About Us - from TBO.com

Welcome

Send us your Feedback
• Make TBO your Home Page

TBO.com Awards
A TBO.com staff report
Published: Jun 11, 2002

TAMPA - TBO.com has won the 2004 regional Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Television Web Site, large market, marking the third time in four years that the online company has garnered that honor.

In 2001 and 2003, the company went on to win the national Murrow Award for Best Television Web Site. The 2004 national award will be judged this summer.

The Murrow Awards, named for the famed broadcast journalist, honor excellence in electronic journalism and are given by the Radio and Television News Directors Association (RTNDA). The Best Web Site category debuted in 2001 with TBO.com as the first winner. The 2003 awards were presented in October 2003 in New York.

In 2003, for the second year in a row, TBO.com won the First Place award for the Best Newspaper Online Site for large newspapers in Florida. Sponsored by the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors, the award was presented last June at the organization's annual convention in Ponte Vedra Beach.

The awards reflect the strength of the way content in the News Center is shared among its multimedia partners, TBO.com, The Tampa Tribune and News Channel 8. We strive to provide complete and convenient news, information and entertainment information that is relevant to Tampa Bay area consumers.

Awards received in 2004
(most recognize work in 2003)

Edward R. Murrow Awards
• Regional Winner: Best broadcast web site for large television markets.

Awards received in 2003
(most recognize work in 2002)

Edward R. Murrow Awards
• National Winner: Best broadcast web site for large television markets.
• Regional Winner: Best broadcast web site for large television markets.

Florida Society of Newspaper Editors
• First Place: Best Web site among large newspapers.

EPpy Awards
Recognizes the best web work by media companies. Sponsored by Editor & Publisher and Mediaweek magazines.
• Finalist: Best Overall Newspaper-Affiliated Internet Service with more than 1 million monthly visitors.
• Finalist - Crime Tracker: Best Special Feature in a Internet Service with more than 1 million unique visitors.

Society of Professional Journalists - Regional Green Eyeshade Awards
• First Place, Deadline: "Skyscraper Hit." Coverage of plane crashing into Bank of America building.
• Second Place, Non-Deadline: Feature on the CDC website, Rochelle Williams and Adrian Phillips.
• Third Place, Non-Deadline: "No Life Untouched." Coverage of one year anniversary of the terrorist attacks.

Sunshine State Awards, sponsored by the South Florida Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
• First Place Award: Best Web Site - Staff.

Society of Professional Journalists - Mid-Florida Chapter
• First Place Award of Excellence: Best Web Site - Staff.
• First Place Award of Excellence: Online Non-deadline Reporting - No Life Untouched
• First Place Award of Excellence: Public Service - Crime Tracker
• Second Place Outstanding Achievement: Public Service - Touchscreen Voting, Janine Dorsey and Adrian Phillips.
• Honorable Mention: Online Deadline Reporting - Skyscraper Hit. Staff.

Awards received in 2002
(most recognize work in 2001)

Sigma Delta Chi Award
National award sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists.
• 1st place for online deadline reporting for coverage of the shooting death of a Tampa police officer.

National Journalism Awards
Sponsored by The Scripps Howard Foundation; open to all U.S. journalism organzations
• Finalist in Web Reporting, recognition given for Crime Tracker.

Green Eyeshade
Sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists. Open to journalists in 11 southeastern states.
Awards:
• Best of Online 2001
For the multimedia project AIDS/HIV 1981-2001, a look at the 20 years of the AIDS/HIV epidemic.
• Deadline category:
    1st place. For coverage of the slaying of Tampa Police Officer Lois Marrero.
• Non-Deadline:
    1st place. For AIDS/HIV 1981-2001
    2nd place. For Crime Tracker
    3rd place. The First 100 Days After Sept. 11, a multimedia report

Mid-Florida Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists
• 1st place. Public Service Award. For Crime Tracker.
• 1st place. Best Deadline Reporting. For coverage of the slaying of Tampa Police Officer Lois Marrero.
• 1st place. Best Web Site.

Best newspaper web site in Florida
Sponsored by Florida Society of Newspaper Editors (FSNE)
• Best newspaper online site for a publication of more than 125,000 daily

Excellence in online publication - Charles M. Keefer Award
Sponsored by the Florida Press Club
• First Place

Sunshine State Awards
Sponsored by the South Florida Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists
• Second place, best news web site

Awards received in 2001
(most recognize work in 2000)

Edward R. Murrow award for best broadcast web site in United States
Sponsored by the Radio & Television News Directors Association (RTNDA)

Best newspaper web site in Florida
Sponsored by Florida Society of Newspaper Editors (FSNE)

Award of Excellence for best media web site
Sponsored by Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), mid-Florida chapter (award dated for 2000 year)

Second place, Green Eyeshade
Sponsored by Society of Professional Journalists, Southeast U.S. region
Second place, Award for Excellence in Journalism, Non-Deadline Reporting Online category

Previous recognition

• 2000 - Second place, Online Services Competition Division A, FSNE
• 2000 - Third place, General Excellence in Online Publication, Florida Press Club
• 1999 - Outstanding Web Site, SPJ mid-Florida chapter (award dated for 1998 year)
• 1999 - Second Place, FSNE
• 1998 - Lycos Top 5%
• 1997 - Second place, Editor & Publisher magazine Best Online Newspapers contest (large newspaper division)
• 1996 - Best Media Page, Windows Magazine
• 1995 - Named "Easiest to Use," Interactive Media Report

Subscribe to the Tribune and get two weeks free
Place a Classified Ad Online
Missed a story? | Missed an ad?

Return to Top