DallasNews.com Wins Award for SXSW coverage

by PegNews wire

"The site mimicked what the event was, really captured the spirit and what it was all about. The display and navigation were sophisticated, especially in the use of technology and their choices...every piece was artfully presented."

DallasNews.com's SXSW site.

Via press release

DALLAS (September 1, 2006) - DallasNews.com and The Dallas Morning News, subsidiaries of Belo Corp. (NYSE: BLC), have been awarded the Associated Press Managing Editors (APME) Online Convergence Award for newspapers with circulation exceeding 150,000. The winning entry, for coverage of the South by Southwest (SXSW) music and film festival, can be viewed at http://www.dallasnewscom/sharedcontent/dws/spe/2006/sxsw/.

George Rodrigue, managing editor of The Dallas Morning News, congratulated the paper's Web and GuideLive teams for their success. "This team gave our audiences a stunning experience, because of the brilliant use of cutting-edge interactive tools - even though they faced a tough deadline. It was a true print-Web collaboration, a labor of love," he said.

Laura Sellers-Earl, APME board member and chair of the group's contest committee, summarized judges' comments on the entry, stating, "The site mimicked what the event was, really captured the spirit and what it was all about. The display and navigation were sophisticated, especially in the use of technology and their choices...every piece was artfully presented."

The winning entry was selected from among 30 entries in its category. Now in its fifth year, the APME Online Convergence Award recognizes the best story told both in print and online by a large newspaper, exhibiting the best journalistic attributes and linking strong journalism with a creative, innovative Web approach. The contest covered work from June 1, 2005 to June 30, 2006 The Dallas Morning News also received an honorable mention in the public service category for exposing corruption in the Dallas school district's technology department.

APME is an organization of editors, managing editors and online editors of the more than 1,700 newspapers served by the AP in the United States and Canadian Press in Canada.

-- Posted by Mike