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New York Times Digital Wins Two Awards at ONA Conference
Business Wire, Nov 17, 2003
Business Editors
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 17, 2003
NYTimes.com's Iraq Coverage Wins Breaking News Award;
Boston.com's Coverage of Priest Abuse Scandal Wins Enterprise
Journalism Award
NYTimes.com and Boston.com, the two Web sites of New York Times Digital, were recognized with Online Journalism Awards at the annual Online News Association (ONA) conference this past weekend. NYTimes.com won the Breaking News category for its coverage of the war in Iraq, and Boston.com won the Enterprise Journalism category for its special section on the priest abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church. The Online Journalism Awards honor excellence in Web journalism and are jointly administered by ONA and the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California.
The judges' comments for each award were read at the awards ceremony and are also posted at http://www.journalists.org/awards/winners2003.html. For NYTimes.com's Breaking News award, the judges noted, "The Times took great care of its readers between print editions, day in and day out on the Web site...Web-exclusive features like daily Dispatches from the Times chief military correspondent, and the daily audio War Briefing demonstrated The Times's commitment to Web journalism. The judges were impressed by the interactives and the photography, and felt The Times deserves special credit for having built up the infrastructure to produce graphics and other interactive content quickly."
Boston.com's special section on the priest scandal complemented the print coverage of the Boston Globe, which was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. For Boston.com's Enterprise award the judges noted, "The paper's Pulitzer-winning coverage was extraordinary and the Boston.com package demonstrates both the breadth of that work and all the capabilities of Internet journalism...there is no better way than the Internet to grasp the complexities and magnitude of the story through effective use of archives, interactive applications, original multimedia and source documents. The site offers video interviews with victims and prosecutors and a rich collection of the important -- and sometimes shocking -- original documentation underlying the case."
NYTimes.com was a finalist in the Breaking News category for its coverage of the Columbia shuttle disaster, and was an Enterprise finalist for "Dangerous Business," an investigation into the unsafe labor practices of the McWane foundries.
Earlier this year, NYTimes.com was also awarded the EPpy Award for Best Overall Newspaper Site by Editor & Publisher magazine, and NYTimes.com's multimedia feature "102 Minutes: Inside the Towers" won the EPpy for Best Special Feature.
About New York Times Digital
New York Times Digital is the digital business unit of The New York Times Company (NYSE:NYT) and includes market leaders NYTimes.com and Boston.com, and an archive distribution business. NYTD's mission is to provide a high-quality, worldwide online audience with trusted editorial content from The New York Times and The Boston Globe.
Note to Editors: This press release may be found at www.nytdigital.com and www.nytco.com.
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