2008 Online Journalism Awards finalists announced
Monday, August 04, 2008
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Posted by: Sherry Skalko
Finalists for the 9th annual Online Journalism Awards, which honor excellence in digital journalism, were announced today by the Online News Association (ONA). A team of journalists, representing a diverse cross-section of the industry, judged the contest during a two-day event in Chicago, August 1-2.
The winners will be announced at the 2008 ONA Conference Awards Banquet on Sept. 13 at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C.
The finalists are:
Breaking News, Large Site
Breaking News, Medium Site
General Excellence in Online Journalism, Large Site (Non-English)
General Excellence in Online Journalism, Small Site (Non-English)
General Excellence, Large Site
General Excellence, Medium Site
General Excellence, Small Site
Investigative, Large Site
Investigative, Small Site
- Azstarnet.com, Arizona Daily Star, Schools promote students despite widespread failure
- EastValleyTribune.com, East Valley (Ariz.) Tribune, Blood and Money
- NWHerald.com, The Northwest (Ill.) Herald, Coincidence or Cluster: The McCullom Lake brain cancer lawsuits
- RawStory.com, The Permanent Republican Majority
- RecordOnline.com, The Times Herald Record (Middletown, N.Y.), 'I Didn't Do That Murder' Lebrew Jones and the death of Micki Hall
Knight Award for Public Service
Multimedia Feature, Large Site
Multimedia Feature, Medium Site
Multimedia Feature, Small Site
Online Commentary, Large Sites
Online Commentary, Medium Site
Online Commentary, Small Sites
Online Video Presentation
Outstanding Use of Digital Technology, Large Site
Outstanding Use of Digital Technology, Small Site
Specialty Site Journalism
Student Journalism
Topical Reporting, Large Sites
Topical Reporting, Small Sites
Breaking News, Small Site
No award
The 11 judges of this year's awards were:
Scott Anderson, online media consultant; Meredith Artley, Executive Editor, LATimes.com; Lane Beauchamp, Managing Editor, CBS Television Stations Digital Media Group (cbslocal.com); John Bolton, Online Editor, Arizona Daily Star (azstarnet.com); Curt Chandler, Professor, Penn State University (psu.edu); Jeff Dionise, Design Director, USAToday.com; Jon Dube, Director of Digital Media, CBC.ca; Rick Jaroslovsky, Executive Editor, Bloomberg.com; John Swansburg, Associate Editor, Slate.com; Jonathan Weber, Publisher and CEO, NewWest.net; Sarah Wright, Assistant Managing Editor of Multimedia, Yahoo! News (Yahoo.com).
Judges for the non-English awards were:
Paul Brannan, Editor, Emerging Platforms, BBC.com; Eric Scherer, Director of Strategic Planning, Agence-France Presse; Katie King, Creative and Development Editor, MSN UK; and Rosental Alves, Professor & Knight Chair in Journalism, University of Texas at Austin, School of Journalism.
Judges were recused from discussing categories in which their own organization or organizations they are associated with were entered.
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