Barbara Gasser voted into the Hollywood Foreign Press

Congratulations to our former contributor Barbara Gasser for being voted into the Hollywood Foreign Press. The Hollywood Reporter writes:
Kirpi Uimonen Ballesteros, Barbara Gasser and Mirai Konishi have joined the organization that hands out the Golden Globe Awards each January, HFPA president Philip Berk says.
In an interview the Austrian journalist especially thanked the members of the [...]

Schwarzenegger at Journalism Gala

Watching Gov. @Schwarzenegger deliver remarks at the Southern California Journalism Awards Gala – at http://tweetcast.in/1348
It was a dream come true for myself as a journalist because I am the first Austrian Journalist to win the “International Journalism: News Feature” Award in the 52 year history of the Southern California Journalism Awards. Furthermore I won two [...]

German World author wins National Entertainment Journalism Award

With great joy we announce that German World author Barbara Gasser won the 2010 National Entertainment Journalism Award in the category „Radio: News Story“. She was also nominated in the print category for best “Feature under 1000 words”.
Barbara Gasser is the first Germanspeaking journalist to receive this honor.
The jury statement reads as follows:
Winner: Barbara [...]

Wolfgang Puck and the Governors Ball

Not only are Christoph Waltz – Best Supporting Actor, Sandra Bullock – Best Actress, The White Ribbon – Best Foreign Language Film and Christian Berger – Cinematography, nominated, but every year the originally Carinthian (a Southern Region of Austria) master chef Wolfgang Puck is a staple of this celebration.
For the 16th consecutive year, master chef [...]