Innovations in Journalism
We didn't win the mucho grande prize in the Batten Awards for Innovation in Journalism, but we were in very fancy company. The winner, chicagocrime.org, is a cool site and one that we should do here, if the police records are available, which I sort of doubt.
We did take home $1,000, which I suspect the newsroom will give me dozens of ideas for a proper home. And I got to hear Jimbo Wales and Michael Kinsley go at it for a while. Wales, by the way, is scheduled to be at ConvergeSouth.
I was honored the N&R is mentioned in the same news release as these other sites. But I told the group that we aren't innovators here anyway; we're survivors simply trying to find new ways to reach new and current readers with our journalism.
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Congrats, John, on putting your paper in the running for this kind of recognition. We are at the beginning of something very interesting.
Posted on September 12, 2005 5:57 PM
Thanks, Ed. I agree with you. There are a lot of interesting developments out there. Our challenge -- the newspaper's, I mean -- is to move much faster to introduce them.
As for the contest, the winners need the cash more than we do, anyhow.
Posted on September 12, 2005 6:21 PM
Survival is the mother of innovation.
Posted on September 12, 2005 8:57 PM
I'm going to have to remember that: "Jimbo" Wales. Sounds like nametag material. Congrats on the honorable thing, John. Leadership does stand tall.
Posted on September 12, 2005 10:05 PM