At Salon, Boehlert won the 2002 American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers' Deems Taylor Award for music journalism for a series of articles in 2001 on the radio industry, in which he wrote about Clear Channel Communications' dominance of the radio and concert businesses.
In 2001, at Salon, Boehlert was awarded the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers' Deems Taylor Award for his music journalism. His series covered Clear Channel Communications' control over the radio and concert industries.