Innovative Use of Digital Media
Here are three great examples of innovative use of digital media to cover news events. Each won the a Digital Edge Award in that category.
Circulation Less Than 75,000: Unnatural Disasters
SBSun.com/The San Bernardino Sun, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Redlands Daily Facts
Comments: To create awareness among the public and government officials, this four-part series investigated the relationship between local wild fires in 2003 and flooding and mud slides the next year. Positioned as a public service story that asks “how safe are you?,” the package informed and alarmed with intense photography, a Flash-animated map, first-person audio and a chat with the fire marshal.
Circulation 75,000 to 250,000: PalmBeachPost.com STORM 2004
PalmBeachPost.com/The Palm Beach Post, West Palm Beach, Fla.
Comments: During a season of devastating hurricanes, PalmBeachPost.com transformed itself from a news site to an indispensable public service for local readers and national audience. PalmBeachPost.com delivered constantly updated news reports and investigative stories, strengthened by excellent Flash features that traced the paths of the hurricanes and multimedia galleries. The site’s message board become a 24/7 community resource as staff members and area residents shared details about where to find shelter, food and other essentials.
Circulation Greater Than 250,000: Echo Company
The Philadelphia Inquirer/Knight Ridder Digital/Knight Ridder Washington Bureau
Comments: Readers look to newspapers, and their sites, for penetrating stories and detailed portraits of people thrust into extraordinary situations. “Echo Company,” a first-person account of the ambush and deaths of 12 U.S. soldiers in Iraq, more than delivers on those expectations. A joint project from The Philadelphia Inquirer, Knight Ridder Digital and Knight Ridder’s Washington, D.C., bureau, “Echo Company” vividly describes the violence that claimed these lives with photos, video and voices of loved ones who mourn their loss.
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