Publish2 Wins An Online Journalism Award

Publish2 and two other companies were honored with awards from the Online Journalism Foundation:

[via Publish2, My Ballard and Gotham Gazette recognized with inaugural Online Journalism Awards]

A collection of linking tools that enables journalists to complement their original reporting, a hyperlocal site covering a Seattle neighborhood and a small site that covers a big city were the winners of the three newest categories at the 2009 Online Journalism Awards Banquet.

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Publish2, a two-year old startup of collaborative journalism tools, won $5,000 and the first Gannett Foundation Award for Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism at the 10th annual awards ceremony. My Ballard, a hyperlocal site covering Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood, won the first Community Collaboration award, while the Gotham Gazette was recognized for General Excellence, Micro Site, a new subcategory.

All three awards were introduced by the Online Journalism Awards committee this year to acknowledge the important role of emerging technology, the influence of the independent digital journalist and the growth of community reporting efforts.

I want to add my congratulations to Scott Karp, Ryan Sholin, Daniel Bachhuber, and all the other hardworking folks at Publish2.

And in passing, let me note that I recently joined Publish2 as a member of the advisory board.

Keep up the great work!