"A New Dawn", the 1st place multimedia story from the Lexington Herald-Reader in the Best Multimedia Project category, is probably the best news story I have ever seen. It does everything journalism should do. I was really affected by Dawn's story. It addressed the effectiveness of drug court in a way that a cut & dry news report can't do. By seeing Dawn's life play out over years, you understand what this issue is for individual Kentuckians. I really loved everything about the work, especially the incorporation of music. Looking back, I just now realized there was no video included, because the photojournalism so beautifully and accurately captured moments, and the pictures were combined so seamlessly with the audio.
Likewise, another favorite of mine was SoulofAthens.com. Along the same lines as the "A New Dawn" story, Soul of Athens finds the human element in newsworthy issues in Athens, Ohio. I thought they did a wonderful job of telling important, relevant stories about their community from within the community itself. This multimedia project resembles a favorite of mine, Mediastorm.com, but the fact that it is centered on a specific community, and not only reports on that community but seeks to contribute to it in concrete ways, really made it stand out even more so than Mediastorm to me.
These amazing POYi multimedia projects reinforced to me how powerful juxtaposition of video, audio, graphics & still photos can be in journalism. It can tell complex, resonating, complete stories in ways I haven't seen done in just one medium.
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