Okay, first off, this is incredibly humbling for me. I have been e-mailing folks over the past week to ask if they’d be willing to judge categories in the first-ever CICM online journalism contest. Here are the people who have agreed to serve as judges:
- Matt Waite, St. Pete Times news technologist
- Richard Hernandez, multimedia specialist with S-J mercury-news
- Ryan Sholin, gatehouse media new media specialist
- David Cohn, newassignment.net editor
- Rob Curley washington post
- Will Sullivan (interactive director, st. louis post-dispatch)
- Angela Grant (videographer, san antonio express-news)
- Derek Willis, database editor, nytimes.com
- Joe Weiss, creator of Soundslides
- Jack Lail, online editor of knoxnews.com
That’s just the list so far. Quite frankly, it’s something of a list of my journalistic heroes. I’ve got e-mails out to a few other folks, and we’re waiting to hear from them. All of these people deserve a great round of thanks for their desire to encourage student journalists to innovate and reach for the future.
But for now, the deadline is fast approaching: Feb. 1. Your student media organization has to be a member to enter, and there are more details about the categories here. Please enter. I want student media journalists to be recognized for their multimedia, innovative work, and - for now - this is the only contest so far that really focuses on these efforts. Check here for more information about joining.
on Jan 24th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
If America competed in the new media Olympics, this would be the dream team.