ONA (the American Online News Association) has announced the 2006 Online Journalism Awards - Finalists. Apart from awarding more traditional news site, they also award oustanding uses of multimedia, "speciality", "enterprise" and service journalism. Take a look, I learnt last year at the ONA conference that some of the nominees do really good stuff.

Obviously, there are quite a few sites nominated dealing with Katrina and the London Bombings and quite a few blogs. But I also noticed a smaller multimedia site: An Enduring Mystery - the Herald Tribune has put a lot of information about an unsolved murder of a family of four in 1959 online, complete with a 3D tour of the house showing how the corpses was found, "interactive" access to the rooms of the house with hotspots with the clues found in there, audio interviews with people who were involved in the case back then, photos, original newspaper articles etc. For a wannabee sleuth like me, it clearly looks like a site you could spend a lot of time perusing.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 19:04