Digital Edge Award Finalists

December 19, 2007 · · 14 Comments

This year brought a record number of entries to the Digital Edge Awards (“The Edgies”). The finalists are…

 

Most Innovative Multimedia Storytelling

Circ. less than 75,000

24 Hours in Lawrence (LJWorld.com/The Lawrence Journal-World)

FGCU Interactive (NaplesNews.com/Naples Daily News)

John Couey Trial Coverage (Ocala.com/The Ocala Star-Banner)

 

Circ. 75,000 – 250,000

Broken Trust (Sarasota Herald-Tribune)

Clearing the Air (NewsOK.com/The Oklahoman)

Cold Case (NewsOK.com/The Oklahoman)

Oklahoma – A Century in the Making (NewsOK.com/The Oklahoman)

Virginia Tech Multimedia Coverage (Roanoke.com/The Roanoke Times)

 

Circ. more than 250,000

A People Torn (StarTribune.com/The Star Tribune)

Dodging Doomsday (ChicagoTribune.com/Tribune Interactive)

The Crossing (RockyMountainNews.com/Rocky Mountain News)

Walter Reed and Beyond and OnBeing (washingtonpost.com)

 

Most Innovative Use of Interactive Media

Circ. less than 75,000

CapeCast (Cape Cod Online/Cape Cod Media Group)

NHPrimary.com (The Telegraph)

PigskinReview.com (Amarillo Globe-News)

Studio55 (NaplesNews.com/Naples Daily News)

 

Circ. 75,000 – 250,000

CrimeTracker (The Commercial Appeal)

Space Interactives (FLAToday.com/Florida Today)

Ultimate Local Band Site and Text Voting Contest (tbt*/Tampa Bay Times)

 

Circ. more than 250,000

Brett Favre Touchdown Database (JSOnline.com/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

CinciNavigator and the Cincinnati.com Data Center (Cincinnati.com/The Cincinnati Enquirer)

The Issues Tracker and HD Video Podcasts (washingtonpost.com)

 

Most Innovative Visitor Participation

Circ. less than 75,000

Creating a Two-Way Conversation with Our Community (Savannahnow.com/Savannah Morning News)

Local Information Network (The Victoria Advocate)

Zoom.Gainesville.com (Gainesville.com/The Gainesville Sun)

 

Circ. 75,000 – 250,000

KnoxNews.com: School Matters (Knoxnews.com/Knoxville News Sentinel)

Oklahoma World War II Stories (NewsOK.com/The Oklahoman)

Polkvoice.com (The Lakeland Ledger)

Tampa Bay Area Artists’ Database (TBO.com)

 

Circ. more than 250,000

CincyMoms.com (The Cincinnati Enquirer)

Chicago Tribune Video Chats (ChicagoTribune.com/Tribune Interactive)

Mile High Mamas (The Denver Post)

 

Best Local Guide or Entertainment Site

Circ. less than 75,000

CoastalBeat.com (Scripps Newspaper Group - Florida)

Lawrence.com (The World Co.)

SouthCoast247.com (South Coast Media Group/Ottoway Newspapers)

Circ. 75,000 – 250,000

Austin360.com (The Austin American-Statesman)

AZNightBuzz (Arizona Daily Star)

Spokane7.com (The Spokesman-Review)

 

Circ. more than 250,000

AZCentral.com Entertainment Channel (The Arizona Republic)

Vita.mn (The Star Tribune)

Best Local Shopping and Directory Strategy*

 

Best Digital Advertising Program*

Circ. 75,000 – 250,000

Online Carousel Ad (The Dayton Daily News)

Oklahoma Red Hawks (NewsOK.com/The Oklahoman)

 

Circ. more than 250,000

CincinnatiUSA.com Expansion and Redesign (The Cincinnati Enquirer)

Homepage Experience Campaign (The Star Tribune)

 

Best Digital Classified Innovation*

Circ. 75,000 – 250,000

Increase Renewals with Automated E-mails (The Palm Beach Post)
North Jersey Homes (North Jersey Media Group, Trulia)

 

Best Design and Site Architecture

Circ. less than 75,000

209vibe.com (The Stockton Record)

Caller.com (Corpus Christi Caller-Times)

CJOnline.com (The Topeka Capital-Journal)
LJWorld.com (The Lawrence Journal-World/The World Co.)

Prepzone (NaplesNews.com/Naples Daily News)

Savannahnow.com (Savannah Morning News)

 

Circ. 75,000 – 250,000

DaytonDailyNews.com (Dayton Daily News)

Knoxnews.com (Knoxville News Sentinel)

Quickdfw.com (The Dallas Morning News Co.)

Varsity845 (Times Herald-Record)

 

Circ. more than 250,000

MetroMix New York (Tribune Co.)

washingtonpost.com (washingtonpost.com)

 

Best Overall News Site

Circ. less than 75,000

LJWorld.com (The Lawrence Journal-World/The World Co.)

NaplesNews.com (Naples Daily News/Scripps Newspaper Group)

NashuaTelegraph.com (The Telegraph)

 

Circ. 75,000 – 250,000

CommercialAppeal.com (The Commercial Appeal)

FresnoBee.com (The Fresno Bee)

KnoxNews.com (Knoxville News Sentinel)

Statesman.com (The Austin American-Statesman)

 

Circ. more than 250,000

PolitiFact.com (St. Petersburg Times/Congressional Quarterly)

StarTribune.com (The Star Tribune)

washingtonpost.com (Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive)

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14 Responses to “Digital Edge Award Finalists”

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    [...] newsrooms” where reporters now work as much for online as for the newspaper. See the Digital Edge Awards winners for examples of some of the best online multimedia storytelling by [...]

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    [...] links at: Digital Edge Award Finalists (cutting-edge digital journalism by U.S. newspapers large and small) on Cyberjournalist.net. Note [...]

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    [...] news is likely to overtake TV as the major source of news. Washington Post is one of the winners in Digital Edge Award. In its latest headline “MaCan Wins South Carolina’s Republican Primary”, it performed a [...]

  6. Digital Edge Awards and Web Journalism at jmsc new media workship spring 2008 on January 20th, 2008 3:20 am

    [...] of the many Digital Edge Awards finalists, my favourite is the Herald Tribune’s report Broken Trust on a two-year investigation [...]

  7. New Media Workshop Spring 2008 » Assignment 1 on January 20th, 2008 10:10 am

    [...] Digital Edge Awards came close to home for me, as I live in Kansas and saw familiar names. I’ve been a fan of the [...]

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    [...] Digital Edge Awards represent the highest achievement in Internet journalism. For example, CrimeTracker (The Commercial [...]

  9. » Assignment 1 Musings on January 20th, 2008 11:07 am

    [...] looked at the Digital Edge Award winners http://www.cyberjournalist.net/digital-edge-award-finalists-2/ and I have mixed feelings about the quality of the journalism and the design. But I was impressed [...]

  10. New Media Workshop Spring 2008 » First Assignment- re. readings & Digital Edge Award Winners on January 20th, 2008 11:28 am

    [...] type and add substantial comments that can help journalists shape news. But as the winners of the Digital Edge Award have illustrated, website designs (perhaps more so than content) are important. At the very least, [...]

  11. CaRpE dIeM » Assignment 1 on January 20th, 2008 12:03 pm

    [...] killed due to censorship in the papers can be brought back to life online. But comparing to the Digital Edge Award Finalists, there’s still much room for these Chinese websites to improve, especially on innovative [...]

  12. Forks in the road » Blog Archive » Overspring? on January 20th, 2008 3:57 pm

    [...] way of being innovative is to combine a number genres or medias.  Multimedia. Surfing through the Digital Edge Award Finalists gives a peek into what seems to be - not the future - but the [...]

  13. lydia’s digital life begins » Embrace the change on January 20th, 2008 4:35 pm

    [...] After browsing several winners of Digital Edge Award, I agree what Jim Laurie had said “What happened in America will eventually happen in the [...]

  14. New Media Workshop Spring 2008 » Journalism and Internet on January 20th, 2008 6:46 pm

    [...] be able to take photographers and shoot video clips, besides writing. A People Torn, the winner of the Digital Edge Awards, adopted an innovative way of [...]

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