By Mindy McAdams
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Certain crimes grab and hold the attention of a local community. Unsolved murders of average, law-abiding citizens fascinate many of us. Maybe because murder, while all too common, shocks the moral fiber of most humans. Maybe because we are afraid it could happen to us — until we get the final explanation (who did [...]
One of the nice things you can do online (that you can’t do well at all in a printed newspaper) is gather up a big bunch of stories and present them as an orderly set, a mini library. I’ve written before how sometimes these collections come off as disorderly warehouses. Today’s example is the opposite: [...]
Among the finalists for the Online Journalism Awards category “Outstanding Use of Digital Media,” three of the seven packages center on popular music: Forty Years of ‘RESPECT’ (Detroit Free Press), a tribute to the Aretha Franklin song; Hip Hop 101 (Wisconsin State Journal); Wonderful World (The Honolulu Advertiser), a tribute to Israel Kamakawiwo’ole. Let’s take a closer look —
It’s fun to see a list of finalists for a big award. I’m always interested in the Oscar nominations, even if I don’t agree with the choices.
In our field, the Online Journalism Awards are the biggies. The complete list of links to finalists went out a few days ago. The categories include, for example, “General [...]
Overall top-scoring schools in the 2006-2007 Hearst Journalism Awards Program — the Pulitzers of college journalism:
Arizona State University
University of Missouri
University of Florida
Western Kentucky University
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Pennsylvania State University
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
University of Montana
Syracuse University
University of Kansas
Arizona State! I’m disappointed that the Gators are No. 3, but I’m very proud of my colleagues down [...]
I’m really fed up with award lists that do not have links.
> 2007 EPpy Winners WITH links!
It took me 22 minutes to make these links. Link to this post, and I will consider it 22 minutes well spent.
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Adrian Holovaty has been awarded a big Knight News Challenge grant to start a new Web venture. Read all about it at his site.
A list of all winners is at the Knight Foundation site.
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