Newport Seen, New Online Social Magazine, Honored with Two Prestigious Awards
5/10/2010
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Newport Seen’s creators and social reviewers, award winning graphics designer and branding expert Tom Roskelly, and reviewer/photojournalist Linda Phillips, display their awards after the ceremony.
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Newport, Rhode Island, May 10, 2010 -- In a ceremony in Connecticut last Thursday, the new online magazine, www.NewportSeen.com, was cited as Best Online Web Development/Creation, and for Best Online Writing of the year, by the Connecticut Press Club.
Principals Linda Phillips. President of Phillips Communications, and Thomas Roskelly, Creative Director of Roskelly, Inc. were praised for fulfilling the site’s stated purpose, a “Social, Cultural, and Philanthropic Diary of America’s First Resort.”
The competition was judged by members of the Delaware Press Club. Judge Kye Parsons commented “this website is the place to go. Clearly, it’s intended for an upscale audience and the graphics and fonts (designed by Mr. Roskelly) have a sophisticated look. It reminds me of an online version of Town & Country Magazine.”
Author and journalist Linda Phillips was cited for her breaking news article on Raptorex, the newest fossil discovery, which beat The New York Times and NPR with its online news coverage. Said judge Parsons: “Informative, with interesting photos and appropriate captions. The paragraphs are short and to the point.” Ms. Phillips also won a first place award for her classical music review column in the Greenwich, Connecticut Citizen newspaper.
www.NewportSeen.com was launched in June of 2009 in response to the shrinking print media’s coverage of its focus categories, and quickly spiraled in international readership. It now has over ¼ million page views in 101 countries, and is regularly read in London, Paris, Buenos Aires, Sydney, and other international capitals, as well as in all 50 states. Ninety percent of the readership is located in the southern New England area, focusing on Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New York and serving local and regional advertisers.
The Connecticut Press Club, a sub-chapter of the National Federation of Press Women, is a dynamic organization for writers, authors, and journalists. As first place winners, Newport Seen has been automatically entered in the national competition of the NLAPW.
Roskelly and Phillips state, “we are honored to be recognized for the realization of our initial goal in filling a missing niche in today’s changing media stream.”