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The Online News Association and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism have established the Online Journalism Awards, a new set of international journalism prizes.
The awards will honor outstanding Internet journalism each year in six categories. The Graduate School of Journalism will administer the awards at the request of the Online News Association (ONA), a professional group of reporters, producers and editors who work in new media journalism. The awards join other prizes under Columbia's purview, including the Pulitzer Prizes, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards in Broadcast Journalism, the National Magazine Awards and the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes in inter-American journalism.
Tom Goldstein, dean of the school, said: "We are excited to administer the new awards as they will help to set the standards in the world of online journalism. It is gratifying that the ONA has chosen to place these awards at Columbia, with our long experience in the administration of awards in the profession."
Rich Jaroslovsky, president of ONA and managing editor of the online Wall Street Journal, said, "We believe these awards will be a major step towards one of our most important goals -- recognizing and encouraging journalistic excellence in this new medium. We are both delighted and honored to be working with Columbia, and the vast experience and prestige it brings to this venture."
The co-chairs of the ONA awards committee are Lynn Povich, managing editor of east coast programming for MSNBC and Jamie Heller, editor of strategic ventures for TheStreet.com. Sreenath Sreenivasan, a professor of new media at Columbia and a founding member of ONA, has been named administrator of the awards.
The inaugural contest will be launched officially on Monday, July 3, 2000, with contest details and entry forms available on the Online Journalism Awards website and as a link off the ONA site. The deadline for this year -- for work first put online between July 1, 1999 and June 30, 2000 -- is Monday, August 28, 2000.
The names of finalists will be announced on November 1, 2000, and the Online Journalism Awards will be presented at the first annual meeting of the ONA in New York during the first week of December 2000.
ONA is also sponsoring a scholarship program at Columbia's Journalism School for students specializing in new media journalism.
Questions about the awards process that need to be answered before July 1, 2000, should be directed to Prof. Sreenivasan, administrator of the awards.
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