ONA Online Journalism Awards
Posted on September 12, 2007
The finalists have been announced, complete with links. :)
Congratulations to all.
New awards across the pond
Posted on June 18, 2007
The UK Association of Online Publishers (AOP) is adding four new categories to its annual award: use of video, best podcast, digital creativity and online community.
2006-2007 SND.ies, The Best of New Media Design Competition
Posted on June 15, 2007
Entries for the SND.ies, The Best of New Media Design Competition — which honors excellent multimedia journalism — are due by July 1.
This competition rewards skill, innovation and high-quality visual journalism in Web and other new media design with monthly and annual prizes. Entrants receive expert feedback from judges and the opportunity to earn monthly and annual awards, including Awards of Excellence and Silver or Gold Medals. The winning projects are posted online to share with the world.
2007 ONA awards
Posted on June 15, 2007
Entries for the 2007 Online News Association awards are due by June 30. (There will be no extensions, they say.)
* Judges will be invited to place special emphasis on entries that are original to the Web. Entries that were first published in another medium are still eligible for entry (except for the Online Commentary category), but emphasis will be placed on entries that demonstrate mastery of the special characteristics of the Web.
2007 EPpy winners
Posted on May 30, 2007
Mindy McAdams, you’re wonderful for linking up all the winners.
Many thanks.
(I know, this is so last week’s news. I’ve been out of town; playing catch up!)
EPpy awards
Posted on May 1, 2007
Hot dog! I should go on vacation more often!
While away, I found out HeraldTribune.com is a finalist for two 2007 EPpy Awards:
>> Best Newspaper-Affiliated Web Site with fewer than 1 million unique monthly visitors
>> Best News Web Site with fewer than 1 million unique monthly visitors
Lucas Grindley, content manager at HeraldTribune.com, wrote some great summaries of some projects we worked on last year that may have contributed to our receiving the honors:
>> News First breaking news blog
>> Sept. 11 coverage — The terrorists who lived among us
>> Herald-Tribune’s new digs (as an architecture graduate, I particularly enjoyed producing this project)
BOP on the Web
Posted on March 24, 2007
Congrats to all the winners of the NPPA’s Best Of Photojournalism 2007 Web division contest.
Top honors goes to The San Jose Mercury News, earning the title “Best Use of the Web.”
” ‘MercuryNewsPhoto.com is only a year old and already they’ve been able to truly push and help evolve the medium. Each of their entries demonstrated a mastery of telling a multimedia story over a variety of subjects,’ judge Andrew DeVigal said.”
>> Lucas Grindley points out that Roanoke.com cashed in this year, including Best News Audio Slideshow for photographer Josh Meltzer’s “Land of Opportunity, Dashed Dreams” narrated by reporter Beth Macy.
I got the opportunity to work with and learn from this creative and talented duo (with the project An Unlikely Refuge) when I was an online producer for roanoke.com in 2005.
Good stuff continuing to come out of beautiful Southwest Virigina, and a lot we all can learn from.
>> Richard Hernandez, judge and photographer for MercuryNews.com, has published a podcast of the judges’ impressions.
>> UPDATE: Lucas Grindley is wondering about the category definitions and suggests “there’s a bug in these contest results.” If this is true, I’m surprised the judges didn’t confirm entries were submitted correctly.
Because it’s all about winning those contests
Posted on March 22, 2007
Really, it’s all about the reader. But if it garners industry attention, chances are your readers will take notice of the project, too.
Anyway, I was out of town this weekend and missed Richard Hernandez’s brilliantly funny how to win a contest tutorial.
My favorite slide is all the people getting pushed into the train — excellent visual of what we sometimes try to do to our sites and audio slideshows.
Be sure to check it out if you haven’t already.
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