Re/code founders Mossberg, Swisher to receive award

Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, who recently launched the independent technology news and reviews site Re/code, will be honored by Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at the eighth annual Mirror Awards ceremony, to be held June 4 in New York City.

The pair, who earlier created and produced All Things D, will receive the i-3 award for impact, innovation and influence.

Mossberg was the author and creator of the weekly Personal Technology column in The Wall Street Journal, which appeared every week from 1991 through 2013.

With Kara Swisher, he was also the co-creator and co-producer of the technology industry’s most prestigious annual conference, D: All Things Digital, and the co-executive editor of the technology website allthingsd.com, which extended the experience of the D Conference to the web.

The i-3 award is given to individuals or organizations that have made a profound impact on the media landscape or have captured the public’s imagination about the potential or importance of the media in a unique way. Past recipients include the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (2012); Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai, co-founders of Foursquare (2011); Twitter (2010); Obama for America New Media Department/Blue State Digital (2009); and CNN/YouTube (2008).

The Mirror Awards are the most important awards for recognizing excellence in media industry reporting. Established by the Newhouse School at Syracuse University in 2006, the awards honor the reporters, editors and teams of writers who hold a mirror to their own industry for the public’s benefit.