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theartsdesk received a New Year's gift last night when we were given a significant accolade from BBC Radio 5 Live. In Web 2009 with Helen and Olly, the station's podcasters and self-styled "internet obsessives" Helen Zaltzman and Olly Mann recognised theartsdesk as one of the five "essential sites of 2009" in a series of awards to the "cream of weblebrity". The shortlist included such big names as Google Streetview and Spotify, the winner.Our category consisted of sites which "this year seemed to become entirely essential" and the presenters (pictured right) praised theartsdesk's " Read more ...
Ismene Brown
"theartsdesk.com is a really exciting new development for all arts consumers, journalists, promoters, movers and shakers""The Arts Desk is a bloody good read, and tasting nice and reliable""The line-up of writers is already so distinguished""A daily must-visit, I’d have thought""It is exciting to see theartsdesk.com using advancing technologies to cover the arts in new and innovative ways""Brilliant content, very impressive list of contributors and a much needed counterpart to the shrinking of arts coverage in the printed media""Pages like this are the future of arts journalism. BIG-UP Read more ...