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Summarized by Kent Larsen
NewsNet named 'Best College Online News Service' for second consecutive year
BYU NewsNet 13Feb00 B3
By Julie Howard: NewsNet Staff Writer
PROVO, UTAH -- At the 2000 EPpy awards announced Friday at the 11th
Annual Editor &Publisher Interactive Newspapers Conference in New
Orleans, BYU's NewsNet online service was again named the best online
news service at the college level. This is the second year in a row that
NewsNet has been given the award, which has only been given for those
two years.
The Editor &Publisher judges looked for sites that best used the
Internet, integrating video, audio, text and graphics into the same
website. Editor &Publisher is the most important trade magazine for
newspapers and magazines.
NewsNet became the first organization to merge its print and broadcast
newsrooms into a single entity in 1997, according to John Gholdston,
NewsNet's co-managing director. Trish Barker, NewsNet's Web editor, said
the integrated newsroom gave NewsNet the edge to win, "The other two
finalists we were running against are great, great papers ... but I
think the judges were looking for integrated newsrooms. You can't get
away with just putting your paper up on the Web anymore -- they're
looking for greater depth -- something out of the ordinary."
The judges looked at almost 400 entries in 18 categories, including the
college level papers. The other college level finalists were the
University of New Mexico Lobo, and the University of Virginia's The
Angle (The Cavalier).
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