Innovative designs in online journalism rewarded

The Oakland Tribune has done an excellent job creating a site to help memorialize the deaths of so many individuals in their community. Not Just A Number, is a communtity action site that was recently awarded for its creativity and design in online journalism. This site allows the community to become more involved in the problem of homicide that they have been dealing with for years. The Oakland Tribune did a beautiful job of designing this interactive site for their community. The large numbers of murders is affecting Oakland and the paper is enabling people to see the problems and discuss the issue in a very user friendly format. This is a successful way of bringing a story to life and allowing online readers to interact and find an abundence of information. They took such a sensitive issue in their communtity and turned it into a well-designed multimedia package. This site is a great way for people to get involved in the problems of their community and take action.