The Denver Post’s up for three Online News Association awards, and now all our problems are solved!
Snark aside, my employer the Post is up for the General Excellence (medium site), Breaking News and something else relating to our business columnist Al Lewis. That’s terrific, and it comes from the work of our team and Al Lewis. On another Al Lewis-related note, he wrote an excellent and semi-snarky column about leadership in last Sunday’s paper. #Cough# So back to this blog post about awards: The Online Journalism Review has a quick run-down of the finalists here.
So while positive attention can build credibility within an organization, recognition makes people feel special, and awards look pretty, I don’t know what else they do. In fact, they may give the appearance to the big suits that it’s not necessary to invest more resources in the online product because hey lookee! we’re up for as many awards as the Washington Post.
That said, if you’re an ONA judge and you’re somehow reading this, I love your no-nonsense fashion sense and ginzu-like intellect. Let’s do lunch.
Related: Are Online Journalism Awards Old Hat? (Poynter)
Update: We won the award for General Excellence among medium sites. Beat out som excellent competition, too: the
Des Moines Register,
Globe and Mail, and
NewsOK.