HOUSTON (Feb. 14) -- Twenty-one authorities in the fields of journalism and interactive publishing were selected to serve as judges for this year's Best Online Newspaper Services Awards. They are listed below alphabetically:

Peter Adler, Southam Newspapers' New Media Centre. (Canada)

Noelia Fernandez Arroyo, professor of new media advertising and electronic publishing at the University of Navarre. (Spain)

Jose Barletta, telecommunications, new media and online newspaper services consultant with activities in Latin America, Europe and the United States; president of the Barnews Research Group. (Maryland, USA)

Jak Boumans, principal of Electronic Media Reporting; consultant, author and technology journalist. (The Netherlands)

David Carlson, director of the Interactive Media Lab at the University of Florida at Gainesville. (Florida, USA)

Sergio Charlab, editor-in-chief of Reader's Digest Brazil,newspaper columnist, Internet book author. (Brazil)

Neil Chase, assistant professor, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, Chicago, where he teaches new media. (Illinois, USA)

Bill Densmore, president of Newshare and Clickshare, Williamstown. (Massachusetts, USA).

Monique Dusseldorp, director of press and PR, European Institutefor the Media. (Germany)

Christopher Harper, associate professor, New York University, teaching digital media; author. (New York, USA)

Leslie Leven, new media consultant and principal of @lal.com consulting group; formerly owner/publisher of community newspapers in the Washington, D.C., region. (Washington, D.C., USA)

Terry Maguire, newspaper industry consultant specializing in new media; general counsel for the World Association of Newspapers (FIEJ), McLean. (Virginia, USA)

Bill Mitchell, editor and director of development for Universal Press Syndicate, Kansas City; former director of Mercury Center.(Missouri, USA)

Frank Na, consultant and director of technical development for United Daily News Group (Taiwan).

Nora Paul, library director at the Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg. (Florida, USA).

Ali Rahnema, deputy director general of the World Association of Newspapers (FIEJ), McLean. (Virginia, USA)

Madan Rao, vice president of International Information Services at IndiaWorld Communications (India).

Micha Reisel, publisher / CEO of The Municipal Reporter (Norway).

Norbert Specker, interactive publishing consultant and principal of CATCHUP! Communications; organizer of the annual Interactive Publishing conference in Switzerland. (Switzerland)

Milverton Wallace, journalism instructor at City University, London; principal organizer of the NetMedia conference. (England)