Forward.com Gets Its First Online Journalism Award Nomination
The Forward ‘s Web site this week scored its first Online Journalism Award nomination. The awards are given out annually at the conference of the Online News Association, which, this year, takes place October 1–3 in San Francisco. Among our fellow nominees in the “Specialty Site Journalism, Small Site” category is PolitiFact.com, a 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner.
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