Kristof wins for interactive op-eds
New York Times columnist Nick Kristof won the Online News Association's award for online commentary this past weekend for his amazing multimedia op-ed packages, but much of the credit also should go to Naka Nathaniel, the NYTimes.com producer responsible for creating the packages.
The judges said Kristoff is using a different medium to provide OP-ED. "He's extending his work to the Web in a significant way, clearly reporting these columns for both media simultaneously. In the paper you can read his column, online you can feel it. He's engaging his readers in his work and you can tell from the comments he gets back and forth that they value that interaction. He also goes out in the world to report in a way that many columnists do not - his piece on the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge points out that most people who talk about it, haven't ever seen it. He did."
On his message board, Kristof writes: "The only catch is that much of the glory and the $500,000 cash award really should go to my partner in cyberspace, Naka Nathaniel. Naka is based in Paris for the New York Times website and has traveled with me everywhere from Darfur to China. We rafted together through the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and managed to get detained together in China and Iran. (Iran was a bit of a scare because the Iranians kept insisting that Naka, who is ethnically a native Hawaiian, looked Iranian and must be a Farsi-speaking spy; he had just convinced them that he didn't know a word of Farsi when they searched his bags and found a Farsi-language book that a dissident ayatollah had given us....) In each place Naka has produced a web special report with photos, video, sound and my commentary. They're all great, but Naka's masterpiece is "Freeing Sex Slaves," about the Cambodian prostitutes whose freedom we purchased together. You can see it and the others at:
http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?srcht=s&srchst=m&vendor=&query=%22Nicholas+D.+Kristof%22
"My next trip together with Naka will be China next month, if the Chinese give me a visa (so far they're holding out). If not, we'll perhaps make a swing together through Eastern Europe.
"And, yes, I was kidding about the $500,000."
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