For a second year running, Reportr.net, is one of the finalists for best blog in the Canadian Online Publishing Awards. The blog is nominated (PDF) in the business-to-business, professional, scholarly category. I am honoured that the judges selected my blog as one of the finalists. Reportr.net won best blog in this category last year. The work of my students at the UBC School of Journalism has received four nominations, including

Spain made a big impresson at the Online News Association awards, picking up the two awards that non-English websites were eligible for. Elpais.com took the newly created award for general excellence by a large non-English site. Its compatriot, Soitu.es, won the general excellence title for small site. One is an example of how a print newspaper is reinventing itself online. The other is a an independent, web-only new site, just

The conference of the Online News Association climaxed on Friday night with the awards ceremony. USAToday was the overall winner for general excellence as the judges were impressed how it had moved to put its audience at “the centre of news, not just at the receiving end”. One of the most interesting aspects of the awards was how blogs won many of the 20 categories. Blogs won in: Online commentary