By: E&P Staff Finalists for the fifth annual Online Journalism Awards were announced yesterday by the Online News Association and the USC Annenberg School for Communication. The winners will be announced at the OJA Banquet during the ONA convention, to be held in Hollywood on Nov. 12 and 13.
The finalists for general excellence, large sites (more than 500,000 unique visitors per month) are: BBC News Online, CNN.com, Wall Street Journal Online, and WashingtonPost.com. The finalists for general excellence, small sites, (fewer than 500,000 unique visitors per month) are: Center for Public Integrity, Congressional Quarterly, PBS Frontline/World, PBS P.O.V., and the Ventura (Ca.) County Star.
"The finalists for this year's Online Journalism Awards represent the finest work being done in online news today," Doug Feaver, president of the Online News Association and executive editor of WashingtonPost.com, said in a statement. "The finalists show us that online journalism is maturing. Sites large and small are learning how to tell compelling stories, cover the news, give advice and investigate wrongdoing through the use of text, audio, video and graphics brought together with increasingly creative designs."
The finalists and winners were selected through a two-step process. First, a group of 70 journalists screened entries in each category and narrowed them to a set of five to 10 nominees. These nominees were then reviewed by the OJA judges, a group of 13 journalists with extensive experience in new and old media, who met at USC to pick the finalists and winners. The winners will be announced Nov. 13 at the ONA conference. There were more than 500 entries.
A complete list of finalists is available at the
ONA Web site.
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