MINING.com staffer a Jack Webster Award finalist

Michael Allan McCrae | September 3, 2014 | 4:57 pm Canada

MINING.com’s coverage of Pascua Lama was recognized by the Jack Webster Foundation today and selected as a finalist in the category Excellence in Digital Journalism.

Ana Komnenic, former assistant editor at MINING.com, was chosen for her piece: TIMELINE; Pascua Lama – from $1.5 billion to $8.5 billion to suspension.

The digital journalism award recognizes “. . . outstanding BC-based journalism that maximises the creative use of digital tools and platforms – text, videos, audio, slideshows, interactivity, data and social media etc – to tell a story of interest to British Columbians.”

Other finalists in the same category include the following:

Chad Skelton, Kevin Griffin, The Vancouver Sun: Auto Crime and Bike Theft
Shannon Miller, Erik Rolfsen, Jennifer Saltman, Ben Ngai, Rafe Arnott, David Rigler, Ginger Sedlarova, The Province, Homicide, Surrey Edition

The winner will be announced October 29, 2014.