Jeff Jarvis wins media category at Comment Awards

Journalist commentators and their editors were celebrated at the Comment Awards 2010 this morning with Jeff Jarvis, who writes a new media column for the Guardian, scooping the Best Media Commentator award.

Jarvis' award was one of four that went to the Guardian, which took home Best Cultural Commentator for Mark Lawson and Best Blog Site for Comment is Free and shared Simon Jenkins' Commentariat of the Year award with the Evening Standard.

The winners were announced at a champagne breakfast this morning at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London. The awards are organised by Editorial Intelligence.

Other prizes include Best Comment Pages, which went to the Times, and Best Blogger, which went to the BBC's Nick Robinson.

The ceremony was hosted by social commentator Peter York and a video of the events will follow on the awards website.

The full list of winners:

Best Comment Pages – The Times
Commentariat of the Year – Simon Jenkins, The Guardian and London Evening Standard
Best Blogger – Nick Robinson, BBC
Best Blog Site – Comment is free, The Guardian and The Observer
Cultural Commentator – Mark Lawson, The Guardian
Best Diary Page – Londoner's Diary, London Evening Standard
Environment Commentator – Johann Hari, The Independent
Financial Commentator – Anatole Kaletsky, The Times
Foreign Commentator – Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
Magazine Commentator (including trade media, weeklies and monthlies) Christopher Hitchens, Vanity Fair
Media Commentator – Jeff Jarvis, The Guardian
Political Commentator – Daniel Finkelstein, The Times
Westminster Villager (Political Sketch) – Quentin Letts, Daily Mail
Chair's Choice, chosen by Baroness Helena Kennedy QC as Chair of the Judges - Simon Kelner, The Independent

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