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? For intense, around-the-clock, multimedia coverage of wildfires that swept the region this past summer. In addition to providing readers with strong coverage in the newspaper itself, the staff created an interactive online fire site called Flash Point.
It included up-to-date information on every active fire in the state, along with video and photo galleries, an interactive map, reader-submitted photos, links to valuable resources and a function enabling reporters and photographers to use text messages via cell phone to update the site directly from the fire lines.
Sharing in the award are Tara Basilewitsch, Angela Brandt, Eve Byron, John Doran, Ginny Emery, Leah Gilman, Duane Johnson, Martin Kidston, Larry Kline, George Lane, Denny Lester, Alana Listoe, Rich Myers, Pete Nowakowski, Deanna Satre and Eliza Wiley. This is the third Lee President ? s Award for the Independent Record since 2000. Archives: www.helenair.com/flashpoint . Winona Daily , Winona, Minn. ? For a poignant story of love and death told in ? A Year to Live.
? The series follows a woman and her husband of 43 years as they face the inevitable end of her colon and liver cancer. The judges said: ? This series beautifully captures the grace with which she chose to die ? but also the grace with which she lived, loved and was loved. The outpouring of response from readers shows the power and depth of the series ? universal message ? we choose how we live, and if we ? re fortunate, how we die.