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Chicagotribune.com and
Latimes.com Honored for Innovative Use of Digital Media
Newspaper web sites win
Digital Edge Awards from the Newspaper Association Of America
CHICAGO, January 28, 2003 --
Tribune Interactive, Inc., a leader
in interactive news and information Web sites and a subsidiary
of Tribune Company (NYSE:
TRB), today announced that chicagotribune.com and latimes.com
were awarded 2003 Digital Edge Awards at the Newspaper Association
of America CONNECTIONS Conference in Orlando yesterday. Both
sites won Digital Edge Awards for Most Innovative Use of Digital
Media.
"These awards acknowledge the broad
talent and expertise of Tribune Interactive's editorial teams,"
said David Hiller, Tribune Interactive president. "Both
the chicagotribune.com and latimes.com news packages present
comprehensive news and feature stories in a compelling, informative
and engaging way -- and are constructed in a manner to best
complement users' online experience and navigation."
Chicagotribune.com news feature "Still
Standing: A Portrait of America One Year Later," http://www.chicagotribune.com/anniversary,
won in the best news event category among newspapers with
national or daily circulation of more than 250,000. The news
package provided chicagotribune.com readers in-depth coverage
of the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks
and the ongoing battle against terrorism. It included detailed
storytelling, informative graphics, interactive timelines,
message boards, photos, audio and
video galleries.
"Still Standing: A Portrait of
America One Year Later" divided news coverage into 12
categories: Sept. 11, 2002; The Midwest; New York, The Pentagon
and the Philadelphia field; homeland security; airport security;
war in Afghanistan; culture and religion; economics; policy;
and a look back to Sept. 11, 2001. The news categories were
complemented by photo essays from Chicago Tribune
photographers from around the world; "Voice of the people,"
a section where users share their thoughts on the anniversary;
an online searchable database honoring the victims of the
9/11 attacks produced in conjunction with other Tribune Interactive
Web sites; and an archive collection of news stories on the
war on terror dating from Sept. 11, 2001, through Dec. 31,
2001.
The latimes.com multimedia feature "Enrique's
Journey," http://www.latimes.com/Enrique,
won in the best feature category among newspapers with national
or daily circulation of more than 250,000. The package tells
the story of Enrique, a Honduran teenager who is struggling
to reunite with his mother in the United States. "Enrique's
Journey" captures the
young man's challenging travels and setbacks through the pen
and lens of Los Angeles Times staff writer Sonia
Nazario and photographer Don Bartletti. The feature tells
Enrique's story in six chapters, divided into subsections
so users could move easily through the lengthy narrative.
Online, the package included:
- photo galleries;
- maps and Web-only statistical charts
that provided a quick, contextual framework to the story;
- "Along the Tracks" sidebars,
which provided glimpses into the lives of people along Mexican
and Central American railways;
- an "About This Story" section
that offered background on Nazario and Bartletti's reporting
methods;
- and a bulletin board featuring user
questions and responses from Nazario and Bartletti.
Latimes.com introduces each chapter with a
video overview by Nazario and
commentary from Bartletti about how he captured certain images
and the meaning
those images convey to him.
Chicagotribune.com and latimes.com are among
more than 50 Web sites operated by Tribune Interactive. Other
newspaper Web sites include newsday.com, sunspot.net (The
Baltimore Sun), sun-sentinel.com (South Florida Sun-Sentinel),
orlandosentinel.com, ctnow.com, (The Hartford Courant),
mcall.com (The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.), dailypress.com
(Daily Press, Newport News, Va.), and stamfordadvocate.com
and greenwichtime.com in southern Connecticut. Tribune Interactive
also operates 24 television stations Web sites including ktla.com
of KTLA-TV, Los Angeles, wgntv.com of WGN-TV,
Chicago, and wb11.com of WPIX-TV, New York, as well as specialty
sites like BlackVoices.com and Metromix.com. Affiliated classified
advertising brands include CareerBuilder.com, cars.com and
apartments.com.
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Tribune Interactive operates leading
interactive news and information Web sites in major markets
across the United States, including 18 of the top 30 markets.
The sites attract more than 9 million unique visitors per
month, and rank among the top 20 interactive news/information
networks in the country.
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