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Outsports Wins New
Media Award Outsports.com was awarded first place for Excellence in New Media by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association at a ceremony Friday in Los Angeles. In selecting Outsports, the judges said that the site “has become an influential national source of information about LGBT athletes and their sports activities as well as homophobia in college sports. It is a credit to journalism and new media.” “It takes the mainstream media to task. It often focuses a bit of journalistic scrutiny on other reporters’ accounts of gay and lesbian athletes. … It is lively, informative and effectively taps the Web’s potential to interact with news consumers.” Outsports was founded in 2000 by Jim Buzinski and Cyd Zeigler Jr. and is based in Los Angeles. Second place in the category, sponsored by UNreal Marketing Solutions, was Seth Mnookin of Newsweek for a column critical of a Rolling Stone article on HIV. Judges in the category were: Janice Castro, Medill School of Journalism; Josh Moss, ABC.com; Leslie Walker; The Washington Post; Andrew Nachison, The Media Center at the American Press Institute and Deirdre Terry, CNN/Money.com A complete list of winners can be found at the NLGJA Web site. The awards were made at the annual NLGJA convention, held this year in Hollywood. In sports-related news at the event, ex-big leaguer Billy Bean auctioned off himself and his baseball glove. A dinner with Bean went for $550 to Eric Hegedus of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Bean’s glove and an autographed baseball fetched $480 from Steve Rothaus of the Miami Herald. Bean lives in South Florida, so at least he’s close enough to pay the glove an occasional visit. |