By: Staff reports Online News Assoc., Columbia Partner For Laurels
The Online News Association (ONA), quietly formed a little more than a year
ago, trumpeted its arrival Monday by announcing a partnership with the
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism to create the Online
Journalism Awards.
The awards will honor outstanding Internet journalism in six categories:
general excellence in online journalism, online commentary, breaking news,
enterprise journalism, service journalism, and most creative use of the medium.
'We believe these awards will be a major step towards one of our most important
goals - recognizing and encouraging journalistic excellence in this new medium,'
said Rich Jaraslovsky, president of ONA and managing editor of The Wall Street
Journal Interactive Edition.
The co-chairs of the ONA awards committee will be Lynn Povich, managing editor
of East Coast programming at MSNBC, and Jamie Heller, editor of strategic
ventures for TheStreet.com.
The Online Journalism Awards join other prizes under Columbia's watch, including
the Pulitzer Prizes, the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Awards in
Broadcast Journalism, the National Magazine Awards and the Maria Moors Cabot
Prizes in inter-American journalism.
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