An Online Award
Your correspondent is gratified to report CFR.org is a winner of an Online News Association award for specialty journalism. It follows CFR.org’s First Prize in the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism, handed out last month.
The latest honor was among awards to twenty organizations, from the Washington Post to Livescience.com, capping a conference in Toronto last week that focused on shaping the wild and wooly frontier of Internet journalism. A central theme was taming the chaos of the Internet by structuring web sites that are easy to use as well as responsible and informative for readers. It seemed a fruitful mingling of new and old journalism entities trying to find a respectable voice – as well as business model in many cases – as readers continue their apparently uninterrupted retreat from newspapers to the web.
Both Yahoo’s Hillary Schneider and International Herald-Tribune Editor Michael Oreskes urged journalists to stick by their core values as they shift media platforms. Oreskes warned: “In the panic to change, there is a risk we will lose sight of our values.” A number of editors and journalists supported the call for sticking to fundamentals.
