Startups Win OJA Awards
October 4, 2009
In an article on paidContent.org, Staci Kramer highlights Muckety.com and some of the other newcomers recognized at the Online News Association’s 2009 Online Journalism Awards ceremony held in San Francisco on Saturday night.
The Online Journalism Awards have been fairly good at recognizing the work of some smaller or new sites over the years but the results announced at the crowded awards dinner at the San Francisco Hilton this weekend had a different aura. Yes, the New York Times won a couple, including general excellence for a large site, and so did BBC News, LATimes.com, Washington Post Digital… But the rest were spread among a fascinating mix that showed good work is being done by startups and established sites with various levels of resources and goals.
Muckety, a site that looks at news through the prism of relationships and connections, was recognized for outstanding use of digital technologies, small site. NYTimes.com won the same category, large site, for its “super groundbreaking” interactive graphics.
You can read the entire article here.
OJA winners a memorable group
October 4, 2009
From left, Muckety co-founders Laurie Bennett and John Decker and editor Emily Morgan. Photo by ONA.
Anna Bloom reports about the awards ceremony for the Online News Association:
Online Journalism Award (OJA) winners this year won’t soon be forgotten. In between an exhibit of Pulitzer prize-winning photography and drawers of newspapers dating back to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, many of 2009’s innovators and their projects will be welcomed into the Newseum on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C. The museum is archiving the winners as part of a new effort to preserve history in an era that is not naturally wired for nostalgia.
Of the 31 OJA winners, seven were chosen to be a part of the Newseum exhibit and permanent archives. Muckety is honored to have been selected as one of the winners whose project will become a part of this prestigious collection.
Another article on the ONA website highlights the judges comments about the winning entries.
Here are their comments about Muckety:
Outstanding Use of Digital Technologies, Small Site
Muckety
This is impressive from a technical standpoint. Even if I can understand how these diagrams were built, it impresses me that they can be manipulated, expanded, contracted, saved, centered, trimmed, etc. at this level. Wow. Not only does this site’s technology produce cutting-edge and relevant journalism, but it allows you to do the same.
More information about the conference and contest is here.
Six Degrees of Anyone
May 19, 2009
Catherine Rampell at the New York Times writes about Muckety on the Economix blog at nytimes.com
A reader recently referred me to Muckety.com, a neat site that maps out social networks.
By social networks, I don’t mean Facebook, but the actual relationships between various public figures (imaginary ones too, it seems). The site, founded by three journalists in 2006, uses online databases and other research to show the connections among people of interest.
Frankly, it’s catnip for conspiracy theorists.
Read more from the New York Times
The rebirth of news
May 14, 2009
Better technology coupled with new payment systems will not solve the acute problems faced by newspapers today, but should eventually provide new models to enable news to flourish in the digital age.
And already, there are signs that it will. New sources of news are proliferating online. Many, it is true, are unreliable. Most are badly funded. Some are the rantings of deranged extremists. But some—like Muckety, an American site which enriches news stories with interactive maps of the protagonists’ networks of influence… enhance society’s understanding of itself, and could not have existed in the old world.
Muckety Founder Discusses Journalistic Entrepreneurship
November 15, 2008
Chris Lavin of the San Diego Union Tribune has an interview of Muckety co-founder and president, Laurie Bennett, on the Poynter Institute’s web site.
Laurie Bennett is a lifelong journalist who sized up the shifting landscape of her profession years before most of her colleagues. In 1999 she left a job with Knight Ridder and moved into a farmhouse near, of all places, Podunk, N.Y.
Time
November 11, 2008
Time magazine online has a 2-minute bio of Obama friend and transition co-chair Valerie Jarrett which cites Muckety’s list of Chicago’s 100 most networked people.
She remains a key player in her hometown, where she serves as vice chair of the Chicago 2016 Olympic Committee and hobnobs with local entrepreneurs, journalists, politicians, union bosses and activists. Journalism website Muckety.com has listed her as one of the city’s “100 best networked.”
New York Times Topics
November 7, 2008
The New York Times added a Muckety story to the Timothy Geithner Navigator page which they call “a list of resources from around the Web about Timothy Geithner as selected by researchers and editors of The New York Times.”
June 16, 2008
When most of us think “social networking” the first thing that comes to mind are personal sites like Facebook or LinkedIn. Recognizing the power of personal connection, Muckety.com is a news site that works in a fantastic interactive social network map connecting muckety-mucks in each news story.
June 11, 2008
May 16, 2008
Adam Bonislawski, a real estate writer for the New York Post, calls Muckety “Today’s Internet time waster” in a May blog post.
Muckety.com is basically what you’d expect to get if you crossed the Oracle of Bacon web site with the membership list of Skull and Bones. Started two years ago by a trio of journalists, the site tracks the ties that bind the world’s various power players — diagramming, for instance, the web of acquaintances linking Paul Wolfowitz to, say, Swiss physicist Walter Kistler.
April 8, 2008
New Hillary strategist: Ties to her backers, labor
Mark Penn has been demoted because of his work for Colombia on a trade deal opposed by Hillary and some of her prominent labor supporters. As noted yesterday, one of his replacements — Hillary spokesman Howard Wolfson — owns a piece of a DC advocacy shop that also was retained by Colombia to do work on the same trade deal.
The other Penn replacement is pollster Geoffrey Garin (left). According to muckety.com, a site which provides interactive social networking charts, Garin does work as a “strategic researcher” for two labor unions — the AFL-CIO, and the American Federation of Teacher — which looks like a bit of a contrast to Penn, whose ties to the management side always grated on Hillary’s labor supporters.
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