2000 Awards

Breaking News, Collaboration

Winner:

• Chaos in Seattle, ABC News

Finalists:

• AOL-Time Warner Deal, The Wall Street Journal
• City on Fire, The Albuquerque Tribune
• Indonesia in Transition, BusinessWeek Online

Breaking News, Original to the Web

Winner:

• Aftershocks from the Microsoft Breakup, CNET

Finalists:

• Homeless and the Hurricane, Richmond.com
• Nightmare of Flight 814, Rediff.com

Creative Use of the Medium, In Collaboration

Winner:

• The Diallo Case, TimesUnion.com

Finalists:

• Best B-Schools, BusinessWeek Online
• Birth of a Ballpark, BayArea.com
• Jelly Roll Morton Web Special, Chicago Tribune
• MarketMap, Smart Money

Creative Use of the Medium, Original

Winner:

• The Great Basin Murders, APB News

Finalists:

• Bitter Passage: Kent State & the Fall of Saigon, DigitalJournalist.org
• Crimes of the Century, APB News
• Memorial Day, BeliefNet

Enterprise Journalism, In Collaboration

Winner:

• No Gun Ri, Associated Press

Finalists:

• Massacre at Cuska, American Radio Works
• Terminal Planet, MSNBC
• The Other War (Sierra Leone), Washington Post

Enterprise Journalism, Original to the Web

Winner:

• Drug Czar, Salon

Finalists:

• A Special Delivery Direct from Webvan’s Roadshow, The Street
• Columbine Martyrdom, Salon
• Keeping POW/MIA Secrets, APB News
• Napster Wildfire, CNET

General Excellence in Online Journalism, In Collaboration

Winner:

• MSNBC

Finalists:

• Atlantic Unbound
• BusinessWeek Online
• Financial Times
• The Wall Street Journal

General Excellence in Online Journalism, Original to the Web

Winner:

• Salon

Finalists:

• Central Europe Review
• CNET
• Insure.com
• The Street

Online Commentary

Winner:

• Emily Prager, The Read, Oxygen.com

Finalist:

• Diane Lynch, Wired Women, ABC News

Service Journalism, In Collaboration

Winner:

• Choosing Nursing Homes, Cleveland.com

Finalists:

• Online Shopping Guide, Consumer Reports
• Tornado!, Weather.com

Service Journalism, Original to the Web

Winner:

• Your Baby’s Health, BabyCenter

Finalists:

• College Community Crime Risk, APB News
• Development Tracker, Women.com
• Recovering from a Natural Disaster, BankRate.com

Judges:

• Bill Kovach, chairman, Committee of Concerned Journalists
• David Laventhol, publisher, Columbia Journalism Review
• E.R. Shipp, Columbia journalism professor and columnist, the New York Daily News
• Jacqueline Leo, vice president and editorial director, Meredith Interactive
• Kurt Andersen, co-founder and contributor, Inside.com and Inside Magazine
• Merrill Brown, editor-in-chief, MSNBC.com
• Red Burns, chair, Interactive Telecommunications Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
• Rich Jaroslovsky, president, Online News Association & managing editor, The Wall Street Journal Online (co-chair)
• Stephen Shepard, editor-in-chief, Business Week
• Tom Goldstein, dean, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism (co-chair)
• Walt Mossberg, personal technology columnist, The Wall Street Journal