NYTimes.com, the New York Times' Web site, won the 2008 ONA award for large site breaking news for its coverage of former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's resignation in March.
The Times deserves distinction because it did what most print newspapers are afraid to do: It broke the story on the Web, with full coverage, before anyone else. The Times used the Internet to its full advantage, breaking the story as soon as its cool and providing supplemental multimedia.
The story comes with an interactive sidebar, a timeline of Spitzer's rise and fall, which allows users to click on dates for photos and blurbs about events in his life. The Times also included video of Spitzer's public apology. In addition, the Times' Sewell Chan takes visitor's on a full back story of the Spitzer scandal with a 6-minute audio clip.
But still, the Times is most commended for not hesitating to break a major story -- with in-depth reporting and supplemental material -- on the Web, before its newspaper went to the presses.
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