The Atlantic Journalism Awards (AJAs) Adds Five New Categories

The Atlantic Journalism Awards (AJAs) has added 5 new categories to the 2009 awards which include:

• The Online News Reporting category will recognize online journalism for a single story from web sites of print, radio or television journalists or their news organizations.
• The Business Reporting category will honour journalists or news organizations for business reporting stories in newspapers or on radio or television.
• The Best Page Presentation newspaper award will recognize excellence in content presentation and layout for a single print page. The page could be a front page or a section page of a daily or community newspaper.
• The Community Reporting award is intended to honour community newspaper journalists in markets that do not have a daily newspaper and journalists from small market radio stations or cable community television for a single story or series about an issue important to the local community.
• The Lifetime Achievement award will be presented to an individual or news organization who has demonstrated a lifetime of dedication to journalism excellence in Atlantic Canada.

Full awards details can be found at www.AJAs.ca.

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