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The 2006 Deutsche Welle International Weblog Awards is led by an international jury of independent journalists, media experts and blog experts. The jury, with 13 members in all, has the difficult decision of making nominations and deciding on Jury Award winners in each of the categories.
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 | Lisa Stone The originator of BlogHer, award-winning journalist, media strategist and blogger Lisa Stone helps lead BlogHer's annual conference for women bloggers and an international Web network of contributing editors who cover blogging by women on over 20 popular topics. Her writing has appeared in numerous American and international print and online publications.
Blog: Surfette
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 | Kaltmamsell Kaltmamsell is a blogger, journalist and student of literature. She lives and works in Germany and has written "Vorspeisenplatte," one of Germany's most-read blogs, for three years.
Blog: Vorspeisenplatte
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 | Manal Hassan Manal Hassan is an egyptian blogger and FOSS advocate. She runs a blog together with her husband, that won the reporters without borders award in 2005. She is interested in the growth of blogging especially in local languages, and its use in advocacy, activism and citizen journalism.
Blog: Manal and Alaa's Bit Bucket
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 | Hossein Derakhshan (aka Hoder) His award-winning Weblog, "Editor: Myself," which he started in Sept. 2001, has been among the most influential Persian language blogs. The Guardian newspaper has called Hossein a "key link from Iran's teeming world of Weblogs to the west."
Editor: Myself
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 | Julien Pain Responsible for the Bureau Internet and Freedom of Reporters without Borders. Julien is specialist on new technologies and their impact on freedom of speech.
Site: Reporters Without Borders
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 | Michael Anti (Zhao Jing) A freelancer and columnist for several Chinese newspapers, has been promoting the freedom of speech in the Chinese cyberspace and real society for years. His blog is one of China's rare domestic sources of true information.
Blog: Anti-Blog
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 | Dr. José Luis Orihuela A communications professor at the University of Navarra (Spain) and the author of "The Revolution of Blogs." His research focuses on the impact of technological innovations on media and communications.
Blog: ecuaderno
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 | Ignacio Escolar Ignacio Escolar is a journalist and blogger. He is the coordinator at Informativostelecinco.com and runs the escolar.net und elástico.net Weblogs. Ignacio is the winner of the José Manuel Porquet Prize for Online Journalism. . Blog: Escolar.net
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 | Sonia Francine Soninha, previously a program director and VJ at MTV Brazil as well as the moderator of a talk show on TV Cultura, is a soccer commentator for ESPN Brasil. She writes a weekly column in the Fohla de S. Paulo sports magazine, is an elected representative of the city of São Paulo and the president of the Instituto Gol Brasil.
Blog: blog da soninha
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 | Marina Litvinovich Marina is a blogger and gives political advice to the opposition politician and chess player Garry Kasparov, among others. Sing 1998, she has taken part in founding a number of Russian Internet media organizations and been engaged in several election campaigns in and outside of Russia. She has written her own personal blog since 2002.
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 | Gilles Klein A journalist and editor in chief for Pointblog.com, one of France's most influential online magazines, Gilles Klein has also worked for the Libération newspaper and Elle. He takes a critical look at the media in his blog.
Blog: Le Phare
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 | Marie-José Klaver Marie-José Klaver is a journalist and blogger. She writes a blog for the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad. Marie-José also writes for magazines and teaches journalism. Blog: Marie-José Klaver
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 | Mark Glaser Mark Glaser is a longtime freelance journalist whose long and winding career include columns on hip-hop, reviews of videogames, travel stories, and humour columns that poked fun at the titans of technology. Most recently he wrote a weekly column for the Online Journalism Review and currently blogs at MediaShift. Blog: Mediashift
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