At this year's Online News Associations Journalism Awards, the student journalism award was given to Border Beat, a Web site dedicated to U.S.-Mexico border relations. The site was created by University of Arizona students.
My immediate impression of this site was it deserved the award it received. It is filled with content, print and multimedia, and it is all within range of the topic.
The site is divided into sections such as in-depth, lifestyle, news, health, education and blogs. Each section is filled with stories pertaining to food in Arizona's barrios to healthcare issues Hispanics face in the area.
What I wasn't so impressed with was one of the slide shows depicting the barrios in Tucson. Watching the first few minutes of it was rather dull because it was picture after picture of signs labeling the neighborhood, versus photos of buildings, people and generally life in the area.
No site is perfect, but Border Beat is definitely a good model for other students journalists to consider.
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