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2009 EPpy Award Winners Announced. The competition, which honors the best media Web sites, including those from newspapers, TV/cable, radio and magazines. Boston.com, the Web site for the Boston (Mass.) Globe, won awards for Best Sports Blog and Best Entertainment Web site. Other newspaper winners included USA Today for Best Business Blog; Baltimore City Paper for Best Newspaper-Affiliated Web site (citypaper.com); Arizona Daily Star for Best Web site (with fewer than one million unique montly viewers); and The Wall Street Journal Online for Best Newspaper Web site (with more than one million unique monthly viewers). To see more 2009 EPpy award winners, click here.

Google leads the pack in mobile search, by a landslide. Google's dominance in online search is well documented in that almost 64% of all searches conducted online are done through Google, followed by Yahoo! in a distant second with 20%. According to a new report released by Net Applications, an Internet marketing firm, Google obliterates the competitions when it comes to searches on mobile devices with 97.5% of all search queries. Read more here.

News Corp. to charge for online content. After the company's quarterly results were released, News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch stated to analysts and journalists that the company intends to charge online readers for access to online content from News Corp. papers. The switch could be made within the next year. Murdoch cited the Wall Street Journal's success as proof that newspapers can successfully charge for online content. For more of Murdoch's statements on the topic, visit Editor & Publisher for the full story.