Ideal Newsroom
Award
$60,000
Winner
Organization
The Chronicle, Duke University’s student newspaper
Location
Summary
To plan an “ideal newsroom” for the digital news era and create an online resource for student newspapers and other news organizations looking to bring their facilities up to date with new media trends.
Quote
“We want to prepare future generations of journalists and consumers for an era of constantly changing media choices.”
Winner Bio
Chris O’Brien is a business reporter at the San Jose Mercury News where he has covered Silicon Valley since 1999. Previously, he was a staff writer at The News & Observer of Raleigh, N.C., for seven years. He graduated from Duke University in 1991, and was an editor at the student-run, independent daily newspaper, The Chronicle.
