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ACP Winners2009 ACP Online Pacemaker Winners Four-year Daily Newspaper
Judge's comments: Nice header. Icons caught my eye and made the site navigable. The video icon didn't click through. I like how it shows how many comments are with a story on the homepage. Podcasts are good. Tell important stories. Site has many online exclusives including Soundslides. The blogs page has great coverage too.
Judge's comments: The strength of the homepage design made this site a strong model for other news sites to get ideas from. Good integration of multimedia and user-generated content on homepage. The Community news on the homepage with timestamps helps guide users to latest news. This site’s design is clean throughout. Ames Eats.com is a complete dining guide.
Judge's comments: This site has a strong design throughout. The skyline header adds visual context to the site. It is easy to navigate and has unique features because of its custom CMS. Stories are interesting and well written. I like the coupons feature. It’s a smart way to build an online ad network and make it accessible to students.
Judge's comments: Important storytelling with strong reporting as lead stories, best news judgment I have seen in comparison to the rest. Podcast has a professional sound to it. Great integration of other campus media gives this site a converged feel.
Judge's comments: The multimedia page makes this site stand out. I’d like to see the staff take their multimedia a little deeper and collaborate to enterprise more in-depth multimedia stories. The design is clean and easy to navigate. The stories represent a good mix of campus, local, and other topics of interest to college-aged readers. Four-year Non-daily Newspaper
Judge's comments: The multimedia on the homepage is easy to find. The Tiger iTunes Store is good. The design could be improved by exercising more editorial judgment by organizing the content in the middle column of the page by importance.
Judge's comments: The quality of video editing is more sophisticated than other sites. I would suggest experimenting with other interactive applications and packaging stories with multimedia. Also using videos for long-form storytelling about deeper issues would be good.
Judge's comments: The custom interactive crime map, food forums, and breaking news video are a few of the highlights of this site. The clean header and navigation make it easy to use and find conversations and information.
Judge's comments: The home page layout and multimedia are very strong on this site. Video player as dominant visual is slick. The homepage displayed a lot above the fold. A clearer navigation could improve how readers find content.
Judge's comments: Videos use virtual sets, are fairly entertaining and well produced. The graphics are pretty good too. I like the "On the Issue" because it highlights the most discussed stories on the site. I’d like to see the site try to take advantage of other interactive storytelling devices available online. A great way to expand storytelling and many are free.
Judge's comments: I like how the dominant piece of the home page combines editorial judgment, immediacy, multimedia, interaction with users and external sites. The tags are also a great visual yet useful element on the home page.
Judge's comments: Good interactive features like the Bracket Challenge. Incorporates multimedia into text stories. Facebook and Twitter easy to find, but doesn't impede design. Regular podcasts are good. I would like to see the staff work to improve the video fundamentals.
Judge's comments: This site makes it easy to navigate to news, social media outlets and multimedia. Using the Facebook connect tool is a great way to encourage commentary with the help of a popular outside platform. One feature I really like is the RSS feed for comments. I wish more sites did that.
Judge's comments: The site highlights use of social media and multimedia. Overall design is clean. Home page is very visually dominant. I would suggest exploring ways to get more news and content above the scroll.
Judge's comments: The slideshows told really good stories. I especially liked the story about the catcher who became the baseball coach because the quality of the audio and the photos. The design is sound and makes the site easy to navigate. I liked the special features: those kind of features are a great venue for more multimedia storytelling. Two-year Newspaper
Judge's comments: The homepage reflects a variety of stories. The examples of long-form storytelling through the Soundslides presentations were executed well and good quality. I’d suggest trying to invite more comments and start a dialogue with your readers on news stories in addition to the columns—which seem to have some readers talking already.
Judge's comments: Including all of the content in the blogs, podcasts and regular site content, the variety of content was very strong. The site was easy to navigate. This staff is prolific in publishing podcasts, which really anchored its interactivity.
Judge's comments: The clean and original design is the main strength of this site. While interactive elements like the poll question are great way to let your reader “do” something on your site, I’d encourage the staff to really think beyond only using text and photos to tell stories. Online-only/Broadcast/Magazine/Yearbook
Judge's comments: The site and Facebook page invite students to be a part of the yearbook creation experience. I like how the yearbook staff really lets it be the “students’ yearbook” by interacting with them through surveys, polls and photo galleries.
Judge's comments: This site has a lot of interactive applications that make it very sticky. I like the live streaming, the interactive search boxes. But along with the bells and whistles are many stories and strong content.
Judge's comments: The content on this site makes it stand out. Stories are told well in both print and video. 2009 ACP Online Pacemaker Finalists Four-year Daily Newspaper
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