NBC’s Ed Deitch Wins James Beard Award

Nightly News senior producer Ed Deitch, who also happens to be the Today Show’s wine columnist on MSNBC.com, won the prestigious James Beard Foundation Journalism Award last week for multimedia writing, beating out two nominations from the Chicago Tribune.

Deitch won in the “multimedia writing on food, beverage, restaurant, or nutrition” category. Here’s the winning column…

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