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ESPN.com editor-in-chief Neal Scarbrough accepts the award from Michael Parks, director of the USC Annenberg School of Journalism.
ESPN.com leads OJA winners
ESPN.com, BeliefNet, CQ.com and the Gotham Gazette earned Online Journalism Awards for general excellence in their respective categories Saturday night.

  • Video interviews with award winners

    • Sullivan: Blogs to replace formal op-ed style
    "The op-ed column is a dinosaur as a genre," blogger and former magazine editor Andrew Sullivan told conference attendees Saturday. "I think that in the future, newspaper editorial pages will have five bloggers rather than five columnists."

    Tribune's Fuller: Future is paid content
    Weaning audiences off of free content will be difficult but necessary, the president of Tribune Publishing told the nation's leading online journalists Friday. "Most everybody will eventually move to a model that is -- at least in part -- paid for by the reader," Jack Fuller said in the opening keynote.

  • About the keynoters

    • More news
  • Participants learn, share and celebrate online journalism (11/16)
  • Behind the Magic 8 Ball: Predicting the future of online news (11/15)
  • Reporters, readers get new ways to publish and read (11/15)
  • Make online desk rival print one, editors say (11/15)
  • Blogs build community in ways traditional journalism can't (11/15)
  • Technology fueled war coverage but allowed horrifying images (11/15)
  • Know the users and target them, editors say (11/15)
  • Converging newsrooms requires 'buy-in' on all sides (11/14)
  • Web brings new legal questions for journalists (11/14)
  • Interactive features succeed as storytelling tools (11/14)
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    Friday, Nov. 14:
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    • Saturday, Nov. 15:
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    • Photos by Will Sullivan

    PARTICIPANTS' BLOG
    Reactions from conference attendees:

  • It's Over (11/15 11:24 PM)
  • Why Awards Matter (11/15 10:24 PM)
  • Thanks ONA from Journalnow.com! (11/15 10:22 PM)
  • Predictions for the future (11/15 10:14 PM)
  • This is Great, Let's Expand (11/15 09:18 PM)
  • A welcome military perspective (11/15 09:01 PM)
  • Impressions (11/15 08:41 PM)
  • Dinner Discussion (response) (11/15 08:29 PM)
  • Choice quotes (11/15 08:28 PM)
  • Dinner discussion (11/15 08:05 PM)


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  • Trib's Jack Fuller: Time to Pay the Piper (PaidContent.org, 11/14/03)
  • Words Flowing Out of Chicago's ONA Conference (E-Media Tidbits, 11/14/03)
  • Student Web site gains national recognition (Anchorage Daily News, 10/26/03)

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