty certificates. While SPJ has the year’s award recipients listed on a nifty PDF, we thought it might be helpful — or at least potentially interesting to one or two people — to give a quick rundown with handy-dandy links.

Second place, special section
The State of Suds

Third place, special section
Oregon Bach Festival 2009

Second place, criticism
“A Red Hot Mess: ‘China Design Now’ at the Portland Art Museum mostly fails to charm” by Suzi Steffen

Third place, criticism
“Defining Her Future: Carey Mulligan shines in an unsentimental film” by Molly Templeton

Second place, education reporting
“Retaliation? Did the UO fire a professor for alleging racism?” by Camilla Mortensen

Yeah, yeah, we didn’t get any firsties. We’ll try harder. And maybe shake our puny fists in admiration at Willamette Week‘s impressive restaurant guide in the meantime.