First award of the year
Reporters at my paper spent a few grueling months last year looking into how global warming will impact our small corner of the world. The result was the Skagit Warming, an eight-part series (my contribution here).
The series won first place in the Pioneer Newspapers’ annual Recognizing Excellence award. I love group projects, so it was a lot of fun diving into this issue. My only regret is I didn’t produce multimedia for this project. I can’t complain, though, because right after I had concluded the reporting on this series, the editors started having me do audio for other stories I worked on. We’ll be ready for the next project.
June 8th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
[…] I read Mulvany’s blog whenever he has a new post. In this post, he says “three more reporters are being outfitting with Macbooks, Final Cut Express and video cameras.” That would be huge for my paper, but we are under a hiring freeze and can’t afford to buy one Macbook for the newsroom unless we won a chain-wide contest (which we did). […]