NewsOK.com honored twice this week
We’ve had two stories this week that can only be described as shameless plugs for what we work hard at trying to do here at OPUBCO Communications Group.
On Monday, we got word that we had won a national awards from the Society of Professional Journalists for our ‘know it’ series and our Your Right to Know page, which has since evolved into a larger Watchdog page.
To quote our story:
The Sigma Delta Chi Awards honor outstanding journalism from across the country. The Oklahoman’s staff was recognized for “Public Service in Online Journalism” for its “know it” and “Your Right to Know” projects.
That was good news. The national SPJ awards are generally considered second only to the Pulitzer in terms of journalistic prestige. It’s also good news, because we were honored for the type of quality journalism and public service that we push ourselves toward every day.
We love weird news, crime news, sports news and breaking news — we do that very well on NewsOK and always see a big spike in traffic when those types of stories take center stage.
But we think there’s a place for in-depth news and information-gathering, as well. And we still think the public has a right to know about records that we are, by law, authorized to see.
Yes … that was good news on Monday. But we got even better news today, when the Webby Award nominations were released. NewsOK.com was officially honored as one of the top 12 newspaper Web sites in the world.
NewsOK was in some elite company:
- New York Daily News
- The USA Today
- The Wall Street Journal
- The Jewish Daily Forward
- The Washington Times
- The Telegraph Media Group
- The New York Observer
- The Times of London
- The Guardian
- New York Times
- The Independent
According to the story on NewsOK:
The New York Times has called the award the “Internet’s highest honor,” and The Wall Street Journal has said the awards “celebrate sites that pave important paths to the Internet’s next phase.”
So yeah … we’re a proud of that.
I won’t apologize for the shameless plugs, but I will thank our growing audience for engaging with us as we’ve tried new things and entered new arenas.
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Congratulations on this huge honor. The incredible amount of work you put into delivering loads of news and information every day, right to my computer or phone, is a tremendous benefit to me, my friends and neighbors. You deserve the recognition!