ONA award says STLtoday’s come a long way baby
If you’ll indulge me…
More than six years ago when I arrived at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, reporters and editors were still asking why we were giving all that content away for free on the Internet. I’d get enormous push-back from colleagues in the newsroom about giving up stories for the web, steeped in fear that we’d tip off the competition (the television stations). Readers, they reasoned, wouldn’t have a reason to buy the paper.
We’ve come a long way, baby. Last night, the Online News Assocation awarded STLtoday.com two Online Journalism Awards, for breaking news and multimedia feature. I was pleased and proud to be there to accept the awards with my colleague Will Sullivan. I only hope I adequately conveyed how broad the newsroom’s contributions were to those awards. I couldn’t begin to name all the people who contributed to both awards.
The breaking news award was for our coverage of the Kirkwood City Hall shootings, where four were killed and others injured. Will noted in his remarks that an award for tragedy is hard to take. We all recognize the importance of that work to our community on such a difficult day.
Our second award was for best multimedia feature for our “Reporting for Duty” series, which documented Army recruits’ progress in basic training during a time of war. The competition in both categories was incredible. UPDATE: Here’s the link to all the winning entries for the Online Journalism Awards. And here’s a link to all the nominees. I think you’ll agree that they were all incredibly worthy.
Congrats to my colleagues in the Post-Dispatch newsroom.
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