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.
RecordOnline.com, The Times Herald Record (Middletown, N.Y.), Varsity845
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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