Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Multimedia of the year

After looking over the first place winners in each of the three subcategories, I am very impressed at how each site presented the stories.

Rocky Mountain News: The amount of depth provided by the photos and text was amazing. It is certainly a sensitive topic and one that I wouldn't think many families of fallen
soldiers would be comfortable with. I liked how the package covered many different events but used Maj. Beck as a central figure with which to tie everything together.

Kentucky Post: They found a compelling way to cover a topic that usually gets only one page every few days in state-wide publications. The audio slide shows did an excellent job of portraying the emotion that both team members and fans put into the football season.

USA Today: The fist thing that struck me after looking over all three packages was that they found an effective means to delivering the multimedia stories and stuck with it. I was expecting the high-quality depth and breadth of coverage in each piece as they were all from the popular national daily, and the presentation and ease of navigation made the stories all that much better.

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