Excellence in New Media
First Place presented to Jim Buzinski and Cyd Zeigler, Jr.,www.outsports.com, OutSports.com
Judges comment: “Outsports.com has become an influential national source of information about LGBT athletes and their sports activities as well as homophobia in college sports. It is a credit to journalism and new media.”
Second Place presented to Seth Mnookin, www.newsweek.com, Is Rolling Stone’s HIV Story Wildly Exaggerated?
Judges comment: “…very well written and reported and contained a distinct, but not off putting point of view. This story represents something journalists should do more of: question one another.”