Age 21: Chelsey finally wins a trophy
Posted on November 18, 2008
Filed Under May I Interject? |
I received a prize from SNPA (Southern Newspapers Publishers Association). It specifically mentions the video, which I didn’t do (others got a prize for this too), but I did build the awesome site for it featuring Flash presentations for each segment: The Victoria Advocate - The Fatal Funnel.
I really do get a trophy.
Best Use of Multimedia (under 50,000 circulation)
In the category honoring Best Use of Multimedia, first place in the “under-50,000” circulation category was presented to the Victoria Advocate, Victoria, Texas, for a multimedia presentation of a special report titled “The Fatal Funnel.” Judges said this entry – about 19 immigrants who died five years ago in a tractor-trailer that was transporting them across the border – represented “some of the best storytelling among all the entries we found.” They said the video was outstanding in that respect – “one of the rare cases where narrated video packages actually work well on the Web to extend the story.”
This category of SNPA’s Better Newspaper Contest focuses on all of the elements that go into good storytelling. Winning entries needed to demonstrate use of all of the tools that come together to tell a visual story for readers: the depth of print, the immediacy of video/audio and the interactivity of the Web.
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