NewsOK Sports honored for best multimedia coverage

In December, the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) announced its annual top 10 honorees for best website. NewsOK Sports was ranked among the nation’s best for the third consecutive year.

And then yesterday in Florida at the annual conference, The sports department was honored again. This time, it was for the efforts in the area of multimedia for NewsOK and The Oklahoman.

And once again, I point to the company we keep in these kinds of awards. Among the top 10 list in this group:

• Boston Globe 
• Kansas City Star 
• Los Angeles Times 
• Minneapolis Star Tribune
• The New York Times
• Philadelphia Daily News 
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch 
• The Virginian-Pilot

Those are some of the largest news-gathering operations in the country. But ranking among the world’s best in the area of covering sports and covering sports with aggressive multimedia journalism is no surprise to us here in Oklahoma City. Though there was no ranking of the top 10 in the list, I would expect our work to be at the top in the fictional BCS of multimedia sports coverage.