The Institute for Interactive Journalism

The Chicago Tribune, When Evil Struck America

http://www.chicagotribune.com/

Runner-Up - $2,500

This CD-ROM time capsule was distributed to more than 1 million Chicago Tribune subscribers on the one-year anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001World Trade Center attacks. The project captured the national mood of the aftermath by combining interactive graphics, a timeline, video, audio, and the full text of dozens of Tribune newspaper articles and television packages into an easy-to-navigate package. Single-day street sales of the Tribune increased by 100,000 on the Sunday the project was included in the paper. Copies of the CD were also made available to schools, libraries, and individuals who requested them.

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