Several distinguished online news outlets were rightly recognized at this year's Online News Associations Journalism Awards. To highlight a few, there was the unique multimedia package On Being by Jennifer Crandall, from washingtonpost.com, which took home special recognition. Although not your traditional news piece, certainly worthy of recognition for its unique story telling point-of-view and clean design.
The Oakland Tribune took home two awards for their work, Not Just a Number, which demonstrates an expansive reporting of the murder trends in Oakland, CA. They were awarded both the service journalism at a small paper award, as well as the Knight Foundation Award For Public Service which gives the paper $5,000 for their use of digital media to impact their community. This was by far my favorite and deserves a great deal of respect for the well rounded and detailed journalism - this multimedia package does what they should all strive to do: tell the story in a way that just cannot be done with print alone.
Another favorite, although not exactly traditional journalism, was the Discovery Channel's work titled Everest: Beyond the Limit. This piece was breathtaking and highlighted such multimedia aspects as real time dispatches from Mount Everest expeditions, some really cool flash, games, interviews, amazing footage and much more.
All in all, I'd say it was a great year for multimedia journalism and the future looks challenging but bright.
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