Digital Journalism of the Year

The winner of this category will be the person or team that provides the most significant piece of journalistic work across our digital platforms. Judges will assess the work on its newsworthiness, originality, relevance, and/or the depth and perspective it provides to a story through text, graphic, video or audio reports, depending on the medium.

Criteria:

Emphasis will be on the innovative use of content and interactive features as well as the use of the medium to break news, run campaigns, provide new ways of user engagement or of presenting content.

Entrants should be able to demonstrate how they have adopted best practice in structure, visual design, functionality and usability within the medium.

Entries must meet the same criteria of editorial excellence that apply to the print categories, including engagement with the audience on important public issues, reporting on issues of greatest importance to its readership and original and leading coverage of events within the confines of the medium.

What to submit

Entries for Digital Journalism of the Year must include:

1. A supporting statement to show how the entry meets the selection criteria, plus;
2. Examples of the work from over the platform/s it is published.
3. Links – if available - should be provided in your supporting statement. CDs of the work also will be accepted. Please detail CD content in the supporting statement.

Entries may be on online, CD, or a combination of both.

Important note

Please take great care with your supporting statement. This is what gives the judges the context for your entry. You need to be detailed and specific in addressing how your work meets the criteria.

If your work secured a competitive advantage over digital rivals, give details. If possible, show evidence of how the work helped your potential audience to engage, respond and contribute across platforms available to them.

Dates for eligible work 

 All material must have been published in the 12 months from August 1, 2009, to July 31, 2010.

Who can enter

All News Limited digital staff members, with the exception of those employed on websites categorised as search - cars.guide.com.au, careerone.com.au and truelocal.com.au - are eligible for this award. Permanent part-time staff are eligible, as are contractors. Casual employees, freelancers and contributors are not. It is open either to individuals, or to teams that are jointly responsible for the entry.

Entrants can nominate themselves or a colleague. If you are nominating someone else, please lodge the entry yourself and give your contact details.
 

How to Enter

Enter online by completing the entry coupon and attaching your supporting statement. Other material supporting your entry can be attached via the coupon.

You may prefer to submit your entry on CD. If so, send it, along with your entry details, to News Awards, c/o Corporate Affairs, Level 5, News Limited, 2 Holt Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010.
If you are sending a CD – or sending a component of your entry on CD - email Sarah Cullens cullenss@newsltd.com.au so we know a CD entry has been lodged.

Entries from PNG and Fiji will be via CD because they have no access to the entry coupon from the website.
If you have any questions contact Editorial Communications Manager Lucinda Duckett on (02) 9288 3125 or email her: duckettl@newsltd.com.au

If you have any questions over submitting your entry online, call Les Hoffman, on 02 6680 2080 or email hoffmanl@newsltd.com.au. 

Closing date

Online entries – and the CDs - must be received by Monday, August 2. There will be no exceptions