WRAL.com -- in the early days
The list of 2010 Editor and Publisher EPpy award winners is a long one, but it’s great to see WRAL.com in Raleigh, N.C., among them.
The citation is for “Best Local TV/Cable-Affiliated Website.”
We have some history, starting back in the Happy Valley imagemap days, when I was a regular visitor, first online, then in person. Maybe I should be writing a 15-years-later follow-up to my doctoral dissertation, a case study of WRAL and its site-development process; that 1999 paper was an early chapter-draft.
WRAL.com today
Anyhow, congratulations to WRAL’s John Conway and colleagues… 15 years of excellence — and in Web years, yet!
While it’s great to see an old friend on the list, the other nice surprise in this year’s EPpys is the number of site’s I’ve never visited… lots of new ideas to share with students in the fall.
NPR, CNN and Time were among the more familiar winners. Among the new-to-me sites I’ll be looking at are:
- Krulwich on Science, the latest incarnation of a long-standing favorite broadcast journalist, Robert Krulwich (see also, WNYC Radiolab)
- idsnews.com, Indiana University Student Media
- LasVegasSun.com The Las Vegas Sun newspaper
- Globeandmail.com The Globe & Mail newspaper
mild-mannered reporter who found computers & the Web in grad school in the 1980s (Wesleyan) and '90s (UNC); taught journalism, media studies, Web production; retired to write, make music, photograph sunsets & walks in the woods.
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