Welcome to the 2005 Online News Association conference and awards banquet at the Hilton New York.

A team of student journalists from around the country will post live coverage of the conference.

They are Kara Andrade of the University of California at Berkeley, Joel Ballezza of the University of Washington, April Chan of the University of Maryland at College Park, Christen DeProto of Columbia University in Chicago, Stacy Gimbel of the University of Florida, Ruxandra Giura of American University, Latria Graham of the University of Florida, Maria Ignatova of Washington and Lee University, and Dean Zulich of the Art Institute of Seattle.

Their editors are Claudette Artwick, associate professor in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications at Washington and Lee University, and Michelle Johnson, lecturer in the Department of Journalism at Boston University.

If you have suggestions or story ideas, please send them to Claudette artwickc@wlu.edu.