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Looking to add PR blogs to your Google Reader, Delicious, or bookmark list? Then you should check out (and vote) for the finalists for the 2010 PR Readers’ Choice Awards. Perhaps your blog will make the list next year. You have until midnight on Tuesday, June 22, to cast your vote. — Matthew Royse

Want to get the press and the public talking about something other than your cheating husband and looming divorce? Easy. Go on MTV and kiss another famous person, preferably someone of the same sex. That’s what Sandra Bullock did at last night’s MTV Movie Awards; she accepted the MTV Generation Award and then laid one on actress Scarlett Johansson. “Now that we have done that,” Bullock said after the kiss, “can we please go back to normal?” Absolutely, as long as we ne…

The Post won four coveted Pulitzers in the international reporting, feature writing, commentary, and criticism categories. The New York Times captured awards for explanatory reporting and national reporting, and it shared a third prize. The big news is nonprofit news organization ProPublica, which won a share of a Pulitzer Prize for its investigative reporting. The Los Angeles Times said ProPublica’s win marked a “shift in how journalism in the United States is presented.” Here’s…

The finalists were announced for Arik Hanson’s PR Reader’s Choice Blog Awards and now you have until midnight on Wednesday—this Wednesday!—to cast your votes. The categories are “Best up-and-coming blog,” “Most Educational,” “Most Thought-Provoking,” and “Blog of the Year.”

Cutting through the employee profile to find more C.R.A.P.

This week, awards for min’s Best of the Web 2009 were given to Conde Nast Digital, United Business Media’s TechWeb, The Atlantic, Scholastic and Time Inc. Bonnie Fuller, CEO of Bonnie Fuller Media, was among the presenters. She said in her opening remarks that after 20 years as a print editor, she was crossing over “to the dark side,” that is, the Web. Really? In 2009, a top magazine editor still refers to the Web as the “dark side.”

Arik Hanson announced the winners of his first-ever PR Reader’s Choice Blog Awards.

We finally answer the age-old question: If something looks, feels, smells and tastes like C.R.A.P. … could it actually be good communication?

Two weeks ago, New York Times assistant managing editor Rick Berke sent a memo to all newsroom employees—from the copy boy to the Pulitzer Prize winners—asking for cost-cutting suggestions. The memo included an open invitation to a brain storming lunch with top editors Bill Keller and Jill Abramson. By month’s end, Keller and his editorial lieutenants must send publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., a budget proposal. And so it has come to this for the Grey Lady, inviting newsroom …

PR giant Burson-Marsteller won “Best Use of Public Relations in a Sponsorship Campaign” at the Hollis Sponsorship Awards. The firm took the blue ribbon for a stunt to mark the beginning of the 2008 Sony Ericsson Tennis Championship in Doha, Qatar, which involved tennis players Ana Ivanovic and Elena Dementieva playing tennis on an island overlooking Doha. It received overwhelming media attention for Sony Ericsson: 18 international broadcasters used over 220 clips that totaled over 6 hours of …