News 12 Interactive’s 2008 live election night blog took home a third place PCLI Media Award at the Press Club of Long Island’s annual awards dinner on June 4.
The blog was done by staffers at four election headquarters across Long Island. Each producer was given a Flip cam and a laptop, and in four hours, we produced nine raw videos and about 30 quality posts. We also had a producer at headquarters firing off Twitter updates throughout the night.
Here it is: the new News12.com.
After over a year of noodling, we launched the site in March. It comes with loads of new features, including streaming video, user-generated photos and videos and the ability to customize pages, to name a few.
I feel like a proud papa all over again.
My group, News 12 Interactive, pulled out a New York Emmy last night at the New York Marriott Marquis in the category of Advanced Media. It was for our Island Vote 2006 initiative, in which people put in their ZIP codes to find out who their elected officials were, and then they could view election debates that were aired on News 12.
On the same day, on the opposing page of the blog brief, was another item, this one about News12MyTown, the new project my group has been working on for months and launched last month. The official press release went out today.
From Newsday:
CABLEVISION is to announce today a new Web site where users can post calendar items, articles and information about their community. News12 mytown.com has launched a pilot for Huntington (huntington.news12my town.com) and for Fair Lawn and Bergenfield, N.J., for feedback before rolling out the service across the tri-state area. Each community site includes photos, video, stories and a bulletin board where users can “sound off.” Patrick Dolan, president of News 12 Networks, said the service “takes our mission to deliver local news and information to a whole new level, with local residents actually providing the content that is most important and relevant to their own communities.”
- RICHARD DALTON JR.
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