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I am one of those people who would any time rather go online than pick up the paper or turn on the tv. I just think it was interesting the awards given by the Online News Association (the highest for online journalism) made NYTimes.com the biggest winner with 3 awards, but also gave NewWest.net two awards, including the general excellence award for small sites, even though it has been in business for just eight months. Their story was great.

So it means the ocean is big enough for the big and the small fish also.

I thing NY Times editor's comment when he received the first ward was pretty interesting: people tend to think of the New York Times as a morning paper and awards like these can break that note.

Besides the attempts of online news organizations to coexist with blogs, another problem started to surface: beating the robot editor Google news.

One participant said on the very next day after Katrina hit, the leading story about Katrina on Google News came from Al Jazeera.

With ONA aiming to reach out more to the students and educators, as part of the need to reofrm the curriculum to focus on new media skills, I am really interested in the path to be established for a journalism student to become and online journalist.