USA : the Oscars for online newspapers

The Oscars rewarded to the best online newspapers have been awarded on December 1st in New-York by the ONA (Online News Association) from the journalism school of Columbia. More than 600 sites, which were all in English, were in competition. The prize list offers a panorama on what is considered as the best in the United-States as regard online journalism. The excellence prize in the category of web-born medias has been awarded to the politic information newspaper /www.salon.com">salon.com, a site which has been created five years ago and which has already been awarded. In the category of the site created with another more traditional media : /www.msnbc.com">msnbc.comfounded by Microsoft (MSN) and the TV channel NBC are rewarded.

Among the other online magazines rewarded: /www.apbnews.com">APBnews.com, an incredible American site entirely dedicated to short news items, /www.babycenter.com">babycenter.com, /www.oxygen.com">oxygen.com, a feminine magazine, /www.timesunion.com">TimesUnion.com, an information newspaper that can be described as classical…