DAILY NEWS WINS ONLINE HONORS.Byline: Daily News Daily News staff members have won a prestigious Best of the West award for online enterprise reporting With the dramatic expansion of information technology, and the desire for increased competitiveness in corporations, there has been an increase in the use of computing power to produce unified reports which join different views of the enterprise in one place. for a series on gang violence in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, . The award was announced Monday in Phoenix. The stories were published in the newspaper in September 2004, along with additional information presented in an online special package on dailynews.com. A contest judge described the series ``Terror in the Streets'' as ``Amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. coverage, with several stories in each part of the series. Perfect mix of written, audio and interactive media. Interactive maps were clean and easy to use. Use of video was great. Profiles of individuals helped bring the stories to life. Blogs are a great way to tell a story without trying to convey anything but the writer's own thoughts." Staff members from throughout the newspaper contributed to the print and online portions of the project. Among the key contributors: reporter Beth Barrett, photographer Hans Gutknecht, online content developer Cynthia Corpuz, online designer Cindy Lui, content manager Armando Hernandez and online managing editor Michael Lazarus. ``This is a tremendous honor that recognizes our continued efforts to better serve readers by utilizing the vast capabilities of combining print and online to tell the full story,'' said David J David J. Haskins (b. April 24, 1957, in Northampton, England) is a British alternative rock musician. He was the bassist for the seminal gothic rock band Bauhaus. Life and work . Butler, editor of the Daily News and executive vice president/news for the Los Angeles Newspaper Group The Los Angeles Newspaper Group is an umbrella group of local daily newspapers published in the greater Los Angeles area by MediaNews Group. The news coverage of the newspapers are mainly local stories. . Butler said the eight LANG newspapers produced their own, localized versions of the gangs series, using material in print and online packages. The Best of the West contest is designed to reward journalistic jour·nal·is·tic adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of journalism or journalists. jour  nal·is excellence and to promote freedom of information. It is administered by
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Phoenix.
Organizers said the contest is recognized as the West's most prestigious. It began in 1988 and draws more than 2,000 entries each year from journalists in the 13 states from the Rockies west to Alaska and Hawaii. Categories include online, print, photography, graphics and television. Proceeds from the contest are used to help finance media hotlines that provide journalists with free, on-the-spot legal advice on public-records and open-meetings issues. Criteria for the online enterprise reporting award includes: A package that uncovers news, explores an issue in depth or offers compelling and original analysis. Judged for overall presentation, clarity, completeness, balance, community importance and creative use of the medium. The second-place winner in the category was: azstarnet.com and the Arizona Daily Star The Arizona Daily Star is the major morning daily newspaper that serves Tucson, Arizona, and Southern Arizona. It is currently owned by Lee Enterprises. The Star is in a joint operating agreement with the Tucson Citizen in Tucson, while third place went to azcentral.com and The Arizona Republic in Phoenix. The gangs package remains available by going to: http://lang.dailynews.com/gangs. Entries in the Best of the West contest must have been published in calendar year 2004 in a newspaper in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico New Mexico, state in the SW United States. At its northwestern corner are the so-called Four Corners, where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet at right angles; New Mexico is also bordered by Oklahoma (NE), Texas (E, S), and Mexico (S). , Oregon, Utah, Washington or Wyoming. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: This graphic opened the online presentation of the Daily News series on gangs. |
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