Politizine is short for "political fanzine." Essentially, it is a Web log which covers politics, music, news, and occasionally takes a critical look at media coverage. Politizine is published by Tony Schinella, an award-winning newspaper editor/journalist and radio broadcaster, currently working in Massachusetts and living in New Hampshire. Opinions and comments are his own and not those of his employer. Feel free to participate. Email: politizine-at-yahoo.com. Copyright, 2002-2009, Tony Schinella
Finalist, Best of Gatehouse 2008 Newspaper of the Year [Non-daily].
Co-winner, 2008 New England Press Assoc. first place award for Government Reporting.
"...[C]areful research ... is what newspapers used to do, but we're hard-pressed to find another in these days of journalistic malpractice," Mass. Citizens for Limited Taxation comment about Schinella's editorial endorsement of a 2008 ballot question in the Belmont Citizen-Herald, Oct. 29, 2008.
"[Politizine is] must reading for those in the know," WBZ-TV 4/WBZ 1030 AM Political Reporter Jon Keller, "Keller at Large," Dec. 23, 2007.
Winner, 2007 Appreciation Award from the Concord Pineconia Grange for work with non-profit groups and community service.
Winner, 2005 New Hampshire Association of Broadcasters Golden Mike Award in the Feature Story category for "Trains," an audio feature about the Hooksett Lions Club Model Train Event for WKXL 1450.
On receiving an IAFF Media Award for editorial/column in 2005 in The Winchester Star: "IAFF members across the United States and Canada appreciate the work you have done to expose the importance of safe staffing and equipment in fire departments, a vital issue for the IAFF and professional fire fighters" - Harold Schaitberger, IAFF General President, July 11, 2005.
On analyzing the outcome of 2004 presidential election: "... very perceptive. I think it's worth reading" - The National Political Observer, Nov. 4, 2004.
On exposing the connection between the Mass. Tax Foundation and its lobbying for the preservation of tax breaks for corporations from which they receive funding: Chip Ford of Mass. Citizens for Limited Taxation called Schinella's analysis in The Winchester Star "incisive" - Email to members, Oct. 24, 2004.
On being one of the first media outlets to reveal inconsistencies in the Robert Greenwald "OutFoxed" documentary: "One of those correspondents - Tony Schinella, who writes the weblog Politizine - documented that and other problems with Outfoxed last July. I know Schinella to be a reliable reporter and observer" - Dan Kennedy, The Boston Phoenix, Sept. 10-16, 2004.
On problems with talk radio, from a column published in The Winchester Star: "Schinella has written a worthwhile column on the demise of talk radio" - Dan Kennedy, The Boston Phoenix, Dec. 6, 2002.
On the lack of local talent in the Boston talk radio market: "[Schinella's] a bright, articulate guy, and he espouses a hard-edged political view that's seldom heard these days" - Dan Kennedy, The Boston Phoenix, "The Death of Talk Radio," May 8, 1997.
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