David Carlson:
Great job of packaging stories with related links and otherwise enhancing the content with nice touches of interactivity, such as discussion areas. Very comprehensive and nicely designed.

Jean Gaddy Wilson:
Tribune knows its community; serves it. Gives serious, fun, open approach to the new partners in the cyber age......the collaborative smart person on the other side. Obvious there's thinking and reflection about the news consumers & their differences.

José Barletta:
Excellent combination of electronic media - multimedia, databases and interactivity. It is a service in constant adjustment applying the best of the technology. Its Digital City approach is super and the online version has a practical way to motivate the user to be part of the online edition.

Milverton Wallace:
A very attractive, well designed site. Main strength, I think, is its community links. The coverage of the local community is extensive. The DIY web service is a nice touch--calculated to maintain customer loyalty.

Peter M. Zollman:
Wow! Still the best -- by far. Every newspaper and other locally oriented Web service could learn lessons from Sunline. It's a throwback to the great days of community journalism, in a whole new medium and environment. Outstanding! There's so much here, one of the only criticisms possible is that it's tough to "focus." But every element focuses on the community. And providing free Internet classes is another way to serve the community, build the business and win all around. This site stands head and shoulders above many others at major national and international news and service organizations.

Terry Maguire:
Very well done; highly energetic effort; innovative applications, no nonsense approach; hard to argue with success.

Bill Densmore:
This multiweekly metro site is very clean and graphically appealing and shows clear evidence of journalistic emphasis. A weakness is no apparent attempt to be a comprehensive destination for all news, both local and national. You can tell this is a weekly newspaper shop, and that shouldn't be so obvious. Good promotion of a public-service special on dangerous bridges and a unique presentation of a unique resource - the photographs during 1997 of the combined weeklies' photo staffs. A nice example of repurposing timely content for its enduring artistic value.

Noelia Fernandez Arroyo:
I think that the amount of services Town Online is offering to the community is amazing. I also think that the strategy this new media company is following is amazing.

Peter Krasilovsky:
Town Online has created a robust local product that combines all the editorial attributes of its affiliates while providing interactive components wherever appropriate. It adds value to the classifieds section, and encourages user input, which is rare in this category.

Frank Na:
Contents are clearly structured and illustrated. Pages are clean and uniformly designed. The amount of contents is just about right for an individual to comprehend. Internet Business Centre is an impressive design. An outstanding site!

Monique van Dusseldorp:
Pleasant lay out, and some nice features, especially in the My Money section.

Peter Adler:
Can't go higher than that. Very impressive site, well organized, timely. Front has a lot of biz stuff - their readers must love it, I guess. A great handover section. That's called rising to the occasion...

Micha Reisel:
A really good website! I liked the printer-friendly and the send-an-article-to-a-friend features, especially because they symbolize how much news.com thinks about its own customers.

Norbert Specker:
This is my favorite. It is very deep, automatically pulls up past related news. It has a link collection of the finest. It is very focused on Internet and technology. But where it ventures beside that, it maintains quality. This one will be hard to match.

Bill Mitchell:
Very strong, imaginative campaign reflecting the reality of where the targets live: alternative papers, TV, radio, etc. Lessons here for the promotion efforts of traditional newspapers, too.

Tom Bates:
Great direct marketing effort (direct mail and trade shows), backed by solid print and radio campaigns.

Peter M. Zollman:
The New York Times on the Web was the best news site because its content is outstanding, its design is intuitive for a newspaper user, its downloads are very quick, and it meets expectations in every way. The Times site stands out among extremely high-quality competitors.

José Barletta:
This interactive sports information module of the site is known for its frequent updates, variety, reliable information, special reports and comprehensive coverage. This service covers national and global sports news and comments. In this site the reader is able to find the latest news as it breaks, as well as a depth of coverage. It has a nice presentation and is well organized.

Peter Adler:
The straight tens say it all, I guess: this is the mother of all sports sites, bar none. Straightforward, very well organized, good use of sportsticker.

Tom Bates:
For the stats junkie this is nirvana. Twenty-four-hour coverage with every type of statistic available. Very complete.

Bill Densmore:
The Chicago Tribune business site gets laurels for not worrying about cannibalizing the print product with its 4:30 p.m. udate each afternoon. The sectioning of the Silicon Prairie technology news section is impressive, and effort is made to deploy wire copy in an organized fashion. An overall very fine entry.

Neil Chase:
The 4:30pm update is an excellent tool for bringing in business readers. The Tribune's site does a good job of providing newspaper content and additional online content in an easy-to-use format.

Bill Mitchell:
Very strong site. Some database problems (displayed Indian restaurants in SF Bay area), and design not quite up to some other sites. But it provides the information, and adds the interactivity of the web, that readers are looking for.

Jean Gaddy Wilson:
Thinks about the people who want entertainment and gives it to them as they think.

Nora Paul:
Everything you would want in an entertainment guide - from times and directions on how to get to where you want to go, great database searchability and nice annotations about the services available at different venues. This has it all.

Madan Rao:
Multimedia, hyperlinking, archived material very well used

Monique van Dusseldorp:
Very impressive - a story well told. I especially liked the questions and answers to the reporter, that presented in this way are so much more interesting that open Forum sections.

Nora Paul:
"You are there" reporting of the Somalia action with impressive use of audio and video - some points taken off on general quality because the download time was very long for some parts of this special section. This is a section which will have a very long shelf life because of the historic and comprehensive treatment - I really liked the "where they are now" updating that was done after the initial reporting. The icons for the various features were excellent and the links to explanatory information within the stories were helpful, not intrusive.

Norbert Specker:
The disaster in Somalia. With many different entry points and a wide range of features. The first hand material is extremely well presented and the site manages to capture this one moment in time.

Peter Adler:
Some time ago (a couple of years ago), I helped create a site on Canada's involvement in Somalia. It dealt with scandal. This site is about something else, but it is interesting, nevertheless.

David Carlson:
There is no doubt that it shows more creativity and understanding of the medium than all the other entries combined.

Frank Na:
It is a slide/audio presentation, rather than a regularly designed news site. It requires high bandwidth to synchronize the timed slides to show up and corresponding Real Audio to arrive.

Noelia Fernandez Arroyo:
Beautiful, elegant, impressive...The type, the images and the graphics and the storytelling through Multimedia make one of the best information multimedia information reports I have seen online. Also, excellent download average on each page.

Micha Reisel:
Yes, yes and YES! This is THE best use of interactivity in a newspaper online service! This is what the web was made for!

Neil Chase:
Using quizzes and databases, The Star allows a reader to personalize this in-depth package of stories. Everyone has a favorite school, and knowing how your school's numbers compare help you to understand and appreciate the story. The Star also does a good job of building a simple, easy-to-use interface for using the information.

Nora Paul:
This is an excellent example of packaging an (originally) print series online. The quizzes and databases provide supplementary information and lets the reader become part of the series. I like the link to the NCAA reaction letter which, again, lets the reader see a fuller picture of the whole story.

Peter Krasilovsky:
Town Online's Working section neatly integrates several categories in an easy to use and attractive format. The editorial is not always top notch, but everything else in the service is. And it appears to be getting nice growth.