{"id":2446,"date":"2010-10-30T22:07:25","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T02:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conference.journalists.org\/2010conference\/?p=2446"},"modified":"2017-01-10T16:27:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T16:27:52","slug":"awards-reveal-a-few-surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ona10.journalists.org\/2010\/10\/30\/awards-reveal-a-few-surprises\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards reveal a few surprises"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a02010 Online Journalism Awards recognized journalists for their compelling pieces this year. General Excellence in Online Journalism award winners included\u00a0Msnbc.com<\/a>,\u00a0California Watch and the Center for Investigative Reporting<\/a>,\u00a0The Texas Tribune<\/a>,\u00a0The Las Vegas Sun and the Greenspun Media Group<\/a>,\u00a0La Nacion<\/a> and\u00a0OWNI<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hari Sreenivasan of PBS NewsHour emceed\u00a0the awards ceremony. The award for Community Collaboration went to West Seattle Blog<\/a>.\u00a0Since its inception five years ago West Seattle Blog has been a major source of news for its neighbors, delivering current and comprehensive community news coverage. Self-coined as \u201cWest Seattle\u2019s only 24\/7 news source,\u201d the site that began soley as a blog now provides breaking news stories and emergency updates for the community.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe community has really participated in setting the agenda for the news we create,\u201d said Tracy Record, the site’s editor, co-publisher and founder. \u201cWe encourage our readers to text, tweet, send emails and post on our Facebook wall when they have news,\u201d said Record.<\/p>\n

West Seattle Blog has one of the largest Twitter followings in Seattle for @westseattleblog, with more than 8,200 followers. More than 5,000 people have subscribed to its Facebook page since West Seattle Blog hit the social networking scene three years ago. The site accepts tips for potential news stories and even gets articles and pictures from readers.<\/p>\n

“In my opinion, 2010 will be remembered as the year that grassroots independent news sites took off,” said CEO and founder of Placeblogger.com<\/a> Lisa Williams, one of the Online Journalism Awards judges.<\/p>\n

Solo win for Berkeley grad Martin Ricard<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong> A Seed is Foreve<\/a>r, created by Martin Ricard, won the student award for Multimedia Feature Presentation. Ricard received his master’s degree from the UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism in May. Ricard spent 10 days in Sierra Leone focusing on youth and their attitudes toward agriculture since\u00a0the country’s civil war ended in 2002. Multimedia journalist Ricard is editor of the San Bruno, Calif., division of Patch.com.<\/p>\n

“Everyone knows about\u00a0Sierra Leone because of [the film] Blood Diamond, but now that diamonds are at a decline,” he said, “youth are looking toward agriculture to revolutionize the country and to revolutionize their own lives.”<\/p>\n

Partnerships pay off for <\/strong>ProPublica, Times-Picayune and Frontline<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>The Gannett Foundation Award for Innovative Investigative Journalism, Small Site, went to\u00a0ProPublica,\u00a0the New Orleans Times-Picayune and Frontline for\u00a0Law and Disorder<\/a>.\u00a0Since receiving the 2009 Online Journalism Award for General Excellence from the Gannett Foundation,\u00a0Mike Webb, ProPublica’s director of communications, \u00a0said the site has expanded to\u00a0do more complex partnerships.<\/p>\n

“Being received by your peers is as high an honor as you can get,” said Webb. “We want to keep doing great investigations that really have meaning and impact lives.”<\/p>\n

Complete list of award winners available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 2010 Online Journalism Awards recognized journalists for their compelling pieces this year. General Excellence in Online Journalism award winners included Msnbc.com, California Watch and the Center for Investigative Reporting, The Texas Tribune, The Las Vegas Sun and the Greenspun Media Group, SA LA NACION and OWNI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1842,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"start_time":0,"end_time":0,"moderators":[],"hashtag":[],"soundcloud":[],"scribble":[],"viafoura":[],"youtube":[],"vimeo":[],"facebook":[],"trint":[],"slideshare":[],"livestream":[],"resources":[],"video_embed":[],"first_name":"","last_name":"","title":"","organization":"","website":"","twitter":"","_sponsor_url":"","_sponsor_tagline":"","_sponsor_level":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaWrG-Ds","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona10.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona10.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona10.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona10.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1842"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona10.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ona10.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2647,"href":"https:\/\/ona10.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions\/2647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona10.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona10.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona10.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}