{"id":11,"date":"2003-08-14T10:20:15","date_gmt":"2003-08-14T14:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/stepno\/2003\/08\/14\/online-news-con-features-blogger-news-"},"modified":"2003-08-14T10:20:15","modified_gmt":"2003-08-14T14:20:15","slug":"online-news-con-features-blogger-news-exec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/2003\/08\/14\/online-news-con-features-blogger-news-exec\/","title":{"rendered":"Online News Con Features Blogger &amp; News Exec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a7'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"AndrewSullivan.com \">Andrew Sullivan<\/a>, a blogger with print-journalism credentials, and Jack Fuller, the president of Tribune Publishing Co., will be the keynote speakers for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalists.org\/Programs\/Conferences.htm\">Online Journalism Association<\/a> conference in Chicago, Nov. 14-15.  (If you don&#8217;t keep up on your convergence-minded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/owners\/tribune.asp\">media conglomerates<\/a>, Tribune  includes major papers from the L.A. Times to New York&#8217;s Newsday, the Baltimore Sun, Orlando Sentinel and Hartford Courant, a couple of dozen television stations and a piece of the WB Network.)<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how blogs fare in the annual ONA awards, described as being  for &#8220;Web sites &#8212; or areas of Web sites &#8212; where journalists have originated the content or selected and amplified it.&#8221; (Entries closed a few weeks ago. Sorry.) <\/p>\n<p>Big players like nytimes.com, news.com and cnn.com have gotten their share of the awards in past years,  but there are categories for &#8220;smaller circulation&#8221; sites, and for pages that aren&#8217;t affiliated with traditional media organizations.  For example, last year&#8217;s winners included the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benicianews.com\/\">Benicia News<\/a>  and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gothamgazette.com\/rebuilding_nyc\">Gotham Gazette<\/a>. Award categories include breaking news, service journalism, enterprise reporting and general excellence. <\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, the awards are co-sponsored by the Annenberg School for Communication at USC, which puts out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ojr.org\/ojr\/page_one\/index.php\">Online Journalism Review<\/a>, where the latest lead headline, at this writing, is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ojr.org\/ojr\/workplace\/1060822390.php\">News Sites Still Figuring Out What to Do With Online Communities <\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As for the November conference, &#8220;early bird registration&#8221; is open until Aug. 31, at rates ranging from $200 (student members) to $475 (non-members), which may be interesting to folks who have become <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/palfrey\/2003\/08\/13#a347\">sensitive to conference costs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.journalists.org\/2003conference\/keynotepr.htm'>Online News Con Features Blogger &amp; News Exec &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Sullivan, a blogger with print-journalism credentials, and Jack Fuller, the president of Tribune Publishing Co., will be the keynote speakers for the Online Journalism Association conference in Chicago, Nov. 14-15. (If you don&#8217;t keep up on your convergence-minded media conglomerates, Tribune includes major papers from the L.A. Times to New York&#8217;s Newsday, the Baltimore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1090,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stepnostories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1090"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}