Best web coverage of international affairs
AWARD YEAR: 2006
AWARD NAME: Website Award 2006
RECIPIENT: Staff of the Los Angeles Times
AFFILIATION: Los Angeles Times
HONORED WORK: “Altered Oceans”
These five well-reported stories, beautifully complemented by interactive graphics, crisp photography, and video reports tailored for the Web rather than television viewers, bring to light a crisis in the world’s oceans. Using California’s fragile coastline as a jumping off point, the series ties together recent global data on coral reefs, water temperature and fish stocks, into a jarring report on a serious threat to sea life, and in turn, to life on the rest of the planet. In reports from Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, and from the tiny Pacific atoll of Midway Island, the editorial team explains the complex chemical and biological factors driving many species of aquatic plants and animals toward extinction. The framing, pace and tone of the video reports, the direct relevance of interactive features, and the urgent but not hyperbolic tone of the text stories provided a mix that was truly made for online media.
Citation for Excellence:
Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone
Yahoo News
“Mideast Crisis