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The locally produced Diane Rehm Show (WAMU, 88.5FM) won a Shorty Award in the News category last night.

The Shorty Awards were created last year to honor those who best use Twitter to communicate, educate or entertain in 140 characters or less.

Willam Bonner of Globo.com in Brazil and Rachel Maddow of MSNBC tied in the journalism category.

A Special Humanitarian Award was given to Haitian television presenter Carel Pedre (@carelpedre) for tweets that shed light on the devastating earthquake in his country