{"id":2239098,"date":"2024-05-07T11:56:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T15:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-daily-wires-ben-shapiro-and-kassy-akiva-win-conservative-media-awards\/"},"modified":"2024-05-07T11:56:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T15:56:51","slug":"the-daily-wires-ben-shapiro-and-kassy-akiva-win-conservative-media-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-daily-wires-ben-shapiro-and-kassy-akiva-win-conservative-media-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Shapiro and Kassy Akiva of The Daily Wire honored at Conservative Media Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-daily-wires-ben-shapiro-and-kassy-akiva-win-conservative-media-awards%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2239098&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Daily Wire&#8217;s Ben Shapiro and Kassy Akiva were honored with the 2024 MRC Bulldog Awards for their exceptional work \u2062in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-knows-he-messed-up-on-fracking-at-debate-and-is-now-doing-damage-control-the-daily-wire\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Knows He Messed Up On Fracking At Debate And Is Now Doing Damage Control | The Daily Wire\">conservative media<\/a>. Shapiro received the\u2063 &#8220;Outstanding Podcast&#8221; award, continuing The Daily Wire&#8217;s success. Known for\u200b his impactful show,\u200c Shapiro covers top news and engages in vital\u2064 debates. Akiva, focusing on anti-Semitism, \u2062earned the &#8220;Outstanding Blogger&#8221; title, highlighting crucial issues on American campuses.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro and reporter Kassy Akiva were presented with 2024 MRC Bulldog Awards for their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-president-trump-gives-pardons-to-73-individuals-and-commutes-another-70-sentences-steve-bannon-is-included\/\" title=\"BREAKING: President Trump Gives Pardons to 73 Individuals and Commutes Another 70 Sentences \u2013 Steve Bannon Is Included\">outstanding work<\/a> in conservative media.<\/p>\n<p>The Media Research Center (MRC) presents awards to conservative journalists, columnists, and podcast hosts every year as leftist journalists get favored in the annual Pulitzer Prizes. Shapiro was honored by MRC with an \u201cOutstanding Podcast\u201d award, making it the second year in a row a Daily Wire host won the award after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/matt-walsh-wins-award-for-outstanding-podcast-after-career-milestone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matt Walsh<\/a> took home the \u201cOutstanding Podcast\u201d title last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Ben Shapiro Show\u201d ranks among the top news podcasts in the world and is consistently the most-listened-to conservative podcast on Apple.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past year, Shapiro has been a voice for conservatives seeking to think through crises at home and abroad. The Daily Wire editor emeritus recently traveled to the U.S. southern border to produce \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/show\/the-divided-states-of-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Divided States of Biden<\/a>,\u201d a docu-series reporting on the chaos caused by President Joe Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-joe-bidens-foreign-policy-reset-will-be-a-disaster\/\" title=\"Why Joe Biden\u2019s Foreign Policy \u2018Reset\u2019 Will Be A Disaster\">open border policies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some top moments from the past year on \u201cThe Ben Shapiro Show\u201d include the Daily Wire host providing daily commentary on the 2024 presidential campaign, going viral for his takes on \u201cBarbie,\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ben-shapiros-facts-tops-billboard-charts-as-best-selling-rap-single\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">becoming America\u2019s #1 rapper<\/a> with \u201cFacts,\u201d which he made in collaboration with Tom MacDonald. On the \u201cSunday Special\u201d edition of his show, Shapiro interviewed Argentine President Javier Milei and cultural figures like actor Russell Brand and former ESPN anchor Sage Steele.<\/p>\n<p>On his podcast, Shapiro has also covered the foreign conflicts between Russia and Ukraine and Israel and Hamas, and following Hamas\u2019 brutal attack on Israel, Shapiro traveled to the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford to debate anti-Israel students on Israel\u2019s right to self-defense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a sign of his popularity and the desire of so many to hear his takes on the latest news, radio stations across the country air his daily podcast as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sidney-powell-is-an-american-legal-giant\/\" title=\"Sidney Powell Is an American Legal Giant\">radio show<\/a>. A whole generation of young conservatives considers Shapiro an inspiration and points to him when asked who is the conservative voice they trust the most,\u201d MRC said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>After joining The Daily Wire in October 2023, Akiva has focused on uncovering anti-Semitism on American college campuses, and she also traveled to Israel to give Daily Wire readers on-the-ground coverage following Hamas\u2019 brutal terrorist attack on October 7.<\/p>\n<p>Akiva\u2019s \u201cOutstanding Blogger\u201d award makes her the second Daily Wire reporter to win an MRC Bulldog Award after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/daily-wires-luke-rosiak-wins-award-for-outstanding-investigative-journalist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luke Rosiak<\/a> won the \u201cOutstanding Investigative Journalism\u201d Award in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince she calls Boston home, Akiva has been able to shine a spotlight on the anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hatred at Harvard in particular, which contributed to national pressure on the university\u2019s president, Claudine Gay, to resign,\u201d MRC said.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1715167897594000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0ZhOYl1hUvyplEJT3QwTSU\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Other 2024 MRC Bulldog Awards winners included PragerU founder Dennis Prager, who won the \u201cOutstanding Radio Talk Show Host\u201d award, and military historian and political commentator Victor Davis Hanson, who won the \u201cMRC Bulldog Award for Lifetime Achievement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon won \u201cOutstanding Social Media Personality,\u201d Washington Examiner reporter and New York Post columnist Salena Zito won \u201cOutstanding Columnist,\u201d and writer Peter Schweizer won \u201cOutstanding Investigative Journalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83e\udd41 roll please\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>We have the winners of the 2024 MRC Bulldog Awards! <\/p>\n<p>Congrats to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VDHanson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@VDHanson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@benshapiro<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SethDillon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SethDillon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZitoSalena?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ZitoSalena<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peterschweizer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@peterschweizer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KassyDillon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KassyDillon<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DennisPrager?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DennisPrager<\/a>! \ud83e\uddf5<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hh9C3VfI9N\">https:\/\/t.co\/hh9C3VfI9N<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y34nw9hmjA\">pic.twitter.com\/Y34nw9hmjA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Media Research Center (@theMRC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theMRC\/status\/1787845031719477749?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 7, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Wire&#8217;s Ben Shapiro and Kassy Akiva awarded 2024 MRC Bulldog Awards for excellence in conservative media. The Media Research Center recognizes conservative media professionals annually, countering the bias in mainstream awards like the Pulitzer Prizes. Ben Shapiro&#8217;s distinguished contributions were acknowledged by MRC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":276,"featured_media":2239099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/Ben-ShapiroKassy-Akiva-e1715091686465.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2239098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/Ben-ShapiroKassy-Akiva-e1715091686465.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/276"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2239098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2239099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2239098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2239098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2239098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}