I wrote a script that filters news items by marker. Those interested in viewing a timeline of your favourite/hated awards/contests now has a tool to do so!
There are two modes: filter and highlight; filter removes stuff not matching items you selected. highlight, well, it simply highlights the matching items. Highlight is the default mode.
Item choices are the same as those for news markers.
I decided not to make this feature wiki-wide, so if you want to use/test it, please add the following to your personal javascript page:
importArticles({ type: "script", articles: [ "MediaWiki:NewsFilter.js" ] });
If you're not familiar with importArticles please read this help page first.
Note: the script is currently awaiting review, so it won't work until some time after this was posted.