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October 19, 2007

Oakland Tribune leads winners of 2007 Online Journalism Awards

  • The paper's look at homicide in the northern California city was the only multiple winner in this year's honors.
  • The Oakland Tribune was the only multiple winner in the 2007 Online Journalism Awards, presented this evening in Toronto by the Online News Association and the USC Annenberg School for Communication. The Tribune collected the Knight Foundation Award for Public Service for its feature Not Just a Number on homicide in Oakland. The Tribune also won the award for Service Journalism (small traffic sites) for the same feature.

    This year's general excellence winners were USA Today (large), The Denver Post (medium) and the Ventura County Star (small).

    Other winners:
    Outstanding Use of Digital Media, small: Wisconsin State Journal, Hip Hop 101
    Outstanding Use of Digital Media, large: Discovery Channel, Everest Beyond the Limit
    Beat reporting, small: Florida Today, Space Beat
    Beat reporting, large: Wired.com
    Breaking News, small: The Roanoke Times
    Breaking News, large: Associated Press
    Investigative journalism, large: ABC News, Brian Ross Investigates: "The Mark Foley Investigation"
    Investigative Journalism, small: Center for Investigative Reporting, Danger On Your Plate
    Service journalism, large: Toronto Star
    Specialty Journalism, large: Livescience.com
    Specialty Journalism, small: Council on Foreign Relations
    Commentary, small: Wild Bill, NewWest.net
    Commentary, medium: Walt Handelsman, Newsday
    Commentary, large: William Saletan, Slate
    Student Journalism: Border Beat (University of Arizona) and Our Tahoe (University of Nevada, Reno) [tie]

    Next year's Online News Association annual conference will be held in Washington, D.C.

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