Voting is now open for the 2009 Podcast Awards. It’s the fifth year for the annual event, which has the goal to “recognize the best podcasters in the world by allowing the people (Listeners and Podcasters) to nominate, and then vote for their favorite podcast.” Voting for the slate of podcast nominees is open through [...]

Podcasts just got another dose of mainstream validation. The NYTimes reports that podcasts are now eligible for National Magazine Awards: Podcasters, rejoice, for you are now eligible for a National Magazine Award. The creators of the prestigious awards plan to announce on Wednesday that they are adding 12 new categories covering online media. The categories [...]

The winners of the first European Podcast Awards have been announced. Choosing from ten participating countries across Europe and over 750 nominations, a panel of judges awarded the inaugural European Podcast Award to five winners from Germany, England and Spain. The European podcasts of the year 2008/2009 are: Schlaflos in München [Sleepless in Munich] / [...]

World travel publishing house Lonely Planet recently announced the winners of their 2009 Lonely Planet Travel Blog Awards contest. The winner of the sole podcast award in the bunch is the Indie Travel Podcast. Indie Travel Podcast is the brainchild of Craig and Linda Martin, a husband-and-wife team of traveling podcasters. Craig Martin’s profile explains, [...]

Podcasting pioneer and author Michael Geoghegan contacted us this morning with awful news: Brian Clark, a great friend and partner in GrapeRadio.com was involved in a horrible car accident in Central California last Friday. He is currently in the ICU and has received in excess of 13 units of blood and platelets. Many of you [...]

Todd Cochrane (Blubrry, GeekNewsCentral), creator of the People’s Choice Podcast Awards, is looking for a new home for the event: I am working on my plan for the 2008 People’s Choice Podcast Awards. I am looking at some major changes, part of it has to do that we have no venue at New Media Expo [...]

The results of the Summer ’07 Podcast Peer Awards have been announced. Clinton Alvord’s comedy4Cast won two awards. His four minute show was recognized as both the Best Comedy Podcast and Best Short Podcast. Mignon Fogarty’s Grammar Girl was chosen as the voters Favorite Audio Podcast. The Best Music Podcast award went to Punky! Radio [...]

UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, has announced that ten proposals for video podcast productions from ten countries have been selected to receive production grants. More than one hundred proposals were received from close to fifty countries in response to an open call for submissions last September. The proposals were studied by [...]

Closing out the official activities on the first day of the Podcast and Portable Media Expo in Ontario, California, was the second annual Podcast Awards Ceremony. Previously announced winners of the PME Awards for Podcast of the Year were the folks who produce Grape Radio. In keeping with the gravitas of the occasion, the winners [...]

Next weekend’s Podcast and Portable Media Expo is all set and ready to go, event organizer Tim Bourquin says. “We’ve been planning this event for nearly a year. It’s like a bobsled – you start pushing it downhill, and, after awhile, it picks up momentum and speeds on its own.” In an interview with Podcasting [...]