The Newspaper Association of America’s New Media Federation (one of the top two online journalism ogranizations focused on the newspaper business) has announced their 2006 awards nominees – and two of my old companies – The Savannah Morning News and The Augusta Chronicle received the ol’ hat tip in the Best Overall News Site (50k-99k circulation).
Also receiving kudos for innovative storytelling in the 50k-100k category is a multimedia project photographed by Josh Meltzer for the Roanoke News, where Josh and my good friend Natalee Waters are photojournalists. Augusta also gets a nomination for their ‘Spotted‘ site – a slick take on user-generated photo-blogging their parent company, Morris Communications, has syndicated to several of their newspapers.

Also nominated is the Chronicle’s Masters web site. I launched this back in 1996 in a joint effort with Sports Illustrated magazine. In 1997, we took the “Digital Edge Award”, recognizing the most innovative web site in the newspaper industry, besting papers of all sizes including the New York Times which took the number two spot that year. Morris has a great history of breaking new boundaries in the online news business, and it looks like this continues today. Great to see my old cohorts keeping up the good work!

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