CIR/Chauncey Bailey Project Win Online News Association Awards
By E.B. Boyd on Oct 06, 2009 08:02 PM
The Center for Investigative Reporting-led Chauncey Bailey Project won two Online Journalism Awards this year: the $5,000 Knight Award for Public Service and the award for investigative journalism in the "small site" category.
Also notable at the awards this year: three new categories, reflecting how the practice of journalism is evolving.
A new Community Collaboration award recognized that, in the digital world, news organizations can leverage the communities they're covering to create great journalism. The new award was created to "recognize a news project or Web site that produces outstanding journalism through strong interaction with the community being served." MyBallard, a hyper-local site in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood, run by a husband-and-wife team who are both former television news executives, won that award.
A new Micro Site category was added to the General Excellence in Online Journalism award. New York's Gotham Gazette took home the prize.
A new $5,000 Gannett Foundation Award for Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism was created to honor a person or company that had built a digital tool "significantly enhancing the practice of online journalism." The recipient didn't have to be a journalism organization. The winner was two-year-old Washington, DC-based startup Publish2, which creates collaborative journalism tools. Redwood City-based Attributor, which creates a content tracking system organizations can use to see who's using their content, was a finalist.
The Center for Investigative Reporting-led Chauncey Bailey Project won two Online Journalism Awards this year: the $5,000 Knight Award for Public Service and the award for investigative journalism in the "small site" category.
