Washingtonpost.com was named a finalist by the EPpy™ judges in the competition for Best Overall U.S. Newspaper Online Service, circulation greater than 100,000; Best News Section in a Newspaper Online Service; Best Business Section; Best Entertainment Section; Best Special Section; Best Classified Section; and Best Design in a Newspaper Online Service.

The EPpy™ Awards identify and honor the best work by the newspaper industry in the online/Internet field. Editor & Publisher Interactive, the new media division of Editor & Publisher Company, sponsors the awards.

"We believe this is the strongest group of finalists in the history of the EPpy™ Awards," said Colin Phillips, Publisher of Editor & Publisher.

"The improvement in the quality of the entries each year is a testament to the newspaper industry's focus on the Internet."

The awards program is the most prestigious in the industry, and has been a high point of the Interactive Newspaper Conference since 1996. The awards were named The EPpy™ Awards last year, when the categories were expanded and the program upgraded. The 1999 EPpy™ Awards will be presented at a gala dinner event at the Hyatt Regency, Atlanta on the last night of the conference.

The New York Times placed five entries among the finalists, including the category of Best U.S. Newspaper Online Service, circulation greater than 100,000. Its New York Today service is a finalist in the categories of Best Shopping Application and Best Entertainment Section.

Cnet‘s news.com is again a finalist in the Best non-Newspaper Online News Service category, joined by MSNBC and Wired News. Cnet won the EPpy™ in this category in 1998.

In a new award, for the Best College Newspaper Online Service, Brigham Young University, the University of Kentucky and Michigan State University are the finalists.

Nearly 400 entries were submitted for this year's EPpy™ Awards. Thirty judges have been evaluating the services since mid-November.

The complete list of 1999 EPpy Award finalists is as follows:

1999 EPpy Finalists

Best Overall U.S. Newspaper Online Service, circ. > 100K

The New York Times on the Web

startribune.com (McClatchy)

washingtonpost.com

Best Overall U.S. Newspaper Online Service, circ. < 100K

Christian Science Monitor's Electronic Edition

El Nuevo Herald Digital (The Miami Herald Publishing Co.)

The Santa Rosa Press Democrat Online (New York Times Regional Newsgroup)

Best Overall U.S. Newspaper Online Service – Weekly, Community, Free & alternative

The Chronicle of Higher Education – Academe Today

Orlando Weekly

San Francisco Bay Guardian

Best Overall non-U.S. Newspaper Online Service

FT.com (Pearson, London, UK)

Jerusalem Post Internet Edition (Hollinger International, Israel)

La Nacion Line (SA. La Nacion, Argentina)

Best Non-Newspaper Online News Service

CNET News.com

MSNBC.com

Wired News

Best College Newspaper Online Service

Kentucky Kernel, University of Kentucky

NewsNet, Brigham Young University

The State News, Michigan State University

Best Promotion of a Newspaper Online Service

The Boston Globe's boston.com

Chicago Tribune Classified Products

Metromix (Tribune Company, Chicago, IL)

Best News Section in a Newspaper Online Service

Los Angeles Times

The New York Times

washingtonpost.com

Best Sports Section in a Newspaper Online Service

Austin360.com, Cox Communications

Internet Chicago Tribune

Sun-Sentinel (Tribune Company, Ft. Lauderdale, FL)

Best Business Section in a Newspaper Online Service

Maine Business Online (Blethen Maine Newspapers

Mercury Center (Knight Ridder, Inc.)

washingtonpost.com

Best Entertainment Section in a Newspaper Online Service

Calendar Live! (Los Angeles Times)

New York Today

washingtonpost.com

Best Special Section in a Newspaper Online Service

Fog of War (WashingtonPost.Newsweek.Interactive)

The Path to Peace (The Irish Times on the Web)

Microsoft Trial (Mercury Center, Knight Ridder, Inc.)

Best Classified Section in a Newspaper Online Service

Autosource-Los Angeles Times

Real Classifieds (Knight Ridder, Inc.)

washingtonpost.com

Best Community Publishing Effort in a Newspaper Online Service

New Jersey Online (Advance Internet)

Sunline (Charlotte Harbor, FL)

toronto.com

Best Directory Application in a Newspaper Online Service

kansascity.com (Knight Ridder)

School Guide (The Seattle Times Company)

toronto.com

Best Design in a Newspaper Online Service

The Chronicle of Higher Education – Academe Today

The New York Times on the Web

washingtonpost.com

Best Use of Interactivity in a Newspaper Online Service

InsideDenver.com (E.W. Scripps)

Sunline (Charlotte Harbor, FL)

Winetoday.com (New York Times Regional Newsgroup)

Best Shopping Application in a Newspaper Online Service

HomeZone – Improvenet (McClatchy Company)

New York Today

Sunline (Charlotte Harbor, FL)

NEW YORK (November 23, 1998) — Thirty judges representing 12 countries and four continents today began the two-month process of judging the 1999 EPpy™ Awards honoring the best newspaper online services in the world.

This year's competition has 375 entries in 19 categories, including five awards that will be given for the first time. The awards are sponsored by Editor & Publisher Interactive, the new media division of Editor & Publisher Company.

"The overwhelming response to the contest again this year means our judges have a difficult task ahead of them — to identify the best of class among many worthy nominees," said Colin Phillips, Publisher of Editor & Publisher. "We are fortunate to have such a qualified and dedicated group of judges."

Winners of the EPpy™ Awards will be announced at the Interactive Newspaper Conference in Atlanta at a formal awards dinner on Friday, February 19. The 1999 edition is the fourth for the competition.

The EPpy™ Awards competition is designed primarily for the newspaper industry, to showcase the best work by the newspaper industry in the Online/Internet arena. In addition, the EPpy™ Awards have a single honor for Best Online News Service by a Non-Newspaper Company. And this year, for the first time, awards will be given to the Best College Newspaper Online service and to an individual for outstanding achievement.

The judges of the 1999 EPpy™ Awards are as follows:

• Peter Adler
  adlerp@thejournal.southam.ca
  Canada
  Adler is an editor at Southam Newspapers' New Media Centre. Before moving to Canada, Adler was a writer and editor in Czechoslovakia whose writings about the communist regime led him to be banned by the authorities.
  Languages: Czech, English, German, Polish, Slovak, Russian.

• José Barletta
  barletta@intr.net
  Spain
  José L. Barletta, M.S., is an international consultant specializing in the design of "Online" and News Services. Mr. Barletta is President of BarNews Research Group, Director of the Office for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Wireless Cable Association (WCA) and Director of INMA (International Newspapers Marketing Association)

• Jak Boumans
  Jak@euronet.nl
  The Netherlands
  Jak Boumans BA, MDiv. (1945) studied in New Orleans, LA. Presently he is a senior researcher of the content industry for the Dutch research institute, TNO Center of Technology and Policy Studies. Being multi-lingual, he regularly works for the European Commission as an expert. Jak has been active in the online and multimedia world since 1980. He produced the first European daily digital newsletter, IDB Online, for the computer industry in 1985 on behalf of VNU and was project manager of the first commercial legal CD-ROM for Kluwer. He is the author of three books, contributed to ten books and is a regular writer for trade magazines. He became a member of the jury of Europrix 98, the first European multimedia prize, which will be presented November 29, 1998 at the Europrix gala in Vienna.

• Kathleen Buckley
  winenews@aol.com
  Kathleen Buckley is managing editor of the New York-based Wine Enthusiast Magazine and website. From Bordeaux, France and Napa, California, she has written for news, wine and travel media including Global Wine News and the BBC's new commercial website, "beeb." Pre-web, she was features editor of the Oakland Tribune under Robert Maynard and was a Washington, D.C. correspondent for Donrey Media. She is currently compiling a list of wines to ease Y2K headaches — nominations welcome.

• David Carlson
  dcarlson@jou.ufl.edu
  Gainesville, Florida, USA
  Carlson is director of the Interactive Media Lab at the University of Florida. A newspaperman who moved over to academia, Carlson presides over one of the top college journalism programs for students of online media. Before moving to the University of Florida, Carlson started The Electronic Trib, the first online service for the Albuquerque Tribune (New Mexico) and one of the first such services in the newspaper industry.
  Language: English.

• Sergio Charlab
  charlab@ax.apc.org
  Brazil
  Charlab is editor-in-chief of Reader's Digest Brazil and a columnist for Brazilian newspapers. He has authored two books on new media and the Internet; launched and edited the first Internet magazine in Brazil; and formerly was with Jornal do Brasil, where he launched the first Web newspaper service in Brazil.
  Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish.

• Neil Chase
  nchase@nwu.edu
  Neil Chase is an assistant professor at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. He teaches classes in online journalism, editing, writing and design and directs the school's graduate sequence in new media. He has worked at the San Francisco Examiner and the Arizona Republic and has been a consultant to news organizations on issues of technology, training and new media.

• Vin Crosbie
  crosbie@well.com
  Vin Crosbie is president of Digital Deliverance, L.L.C., a Greenwich, CT, New Media business consulting firm. He is the former director of online publishing for News Corp. and a former executive with Reuters and UPI. His pioneering work in using HTML-email create digital circulation is the subject of a chapter in E&P's executive research report, "Digital Deliverance of News: A How-To Guide for Publishers." He also is the fifth generation of his family in the newspaper publishing business.

• Jim D'Arcangelo
  JDArcangelo@exchange-tol.nfor.com
  D'Arcangelo is Group President of Telecommunications at NFO Worldwide, leading NFO AD:IMPACT and Infocom. Jim has over eleven years of experience in the local Web advertising, interactive marketing business, telecommunications, and print Yellow Pages. Between 1985 and 1994, Jim held increasingly more responsible positions in the local and national sales and marketing organizations of Bell Atlantic Yellow Pages and Bell Atlantic's Tele-TV interactive advertising team. In 1994, Jim joined The Kelsey Group, where he held the positions of Vice President, and then Executive Vice President and Partner. In 1997 Jim joined NFO AD:IMPACT, as President. In May he was named Group President of Telecommunications. Jim holds a BA from Princeton University, an MS in Marketing and Sales from John Hopkins University, an MBA from George Washington University, and is a doctoral candidate at George Washington University.

• Bill Densmore
  densmore@clickshare.com
  Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA
  Densmore is president of Newshare, "the Internet's first news broker," and Clickshare, a microtransaction developer serving the publishing industry. He has provided consulting services to Koz, Inc., and Berkshire Capital Corp.
  Language: English.

• Monique van Dusseldorp
  monique@vandusseldorp.com
  The Netherlands
  Monique van Dusseldorp (1965) is the founder and Director of Van Dusseldorp & Partners, an Amsterdam based research and development company focused on pan-European Internet strategies and related new media developments. Van Dusseldorp also is one of the founders of Europemedia.com, a weekly news service on online developments in Europe. Previously, she worked as a Media Analyst in the online division of Dutch publishing house Wegener Arcade (97-98), and as the Director of Communications of the European Institute for the Media (92-98, Manchester/Duesseldorf Clients of Van Dusseldorp & Partners include the European Commission (DG XIII) TIDE office, Interactive Publishing (CH), US software company Edgil, the European Journalism Centre, the Dutch Platform for Older People in Europe, the European Institute for the Media, AEF Consultants, and the Dutch research centre TNO.

• Lee Ewing
  mcospe@aol.com
  Annandale, VA
  Lee Ewing is an Internet content consultant with a special interest in online news. From 1993-97, he was director of online content for the Gannett-owned Army Times Publishing Company. Earlier, he was the editor of the Army Times, the Air Force Times, and The Prince George's Journal in suburban Maryland.

• Noelia Fernandez-Arroyo
  noelia@es.yahoo-inc.com
  Spain
  Noelia Fernandez-Arroyo is the Senior Producer for Yahoo! Spain, another of the international properties of Yahoo! Inc. She is also Associated professor of New Media Advertising at the Media Management department at the University of Navarre. She was also the founder of the consulting Internet media company, New Media Publishing.
  Languages: English, Spanish.

• Jacqueline Michelle Ganim
  Director, Marketing: New Media Services
  jganim@rocketmail.com
  Ms. Ganim is a Marketing professional who has spent over 17 years in the information industry with NYNEX and GTE. Ms. Ganim's career has been characterized by her work in new business development domestically and internationally. In 1990 she joined NYNEX Information Resources to direct the award winning NYNEX Yellow Pages Advertising campaign "Human Cartoons" and associated promotional and public relations programs. Subsequently, developed strategic alliances for NYNEX Information Technologies — including web-based alliances on behalf of www.BigYellow.com. In her recent post as the Director of Marketing for GTE New Media Services, she was responsible for the Product, Market, and Promotional programs associated with GTE SuperPages. Ms. Ganim is currently on leave from her Dallas based position in order to relocate to the Boston area for her upcoming marriage. Ms. Ganim has BA from Emory University, an MBA in International Business and Marketing from NYU.

• Christopher Harper
  christopherharper@worldnet.att.net
  New York, USA
  Harper is an associate professor in the journalism program of New York University, teaching digital media. He has worked for the Associated Press, Newsweek, and ABC'S 20/20 program. Harper writes frequently about online news topics. His book, "And That's The Way It Will Be: News In The Digital Age," is scheduled for publication next September.
  Languages: English, Italian.

• Peter Krasilovsky
  PKras@aol.com
  Peter Krasilovsky is vice president with Arlen Communications Inc., a new media research firm based in Bethesda, MD. He is widely quoted in both the business and consumer press, a regular on the speakers' circuit and a frequent cyber-analyst for PBS' Nightly Business Report and CNET Radio. Aside from client work, Peter does at least one major piece of research every year. This year's effort has been "Self Sustaining Models on The Web For Community Resources," conducted under fellowship with The Markle Foundation. Other recent works include "Local Information On The Net," "International Online Opportunities," and "The Economics of Online Publishing."

• Terry Maguire
  tmaguire@newspaper.com
  Terry Maguire is a consultant on strategic, business development, and international issues to newspapers and other media in the U.S. and principally overseas. Maguire spent much of his career (1979-1992) at the American Newspaper Publishers Association (NAA), where he served as senior vice president and general counsel.

• Harley Manning
  Senior Analyst, Interactive Technology Strategies, Forrester Research
  hmanning@forrester.com
  Harley Manning focuses on design, production, and content management strategies for new media. Harley came to Forrester after spending eighteen years designing and building interactive services for companies like Dow Jones, AT&T, MCI, Prodigy, and Sears. At Dow Jones Markets he was responsible for consolidating their regional web sites into a single, international site targeted at brokers and traders. At AT&T Labs he designed the user experience for research projects such as a search engine enhanced with artificial intelligence, a universal e-mail/telephone/fax message center, and a Web-based community calendar. Harley worked as a consultant for the MCI/News Corp. online joint venture, as Prodigy's first creative director, and at Sears, where he was part of a team that created the first catalog on a videodisk. Harley holds a master of science degree in advertising from the University of Illinois, Urbana.

• Bill Mitchell
  bmitch@amuniversal.com
  Fremont, California, USA
  Mitchell is editor and director of development for Universal New Media, distributors of the Motley Fool, Doonesbury and other features to online newspapers. Previously, he launched an interactive service at the Detroit Free Press and was director of Mercury Center, the online service of the San Jose Mercury News.

• Frank Na
  frankna100@hotmail.com
  Taipei, Taiwan
  Frank Na is the director of technical development of United Daily News Group in Taipei, Taiwan. United is a worldwide syndicated Chinese language newspapers company publishing seven daily newspapers in Taiwan, North America, Eroupe, and Southeast Asia. Frank Na is responsible for the development of editorial, print, and online systems for the company's global operations.

• Steve Outing
  steve@planetarynews.com
  Boulder, Colorado
  Steve is a popular columnist for Editor & Publisher Interactive, whose "Stop The Presses!" column covers the online news/interactive media industry, and he has authored several research reports on online media topics. He also is president of Planetary News, an interactive media research and consulting firm, and is founder of The Content Exchange, an Internet service that helps online writers and online publishers find each other. Prior to his Internet career, Steve spent a decade and a half as a newspaper and magazine editor.

• Nora Paul
  npaul@poynter.org
  St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
  Paul is an associate in the leadership program at the Poynter Institute where she conducts programs in computer assisted research and new media management. She is a frequent speaker on information access and usability topics and consults with news organizations on library management issues. She is the author of "Computer Assisted Research: A guide to tapping online information." and co-author of "Great Scouts: Subject specific cyberguides on the Web."
  Language: English.

• Madan Rao
  madanr@planetasia.com
  Bombay, India
  Madanmohan Rao is the vice president of International Information Services at IndiaWorld Communications, India's largest Internet-based publisher of news and business information. Rao was formerly communications director at the United Nations Inter Press Service bureau, and he has written about new media technologies for "New Asia Review," "On The Internet," and "Express Computer" magazines.
  Languages: English, German, Hindi, Maranthi.

• Micha Reisel
  micha@kessef.co.il
  Israel
  Reisel is publisher/CEO of The Municipal Reporter. He has an M.A. in political science with mass communication, has been on the Net since 1993, has founded Electronic Frontier Norway, and is a member of the board of the Internet Society Norway. Reisel launched the first newspaper on the Internet in Norway in April 1994. Micha Reisel moved to Israel this summer and started his own publishing house, Kessef Publishers Ltd.
  Languages: Norwegian, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, English, French and German.

• Henk Rijks
  henk@paradigma.nl
  The Netherlands
  Henk Rijks (1962) is co-president and founder of Paradigma BV, based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Paradigma specializes in creating, localizing and managing online news content for a variety of clients. Henk Rijks also contributes to various trade and general interest publications, and he authors a weekly "new media" column for Algemeen Dagblad (the Benelux 2nd largest daily newspaper). He is also member of the Advisory Board of Elsevier Business Information's Interactive Reference Media Platform.

• Evan Rudowski
  evanrud@excitecorp.com
  Evan Rudowski is director of European operations for Excite, Inc., where from its London office he oversees the company's day-to-day operations in Europe. Mr. Rudowski joined Excite in March of 1996 as the company's 45th employee. Before assuming his current post, he served as senior producer at Excite's Redwood City, CA headquarters, where he led the development of channels for Excite and WebCrawler including Travel; Entertainment; Local; Careers & Education; Health & Science and Lifestyles. An 11-year veteran of Internet and online services, Mr. Rudowski was previously business development manager at News Corporation's iGuide Internet venture in New York. He began his career at Times Mirror's Newsday and New York Newsday, where he helped launch and develop some of the earliest online newspaper efforts in the United States. Mr. Rudowski has B.A. in Communication Arts from Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY and a Master of Professional Studies in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University.

• Norbert Specker
  nspecker@interactivepublishing.ch
  Zurich, Switzerland
  Specker is an interactive publishing consultant and principal of CATCHUP! Communications. He is the organizer of the annual Interactive Publishing conference, the premier annual industry meeting in Europe.
  Languages: English, French, German, Spanish.

• Milverton Wallace
  M.S.Wallace@city.ac.uk
  London, England
  Milverton Wallace teaches journalism and Internet research in the Department of Journalism, City University, London. He is the founder and organiser of the annual NetMedia conference on the Media and the Internet, Europe's premier Internet conference for journalists. This is his third year as a judge for the EPpy™ awards.
  Languages: English, Spanish.

• Jane Wilson
  JaneWil@aol.com
  Jane Wilson is a consultant who specializes in business planning, strategic communications and executive recruiting for newspaper new media and other organizations. She launched and directed the Newspaper Association of America's (NAA) annual new media conference and participated in several NAA multi-newspaper research efforts on new media. Wilson served as a policy analyst for the US House Telecommunications Subcommittee and developed a series of communications research anthologies subsequently published by Oxford University Press. She is a cum laude graduate of the University of Michigan and did her graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School of Communications.

• Peter M. Zollman
  Pzollman@aol.com
  altamonte Springs, Florida, USA
  Peter M. Zollman, a consultant in interactive news services, specializes in helping media companies develop and execute strategies for interactive services. Zollman is an award-winning journalist who has been a reporter, editor, sales executive, and regional director. He has written numerous articles about interactive services for professional publications, and his book, "Interactive News: State of the Art," was published in August. Previously, Zollman was Director of News for Time Warner's Full Service Network, the world's most advanced interactive media project. He also has worked for Reuters news service, United Press International, WDSU Television, WNOE Radio, and the Tonawanda News.

The complete list of Award Categories is as follows:

• Best Overall U.S. Newspaper Online Service
  circ > 100K
  circ < 100K
  
• Weekly, Community, Free and alternative
• Best Overall non-U.S. Newspaper Online Service
• Best non-Newspaper Online News Service
• Best College Newspaper Online Service
• Best Promotion of a Newspaper Online Service
• Best News Section in a Newspaper Online Service
• Best Sports Section in a Newspaper Online Service
• Best Business Section in a Newspaper Online Service
• Best Entertainment Section in a Newspaper Online Service
• Best Special Section in a Newspaper Online Service
• Best Classified Section in a Newspaper Online Service
• Best Community Publishing Effort in a Newspaper Online Service
• Best Directory Application in a Newspaper Online Service
• Best Design of a Newspaper Online Service
• Best Use of Interactivity in a Newspaper Online Service
• Best Shopping Application in a Newspaper Online Service
• Outstanding Achievement by an Individual in Online Newspapering